Thursday, October 29, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, woke up at 4am, got up at 4:30, read until 5:30, went back to bed, finally waking/getting up at 6:45.

According to my Fitbit, got in 5,869 steps yesterday and last night slept for 4 hours and 29 minutes for a sleep score of 52, with a sleep efficiency of 56%.

I forgot to mention I ran into Michael at the gym yesterday and he shared his future travel plans which consist of visiting his parents in Turkey, spending a month in Abu Dhabi and he’ll return probably in February.

Yesterday Teresa told me she wanted to return to the museum with the little dolls which I figured out to be the Museum of Science & Industry. Today she told me her favorite places to eat in Chicago: breakfast at the Buffalo Grove Deerfield Bakery, Tikka Masala in the Himalayan, chicken and rice in the Twin Dragon, and Italian Beef sandwiches in Mr. Beef.

I met Marcos outside Tostao where we had coffee and discussed some things. His girlfriend turned 44 today – he’s 75. Marcos had just left when I got this message from my son, “Bears sending two first round picks to Tennessee for DT Jeffery Simmon.” Jeffery is a 29-year-old Defensive Tackle, just started a three-year $105.8 million contract extension before training camp, has been a Pro Bowler four times and a two-time second team All-Pro selection as well. This is a blockbuster trade for the Bears signaling they are all-in for a Superbowl run. 😊

I stopped in Mercado Madrid and picked up some groceries Teresa gave me a list for. I didn’t understand some of the items she asked for but an employee quickly helped me find them.

I left the apt about 2:30 and had a Coke in Gardenia while continuing with my chess book. Again, I forgot to bring my cellphone. ☹ I completed a new page of 9 chess puzzles, getting 3 wrong.

I left at 5pm and stopped in Ara for a few things before returning to the apt in a light drizzle. It soon got harder but didn’t last long.

Teresa got a massage from Kelley.

I watched a few more episodes of Seal Team on Netflix, watched the first half of The Chris Hayes Show then the first half of Thursday Night Football before going to bed at my usual 10pm.

 

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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, slept through the night finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

According to my Fitbit, got in 4,500 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 34 minutes for a sleep score of 81, with a sleep efficiency of 95%.

After breakfast I returned to bed and slept for almost an hour. I left the apt at 9am and found Smartfit busier than usual (beginning to seem typical for a Wednesday). I had to change the order of my routine, occasionally wait for my turn, but finished with a final heartrate of 120bpm on the treadmill.

Outside Blue’ Smash Brgr I noticed 3 young ladies taking photos outside the restaurant Lucio. I took a seat outside Los Porteños and saw 2 of the ladies were taking photos of the other one who would return to a nearby car with tinted windows to change into a new outfit in the back.

I left at 11am and returned to the apt.

Jeannie texted me and asked, for personal identity security purposes, she doesn’t want me to post photos of Annie James and she wants me to remove all I’ve already posted. ☹

I left the apt at noon and took a Didi to Mayorca. (Again, I was in an electric car but I couldn’t figure out how to open the door from the outside. The driver informed me it’s the same as a Tesla but I’ve never been in a Tesla.) Teresa already had a table deep inside Crepes & Waffles. My stomach was still a little iffy after having coffee in the morning so I just had a small Cesar salad without the chicken and a glass of water. We shared a cup of their Supremo ice cream dish for dessert. The check came to 81,150 pesos ($26). I informed Teresa I plan to pay cash in the future at Crepes & Waffles as they always give me a poor currency exchange rate when I pay with my debit card.

We left at 2pm and took a taxi back to Envigado, she got off at her regular spot and I continued up to La Buena Mesa. I had a Coke outside Blue’ Smash Brgr

while continuing with my new chess book. (It turns out the main books I bought aren’t for chess students but for chess instructors. The second set of books are student workbooks.) We had a short shower while I was sitting there, and Teresa had borrowed my umbrella.

I left at 5pm and returned to the apt.

I watched another episode of Seal Team then started deleting photos from my blog.

At 7pm I put on World Series game 5. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 to win the 2026 World Series, 4 games to 1. Congrats guys!

I got to bed at 10:30.

 

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 9:30, the shaking stopped after about 5 minutes, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 12:30, again at 3am, finally waking/getting up at 6:30. No diarrhea.

According to my Fitbit, got in 819 steps yesterday and last night slept for 3 hours and 14 minutes for a sleep score of 40, with a sleep efficiency of 37%. ☹ But I don’t feel that bad.

After breakfast of just 2 scrambled eggs, I returned to bed and slept from 7:30 to 9am.

Teresa had already left for her gym class.

I finished season 3 of Seal Team.

I received as a text message, an invitation to Alejandro’s graduation with a major in Statistics on November 7^th at 7 pm.

I left the apt at 11:30 and quickly caught a bus to Master Key a couple blocks shy of Parque Poblado. It took about 20 minutes to make 2 copies of our 2 house keys. (The simple keys were 4,000 pesos each but the complicated keys were 40,000 pesos each.) I took a bus south to Oviedo mall and walked the last block then uphill to the closest entrance to Santafe mall. I arrived at Crepes & Waffles right at 12:30 and Teresa already had a table.

The current atrium configuration.

We had a nice lunch for 85,750 pesos ($27.15) then went down to Valentina’s for cake and coffee.

I was feeling tired so we left early at 4pm and quickly returned to the apt by taxi.

One of our porteros handed Teresa our epm bill of 387,889 pesos for September. That explains why our October bill was so high as it was for September and October. I told Teresa when she looks at my epm folder sometime in the future and sees an “unpaid” bill, this is the reason why. I can only pay bills I receive and epm seems to be spotty getting them out on time.

I went to Eduardo Madrid and paid for my 16 English muffins.

Kelly came over and gave Teresa a massage.

I finished reading John Grisham’s The French Illusion. Excellent! Not his typical book about the trials and tribulations of a small-town lawyer.

I went to download another book but my stateside library had “improved” their interface so it’s going to take a while for me to learn it so I watched the 8^th – 10^th innings of the Brewers vs Rays 4^th World Series game, finally getting to bed at 10:30.

 

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Monday, October 26, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 1am, again at 3am and found I had diarrhea. After my 2^nd trip to the bathroom, I took 2 Imodium (here called loperamida), after the 3^rd trip I took 1 more. Finally, it seemed to shut me down and I fell back asleep. I got up at 7:45 and found I had soiled my underwear. I had my usual breakfast of a bagel with strawberry preserves and 2 eggs and went back to bed.

According to my Fitbit, I got in 3,561 steps yesterday and last night slept for 4 hours and 58 minutes for a sleep score of 49, with a sleep efficiency of 53%. 😊

After breakfast I returned to bed and slept 90 minutes out of the 120 minutes in bed.

I still had diarrhea so I went down to the basement storage room and got a pair of diapers to wear until I’m confident I’m back to normal.

In the afternoon I had another nap and slept for another hour.

Troyclough blundered his queen on the 35^th move then resigned, increasing my rating to 1573.

I cancelled my chess meeting with Jose for tomorrow so I can get copies made of our housekeys.

I texted Eduardo Madrid Panaderia and ordered 16 English muffins for pickup tomorrow afternoon.

I watched more episodes of Seal Team on Netflix. I was reading my book when at 9:30 I suddenly felt cold and couldn’t stop shaking so I went right to bed.

 

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Sunday, October 25, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 11:30, again at 4:45am, couldn’t fall back asleep, got up and read from 5:15 to 6am.

According to my Fitbit, got in 5,250 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 12 minutes for a sleep score of 72, with a sleep efficiency of 91%. 😊

Back to bed and quickly asleep, finally waking/getting up at 8am and my new Fitbit stats are I slept for 7 hours and 25 minutes for a sleep score of 73 with a sleep efficiency of 77%.

After breakfast I returned to bed for a short nap.

We left the apt at 11:15, took a Didi and picked up MT at her apt and continued on to Exposiciones Station. We immediately were on a bus to El Retiro. For some unknown reason we sat in heavy traffic on Las Palmas for 10 minutes without moving. The trip to Indiana mall usually takes 30 minutes but today took an hour and 25 minutes in the rain. We arrived at El Retiro at 2pm (luckily the rain soon stopped) and on the walk up the hill I put my hand in my pocket and found my keys missing. I locked the apt door so I know I had them with me so they must have slipped out of my pants pocket on the bus (or maybe the Didi). Luckily Teresa brought her set of keys with her.

We had no wait for a table in Lomo Fino and had a nice lunch, solomito for me and chicken breast for the ladies plus drinks and tip for 188,000 pesos ($59).

We walked down to El Retiro Café where the ladies had a slice of lemon cake with drinks and I had a slice of carrot cake and a latte for 70,200 pesos. We left at 5pm and walked down to the bus station. Teresa inquired at the ticket booth about my keys but struck out. We quickly were on a bus back to Medellin where we caught a taxi back to Envigado.

Annie James

I watched another episode of Seal Team before switching to the news.

 

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Saturday, October 24, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, slept through the night, finally waking at 5:30. According to my Fitbit, got in 4,883 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 53 minutes for a sleep score of 81, with a sleep efficiency of 98%. 😊

I took a Didi to Daniel’s barbershop for my haircut then walked 10-15 minutes to Aymara where I had a latte for 8,900 pesos. I left at 10:30 and observed work ongoing inside the old Parva location. I stopped in Ara and bought broccoli but they didn’t have lettuce before returning to the apt. Teresa handed me a coconut that I took down to the basement garage and threw on the concrete floor to break open.

Annie James

We left the apt at 2:45 and took a Didi to Cedimed on Calle 7. I paid 121,100 pesos ($38) for Teresa’s mammogram and she came out about 30 minutes later.

We took a Didi to Santafe mall and while Teresa checked out Zara I went down to Valentina’s and ordered an individual carrot cake with a latte. When Teresa returned, she ordered a croissant with cheese and a granizado (cold coffee with ice cream). She called her mother and invited her to join us tomorrow for a day trip to El Retiro but I understand it depends on how well she sleeps tonight, because she’s had cold symptoms lately. And we won’t venture out if it’s raining.

About 6:30 I asked for the check which was 81,9xx pesos. I gave the waitress 92,000 because I was running low on small bills. After about 5 minutes of her not returning with my change, I told Teresa I should have told her I was giving her 92mil; they probably put it all in the drawer thinking I was giving them exact change. Teresa called over the waitress and explained everything and she thought I was mistaken. I showed her all my remaining bills – 6 20s and 1 10 and told her I gave her a 50, 2 20s and a 2 (all thousands of pesos of course).

As we were leaving Teresa stopped at the cashier and I guess explained everything. Darned if the cashier didn’t count all the bills and change in her drawer (while the other 3 waitresses were gathered around) and subtracted that from today’s sales and the difference was 9,900 pesos. 😊 (In the meantime, Teresa had explained I was a mathematician in the US. 😊) Of course, she then gave me my 10mil bill.

We went down to the 1^st basement level and there was no wait for a taxi to return us to Envigado for 15,000 pesos.

I started my pre-sleep reading before going to bed at my usual 10pm.

 

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Friday, October 23, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, slept through the night, finally waking at 6am. According to my Fitbit, got in 6,605 steps and last night slept for 6 hours and 21 minutes for a sleep score of 78, with a sleep efficiency of 99%.

I left the apt at 9am and completed my workout in Smartfit including 10 minutes on the treadmill with a final heartrate of 121bpm.

The walkway to La Buena Mesa on the other side of the street was open today. I had a latte in Los Porteños for an hour before returning to the apt. I dropped off my notebook and thermos and grabbed a market bag and went next door to Ara. Teresa had given me a list of things to buy and they had most items on my list.

About 2:45 it started drizzling in bright sunshine. I watched a couple more episodes of Seal Team on Netflix.

I was losing a game to Chesswiz98 (down a knight) and hoping to get a draw by repetition but then he started grabbing pawns giving me time to attack his king and he resigned on the 39^th move when I had a mate in 3.

We left the apt at 6:30 and took a Didi for 29,950 pesos to Hatoviejo on Las Palmas where we had supper with Jim and Joan. Teresa had her usual salmon with a glass of white wine and I the solomito (steak) with a Coke.

For dessert Teresa and I shared a churro with vanilla ice cream.

Jim and Joan leave tomorrow at 4:30 to fly back to Chicago. We heard thunder a few times during dinner and sure enough it was drizzling when we left. We returned to our apt by Didi for 14,850 pesos and since it was 9:15 I read a few chapters in my latest book before going to bed at my usual 10pm.

 

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