When we get to Las Vegas, the first thing I need is a cheap phone, so I ordered one to pick up at an AT&T store. Since I don’t know Las Vegas, I clicked on “directions to this store.”
It appears that one more step was required.
Price shopping
We have two supermarkets in Atlántida, Tienda Inglesa and Disco, the latter a bit more down-scale. Because the wait for a cashier in Disco is often considerably longer, and it’s just a dingier experience overall, I seldom go there, but got inspired to compare prices.
I think that might change. A cashier offered that they also give you a further 10% on ten bottles or more, something I’ve certainly never heard at Tienda Inglesa.
Turning the heat to “low”
Amongst many other curiosities in Uruguay (such as virtually every refrigerator sold with a door that opens to the right, usually not reversible), you’ll probably end up with a gas stove that is not jetted properly for the “Supergas” sold here. Light the burner, turn it back towards “off” slightly, and if it’s the only thing you’re cooking, put some more distance between pan and heat!
Have moto, will massage
Milk chocolate waves
After five years, brown waves are starting to look normal. A little.
Sunrise
A welcome clarity in the air and my mind after days of rain and gloomy weather.
I thought they had fixed this (rain)
Back in February, I made a short video about our road the river.
In June I mocked the attempt to repair it, only to change my mind, change my mind again a week later, then again within 24 hours.
Alas, this year’s freakish weather has proven too much for it.
No, for real.
You’ll recall that all of five days ago I was noting the extreme and unseasonal heat.
Today, 1 November (equivalent 1 May topside) at 34°46′ south, we are chasing off a chill with the wood stove. It’s not that cold, but the fire feels nice.
Halloween in (non-urban) Uruguay
I stopped a posse of trick-or-treaters with ¿puedo sacar un foto? (Can I take a photo?) It took none of my school-picture-photographer expertise for them to expertly group. In response to my ¡Perfecto! Muchas gracias I heard several de nadas.
OK, still broad daylight, but here are unaccompanied kids, acting “abnormally” (in other words, as kids), and it’s all OK.
Which is not say I saw no parental guidance (but certainly none distrusting or fearful!). Just that adults had to be there only for the really little kids.
After I took this picture, I assumed that Junior Senior (left) had been distracted. On the second take, I realized his mother was telling me in heavily-accented English that he doesn’t like pictures. Cool. Gracias. Cooler: an advanced soul recognizing the danger of facial recognition technology? LOL. Maybe.
Name that beverage!
If you said, tap water this morning, congratulations! A few hours later, the tap water has cleared up again.
We had thunderstorms starting in the wee hours yesterday, but apparently it was the flooding from the rain all day that caused the electricity to go out five or six times, for a few minutes each, much later.
Apparently 162 people were evacuated from their homes, and 9,500 houses left without power.
The potholes in front of our house are growing as a result , but at least the road did not become a river as it did before they fixed it.