I woke up once, probably early in the morning,
when the dogs went crazy for a minute.
Teresa woke me at 7am and I got up because we probably have a busy day
ahead of us. Anyway, it was nice to
sleep through the night.
It will be interesting to see if my Direct TV subscription
allows me to see all the NFL playoff games and the Super Bowl.
We left the finca at 9:15 and when we got to the
neighbor’s house I noticed the gate was closed.
The doberman came up to the gate but didn’t come out but the other dog
came close to the path but didn’t approach any closer.
We took a bus to Aguacatala followed by a taxi
to Unicentro CC for 9mil. Inside the
lawyer’s office the lady working there gave me my passport with the renewed
visa, I paid the remaining 460mil, she gave us the instructions we need to
renew my Cedula, I filled out the proper form, and she gave me a bank deposit
slip for the payment.
We walked over to Banco de Occidente which is
right across the street from Unicentro.
We paid the 156,300 COP for my new Cedula but for some reason Teresa had
to copy the deposit information onto a new form. We walked outside and I took another 300mil
out of their ATM machine.
We walked across the street to have lunch in
Unicentro CC. I asked Teresa if she
wanted to have lunch in the same place as last time and she said she didn’t
like it. I thought we would look inside
the mall for some restaurant but, strangely enough, we ended up at the same
cafeteria as last time. We each had
cream of chicken soup, some slab of beef that was reasonably tender, a baked
potato, gravy, salad and a drink for about 18mil.
Teresa reminded me we have until January 7th
to pay the Direct TV bill of 150mil.
We took a taxi to the Immigration office for 10mil. They took all my information, we waited about
90 minutes, they gave me back my passport with a little piece of paper
containing a website address – www.MigracionColombia.gov.co that I understand
we are to check after an 8 day wait; same as last year.
We stopped at an internet café where I added 20mil
to my cell phone, we stopped at a tienda where she had a bottle of water and I
had an iced tea and we bought a loaf of bread for sandwiches.
We walked down to Avenida 80 where we got on a
Circular Sur 302 bus. Teresa sat in the
front seat and I sat right behind her – surprisingly, right next to Sergio,
Nydia’s husband. I introduced him to
Teresa and told him I don’t live in the apartment anymore, instead I’m in her
finca between Caldas and Amaga. At the
last minute before we got off the bus at Aguacatala Teresa gave him my cell
phone number.
We just missed a Tratam bus but after only a 10
minute wait we caught a Fredonia bus back to the finca – we even had no problem
getting seats.
On the way up the side road Teresa told me that
there will be a lot of traffic and a lot of people at the fincas at the top of
the hill. Some day we’re going to have
to walk up there so I can see what’s there.
At the neighbor’s house the doberman came out
and my Dog Repeller kept him back but he didn’t exactly run away from it like
the other dog did.
I found a message on my i-Pad that general
manager Phil Emery and head coach Marc Trestman were fired from the Chicago
Bears today.
While Teresa was feeding the dogs, Luna got too
close to the food that Tony thought was his and he attacked her. I should have used my Dog Repeller on him at
that point but I didn’t think about it until after.
We started watching The Captive using www.yaske.net
but something went wrong with the delivery.
While trying to fix it the cursor froze and I
couldn’t get it restarted even when I rebooted.
Even the light was on, indicating to me it was working, when I replaced
the battery in the mouse with one taken from my camera, it started working
again.
I took my sleeping pill at 9:45 and we went to
bed at 10pm.
T-shirt of the day: There’s room for all of god’s creatures,
right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.
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