Laura came back at 3:30 in the morning because Teresa got up
and that woke me up. Against that
benchmark I knew I had gotten up 2 times previously. I’m sure I got up at least twice more
after. Each trip it takes too much time
to get back to sleep. I finally woke/got
up at 8:45 feeling pretty good only because I slept in a little.
It’s obvious we got some rain overnight. It turned out to be an overcast day with a
short light drizzle.
I checked the EnCicla website and it appears they have a
bicycle station at Carrera 70 and San Juan.
The only problem is that it’s a manual one, without an attendant. It is supposed to have instructions but of
course they will be in Spanish so I’m not sure that will work for me. Someday I’ll watch someone else go through
the process of returning/checking out a bicycle and then I’ll know. My plan for Wednesday is to play chess with
Dario until 4pm, take the metro to Estacion Estadio, rent a bicycle, ride to
the manual station and check in my bike (if I can figure out how it works),
walk the last couple blocks to Opera pizza, have a pizza for dinner about 5:15ish,
walk back to the manual station and check out another bicycle, ride back to
Estacion Estadio where I’ll check it back in, and then walk to the chess league
in time for my 6:30 match. If I can’t
figure out how the manual station works then I’ll just take it with me to the
pizza place and hope I can keep it close for security reasons and finish my
pizza in time to get it back to the stadium on time.
On March 6th I had received an email from
Shedrain that they would send out the correct umbrella (red) the next day. I checked online and see via MBE’s tracking system
that it passed through Miami
Teresa wanted to know why Eddie didn’t go to the gringo meet-up
last Thursday so I translated the following message for her:
The day
before the gringo meeting I sent Eddie the following email "Teresa doesn't
want me to go to the meeting because of my cold. I plan to go for about an hour, have some
pizza and leave. Save me a seat."
He told me he only read the first sentence because he thought the rest of the
email was bullshit (his words). He said
he arrived at the pizza place 30 minutes early and stopped at a restaurant
across the alley to watch a soccer match.
After the match ended he ordered something to eat and got involved in
another soccer match. He never bothered
to walk across the alley to the meeting.
I told him I'm mad at him. (He
always told me he wanted to be alone anyway.)
Laura went to Frisby and
picked up food for everyone for about 58,000 pesos. I had chicken vegetable soup, cole slaw and a
Frischuleta.
About 5 months ago I received chess computer software from
Ruben called Shredder 10. I had figured
out how to use it to analyze a previously played game but after saving it, I couldn’t
figure out how to reload it. I spent the
morning reading the instruction manual, reading the online help screens and
with trial and error (and reentering several games) I finally figured out how
it works and the correct format to use when entering data. It’s still a learning process but I’m making
progress. For example, I figured out how
to do an automatic analysis of a previously entered game, the problem is that
the comments are in German. I have
enough challenge with Spanish, I don’t need to be spending my valuable time translating
“der kann naturlich nicht genommen werden” into “Of course, it can’t be taken”. I googled online and I understand I need to
go to Playchess.com and update my Shredder computer software. In Playchess.com I finally figured out how to
register but I couldn’t get a connection to the server. I’ll try again another time. When I finally exited Shredder I got the
message “An unsupported operation was attempted” and I couldn’t get it to go
away without rebooting.
At 8pm Laura came back with 6 empanadas for us to share for
dinner for less than 10,000 pesos. I
also finished my cole slaw from lunch.
I watched Contagion
(6.6) on Netflix.
T-shirt of the day: I’m currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks me out too. But the possibilities are endless!
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