Wednesday July 11, 2018 Nerves

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Wednesday July 11, 2018

I have one nerve left and everybody is stomping on it today.... Time to go to bed and put a pillow over my head and hope the world goes away.

We went to Bancolombia, leaving the house at 9:30, along with my Ecuadorian house sale documents which finally came in after 5pm yesterday, 3 weeks after they were signed....

At noon they are locking the doors and trying to handle the last few customers still waiting.  Again we watched so many people come in after us who got served first.  One guy was handling our alphabet lineup and we were 11th in line.  We finally got the OK that our house money is OK to spend here and we got out of there after 12:40.

We had a nice lunch and watched the first 1/2 of the England-Croatia match before going to wait at the Notary's door for 2pm.  We were asked by the Visa facilitator from Pereira to "register" our marriage at a Notary office here.  The Notary had one look at our Legalized Marriage document from Ecuador and said that it was not necessary to "register" here.  

So we got home in time to watch England blow their 1-0 lead and lose the game.  

We contacted the Visa facilitator in Pereira and she seriously does not give me the warm-fuzzies, questioning our documents which are all according to the Government rules.  Finally I had Cristina talk to her and the lady claims that the letter from Cristina authorizing a Visa in my name is "weak" (again the wording follows the requirements), so she will send a template which we are to re-do and go back to the Notary to have it notarized, etc...  That is over an hour ago and we still have not received it...

Everyone knows how much I love useless bureaucracy and today is just another installment of the ongoing BS in Latin America.

No temperament for pictures today.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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Tuesday July 10, 2018 Out'n'about

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Tuesday July 10, 2018

We decided that we wouldn't slip out until around 3pm so I actually got to work on photos again, where I am catching up from last September yet.  It will probably be a year before these get posted for sale because of my backlog, and I am only doing 2 per day now because they take so long, especially because of the complicated setup at RedBubble.  When I go to upload something these days I don't even remember doing the work on the shot...

For lunch Cristina surprised me with steak that we had bought and that gave me the opportunity to dig out this:

Besides plain old black pepper, there is probably no finer spice in the world and I do not spare it on a good steak, I pour it on.  Yummmmmmmmyyy!
Then I set my VPN to "France", brought up First Row Sports and watched the France-Belgium match.  Remember that I picked France to come out on top, and they did, 1-0 on a nice goal, not some cheesy penalty kick.  Now if England takes out Croatia tomorrow as I expect, then we will have a cross-channel match that I am sure many have been salivating for.
We caught the bus out to the Andalucia cemetery and watered the plants and listened to some of Christian's music, which kinda is Cristina's ritual.  It is still so hard for me to grasp that he is really gone, such a young life needlessly snuffed out at age 22.

Then we caught the buseta back and got off at LA 14 to do some grocery shopping.   Our niece Natalia met us there out of boredom and then we found her Dad Miguel having coffee with some old work buddies, one of them being an old Italian guy named Giovanni.  On a lark, I buzzed my Italian friend from San Cristobal, Alex, and let the two of them chat for a bit.  Then I caught up a little with Alex myself.  They will likely head to a wedding in Italy in September then maybe make it out here before the end of the year.

Once home, we both took a short walk with all the dogs which they enjoy so much.  It also helps everybody sleep better too.

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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