Friday, July 7, 2017

I slept well last night only getting up twice during the night.  I finally woke up at 6am and got up at 7am.

Laura was already gone as she had an appointment for an early morning tour of the university.

Among new US movie releases I might want to see A Ghost Story (7.4).  Locally, I would like to see The Circle (5.3) playing at 1pm and 4pm in El Tesoro and at 11:50am and 2:40pm at Oviedo.

I watched the first 20 minutes of the Today show and then left for the gym picking up a free adn newspaper along the way.  I completed all the machines I wanted, using my new gloves, in an hour and 55 minutes, including 5 minutes at speed 4 on the treadmill.

On the way back to the gym the guy I usually buy my Friday newspaper from didn’t have his stand set up.  I even backtracked a couple blocks where I’d seen a man selling papers on a street corner but he wasn’t there either.  What?  Is there a printer’s strike?

For the last few months workers have been doing construction on a new building half a block from the park.  Today I could see it’s finished and the bright flashing lights inside informed me that this is - just what we need – another casino.  Upon further reflection I deduced that it’s the same casino that’s on the other side of the block, they just enlarged it and now it has a 2^nd entrance.

Crossing a side street I saw a key ring with 3 keys attached but I didn’t pick them up because I have no idea what I would do with them.

Back at the apt I scanned quickly through the newspaper and they had an article about the 40^th anniversary of CES – Laura’s new school.  Btw, Tuesday-Thursday her first class is at 8am and on Mondays it’s at 6am.  Yikes!  But she’s done each day at noon.

Late in the afternoon Teresa asked me for a glass of tea.  I may have won over a convert.

I finished editing/copy writing Alex’s new book.

I had my Chess Magnet School account reset so I can start it over again.

Teresa and I left the apt at 6:30, joined up with MT outside her apartment and walked to Exito.  Teresa picked up some things for making sandwiches.  I checked out the foreign product aisle but didn’t see anything I wanted.  I went to the produce area and saw signs that said lemon but they all looked like limes to me.  We walked over to Home Center and on the way I saw the large full moon.  We picked up a Würden Panini grill that we paid for with the credit from Teresa returning the rice cooker plus another 82,000 pesos.  We quickly caught a taxi, dropped MT near her apartment and continued up to ours for the minimum fare of 5mil.  We were back by 8pm.

Teresa made us each a grilled ham sandwich for dinner.

T-shirt of the day: I’m not always rude & sarcastic.  Sometimes I’m asleep.