Saturday, August 10, 2019

Last night I went to bed at 11:15, fell asleep quickly, work up briefly at 5am, woke up at 6am and got up at 6:30.

After charging on my own charge cable the battery on the cellphone Teresa gave me is only 24% full.  When I left the apt at 8:45 it was plugged into the regular charger.

I arrived via metro at the chess league at 9:30.  I was sitting at my table at 10am but they didn’t start for some reason until 10:20.  Jose Cruz showed up but he is still recovery from his eye surgery.  I had the Black pieces and played the Sicilian defense but I ended up resigning after the 25^th move.

Jose was heading back to his apt.  I took a taxi to Mall Laureles and went downstairs to buy a few packages of toilet paper but the machine was empty.  I stood outside the women’s restroom for a couple minutes until I caught a woman going in and she bought me 3 packages for me at 200 pesos each.

I walked across the street to Viva Laureles where I had chicken teriyaki at Sarku’s.  (A young lady even handed me one of their coupons as I arrived on the floor.)

I took a taxi back to the Stadium Station and walked a block to El Hubo café where I had a café con leche.  Today the same couple I saw yesterday had 5 puppies.  I inquired as to the price and was told 670,000 pesos or $200.  They are awfully cute but with the condition my back is in it would be difficult for me to walk it first thing in the morning and bend down to play with it, etc.

I arrived back at the league office at 3:30 and the game started on time at 4pm.  I had White and played the English system and I thought I played well but I erred a couple times and resigned on the 18^th move.

I took a taxi back to the apt.  I asked Teresa if she wanted to go for pizza and she surprised me by suggesting Mu for ribs.  We left the apt at 7:30 and took a taxi to the restaurant.  While waiting for our food I managed to connect my “new” cellphone to their wifi.

We ordered the large order of ribs, Teresa ate 2, I ate 2 and I think we still had about 7 left to go (70,000 pesos).

Back at the apt I don’t know why I can’t connect to our home wifi.

8,463 steps today.

Joke of the day

The light turned yellow, just in front of his car. He did the right thing and stopped at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman behind him was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection. As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer.
The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed and placed in a holding cell.
After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door.
She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects. He said, "I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, giving the guy in front of you the finger and cursing at him.
I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'Follow Me to Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally I assumed you had stolen the car."