Friday, November 15, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 5:30am.

I’m finally playing someone about my own rating, octopusmotor rated 1639. I have the Black pieces so we’ll see how it goes.

I left the apt at 7:30 and completed my workout in Smartfit. In Ganso y Castor I was having a latte when I met Brian from Florida. His family is originally from El Salvador so I told him I saw the CNN special last night where they were showing the maximum-security prison in El Salvador. He is renting an AirBnB in the park and when I enquired, he said they go for $700-$800 a month. I informed him this is the rainy season here but it should be ending soon.

Teresa called and asked me to buy “jabon de coco” in Tienda D1. Luckily, I had 5mil with me, intending to print some blog pages for our embassy visit. I paid for my latte and stopped in Tienda D1 and pretty quickly found the jabon de coco,it only cost 1,950 pesos and luckily the line wasn’t long. I returned to the apt. When I handed her the bar she told me she wanted “liquido”. Well then you need to tell me that.

I’ve decided to learn a new defense against e4. I’ve been playing the Scandinavian, now I’m going to consider switching to the Pirc so I’m looking at lessons on Youtube.

I left again at 1:30, printed some blog pages and a first draft of Pirc notes and had a latte in Los Portenos while completing a couple more pages of chess puzzles. I suddenly realized I was out of bagels so I went to Eduardo Madrid bakery where I found a sleeve of 5 bagels. I bought those and had a latte for a couple hours. When I heard a lot of squawking outside, I took this video of more Macaws hanging out in the trees across the street.

Teresa called at 3:45 and asked me to pick up eggs and plantains in Mercado Madrid. I left at 4pm in a light drizzle and returned to the apt. I explained I only had two hands and since it was raining, I wasn’t going to go out again to the grocery store. Sorry! Tomorrow afternoon.

Kelly arrived about 6:15 to give Teresa a massage and it was about 6:30 when I noticed it was raining but it didn’t last very long.

I heard some cheering outside and I had seen a few people wearing Colombian jerseys today. I checked my cellphone and Uruguay defeated Colomba 3-2.

 

JUST FUNNY