Sunday, September 9, 2018

I slept well despite getting up once or twice during the night.  

Teresa woke me at 8:30 to tell me she’s leaving for the finca.

I got up a few minutes later, washed my face and put on the gym clothes I only wear for Ciclovia and left just before 9am.  At one point just before Papa Johns I heard some child behind me speaking English.  I talked briefly to the father – he moved here from Australia in 2005, was married to a Colombiana in his words “long enough to have 2 kids”.  The boy about 10, and the girl more like 7, she with blonde hair, they were both cute.  I walked a little further than previously and stopped at the new building that is nearing completion and turned around.

At Sao Paolo plaza I stopped in their food court at restaurant Olivenza for breakfast.  They had pancakes but it came with honey, not maple syrup so I ordered an omelette.  They had wifi – yay – and I took a photo of the restaurant and for the first time posted it to my Facebook account.  (Bart showed me how to do it yesterday.)  With 2 café con leches the total came to 21,852 and I tipped the waitress about 3,000 pesos.  (Later when I showed Teresa the bill she told me that it was too exensive - $7 – imagine.)

I walked back to the apt returning just after 11am.

Still no wifi!  Une’s last chance will be early tomorrow afternoon or Teresa and I are going to cancel their service (that we aren’t getting).

There were 18 positions that I was unable to solve in Cycle 1 & 2.  I entered them into my online database so I can work on solving them separately.

I’m watching NFL Redzone which, in English, switches from game to game showing the biggest plays.  They advertise 7 hours of commercial free coverage but Direct TV still occasionally interrupts with their own commercials.

Well, that didn’t take long.  Just a little less than 30 minutes into today’s games and a Cincinnatti Bengals player was ejected for helmet to helmet contact.  I also saw calls against players “piling on” the QB which is a new rule this year.  (I still see lots of helmet to helmet contact, however, but I guess the rules don’t apply to everything.

Teresa and Laura left about 3pm to go mall hopping.  They told me they don’t know what mall(s) they are going to.

I settled down for the game with my popcorn and Coke.  The Bears soon took a 10-0 lead over the Packers.  Aaron Rodgers went down with what looked like a knee injury with 9 minutes left in the 2^nd quarter and Deshone Kizer came in.  Khalil Mack had at least 1 sack, he stripped Kizer of the ball, intercepted a pass and ran it in for a touchdown to give the Bears a 17-0 lead at halftime.  So far, so good!!!  The Bears certainly dominated the first half.

Aaron Rodgers came back in in the 2^nd half and as usual we played too cautiously and lost to the Packers 24-23.  How discouraging!  Now the Bears have to win next week against the Seahawks to have any chance for them to go 10-6.

Today’s Step Count was 10,928.

Joke of the day

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.