Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, woke up at 4:15, couldn’t fall back asleep, got up at 5am and read for an hour before returning to bed, finally waking/getting up at 7:15.

Work continues on the sidewalk outside Ara:

After breakfast I updated my blog and only had 30 minutes remaining for a nap. I left the apt just after 9am and found Smartfit not as busy as usual but still, I had to reorder my routine a couple times. Once, a guy on the leg extension machine left his damp sweaty towel on the bench. ☹

I completed my workout including 18 minutes on the treadmill.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor and discussed yesterday’s thigh cramps with ChatGPT. It appears my not salting my food may have caught up to me. To counteract that I’m going to put a little salt on my eggs on gym mornings.

I left just before 11am and found a 2,000-peso bill folded up outside Black Pepper; maybe it’s my lucky day.

I had a short nap after lunch.

At 2:30 I checked the temperature on the balcony and it was 86 degrees. It’s been a week since it last rained so maybe Teresa is right and we’re in the dry season. I put on my shorts and sleeveless t-shirt and left the apt. As I was walking up Calle 30 I heard thunder and noticed a dark cloud coming in. At Los Porteños I took a seat purposely not my usual seat on the end which is more pervious to rain. It wasn’t long before a downpour started and I moved inside. It only lasted about 30 minutes but now it was noticeably cooler.

I left at 5pm and found Teresa waiting for me in Eduardo Madrid bakery. She was hungry so we each had a pie de pollo (similar to a small chicken pot pie) and latte for 52,800 pesos. I showed her the flights to Boston for Sunday, May 3^rd and we narrowed it down to two. Now to check with Laura.

We returned to the apt and I watched another episode of Safe on Netflix before switching to the news.

 

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 9:30, got up once during the night, finally waking at 6:15 and getting up at 6:30.

I ordered a Didi to take me to Unicentro mall for 17,788 pesos. Traffic was horrible, I arrived at Parmessano at 8:15 and Jose was already waiting for me. I shared some of my latest challenges and he agreed with me that I should just pay the most recent epm bill.

For breakfast I had French toast, 2 scrambled eggs, a latte and a bottle of water to go for 54,411 pesos.

I had the Black pieces in the first game and got an attack against his king but again didn’t find the correct moves to put him away and ended up resigning on the 41^st move. (When I was about 2 hours into that game I got a cramp in each thigh but easily massaged them out and stood up. I don’t recall that happening to me before.)

In the second game I had the White pieces and quickly lost a pawn but it gave me attacking chances and he ended up resigning on the 38^th move.

It was 2pm when I said goodbye and ordered a Didi to take me to Viva Envigado for 16,900 pesos.

I stopped in Habia Una Vez and had their simple 2-egg breakfast with a mini croissant and latte.

In Auros I had a chess page printed, withdrew 2,000,000 pesos from an ATM, and paid the epm bill. I went up to Claro where I paid our most recent cellphone bills.

I went down to Urbania and had a latte. Teresa called and asked me to pick up apples from Exito. I bought 4 red apples, 4 green apples, and 3 imported oranges and returned to the apt by taxi. (Btw, those oranges cost about $1 apiece.)

I finished reading Tiffany D. Jackson’s Allegedly on my Kindle and started reading Lee Child’s Exit Strategy, #30 in the Jack Reacher series. This was released last year so, unless I’ve miscounted, it’s the last in the series and I’ll have to wait in the future for new books to be released.

Today I tallied 1,863 steps.

 

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Monday, February 9, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 11pm, got up once during the night, finally waking at 6:15 and getting up at 6:45.

Today is my son’s 39^th birthday; Happy Birthday Jim!

I left the apt at 9:30 and completed my workout in a busy Smartfit.

I moved to Ganso y Castor where I had a latte for a little over an hour. On the way back to the apt I encountered this truck trying to back into the auto parking lot:

I wish I could have caught it a few seconds earlier where they had to move the pedestrian columns to give him extra room.

Today they started replacing the sidewalk in front of Ara.

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We tried taking a nap after lunch but too noise with the jackhammers.

I left the apt at 2:30, stopped at the Bancolombia kiosk to print a couple pages, then stopped at Gana and paid the Movistar bill.

I had a latte in Los Porteños while going through some chess notes.

Troyclough resigned our latest game on the 14^th move, increasing my rating to 1540.

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A new restaurant has opened in La Buena Mesa, a steakhouse named Biftek.

My 2025 combined gross income is under the threshold where I would need to file… so I do not have to file again this year. 😊

Teresa received a massage from Kelly from 5:15 to 6:15.

I watched another episode of Safe on Netflix, watched some news then read for an hour in my Kindle. After reading the first chapter of Lee Child’s The Secret I realized I’d already read it. ☹

Today I tallied 4,890 steps.

 

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Sunday, February 8, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking at 6:30 and getting up at 7:30.

I left the apt at 8:30 and found Glenn with Bianca waiting for me when I arrived at Olivenza.

Glenn has his electrocardiogram this week. We discussed the virtues and deficiencies of ChatGPT.

I left at 10:45am and returned to the apt. Teresa was just leaving for her beauty shop appointment.

Chesswiz98 resigned our game in 30 moves, increasing my rating to 1544.

Teresa called at 1:45 and asked me to meet her outside Asados Rogelio (which I know is closed on Sundays). When I arrived she wanted something different so she led me across the street to Quilombo, the Argentinian steakhouse. Inside was pretty busy and noisy so I was happy when she chose an outside table. She talked briefly with a waiter and I understood we would both be ordering the solomito (steak). The waiter didn’t return quick enough for her so she got up and we left.

She led me back across the street to Asados Familia Garcia which was just as busy be not as noisy. She ordered the Sobrebarriga (which literally means on the belly) and I the ribs. We each had a Coke and the total came to 155,000 pesos.

Teresa was going to visit her mother so she returned to the apt and I continued on to Gardenia where I had a latte and went through a couple chess books.

I lost a game to Troyclough, lowering my rating to 1535.

I returned to the apt and Teresa had 3 epm bills for our apt. One for January, one for February and one for last July. I tried to explain to her that I pay bills when I receive them, if I don’t receive a bill I can’t pay it because I don’t when its due or how much it is. I’m pretty sure if I didn’t pay the bill last July, they probably charged more in August.

At 6pm I put on NBC for Sacramento, California where I got a buffer-free connection. Teresa left at 6:15. As soon as the game started, I got some buffering so I switched to Omaha, Nebraska. I nearly finished my next to last bag of peanuts with a Coke. My favorite commercial was the one for Dunkin Donuts. I wasn’t much interested in the game but the Seattle Seahawks won.

It was 10:30 when the game ended so I read for about 30 minutes before going to bed.

 

I got in 4,484 steps today.

 

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking at 6:30 and getting up at 7:30.

Blueberry pancakes with pecans for breakfast. Yum!

I was ready to leave the apt and walk to the mall when Teresa asked me to drop off a large thick blanket at her mother’s apt. I ordered a Didi and this was the first time I rode in a BYD (Chinese) car. I dropped off the blanket with Portal Sur’s portero and walked a block away to Viva Envigado.

I had a latte in Urbania for a little over an hour.

I stopped in Exito for carrots, lettuce, and a bag of milk and returned to the apt in a new taxi. 😊

The plan was for Teresa to get her nails and hair done today then tomorrow we’d go to El Retiro but return in time for me to see Superbowl LX.

About 3:30 Teresa tells me she’s going to meet Rosemary in Viejo John’s in Sabaneta and she has a beauty shop appointment for tomorrow so I can meet Glenn for breakfast.

About 4pm a drizzle started and by 4:30 it looked overcast with dark clouds to the south. Teresa informed me that she won’t be meeting Rosemary after all. I told her I already made plans for breakfast tomorrow with Glenn.

We left the apt at 5:30 and walked 4 blocks to Picositas, a small restaurant with pastries.

We each had a pastel de pollo and a small latte for 52mil. I told Teresa there’s a new chess movie on Netflix, Queen of Chess. It’s about a real female grandmaster, Judit Polgar and its got a rating of 8.0.

We left at 6:30 and returned to the apt.

I watched the news, read a little and went to bed at 10pm,

 

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Friday, February 6, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, it rained overnight, all night, got up once at 4:30, couldn’t fall back asleep, got up at 5am and read until 5:30, fell back asleep, finally waking/getting up at 7am.

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Teresa didn’t make it to the gym so she got up and made breakfast.

I left the apt at 8:30 and found Smartfit busier than usual and had to change the order of my routine. I completed 18 minutes on the treadmill and ChatGPT had this to say about today’s experience:

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor for about an hour before returning to the apt.

I’m starting to track flights to and from Boston for our May trip and it looks like it’s going to be around $1000 after adding our suitcases.

Teresa told me we have no food so she wants me to have my chicken rice leftovers for lunch and we’ll go to Pricesmart for some groceries. I checked my Pricesmart app and neither location has our turkey breast but only the Las Americas location has my Smuckers strawberry preserves so I convinced her to have lunch in Arkadia then we ‘ll go across the street to Pricesmart.

We left the apt at 1pm and took a Didi to Arkadia mall. We were standing in line at Crepes & Waffles when the gringo I’ve been running into a lot lately came up to me. He said he was there to renew his spousal visa. (If I’m going to be seeing him so often it’s best I learn his name. 😊)

We had a nice lunch in Crepes & Waffles for 71,650 pesos ($20) then went across the street to Pricesmart. As expected, I didn’t see any Butterball turkey breasts but did get my Smucker’s Strawberry preserves.

We returned to the apt by taxi.

It was now about 3:30 and it felt like rain so I didn’t go out.

We didn’t get the rain but I did hear a loud peal of thunder that caused me to unplug the television but nothing else happened.

I watched the first two episodes of Harlan Coban’s Safe on Netflix and The Chris Hayes Show on MS NOW.

 

I completed 5,535 steps today.

 

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Thursday, February 5, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up twice during the night, finally waking at 6am and getting up at 6:30.

I see my Capital One transfer in my USAA account.

Workers are laying cement for the 2^nd new sidewalk section.

 

It was about 8:50 and I had some time to kill before meeting Marcos at 9:30. I didn’t want to get there too early because sometimes he doesn’t show up at all and that makes for a long wait. I went to bed and set my alarm for 9:15, got up, dressed and down the street I ran into Chris Cajoleas on his motorcycle. He’s getting an MRI to see if he needs a shoulder replacement. He has a new business idea, a game I’ve never heard of, but I don’t want to mention it here as it might still be a secret. I told him about my zopiclone problem and he seemed to think I still might be able to find it at a different pharmacy. He also seems to think that USAA no longer charges 1% for store purchases so I’ll be monitoring that.

I arrived at Tostao 10 minutes late and Marcos wasn’t there. Not sure if he was there and left or if he didn’t show at all. I texted him and we agreed to meet next Thursday.

I stopped in Mercado Madrid and bought a few vegetables for today’s lunch.

I chatted with USAA and asked for a second debit card but was told, “You can only have on (sic) active debit card from your account. If we do send another one, the other one will end up getting deactivated.” so I told them, “Never mind”.

Lunch was cheese broccoli soup. Yum!

We took a nap for about an hour after lunch.

We left the apt at 2:30 and took a Didi to Punto Clave (an old mall near Estacion Industriales) for 16,200 pesos. We took seats inside a clinic and within 30 minutes Teresa had an order for nueve eps to get an appointment. ???

Outside we quickly caught a taxi back to Envigado in a downpour, arriving by 4:45 for 25,000 pesos.

The rain soon stopped and we left at 6:30 and walked to Chiclayo where we had a nice supper: Chaufa de Pollo (Peruvian chicken rice) for me and Arrisotado ala Macha (some type of seafood with rice) for Teresa for 124,300 pesos ($34.10) which I paid for with my USAA debit card. I only hate half of my chicken with rice and got the other half to go.

 

I finished watching the series Fool Me Once on Netflix; pretty much the same as the book.

One of Peter Attia’s emails included the claim: “P—is indeed, low carb,” and Attia described his correspondence with Epstein as “incredibly naïve”, despite him being in his forties.

I watched The Chris Hayes Show, read a bit and went to bed at 10pm.

I completed 3,561 steps today.

 

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