Wednesday January 9, 2013

Wednesday January 9/13  update #337

It was a lazy day mostly for the two of us.  I did multiple uploads to my photo sites then had a quick lunch to try to make it downtown by 12:30.  I didn’t want to catch the photo stores closed for siesta.  The #50 took forever to come and then to make its way through downtown.  

Luckily the Fuji store was open so I went in with my memory stick to get two 5” x 7” photos done.  I approached the self-service machine and had assistance from the young PhotoShop expert but could only get the JPG to show and not the PNG.  So the young lady patiently took the stick upstairs and processed something then sent the photos back down to the self-service machine.  Then she calmly printed the one and I didn’t even see her process the second one at all but kept my mouth shot.   Then she handed me a tag to pay at the counter which she then came to serve me at.  I was expecting $3 each because of samples on the wall but the total bill was a whopping 70 cents, I almost fell over and asked her if it was for both photos and she said yes.  When I got the package I double-checked and there they both were, in vivid Fuji colour.   They are just an awesome place to deal with.

As I stepped out I looked up at Michael & Susan’s place above the Konica store across the street just as the balcony doors opened.   So Michael and I had a little conversation above the traffic noise and I headed down the street.

I stopped at one of the many Video stores and picked up 4 more movies, one being a duplicate as I couldn’t remember all of the 200+ movies we own down here.   I was asking for “Absolutamente Amor”, for “Love, Actually” but they didn’t have it.  They wanted to close for lunch so I was rushed and only took the 4, including Chicago, Josey Wales, Cool Hand Luke, and the duplicate of You Only Live Twice.  They had such a phenomenal selection I could have walked out with armloads of movies.

I got off the bus early and got a key cut for the inside door (60c) and tried to see the metal fabricators to talk about getting a rolling shelf unit for inside the gate, now that the bike is no longer hogging that space, but they were closed for lunch.

When I got home I cleaned up the new picture frames and installed the new Fuji photos and they look awesome.  I hope our hosts tomorrow like them.

I went back to the metal fabricators again and the boss still wasn;t around, but the hired hand remembered me as the man with the two cats on Popayan.  I asked for him to ask his boss to come over and take some measurements but he never did show up.

Mmmmm, nachos for supper, a very welcome treat.

And I got to work on a few more photos from the Pase Del Nino.

Now time to watch a movie.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.   Please see all photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/