Paysandu

Other than some new cuts and bruises, it has been a fairly uneventful week here in Paysandu, Uruguay.  With some exceptions like me breaking a plate glass window and cutting my thumb with a vegetable slicer that I bought at K-Mart when I was in St. Louis, MO. 
We bought a new dining room set when we first moved into our new apartment.  It is not the sturdiest, well made set; although I have to say the table seems to be fairly sturdy, the chairs are mierda.  Two have already been broken.  Mine was the first on then Sebastian's was next.  It must be how males of the species sit down.  Anyway, he and I sit at lawn chairs at the table using the seat pads to let us sit a little higher.  The "funny" thing of it was I had just gone to a hardware store and bought brass "L" brackets to help make the chairs better. I guess they weren't made to be modified.
So there I am sitting in my lawn chair when I lean down to my right to pick something from the floor and the lawn chair slips on the floor and I go crashing down.  I hit my left shoulder on the corner of the table and tap the plate glass window with my right hand.  Down I go and I hear the loud tinkling of broken glass.  Thankfully I didn't get any cuts from that and it mostly cracked the glass to the top of the frame.  It is going to cost about $200 to replace that.  
Tuesday, Fabiana was slicing potatoes with the food slicer and not using the other part so I was going to be the teacher and show her how to use it correctly.  I didn't realize that the slicer part of it was like a razor blade and sliced the tip of my thumb.  I bled like it didn't want to stop.  Here's a little hint from Heloise secret.  If you have a bad cut, put sugar on it and it will help stop the blood flow.  Anyway after a few bandaids and some paper tape it was wrapped up.  The next day when I was drying off from a shower, I lifted my left foot and hit my thumb, blood again.  Three days later it is doing okay, due to an incredible healing process that God has given my body.  It is a little sore but I can type with it and no pain.
The weather here has been stifling for the past few days, thankfully with a lot of wind.  I am sitting in the dining room right now with the door open and sweating like a pig; of course we all know that pigs don't sweat.  Houses and apartments were not built with weather conditions in mind.  Cold in the winter and hot in the summer.  We are going to buy a couple of fans and get some peaceful sleep at night, at least.  Think I'm going to take a couple of showers today just to get cleaned up and cooled off.  
We are expecting a break in the heat.  It is supposed to be in the mid to high 60s here for the next couple of weeks but the trade off is that it is supposed to start raining tomorrow; which is not a bad thing it cleans the streets and cleans up the atmosphere.  The other side of that coin is we will be under an orange alert that might turn to red because the entire country will be under a tornado warning.  I heard a "air raid" type alarm sound off this morning but no one seemed to pay any attention to it.  I don't know if it was a regular test or if something was actually happening.  There were a lot of cars sounding horns and things.  I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like here if a tornado hit.  Building here are made of brick with what I consider, by US standards, to not be very well made.  There is hardly and metal supports for the brick, of course on a block every house or building is up against one another.
Anyway, this is the latest and greatest news from my life in the south.