Sunday, August 23rd, 2015

I slept well despite getting up twice during the night and again at 7am to take my medicine, finally waking/getting up at 10am.

Teresa was watching a concert from England and got excited when she heard them playing Red, Red Wine.  She said she used to dance to that in San Andres.  She also mentioned there are a lot of Germans living there.

Today is a day when I can only have liquids.  I also have a bottle of medicine and I have to drink half at 2pm and the other half at 6pm.

I started watching Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (8.2).  This was my first movie using the VLC Media Player.  One problem I soon discovered is I couldn’t pause it without having to go back to the beginning when I restarted it.  Very inconvenient.

Even so, about 50 minutes into it I accidentally pressed some unknown keys on my keyboard and it started playing at something like 2 ½ times normal speed so I had to stop.

I started watching Stalin (7.2), another VLC movie but after 13 minutes I decided I would watch this 3 hour movie another time.

I started watching 21 Jump Street (7.2) but it was so stupid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I couldn’t continue so I started 2001: A Space Odyssey (8.3).

At 2:30 I drank ½ a bottle of Citromel – not sure what it is but it’s required for my procedure tomorrow.

I took a nap from 3:15 to 4:30.

At 5:15 it became obvious that Citromel is a diuretic.  I drank the other half at 6:30.  A second look at the bottle shows “laxante salino” or “saline laxative”.

After plugging up the toilet for about the 3^rd time, Teresa admonished me not to put toilet paper in the toilet, but to put it in the waste basket beside the toilet.  I have noticed this in other residences.  The main problem I have with Colombia is their plumbing; in numerous ways including cold showers and leaking faucets.

I skipped the last 30 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey; just too much noise and special effects.

I started watching Backcountry (6.0) on Netflix.

It started raining at 10pm.

I’ve been wanting to find more information about when currencies are traded but whenever I google something like “currency exchange rate” I just get currency calculators.  Finally I went to wikipedia.org and found “Exchange rates are determined in the foreign exchange market, which is open to a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers where currency trading is continuous: 24 hours a day except weekends, i.e. trading from 20:15 GMT (3:15pm Colombia time) on Sunday until 22:00 GMT (5pm Colombia time) Friday.”  So, from now on, when I mention a “close for the day” I am referring to sometime in the evening.

It was still raining at midnight when I took my sleeping pills and went to bed.