no hay agua
The water in our apartment got shut off in the middle of John’s shower this morning. I was oblivious to this because I was in the living room conducting on-line training for aproximately 115 people. It’s sometimes weird working from home.
The water has been off all day, but when I went out around 6PM to get groceries the doorman/superintendent told me that the water would be turned on somewhere around 8 or 9 PM because a pipe broke and they are repairing it. When John went out he heard that the water would be turned back on at around 9PM. Both of us were wrong. We were in the midst of cooking dinner at about 9:15 when the water was turned off again. Apparently the doorman was telling us that we would only be able to use the water between 8 and 9. Neither one of us heard it that way – I swear that’s not what the guy said! Just another example of the struggle of everyday life when you have no idea what people are saying 80% of the time.
Andrew Owen:
We had a similar experience. The doorman told us something about the water. At first I thought our aircon was leaking onto the downstairs neighbour again. Then I realised he was warning us that the water would be off… He said something about 11 o’clock. I thought that was when it was coming back on… it was when it was being turned off!
December 2, 2008, 11:40 amJohn:
Reposted from Elli and Steve with phone number removed:
I am probably commenting in the wrong place and for that I apologize.
I just wanted to send you a note saying how great it was meeting and talking with both of you tonight at La Cholita. We also wanted to let you know that if you need any help while you are here in B.A. let us know for eg. if you need a good dentist we have one of those we could line you up with.
Steve’s phone number is xx xxxx xxxx.
Have a good time. We are just sorry we didn’t meet you earlier in our stay.
Elli and Steve
and part time in B.A.
December 15, 2008, 3:28 pmCanadian expats living in so. cal.
Robert:
John & Robin
Hello from Seattle! It’s Robert from Salsa class. Hope you guys are doing well in Argentina. I’m in intermediate salsa now and the instructor Jim will have nice new studio in January. We had a big snowstorm here with about 8-16 inches of snow (depending where you were) near Christmas. Oh, which reminds me, Merry Christmas!
Needless to say, the snow has snarled things up because most Seattle folks can’t drive in the snow. So, hows summer down there?
Take care!
December 24, 2008, 2:48 amLarry Tyus:
Hi John and Robin, just wandering where you two are . Hope you all are well. we met in BA. in Sept 08.
April 17, 2010, 12:21 amBest Regards, Larry and Beautye Tyus