Saturday, September 23, 1995 - Curaco

Roy found a shop that removed the pulley, and he found a lot of people who told him how to hook it up. Trouble is, each one told him something different. He tried installing it, but it didn't work, so Monday, he has to start all over again. I tried four times to get money from an ATM, but each time it said there were communication problems. Also tried to find Radio Shack, but didn't succeed in that, either. No one answered the phone when I called to ask them where they were. Flagged a Santa Rosa minibus to go to the Marchena Hardware Store on Santarosaweg. The driver asked me where I wanted to go. When I told her Marchena Hardware, she said, "Oh, yes. That's in Santa Rosa." I said, "Yes, that's why I took a Santa Rosa bus." I laughed a little to take some of the edge off the sarcasm, but I think the message got through. The store didn't have the brushes I wanted, but I bought a sponge. Then I walked a couple of blocks to Centrum Supermarket and bought some good vegetables. When I got back to Punda, there sat Roy at the bus terminal, so we returned to the boat together.