Slept well, finally getting up at 8am.
We left the finca at 9:50 and the doberman found us right
away. He barked a lot and followed us
most the way up the hill. At the top Don
Carlos’ dog and a chihuahua I’ve never seen before were waiting for us. The large one seemed to be expecting a dog
biscuit so I gave him one.
On our way down the hill we found a large bag that Teresa
wanted to keep for garbage so she hid it in bushes on the side of the
road. She asked me to remember that its
there when we come back.
We quickly caught an express bus to Envigado followed by a
taxi ride downtown. At Nohelia I got a haircut for 15mil and
Teresa got a haircut, manicure and pedicure for 47mil. I noticed their hours are Monday thru
Saturday 8:30am to 9pm, Sundays and holidays 9am to 8pm so I guess they never
close. While I was waiting for her to
finish I observed a policeman pull over several taxis and apparently give them
tickets. We got a call from the doctor’s
office and I understand Teresa’s appointment has been changed from 3pm to 3:30
or 4pm. 90 minutes later we walked next
door to Exito where we had lunch for 22mil.
We walked over to Bancolombia where we found a long
line. I noticed a separate line which I
was pretty sure was for people like me (old).
I checked a sign they had next to the teller and one of the 3 on their
list were “people older than 65”. I got
in that line and Teresa stayed in the long line. I asked her why but I couldn’t get her to
join me in my line. I took her by the
hand and led her over to the sign but she still insisted on staying in the long
line. About 15 minutes later I made my
monthly 110mil medical insurance deposit to Natalia. I asked the teller if she had another one of
the forms I had been using and I understood the only information on it that’s
important is Natalia’s account number (along with my Cedula number). She did finally get out of the long
line. At their ATM machine I withdrew
600mil twice and repaid Teresa for everything she’s paid for thus far.
We went back to Exito and I paid the electric bill of 93,529.
We went to $efecty where we paid the Une bill of 62,900 and
the Direct TV bill of 89,900.
We took a bus to MBE in El Poblado and I paid 30mil for
(towards?) April’s rent. I also received
two envelopes without having to pay anything extra (thus far?). The first was a Confirmation of Activity Related to Your Pension Payment from Sears
but it wasn’t clear what the change was.
I believe (I hope) it is about my request not to receive monthly deposit
receipts.
The other letter was also from Sears - a US form 1042-S Foreign Person’s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding which
should cover the missing amount from the other two 1099Rs that I received
earlier.
We walked over to Torre Intermedica to the Vascular
Surgeon’s office. We were there at 3:15
and we were finally called into his office at 4:05. He allowed me to observe the procedure where
he injected foam into veins in Teresa’s legs.
It wasn’t painful (then) and we were out in about 20 minutes. The payment was 140mil and we have to come
back for a follow up (no charge) Wednesday, May 6th at 3:30. The doctor thinks we will probably have to
come back in June for a final treatment.
Teresa led me down to the 9th floor where she
made an appointment for this Wednesday at 3:20 with a gastroenterologist. She has been having stomach pains and didn’t
want to wait to go through the slow process of Nueva eps appointments.
As we left the building Teresa said she was hungry so we
stopped at Il Cappucino where she had
a meat pastry and I had a muffin and we both had a cup of coffee.
On our way down the hill to the bus stop Teresa ran into
someone she knew named Clara. Afterwards
she told me she was Wilson’s
ex girlfriend. She gave Teresa her
telephone numbers.
When we parted we walked across the street and uphill and Clara walked
uphill and across the street so we all ended up at the same bus stop. The ladies quickly decided to share a taxi to
Envigado. She got out at Parque Envigado
and paid the 7mil fare. The driver reset
the meter, took us to Exito and we paid the 4,600 minimum fare.
I finally paid the 800mil bill for the exercise machine Wilson bought last
month. I don’t like carrying a lot of
money around with me all day but I think earlier Teresa was in a hurry to get
to the hair salon.
I finally bought my toaster – a Black & Decker model
#T2030 with instructions in both English and Spanish. There was actually a Black & Decker
representative working there today. Just
for grins I asked where I could buy bagels and she pointed us in the direction
of the bread section but of course they don’t have bagels but Teresa picked up
a package of mini croissants.
We took a taxi to the highway and almost immediately were on
a Fredonia bus. We would have been at
the sideroad to the finca by 7pm but unfortunately, the bus turned down a
sideroad to Caldas. We waited 10 minutes
at their bus stop before finally continuing on.
As we were walking up the sideroad I asked Teresa about her
bag but she didn’t know what I was talking about. I used the little flashlight on my cell phone
to scan the plants on the side of the road and finally we saw the bag.
As we were walking up the hill Teresa started feeling the
pain so we took our time, got past the killer dogs undetected and were back at
the finca by 7:30.
I gave Laura 110mil, 100mil for this month’s payment for the
elliptical exercise machine and 10mil to pay for the purchase of a loaf of
bread after school tomorrow.
At 8pm I logged into USTVNOW and was very surprised I could
get the NCAA Championship basketball game.
Duke beat Wisconsin 68-63.
At 11pm I took my sleeping pills and we went to bed.
T-shirt of the day: Shopping is my cardio.
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