Saturday, November 7, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm (drizzling lightly), fell asleep quickly, got up once at 2:45 (still drizzling), read from 3:15 to 4am (still drizzling), finally waking/getting up at 6:45 (no more rain).

According to my Fitbit, got in 5,903 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 14 minutes for a sleep score of 71, with a sleep efficiency of 72%. 😊

I left the apt at 9am, walked to Viva Envigado and was surprised that at 9:20am Urbania wasn’t open

so I went up a level and had a latte in Santa Leña.

I left at 11am, bought a few groceries in Exito and returned to the apt by taxi.

At 12:15 we took a Didi to Arkadia mall. Some of these drivers I have no idea how to pronounce their name, like today’s, Eusebio.

We had lunch in Crepes & Waffles and this time I paid in cash. We went across the street to a busy Pricesmart where we bought 942,623 pesos ($292) of groceries, including some things I already have but don’t know if I’m going to find them in the future. Still, I didn’t find Planters Crunchy Peanut Butter, Glide floss, Bisquick, or Johnsonville Breakfast Sausage.

We returned to the apt by taxi in a light drizzle.

Teresa wanted to watch a movie so I put on The End of Oak Street (6.2) on Stremio which at least had a lot of action.

 

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Friday, November 6, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at midnight, again at 5am, finally waking/getting up at 6:30.

According to my Fitbit, got in 8,029 steps yesterday and last night slept for 7 hours and 17 minutes for a sleep score of 73, with a sleep efficiency of 88%. 😊

Alejandro graduated from college yesterday.

He looks good in a suit and tie.

I had a short nap after breakfast.

I left the apt at 9am and found Smartfit very busy. I had to change the order of my routine and wait on other machines. One of the challenges is people sitting at a machine looking at their cellphones and young ladies hogging a machine chatting amongst themselves. I completed my workout minus the treadmill.

I had a latte outside Los Porteños for an hour before returning to the apt.

I took a 39-minute nap after lunch.

It was about 1:30 when Teresa reminded me she had a 3pm manicure appointment and asked me to meet her at Fika café afterward. I agreed as long as it wasn’t raining and it immediately started raining – a downpour that lasted only 30 minutes.

I informed Teresa that Sunday’s Bears game isn’t until late (8:20pm) so we will have time to go to El Retiro and back.

Teresa left for her appointment and I left a few minutes after.

I noticed the new store Sugar District has opened and it’s deeper than I thought.

I took the long but flat route to Fika café where I had a latte while waiting for Teresa. I felt pretty chilly in my shorts and sleeveless t-shirt but had I been dressed warmer I would have been sweating on my walk there.

When Teresa arrived, I noticed it was raining lightly. She had a latte and we shared a chicken empanada. She was in flip flops the beauty shop loaned her so I ordered a Didi to return us to our apt.

I finished reading John Grisham & Jim McCloskey’s Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions on my Kindle before going to bed at 10pm; it was raining lightly.

 

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 2:45, finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

According to my Fitbit, got in 7,118 steps yesterday and last night slept for 7 hours and 32 minutes for a sleep score of 84, with a sleep efficiency of 94%. 😊

Marcos texted me that Johana is sick so we won’t be meeting for coffee this morning.

I left the apt at 9:15 and walked to the Gana kiosk in Metro Sur mall and paid the Movistar bill for November.

Across the street in Viva Envigado, I bought a blueberry muffin in Starbucks and found a table in a busy Urbania café. I completed another set of exercises in my chess workbook, getting 4 wrong then played a 15’10” game, losing a close game in 78 moves.

I left at 11am and walked back to the apt, exchanged some things and took a bus to Panamericana on Ave Poblado. I found a large selection of 70cm x 100cm poster boards for about 15,700 pesos each that I think will work for my genealogy chart. Maybe Saturday morning I’ll return with it and see if I can find one or two poster boards that will serve my purpose.

Outside I waited for a couple minutes for a bus to take me to Calle 7 where I met Teresa in the Boulevard restaurant. We each had the menu of the day for 35,500 pesos each. Teresa informed me the guy who rents our parking spot paid for October – December.  A storm came through while we were eating but at least it had lessened by the time we left.

We took a taxi to Santafe mall where we had drinks in Valentina’s and I froze in my shorts and sleeveless t-shirt.

We went up one level where Teresa ordered a cup of coffee ice cream. ☹

We returned to the apt by taxi and both of us thought our driver was excessively aggressive in his driving. Besides continually changing lanes, he drove about a foot behind the back of a car in front of him while going 35-40 km/hour.

With the help of ChatGPT I found a book on the new library website and downloaded another book. ChatGPT ended with, “Now you have a direct shortcut to Libby, and you can bypass the new Niles library website entirely.” by clicking on Libby in the Edge favorites. We’ll see!

Teresa got an hour massage from Kelly.

With the help of my son, I placed a $100 bet that the Bears will win the Superbowl which would win me $750.

I watched more election news on MS NOW.

 

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Last night I went to bed at midnight, fell asleep quickly, got up a couple times during the night, finally waking/getting up at 7am.

According to my Fitbit, got in 6,021 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 21 minutes for a sleep score of 75, with a sleep efficiency of 92%. 😊

I left the apt at 9am and found Smartfit not very busy. I completed my workout, skipping the treadmill today.

I had a latte outside Los Porteños for an hour before returning to the apt.

I left again at noon and noticed extensive work still ongoing inside the old Parva café.

I had a 10-minute wait for a bus to take me to Sabaneta, arriving at Viejo John 30 minutes late at 1pm. Now I know if I’m taking the bus to leave an hour before I want to arrive.

Teresa had the posta (flank steak) again and I had the solomito again.

We both ate about 2/3 of our food and got the remainder to go – for supper tonight.

We caught a Sabaneta bus back to Envigado; Teresa continued on to her craft class while I stopped at the Bancolombia kiosk and had yesterday’s chess games printed along with pages from my checking account. I continued on to the apt and put our leftovers in the fridge. I continued on to Gardenia where I had a latte while matching USAA’s checking statement to my excel spreadsheet version. Some lines I had recorded as a debit charge but I had paid for in cash and others I had missed. I finally got it all balanced though.

About 3pm there was a short shower that only seemed to be take up one square yard until a few minutes later there was a downpour that lasted 20 minutes.

I left at 4:30 and returned to the apt.

I watched more election results on MS NOW – Democrats still have a chance to win Senate seats in Mississippi and Alaska.

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed......and we will deserve it", Lindsey Graham.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 11:30, fell asleep quickly, got up once? (not sure), finally waking at 6am and getting up at 6:15.

According to my Fitbit, got in 3,689 steps yesterday and last night slept for 4 hours and 46 minutes for a sleep score of 61, with a sleep efficiency of 90%. ☹

I took a Didi to Urbania mall arriving early enough to walk once around the mall.

The fruit stand wasn’t there so I didn’t get my usual banana.

I met Jose in Parmessano where we had breakfast. Today I brought the last of a bottle of maple syrup and ordered their French toast.

I brought Jose up to date on the Bears’ last 3 wins and their trade for DT Jeffrey Simmons.

We adjourned to the food court where I had the Black pieces in the first game. Jose had agreed to play the first two moves as d4 & e4 so I could practice the Pirc defense. He informed me we’ve been playing this opening for 2 years now so in the future he wants to play whatever opening moves he wants. (Probably something crazy like b4.) I blundered on the 19^th move and he checkmated me.

I had the white pieces in the second game and we agreed to a draw on the 34^th move.

It was only 1pm when I ordered a Didi to take me to Viva Envigado. I had lunch in Sarku’s then paid our apt rental in Ave Villas (in a rather long line).

Troyclough and Chesswiz98 resigned our latest games increasing my rating to 1564.

Downstairs I had a latte in Urbania for a couple hours then stopped in Exito and bought Coke Zero for Teresa and returned to the apt by taxi.

I tried balancing my checking account for the period which included our trip to Chicago but eventually gave up.

I watched some episodes of Seal Team then the news the rest of the evening. It was fun to watch the Democratic party take the House of Representatives and the Senate from the Trump administration. It was a Blue Tsunami!

I finally went to bed at midnight with the Democrats in a big lead.

 

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Monday, November 2, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 3:30, finally waking/getting up just before 7am.

According to my Fitbit, got in 7,239 steps yesterday and last night slept for 7 hours and 13 minutes for a sleep score of 81, with a sleep efficiency of 85%. ☹

Today is a holiday here, Dia de los Santos (Day of Saints).

I had a short nap after breakfast. On my way to Smartfit I saw this pair of Guacharacas eating pieces of banana someone had just left out for them.

I found Smartfit busier than usual so I had to wait my turn on a few machines. Today I added 5# to the following machines: Shoulder Press, Back Extension, Bicep Curl, Chest Press, Lat Pulldown, Abdominal Crunch, Seated Row and Triceps Press. I’m now at or close to my personal high for each of these machines. I also completed 10 minutes on the treadmill with a final heartrate of 117bpm. I had some upper thigh discomfort and now ChatGPT suggests I skip the treadmill until my doctor’s appointment.

I had a latte outside Los Porteños for about an hour before returning to the apt.

After lunch Teresa was going to get her hair done but said she was too tired so she had a nap instead.

I hung around the apt and watched more episodes of Seal Team, waiting for the 8:15 start to the Bears vs Seahawks game. This was going to be the first game with our new acquisition, Pro-Bowl DT Jeffrey Simmons.

Because of the time change I knew I wouldn’t be getting to bed until at least 11:15 so I ate my popcorn and drank my soda early.,

The Bears handily defeated last year’s Superbowl champion 34-17. What a game! What a message for the rest of the NFL. (At 6-2 my prediction of 13 wins for the Bears this year is looking pretty good.)

I watched a few minutes of the highlights then went straight to bed (no pre-sleep reading) at 11:30.

 

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Sunday, November 1, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly but was up reading from 3am to 4am, finally waking/getting up just before 7am.

According to my Fitbit, got in 6,538 steps yesterday and last night slept for 6 hours and 30 minutes for a sleep score of 70, with a sleep efficiency of 76%. ☹

I took a short nap after breakfast.

We left the apt at 11:15 and took a Didi to Exposiciones station. (MT was still sleeping or at least didn’t answer Teresa’s calls.)

It was a short wait for a bus but it was a small bus so we didn’t get the more comfortable seats in back. There was a young blond standing up near the front doors and outside La Ceja the bus stopped next to what I’ll call a 7-11. The girl went inside but surprisingly the bus didn’t leave. She came out a couple minutes later, reentered the bus and shook her head and the bus continued on. I guess she was doing the bus driver a favor but whatever he wanted I guess they didn’t have.

We arrived in La Ceja 90 minutes after we left Medellin. We walked the 4 blocks up to the park and diagonally across to the other side and up to restaurant Pimento. Teresa ordered the salmon again and I tried the solomito but it wasn’t what I expected.

Still, after removing all the bacon strips, it tasted very good with just a few pieces of unchewable solomito.

I had asked ChatGPT for café suggestions and after I got my bearings we walked past the church and 2 blocks further to Kaperia Café, Calle 22 #20-74.

Teresa let me order the first latte and when it came it was good and hot she then ordered hers. I also ordered a slice of carrot cake to share and it was also good and warm.

We left at 4:15 and walked 4 blocks down the hill to the bus station where we got on a bus just as it was leaving. Not sure why it cost only 13,000 per person to La Ceja but it was 18,200 pp back to Medellin.

We arrived back at the apt by 6pm and I stopped in Ara and bought liquid Fab before returning to the apt.

Photos of last night’s trick or treaters.

 

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