Sunday, February 9, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 6am, finally getting up at 6:45.

Today is my son’s 38^th birthday, Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Teresa was in a dire need for dish washing soap so I went next door to Ara and bought 2 containers, plus a bag of apples and a bag of milk. I dropped them off at the apt then left for Sao Paulo. I arrived at Olivenza by 9am and Glenn was already there with Bianca. I brought him up-to-date on our Chicago trip and asked him about the new burger place I’ve often seen mentioned on Facebook called Beach Burger. He told me he had one delivered and it was awful and the fries were over salted. He recommended a forum called FlyerTalk.com (I checked it out later and it’s just too overwhelming). I had the calentao with scrambled eggs and I gave one of my dinner rolls to Glenn. He left at 10:30, I paid the check, stopped in Carulla and bought a carton of 18 eggs for 18,275 pesos ($4.50) or about 25 cents each. (I had read that in the US 14,000,000 egg-laying hens were killed due to the Avian influenza (H5N1) and another 13,200,000 in December. No wonder egg prices are so high. Per google, Colombia has the same problem but to a much lesser degree.) I returned to the apt in a few raindrops.

We had a thunderstorm come through from 11:30 to noon and the downpour continued for another hour after that.

Somone posted this Chicago Bucket List which I'm going to use to fine tune my own list.

We left the apt at 2pm and our driver, Oscar, didn’t seem to know how to read his GPS, several times I had to correct his about to be made mistakes. It was even obvious to Teresa he didn’t know what he was doing.

We had a nice lunch in Rocoto, Teresa had their Salmon Malibu and I the Lomo Saltado which normally comes mixed with French fries but I requested them separate. For dessert we shared a brownie with ice cream and red fruit and I had a weakened espresso. 

The total bill came to 195,793 pesos ($47).

I lost a game to Troyclough lowering my rating to 1560.

Our Didi driver on the way back missed a turn that would have taken us to the Aguacatala traffic circle and to course correct he had to do two of those cloverleaf right turns to get us to Ave Las Vegas.

Today turned out to be another cool day, not even reaching 80 degrees.

It’s time to deice the ice maker in our freezer so I turned it off, removed the container containing the ice and turned it upside down in the utility sink. A little later I heard a little commotion and found 4 ice cubes inside the freezer. In the future I guess I need to turn off the ice maker an hour or so before removing the container.

I finished the last of my salted-in-the-shell peanuts while watching the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles duke it out in Superbowl LIX. There were lots of sacks and lots of scoring. I was pleasantly surprised that DAZN showed the Superbowl commercials although I thought they were all stupid except the Hellmann’s Mayonnaise one starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. I went to bed when the Eagles were ahead 34-0 thinking this game is over.

I finished reading John Green’s paperback Paper Towns now back to the Jack Reacher series.

 

EL ARROYO