Last night I left the apartment early, walked
down to the end of the street, decided I might need a jacket later and went
back for it. After a 10 minute wait I
caught a Circular Sur 302 bus at 8:10.
While on the bus I heard YMCA
and Uptown Girl playing on the bus
driver’s radio. J I exited the bus at 8:40 at Monterrey CC and
walked up the street to Empanadisimas where I bought an empanada for 1mil. This time I tried the sauce that they put on
it and it’s a mildly hot sauce; seems more Mexican to me than Colombian.
I got to Patrick’s
Irish Pub at 9pm – 30 minutes before game time. Feeling a little overheated I had a Coke and
read some more from my Nook while I waited.
At 9:30 the manager, who is an American, put the game on but it froze
several times and he had to do a reconnect.
Patrick finally came back and changed it from First Row Sports streaming
video to connecting to his sling box he has in Bullhead City, Arizona. (I checked and it’s about 1/3 the way from Las Vegas, NV to Phoenix, AZ.) That started freezing up too and he said
there must be a storm in the area (AZ, not here) and he eventually switched it
back.
At halftime the score was NIU 7, Utah State 6; a
pretty boring game for a Huskie fan.
The kitchen closes at 11pm so at 10:30 I had
their Beef Stroganoff with a fresh mango juice and the total for the evening
came to 33mil ($17.37) and I left an extra 2mil tip.
I left about 12:20 after Utah State
scored a touchdown to go up 20-7. The
final, I learned later, was Utah State 21, NIU 14.
The taxi ride home was 12mil. When I got back to the apartment I realized I
hadn’t taken my medicine like I should have 30 minutes after dinner so I took
it right away.
I went to bed at 12:50, got up once during the
night, woke up at 7:15 and finally got up at 7:45.
The back has been feeling good for a couple days
now.
This morning I walked down as far as the park
and I could see that the lady wasn’t there selling orange juice so I went to
the other side of the park looking for a slab of pineapple. I didn’t see any on his wagon but I did see whole
pineapples so I asked for one (in Spanish) but motioned that I only wanted a
slab and he cut it up for me right then and there. He held it by the leaves, cut off the far
end, cut the sides carefully by pulling the knife toward him, and then he cut
it into 4 equally sized slabs, put 1 in a plastic baggie and handed it to
me. I paid him 1mil (53 cents), took one
of the napkins he has there and ate it on my way back to the apartment.
When I was checking for the week’s new US releases on
IMDB.com I noticed a place where I could see a movie trailer. It turned out there were a lot of them, some
different but for the same movie. One
interesting one, a scheduled April 11th, 2014 release is Draft Day starring Kevin Costner and
Jennifer Garner. “The general manager of
the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his
team.” My best friend is a Cleveland
Browns fan so he will probably be excited to see this.
Back to the task at hand, movies opening this
week in the US that I would like to see include Lone Survivor (IMDB 7.5), The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (7.5), and The
Wolf of Wall Street (8.9).
I checked the movies playing here and the only
thing decent is Walking with Dinosaurs 3D but
it’s dubbed in Spanish.
On my way to LM I ran into Gloria at the bottom
of the stairs. We had a moment to chat
and basically agreed that we are friends (amigos). (Actually, I am the amigo and she is the
amiga but for mixed company (M & F together) we are amigos.)
Lunch was the Solomito at SanJote for 16,500
pesos. Afterwards I went over some more
of Bobby Fischer’s games. While I was
doing that James stopped by and asked if we could play after I was
finished. I told him that soon I had to
leave so we would have to make it another time.
On my way back to the apartment I got a call
from Mail Boxes, ETC. telling me I have something to pick up. I’ll probably get it on January 2nd
when I’m in the neighborhood paying other bills. I sure hope it’s the book I ordered back on
November 14th. It’s possible
it could be my Chess life magazines.
Either one would be greatly welcome.
I got an email from James Lindzey with an
itemized bill. I guess I shouldn’t be
surprised its a more than I had expected because I forgot about the extra
services required. I only knew the exact
amounts for the first two items.
The
charges are:
400mil – Lawyer services
504mil – Pensionado Visa renewal
50mil – Legalization documents
22mil – Translation documents
125mil – Apostille documents (USA) and
shipping
17.5mil – Mail Services Express
1,180mil – TOTAL (appr. $621)
James said he would be fine if I don’t pay him
until January 1st or 2nd after my Soc. Sec. deposit comes
in.
Reina is coming over about 5pm and we’re going to
Envigado to see some large manger.
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