Saturday, March 22, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, again at 5:30, finally waking/getting up at 6:30.

I left the apt at 9am and had a latte in Ganso y Castor while completing another 12 chess puzzles. Like yesterday I saw the red squirrel come down the tree, grab the peanut, take it a safe distance away to the same place before eating it.

I left at 10:30 and returned to the apt.

Teresa called her girlfriend and learned her husband was having a vomiting problem so best she not visit today.

We left at 11:45 and took a Didi to the Poblado Pricesmart. We picked up all our non-cold items then stopped for lunch in their deli where I found the last available table in the back. Teresa was in line for 20 minutes before she could place our order. We each had a garden salad with ham and chicken and a soda. I informed Teresa I don’t like dark turkey meat so if she goes ahead with her plan to buy a whole turkey then the dark meat will all be for her. She was surprised to find out a turkey had dark meat so we went ahead and bought 3 turkey breasts.

After we finished lunch we continued with the frozen and refrigerated items.

We were done by 2pm and it was a short wait for a taxi back to the apt.

I left at 2:30 and had a latte in a pretty busy Los Portenos while starting my new chess book. I left at 5pm and returned to the apt.

I turned on my NordVPN, set it to the US, and checked online for laptops under $500. I found an Acer Aspire 3 A315-24PT-R1L8 for $499.99.

But I’m still going to wait for the Memorial Day weekend sales which should be Fri-Mon, May 23-26.

Laura transferred 300,000 pesos into Teresa’s account to compensate me for what she took out of her account that I had there to pay Smartfit. There is also 100,000 pesos extra in Teresa’s account because Smartfit only withdrew 200,000. I’ll leave that 400,000 pesos as a cushion and just keep depositing what we need each month.

I received an email from Noel Studer that he’s relaunching his Next Level Training course under the new name of Simplified Chess Improvement System.

 

BOB BURFORD