Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, woke up at 5am to birds tweeting right outside our bedroom window, couldn’t fall back asleep, finally getting up just at 5:30.

I left the apt just after 7:30 and met Jose at the mall after I recycled a few papers. We had our usual breakfast at Habia Una Vez. I think this time it cost me 20,500 pesos. I informed him how I was doing with the wedding/vacation plans and showed him my recent games against Troyclough.

We went upstairs and he won the first game with the White pieces in 45 moves and I won the 2^nd in 43 moves. During our 1^st game 2 young ladies stopped by our booth for a few seconds to observe our game. When Jose was on his way to a restroom break he walked past their booth (next to ours) and informed me they were playing chess. I took a look and they had a small magnetic set they were using. I showed them on my cellphone that I’m also playing a game on Chess.com. One showed me her phone and she’s playing on Chess.com also. After he left (about 1pm) I made an ATM withdrawal then had a medium sandwich combo at Only Roastbeef. I went downstairs and had a latte at Urbania.

I bought a large pack of toilet paper in Exito before returning to the apt by taxi.

I was updating my checking account spreadsheet and found I was off by a few thousand dollars. After I checked it transaction by transaction against the bank I see my Air Europa purchase isn’t there.

About 3:45 a storm passed through.

I was on a call with USAA for 52 minutes. Pee, my first rep, says the Air Europa charge (for some reason) is still pending and should show up by the 8^th day. She handed me off to a more experienced (senior?) rep named Jasmin and she said the transaction should show up online after tonight’s batch run so I won’t panic until tomorrow.

 

Today I got in 3,966 steps.

 

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