Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 9:45. I quickly fell asleep, got up once at 3:45, finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

Teresa had already left for her gym class.

I saw all these small feathers on the balcony.

At 7:20 I started the process of ordering a Didi. Luckily one was only 2 minutes away but it cost me 28,302 pesos, a new high. When we got to the expressway it was like a parking lot with no cars moving. The driver asked if it was okay if we went a different way. I approved and he took a frontage road to the new bridge and up the hill to Ave Poblado. It was still slow going until just before the Gold Mile we turned off and went past the Aguacatala traffic circle to the highway which was now moving. I kept Jose up-to-date on my progress. He texted me that Santa Leña no longer serves breakfast, just drinks and pastries. I met him in Todo Fresa and I had the French toast but added a couple scrambled eggs.

I had the Black pieces in the first game and I got an attack but couldn’t finish it and he soon got the advantage and my flag fell after 46 moves but he would have checkmated me in the next couple moves anyway.

I had the White pieces in the second game and he got a strong attack against my king and I was just trying to survive. He made a good move on his 37^th move and he didn’t think I had a reply but I found a surprising move that would force his queen away from the attack but he blundered her on his next move and resigned.

It was now 2:30 but I quickly had a Didi take me to Viva Envigado for 18,600 pesos.

I see the mall now has a roller coaster in the children’s play area.

As I went up to the 3^rd floor I was thinking of trying a Home Burger but at the top of the escalator there was Best Burger. I had their Classic Burger, which came with fries, and a Coke for 42 mil.

I went down to Claro and got in a short line but when it was my turn was told my balance was still zero. ☹

It was too late for coffee so I took the back way into Exito and picked up a large carton of eggs. At checkout the girl opened the package which contained a small free can of kernel corn. She scanned it then I pointed to the sign on the big that said it was “gratis”. At least she did a good job of repackaging it.

Outside I was surprised to see it raining and a taxi line under the shelter. I managed to squeeze in under it until it was my turn about 20 minutes later. I returned to the apt by taxi. The portero said something to me in passing – maybe he was informing me it would have been okay to have the taxi enter the complex and drop me off in the garage.

I watched another episode of Downton Abbey.

Teresa pointed out a pigeon on the balcony railing that appeared to be sick. Maybe that was the source of the feathers I saw this morning?

For supper I finished the pasta leftovers from yesterday.

Teresa got a massage from Kelly from about 6:30 to 7:30.

I finished reading Karin Slaughter’s Blindsighted on my Kindle.

Today I walked 2,808 steps; about as expected for a OTB chess day.

 

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