Today is my daughter’s 25th birthday! Happy birthday Jeannie!
Last night I finished the Medellin Travel Guide by David Lee and I learned something very
interesting regarding the local cell phone service:
“There are three major cell phone service providers: Comcel,
Tigo, and Movistar…
Calls and text messages to people using the same network are
less costly than calls and messages between networks…
That explains why there are people throughout the streets of
Medellin with a
handful of cell phones, advertising 200COP calls. If you know which network the person you’re
calling uses, then you can pay someone on the street to use a phone on that
same network.
Most Westerners visiting Medellin won’t bother, but its normal for
Colombians to use these phones on the street to save money. For this reason, you can’t rely on Caller ID
alone to screen calls.”
That explains the ladies on the street with
multiple cell phones chained to their vests.
I went to bed at 10pm (with earplugs), got up
once at 3pm, got a drink of water, finally fell back asleep again and got up at
7am.
I stopped at Redd’s and had a large glass of
orange juice, stopped kiddie corner from the corner store and had a banana then
stopped at the Tinto store for at least an hour and had 2 cups of coffee while
I read my Nook book. Gonzolo mentioned
that Exito is going to have a lot of good sales this month, especially
clothing.
Inferno by Dan Brown is very
good. It’s a little complicated keeping
the characters apart because so often they are not who they appear to be: good
guys turn out to be bad guys, and bad guys turn out to be good guys. I hope I haven’t said too much to spoil it
for you. I still have a little more than
100 pages to go so things could certainly still change.
I got a call from Olga but I couldn’t hear her
very well, and while it was nice talking to her at the fiesta last Saturday,
I’m not interested in starting a relationship with her.
I made an appointment with James Lindzey for
tomorrow afternoon to begin working on my Pensionado Visa/Cedula renewal.
The currency exchange rate is up to 1950 pesos
to the dollar. Every little bit helps. The following are 2 recent postings on the
subject on Colombia Expats:
“It changes all day and night
from Sunday night till Friday evening. What is used as the official rate of the
day I don't know.”
“That's what I'm looking for -
the official change rate. in other words if it closes at 1950 on a Monday and
on Tuesday it drops to 1930 do I get the 1950 all day or do I get whatever the
value is at the time I change money. I'm excluding all fees in this
question.”
I took a nap from 2:15 to 3:15. Still on crackers and water but I did make
some popcorn (no butter, little salt) this evening. I’m just taking it easy in the apartment.
I hope to more mobile tomorrow as I have my
appointment at 1pm.
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