Tuesday July 16, 2013

Tuesday July 16, 2013  update #514

I was up early, with many things on the go today.   I actually finished my chores about 9am and had another catnap before getting ready for my day’s odyssey.

I finally got to sneak over to the Book Exchange at the Windhorse café and swapped my Clancy book for a hardcover Dan Brown that I haven’t read yet.

The weather was quite iffy all day today, spitting most of the time and yet I refused to put on a jacket.   Many Ecuadorians were in quilted jackets and I saw one young boy sporting ski pants.

I hopped the #19 out to San Joaquin to go “register” our money documents at Coopera.   I timed it pretty good so I had a chance to talk to our old bank manager Juan.  He admitted to being caught by surprise just like we were, because even his parents are large investors in Coopera and are in the same boat as us.   There is still talk that us larger investors are going to take the hit for Coopera’s losses.   However, if they have paid out 98% of the investors in total, how can they deny us 2% of the same benefit??  It makes no sense.

Some investors think they can buy the Coopera assets for about 20% of our total owed, run the businesses and get the other 80% over an unspecified period of time.  Bella seems to think this is workable but I don’t see it.

I caught the #19 back downtown and had the almuerzo lunch at the LongStreet Café.  The lady has increased her price to $2.  I was hoping to catch the jets flying overhead around that time but the wind was coming from the west so the planes were approaching from the other end.

There was quite an impressive picture that I shared on Facebook showing the 5 mile high ash plume from Tungurahua.   So far this has not affected air travel too much.

Next was a meeting at Hearts Of Gold to help formulate criteria for persons or organizations requesting donations.  I sat in on this meeting and provided some input from things I had found online.  This data was then used as the benchmark for updating to HoG’s needs.   Onward and upward.

Then Gayle and I headed over to Villa San Carlos to discuss using their venue for the HoG Christmas Gala.  The event was held at Joe’s Secret Garden last year but that venue is just too small to accommodate us this year.  VSC can handle up to 250 people, with side rooms available, and room for a band and to dance.   We discussed the menu and bar selections and think we have a pretty nice package to present to the group for approval.  Tentatively mark your calendars for Friday December 6^th for a rocking good time.

That was the day's excitement,   Cheers, Al   

My only shot today, looking south from the LongStreet Cafe.