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 above the belly) and I the ribs. We each had a Coke and the total came to 140,000 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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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6am.

Last night my step counter registered 7,603 steps but that sounds too high. I suspect it wasn’t set to zero in the morning.

Teresa was already gone for her gym class. She returned at 7:30, made breakfast and I returned to bed for an hour nap.

I left the apt at 9am and found Smartfit busier than usual. I had to alter the order of my routine slightly and completed 18 minutes on the treadmill. I had some side pain starting at the 7^th minute and lowered the speed from 6 to 5kmh until the 10^th minute where I increased it back to 6kmh. Later, ChatGPT made the following recommendation for my Friday treadmill session:

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor but didn’t finish it because it seemed stronger than usual and my stomach didn’t like it.

I left at 11am and returned to the apt.

I logged into My Social Security and changed my deposit information to my USAA checking account. It won’t take affect until April so there will be one more deposit to Capital One I’ll have to transfer before I can close the account.

I’ve lost two games to chesswiz98 the past few days, lowering my rating to 1533.

I hadn’t seen my Apice (Daniel’s barbershop) baseball cap the past few days and thought I left it at Ganso y Castor last Saturday. This morning Teresa presented it to me as brand new – unknown to me she took it and cleaned it. 😊

I stayed in again today, watched a couple more episodes of Fool Me Once on Netflix, then a lot of the news.

Troyclough resigned our latest game on the 25^th move, increasing my rating to 1538.

Kelly came over and gave Teresa a massage.

Teresa wants to go to El Retiro Sunday and we’ll take her mother. I told her that’s fine but we’ll have to leave early not to miss the Superbowl which starts at 6:30.

Dr. Peter Attia, whose book I read recently and have been recommending, is named in the Epstein files:

 

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

 

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, got up once during the night, finally awakened by alarm at 6:30. Drat, I forgot to turn off my alarm.

I requested Capital One 360 to transfer the balance of my checking account to my USAA checking account.

I left the apt just before 9am and walked to the mall. I withdrew 2 million pesos using my USAA debit card then went down to Urbania where I had a latte with a glass of ice water.

I left just before 11am and stopped in Exito to buy a few more imported oranges, a bag of milk and large carton of eggs then returned to the apt by taxi.

Teresa has been giving me a Colombian fruit called pitahaya that’s supposed to help regulate me. (It’s basically tasteless but contains lots of small seeds.) So far nothing’s happening.

I tried ordering a Didi for 10,000 pesos to take us to Santafe mall but the only driver that responded wanted 14,500 pesos. Finally, Teresa suggested we have lunch in Palo Grande so I cancelled the request. We had the lunch of the day in Palo Grande which was meatballs, a small salad, rice, a bowl of vegetable soup, and a drink.

We walked across the street and soon were in a taxi to Santafe mall.

Teresa went to Zara to exchange her blouse while I went down to Valentina’s for a latte.

Later Esmeralda joined us and she brought me the 4 boxes of zopiclone tablets for 104,000 pesos, that should last me 8-9 months if I can continue to take half doses.

We were sitting there at one point and we could hear a downpour hit the skylight 4 floors above us but it only lasted about 5 minutes.

We hung around until 7pm so traffic would lessen. We walked outside and across the street to Pan Americana where Esmeralda used Didi to order a motorcycle to take her home.

Outside Oviedo we caught a Sabaneta bus to take us back to Envigado.

It finally occurred to me I can’t close my Capital One account until I’m sure my SS is successfully being deposited in my USAA account.

 

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

 

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Monday, February 2, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 9:15, got up several times during the night, can’t say I slept well but we’ll see.

Teresa returned from her gym class at 7:30 and made breakfast. After breakfast I went back to bed for maybe an hour.

Happy Birthday, Papa Bear!

After conferring with ChatGPT again it appears my best option might be to open a Fidelity Cash Management Account when I’m in Chicago in September.

I understand Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow so there will be 6 more weeks of winter.

I vegged out the rest of the day on the recliner. Having just finished the book, I watched the first four episodes of Fool Me Once on Netflix.

We had rain off and on throughout the day. When it wasn’t raining, we heard jackhammers breaking up the old sidewalk down the street.

 

I watched The Rachel Maddow Show, then read a bit and went to bed at 10:30.

 

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