Saw this at the feria couple weeks ago. First and only time. Mobile tattoo / barber shop?
I’ll pass.
Uh, no.
Category: Commerce
Products, services, marketing, names
Log in day
On this very day a year ago, I did the same thing i did today: finished stacking firewood in the garage. This year the minimum for delivery is 3,500 kg, up from 3,000 last year. Yes, that’s a lot of wood.
Egg prices
A dozen eggs today, 65 pesos (USD 1.47) at our local mini-supermarket. The last I bought at another mini-supermarket they were 95, and at Tienda Inglesa (large supermarket) they’re 120 pesos.
Who knows?
Safe to drink
“Tap water is generally safe to drink in Uruguay.”
Yes, if you don’t mind putting in your body whatever shit got caught by those filters before they were changed.
Interesting name
Correo
Christmas card mailed from California 4 December 2020. Received in Uruguay 21 January 2021. Not bad.
Architect advertising?
Waiting in line for the ATM the other day, I noticed something I’ve seen a couple times before: the architect’s name in metal on the side of a building (or house).
In this case the telecom building is a poster child for 1960s brutalist architecture, with the added twist of a 12 foot high north-facing glass facade. You can see dark transparent plastic has been applied and is now coming loose, and huge blinds to attempt to block the sun (being in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun is in the north). But basically what the architect has created is an enormous solar oven. And an ugly one at that.
Quite a legacy!
Knot useful?
When I go to the butcher, I always carry my stuff to the car. Today I had almost 16 kg (lots of dog food) and the butcher carried it to the car for me. Didn’t really give me a choice. When I got home, I saw that he had tied the loop handles of each bag into a knot, something I would have never thought of.
In fact, I’m not sure how useful it is to know.
Square
Buying lumber in Uruguay: first thing you have to do is square it, because apparently those saws that are running all day long are incapable of being set to cut right angles.
Ah, BROU
Not unexpected.