Saturday, April 27, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 2:30, final waking/getting up at 6:30.

I called Citibank and requested to close my account. Even though I see the $310.42 balance in USAA, they say it will take 1-2 days for it to clear Citibank and then they will close my account. I then cut up my debit card.

After breakfast I returned to bed and slept until 9am.

With the 122^nd pick in the NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears selected Tory Taylor, punter from Iowa.

Teresa and I left the apt at 11am and took a Didi to the Poblado Pricesmart for 9,800 pesos. We bought 938,892 pesos ($237) of groceries and renewed our annual membership but they didn’t have turkey breast, Bisquick, Saran Wrap, Heinz vinegar or strawberry preserves. ☹ (Wonder if they have these items at the Laureles location.) We returned to the apt by taxi for 13,200 pesos.

The Bears traded their 2025 4^th round pick to the Buffalo Bills for their #114 pick and selected Austin Booker, Edge from Kansas.

I left the apt at 2:30 and walked to Parva where I had a cafe con leche with a pastel de guayaba. It soon was pouring rain and I was concerned it might not stop because The Weather Channel had predicted rain for the entire afternoon. I was feeding crumbs to a pigeon on the floor at my feet. A muchacho working there chased it out once but it soon was back. Just before 5pm the rain seemed to lessen and I checked Accuweather and it predicted the rain would stop in 11 minutes

so I made a quick trip to the restroom then left. I still needed the umbrella because of drops falling off trees. I stopped at the mini market but strangely they had no milk and their fridges were stocked with soda. I asked the guy working there if there was a new owner and I understood “no” but nothing after that. I stopped in Ara and bought 2 bags of milk (no line) before returning to the apt.

I turned on the Washington Correspondence dinner at 7pm but by 8:45pm the jokes hadn’t started so I turned it off to start my pre-sleep routine.

It was about 9pm when I looked out our bedroom window and saw a very active bat 1-2 stories below me. It flew into a couple trees and twice knocked down whatever fruit grows on it, about the size of an orange but the color of a lemon.

 

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