Last night each of us filled out SmartFit’s online
registration form and then confirmed their confirmation email. (The only problem is they wanted me to select
my bank from their list and the only one I recognized was Citibank so I clicked
it even though I was using my USAA debit card.)
I had to transfer the last of my cash from my Citibank savings account
to cover the SmartFit purchase.
Honking horns woke me up about 6:30am so I got up at 7am.
I had copied the Informed Consent form to my USB drive. We left the apt at 8:30, and the ladies
stopped at a small nearby internet café that I had never been at before. Laura got on one of their computers for some
purpose. I told them I’m not using this
place and I went to my usual internet café (maybe paper store would be a better
name for it) where I quickly printed 3 copies of the form. At the Sportfit gym I waited about 5 minutes
for the ladies to arrive. I found that
Laura had printed out the same form I had.
Inside the gym we each signed a form and then went to a machine where we
entered our Cedula number and it took our photo followed by 3 separate
fingerprints of our index finger.
To enter the gym itself we put our index finger on this
device and it releases this floor to ceiling turnstile allowing us to
enter. (I forget what’s it’s called not
having seen one for years.)
Inside, a personal instructor came up to us and offered
personal instruction for 700,000 pesos.
I told him we’ve spent so much money just getting in here that we’ll
decline.
The ladies went upstairs for a group class and I wandered
around figuring out some of the Matrix exercise machines. I did a few exercises and then headed back to
the apt so as not to miss the beginning of the Today show. I’ll be easing
into it for the first week or so.
My 5 year old iPad 2 is close to useless. When I select a newspaper article for example,
it just takes me back to the home screen.
I don’t think it’s the hardware itself which is “worn out”. I think it’s the endless operating system
releases that are written more for the new devices which make it harder to work
with the older devices like my iPad.
I finished Thomas Gilovich’s How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday
Life and then downloaded Michael Connelly’s Trunk Music (#5 in the Harry Bosch series). An interesting quote from
the former book “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into
trouble. It’s the things we know that
just ain’t so.” Think weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq.
I wondered why our new gym membership didn’t result in
debits being made against my checking account.
Teresa explained that one of the fees is paid on the 1st of
the month and the other(s) on the 10th, so we’ll see!
About 4pm it got pretty dark and soon was raining lightly
but it didn’t last long.
We finished watching The
Immigrant (6.6) on Netflix. We
started watching The Theory of Everything
but Teresa didn’t like it so I’ll finish it alone later. We switched to Big Nothing (6.8).
I finished The Theory
of Everything while Teresa watched Caso
Cerrado (Case Closed) on Direct TV.
T-shirt of the day: I’m an adult, but not like a real adult.
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