Sunday, April 30, 2017

Last night I went to bed my usual 11pm but it took some time (more than hour?) to fall asleep – don’t know why.  Teresa woke me up about 2:30am when she announced that “it’s raining”.   I was awakened again about 3:30 by loud voices talking, laughing just outside our window.  I got up and closed the window and almost immediately they stopped.  A few minutes later I got up again and opened the window.  I got up and closed it again when it started raining again.  I got up about 5am to pee.  I finally woke/got up at 9:45.  Thankfully, Teresa let me sleep in.  It stopped raining about 10:30 but it’s still very overcast.

I did another Speed Test at 11am and got 2.12 download and 1.18 upload.

I left the apt at 11:30, walked by 2 paper stores and found them both closed.  It was misting slightly so I put up my small umbrella.  I stopped at a corner stand by Exito and bought a ripe avocado for 4,000 pesos.

In Exito I bought prepackaged hamburgers, buns, a head of lettuce and 2 bags of milk for 22,000 pesos.

Back at the apt I asked Teresa for the letter from the real estate agency that stated how much we will have to pay for the apt for this next year.  I understand she wants to talk to someone at the agency and possibly sign a contract for 6 months instead of 12.  I suggested 10 months instead of 12 so maybe we could get that other apartment we saw that rented out last March.

About 4:30 Teresa, MT and I walked down to Home Center.   (We saw 3 apartments for rent within the same block but I don’t want to live “down the hill”.)  We took a look at a number of TV stands and Teresa found one she liked.  The main problem was that it was so low (it didn’t quite come up to mid thigh on me) I didn’t think it would be high enough for my TV Listener receiver to work.  

Instead Teresa found a small Electrolux vacuum cleaner she wanted for vacuuming the new furniture.  She also picked out a ceramic container for storing sugar and a few cloths that I think she wants to take to the gym.  Everything cost 231,600 pesos (about $79).

Outside Teresa suggested we walk back to the apt instead of taking a taxi and I said “whatever”.  After all she’s the one who’s carrying everything.  We walked around the construction area for Home Center and just before we got to Exito I happened to look at the plastic bag she was carrying.  It didn’t look large enough to also be carrying the hand vacuum.  I asked her if she had the “machine” and she stopped and realized that she/we never took it from the cashier.  We turned around and when we got back we found that it had already been sent back upstairs.  MT and I sat down by the front door while Teresa went and got it.  This time I insisted we take a taxi.

I finally finished Rick Atkinson’s Guns at Last Light: the War in Western Europe and then downloaded Michael Crichton’s Timeline.  The former was 1,198 pages long but the novel actually stopped at page 762 and the rest was Notes, Selected Sources, Acknowledgments, Index, Photographs, Praise for Guns at Last Light, Also by Rick Atkinson, About the Author, and Copyright.

One of my blog readers was nice enough to send me some tips on making iced tea with my gallon sized tea bags.  Muchas gracias!

In Chess Magnet School I was promoted to Guardian.

I completed a couple lessons in Rosetta Stone but I only earned a score of 33% in the Writing lesson.  The good news is I’m glad I’m not going to have to do much writing in Spanish.  Those accent marks are a killer!  The bad news is I think I need to score 80% on the lesson before it lets me continue.

T-shirt of the day: Some people just need a sympathetic pat… on the head … with a hammer.