Yesterday Dario agreed to come to my apartment today at 2pm
to play some chess.
Last night I found this buffalo tree hopper on my kitchen
stove top. At least that’s what I think
it is. That’s what I would call it if I
saw it in the States.
At 10pm it started raining.
I went to bed at 10:30, took a little while to fall asleep,
got up twice during the night, finally waking at 6:30 and getting up at 6:45
feeling pretty good.
I had an orange juice at Redd’s
followed by my usual breakfast at El
Comedor de Chava. Lucas, who always
want to help me speak Spanish said “Como
amaneciste?”. I assumed this was some
version of good morning but Lucas was unable to give me a good
explanation.
At my Spanish lesson Jhon told me it’s a combination of how
did you sleep and how are you this morning, kind of “How are you this morning
after the night?”. About yesterday,
Monica says she’s 37 but he thinks she’s fibbing about her age. He believes she’s closer to 45 which is about
right for how I thought she looked. I
told him to tell her I think she’s too young for me and see if she revises her
age upwards. Lol.
When I got back to the apartment I found the Une and EPM bills on the stairs; my utility bill was 70,203 (I was paying
105,000 downstairs) and my communication bill was 72,964 (down from 110,000).
At Burger King I
had a whopper and medium Pepsi for 13,600.
I stopped at Exito to renew my prostate medication for the next 30 days
but they were out of it. The lady at the
pharmacy said to try again later or tomorrow.
As long as I was there I bought a 2 liter container of orange juice, so
I would have something besides Coke to offer Dario, for 12,360 and a liter of
milk for 2,170.
Back at the apartment Dario came over a little early about
1:40. I reminded him I’ve won 7 games in
a row against him. I finally won the
coin flip and had white for the first game.
I put 60 minutes on each clock and he made a mistake right away that
gave me a bishop for a pawn. I won about
an hour later (#8). I then had black, I
put 45 minutes on each clock and it was a very close game where I was finally
able to queen a pawn in the endgame and he resigned (#9). For the last game I put 30 minutes on each
clock and I was able to open up his kingside so he wouldn’t want to castle
there and when he attacked my queen I took a pawn on the queenside and would
pick up his rook on the next move so he resigned (#10).
The girl I got a massage from last week was black (or very
brown) and she asked me if I prefer morena (or was it marrón?) women or white
women. Thinking I like women with a good
tan I said morena. I googled morena and
found a scientific study that basically found that morena is the same as black;
or should I say that black people, at least in South America, consider themselves
to be either negro or moreno almost interchangably.
More on that in a separate post.
I got an email from Teresa.
She told me she really likes the look of the hotel in Guatape. She gave me the name of some natural drops called
Passionflower that should help me sleep.
I’ll look for it in the natural supplements store in Viva CC. Again she confirmed that I will wait for her
outside Viva by the taxi stand on Saturday at 5pm.
I had a bowl of cereal for my dinner and later I’m going to
make some popcorn and watch a movie.
T-shirt of the day: Thing 1.
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