January 31, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 I’ve had a nasty something that seems like a sinus infection for 11 days and I’m sick of it.\u00a0 Green flem, sinus pressure, etc… I wanted to see if I could get rid of it without drugs (antibiotics) and make sure it wasn’t a virus.\u00a0 No such luck.\u00a0 So off I went to the pharmacy on skier’s left from our house and asked for Amoxicillin, she asked for how many days, I said 10, and she handed me a package telling me they are 500 mg, which is the most common dosage.\u00a0 That’s three Euros, she said, I paid and went to Starbucks to celebrate with a five Euro coffee and banana bread.\u00a0 No prescription needed.<\/p>\n
February 1, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 We’re trying to put a list of places to go and things to see before we are out of here.\u00a0 They include the Balearic Islands, Madrid, Paris (haven’t been there for a while).\u00a0 We’re off to Chamonix next week and then I’m thinking about doing the Haute Route (Chamonix to Zermatt on skis, climbing and skiing from hut to hut) and a week of driving during Semana Santa to France (our chance to go to Paris by car).\u00a0<\/p>\n
One observation about life in Spain and Europe.\u00a0\u00a0 Anne tried to buy an electric pencil sharpener.\u00a0 No store had it.\u00a0 This isn’t exactly new rocket technology, but you’d think it was.\u00a0 At the three or four stationery stores she visited, no person offered to order it and have it delivered for free the next day.\u00a0 Americans take it for granted since we’re a consumer oriented society.\u00a0 Here it’s more the Russian model or maybe the New York City model, I’ll get it for you if I want to.\u00a0 I’m amazed that a category killer like Staples hasn’t decided to come here, like Starbucks, and take the business which is available for the picking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
February 2, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 David had an earache last night and Anne, I and David were up until after 2:00 a.m.\u00a0 We all really need our sleep, especially Anne.\u00a0 Oh, well.\u00a0 We couldn’t do much for David but he was crying and wailing and it must have hurt a lot.\u00a0 He’s had a cold and\u00a0threw up at school yesterday (I picked him up with a taxi and the driver was a total jerk).\u00a0 Rocket also threw up right in front of me yesterday.\u00a0 Good eats.\u00a0\u00a0 In a week we are planning (not with Rocket) to go to Chamonix!<\/p>\n
I went to the market to shop for food.\u00a0 Lots of people were in costume for Carnivale.\u00a0 I saw the usual — men dressed as women, strangely no women dressed as hookers but some as men, and lots of painted faces.\u00a0 It took 1 hour and 40 minutes to do all the shopping because it was crowded and I had to wait for bread and for fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 The fruit and vegetables line took so long (close to 30 minutes) that I sat at the booth next door and had a coffee served by a very nice man\/woman.<\/p>\n
Anne managed, through a friend, to find a doctor who actually came by our apartment and made a house call!\u00a0 The whole medical thing here is much easier.\u00a0 She looked at both boys, gave us a prescription for antibiotics since we’re travelling soon, and will charge our health insurance.\u00a0 No deductible, no copay.\u00a0 Seems good to me.<\/p>\n
February 3, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 A rainy day here, the first in months.\u00a0 I finally dragged myself out to walk around and took dragged, literally, Rocket along.\u00a0 I went to find the theatre near here where they have English movies (Spanish subtitles) otherwise everything is dubbed.\u00a0 We hate dubbed moves, tv, etc…<\/p>\n
February 4, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 Anne and I had our separate Spanish classes.\u00a0 I’m getting pretty disgusted with my lack of seeming progress, although I know there is some.\u00a0 What is distressing is not being able to utter a sentence without making a mistake.\u00a0 Yuck.<\/p>\n
I’m also considering what to do upon return from our excile here.\u00a0 I’ve always wanted to work for the betterment of mankind, help the poor, make the world a better place so I was thinking about high-end real estate rentals in Aspen and Snowmass for a start.\u00a0 I’m working on a business plan (well, will work on one).<\/p>\n
February 5, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 I watched some of the Superbowl commercials on Youtube.com — there were some really funny ones.\u00a0 My favorites were the one for Planters Nuts with the woman who everyone coveted http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZuMhZGCPrs<\/a>\u00a0and the FedEx one with carrier pidgeons http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WaNQSwR7F4o<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n February 6, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 Everyone here pretty much supports Obama, as far as we can tell.\u00a0 My thinking is the Republicans support Hillary with the thinking that she is unelectable.\u00a0 I think the Democrats will surely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by nominating Hillary.\u00a0 In that case, McCain will win.\u00a0 In the last day or so, I’ve had one call each from Bill and Hillary and one call from a volunteer for Obama.<\/p>\n I went on my usual bike ride to Molins de Rei, first time in over three weeks due to leading ski trip in Andorra and sinus infection\/cold.\u00a0 I went really hard on the ride I do, which has some nice turns.\u00a0 Then back and took David to soccer practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 31, 2008.\u00a0 I’ve had a nasty something that seems like a sinus infection for 11 days and I’m sick of it.\u00a0 Green flem, sinus pressure, etc… I wanted to see if I could get rid of it without drugs (antibiotics) and make sure it wasn’t a virus.\u00a0 No such luck.\u00a0 So off I went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}