Jodiendo Lunes part IV

Lookout Mama, cuz I'm coming home tonight!!!
-Neil Young

Real Madrid won the league last night, scoring two goals in the final ten minutes to come from behind and punk Osasuna. So you could hear them celebrating at plaza Cibelles (1km away) all night. And then there's the morons who drive around honking their horns. I was coming back from the ATM to give Chema the rent. I'm in the crosswalk and this egghead comes wheeling around making a tight left onto this sidestreet. I jumped back and shouted for him to go know himself biblically. So i go to cross again and his buddy comes screeching around in a second car. I added 'arsehole' when i engaged him verbally.


So after all this noise going last night, our downstairs neighbors ring the bell today right after i get home about 20:00. I open the door and a guy and gal i've never seen before are there and he starts rolling of in Spanish about "the bed." I tell him to chill and get Chema. Turns out i heard this dude right but just couldn't believe my ears. He was complaining that Chema's bed was too squeaky when he and Anita were having sex! Now, that's bed a squeaky bugger and Chema is a large boy (Anita MUST be on top or she'd be pulverized) but I've only heard them once (that's why God made earphones). I was IMing Mel and she couldn't believe it. She was like " We all hear that sometimes and maybe you bitch about it but you never complain to the actual people about it!!!"

I agree Seester. I know this is not America, but i would file that under "..and the pursuit of happiness."

Chema just said "Sure, sure, okay," and then shut the door. After he confirmed what i thought i had heard but couldn't believe, we burst out laughing. "I've never see them before either!," he told me.

Madness. Just another loco lunes.

And then there was the saga of getting the rent. I don't get paid til the 1oth and the 12th (Joder!) so i went to get the rent out of my US account. I tried 3 ATM's and it wouldn't work. I came home and checked the Internet and saw things looked fine so I tried after the game and it told me to go to another ATM. I was only able to get out 300E. My rent is 450E. So I come home and give Chema 350E and tell him i'll get the rest tomorrow (lunes). Then i log on and find out that because i used a few ATM's bank of America has frozen my card. They give me a 877 # that only works in the US. That's just brilliant! You knew the transactions took place in Spain!!!

The locutorio's aren't open til at least 11 (to try and call B of A), plus it would be 5 am eastern.

So i had been rolling change and had enough with cash in my wallet and change. I go to BBVA, my bank, and there are 26 people on line, most of them blue hairs. The only thing slower than a Spaniard is and OLD SPANIARD. I'm like, i'll never make it back to work in time. So i go to another bank. Sure enough, they ask if i have an account, which i don't. My bank had the 26 person geriatric queue.

I say no. He says he can't do it. "Por favor!" I say, and carry on and explain that I was visiting, i am returning to the US and have all this change. The bank was empty!!!So the lazy cabron finally did it. And then I gave Chema the fucking rent.

Everything seems to be an ordeal. Or is that just me?

Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
The place is a mad-house, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far

Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
- Golden Earing

43 days /42 Nights

The US Dates are confirmed; July 9 to Aug 19 will be the El Dude 2008 North Eastern Summer Tour. Individual dates will be confirmed later, but DC, Maryland, Virginia, NJ, NY, CT, Vermont and Mass. are all on the list. Look forward to seeing you all!

When I return on the 19th of Aug, the Mum will accompany me back for a week, which will be a blast. Then the Summer Tour ends in Moscow Aug 29 - 31st with the first ever trip to Russia.

Well, that's all the news that's fit to print. Kind of packed for lunes. But like the past three weeks, it's been like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together underwater.

A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you
He smiles and says he's pleased to meet you
Beneath his hat the strangeness lies
Take it off, he's got three eyes
Truth is false and logic lost
Now the fourth dimension is crossed...
-Rush