Woke up. Took a shower. Forgot to shave. Got a call from the Boys & Girls Club of Waynesboro. My kids are off the waiting list! It will cost me $20 per kid for after school care for the entire school year! I may not go bankrupt this year. Only problem: They need the admission forms filled ASAP. I won't be back until the 7th or possibly the 15th of August. My mom won't be back until the 22nd. I start calling people to see if someone can fill the forms out for me. Finally I get a hold of my neighbor. She does it for me. Best thing that's happened to me since before I left.
Went down to breakfast. It was the first time in over a week since I've been able to even eat breakfast. They took my plates away before I finished eating. I chugged some yogurt juice to finish it off. Jesse and I worked in the hotel room. One of our 6 test phones ran out of minutes. We checked the rest and they were all down to a couple of bucks left.
We went back to the mall. We ate at a fast food restaurant. I got a smoothie and a hamburger which turned out to be grade E flank steak covered in Russian salad dressing on a bun. Cost about $10. Luckily the smoothie was amazing.
Went to get the phones recharged at the same place as before. After we typed the phone numbers for all 6 phones (10 digits each) into a credit card keypad, they ran Jesse's credit card. It didn't work. So we had to re-enter all 6 numbers and we tried his card again. It still didn't work. So we entered them all again and tried my card. Surprise! It worked! Oh wait, no it didn't. :( So then we had to do each purchase separately.
While the cashier and Jesse are ringing up each purchase, I call VISA to see if this is a problem on their end. Nope. In fact, the purchase went through every time we tried. Three $170 purchases have registered on our cards. We request they deny those charges. Good thing I called.
We go to a nearby grocery store. I buy food because it's cheaper than using the crappy snacks in the hotel - and the fancy hotel restaurant is like eating at a cheap crappy diner that tries to look fancy and overcharges for your meals. The most expensive cut of steak I could find was $3.50 a pound. I do not have high hopes for it. I think the USA keeps all the good cuts of meat and these guys only get the leftovers. My credit card doesn't work again when we get to the register. The total? About $60. I pay cash. The guy doesn't give me my change. When I point this out, he sheepishly tries to get the register open, can't, and hands it to me. I realize he was trying to pocket it hoping I wouldn't notice. I'm not surprised - hardly anyone here ever gives you change.
Back to the hotel to work. Things go well. One of my tools stops working. I need an authorization code. Multiple trips down to the wireless router in the lobby (I'm on the top floor - 8), I have the information I need. I'm now sitting here downloading the files I need very slowly. I decide to write this.
Time to go do more work - then maybe cook something for dinner if I'm up for it. On the bright side I haven't been able to eat much lately. Hopefully I'm losing weight.
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