The Moment I had Been Waiing For

It was the day to see how many Mas points I had and what nice thing I can redeem the points for.

You might recall how we thought getting one of these discount cards would be so difficult, when I eventually mustered up enough Spanglish to ask for one you would have thought I had one the lottery.

The grocery store keeps the items that you can redeem the points for behind a showcase, everything from kitchen gadgets to cheap electronics. I was like a kid in a candy store as I looked at the many items calling out to me "Doc, pick me, Doc, pick me!" Would it be the leather matte kit or maybe even a new digital camera, who knows.

So I went to the store to pick up some items, went to the customer service counter and asked the girl how many points I had "ciente dos", she says. I don't know much Spanish, but that much I knew, 102 and then I wasn't able to make out everything she said but she was shaking her head no and I heard the word "nada".

So I left Disco dejected, no parting gift from the grocery store we spent so many thousands of pesos at. They did have some good meat!

Packed Up

Over the course of the past three days the sound of packing tape ragging across boxes has been the sound that was heard in my apartment. Moving boxes filled every corner ready to go down the elevator as the king sized bed went over the balcony, much like the way it came up.

These guys do a great job and they are so familiar with doing moves with my employer they already know what goes and what stays pretty much. Fortunately one of them spoke decent English otherwise it may have been a little difficult.

We learned valuable lessons from our previous pack out and also from people at work. This time we didn't get rid of as much dry goods or for that matter unopened non=perishable food stuffs. What did we do? Put them in our coolers! The packers don't care whats in the coolers, they are just going to wrap them and put them in boxes.

Overall the haredest part is just making sure that you don't leave to much behind as you can mail things along but ideally you don't want to. You have to figure that you get to check in 2 bags for travel (3 for business class) so you need your bags packed before they start packing as well.

Now the clean up begins, some fun!

Nice relaxing day - redux

Just returned from a nice jog and walk on the beach. The beach is only around 1/4 of a mile, my guess, so it was a few back and forth treks. Mind you there are longer beaches here but it would be a decent workout just getting there.

The weather is beautiful, sunny and in the 60's. Quite the departure from the colder weather we have been having.

Our cats have acclimated to the weather change and they appear a little more fluffier these days.

Book Corner - Finished Reading

Death Trust by David Rollins

Paperback 416 pages

Fiction - Military mystery thriller

It started off as a good read, but then I started getting turned off by the mistakes in the technical details and how far fetched all together the story was. Of course this is to be expected, but the ending just went overboard for me and I could almost not finish reading the last three chapters.