I slept from 11pm until 3:45 just before Laura would get
up. I slept more or less until my cell
phone alarm went off at 6:30am. Teresa
got up 15 minutes later.
I took my shower, had cereal for breakfast and was ready to
go by 7:45.
I wanted to confirm everything with Teresa before we
left. I thought we were also going to
Envigado today but she told me that would be tomorrow. I listed the places we would be going to in
Caldas today and she said we would be paying the electric bill tomorrow in
Envigado. Five minutes later she listed
all the places we would be going to in Caldas and she mentioned paying the
electric bill. I questioned her on that
and she changed it to Envigado.
As we were leaving at 8:15 she told me I forgot the electric
bill. I reminded her we will be paying
it tomorrow in Envigado. And I thought I had a bad memory!
As we passed the neighbor’s house the killer dogs barked at
us behind their fence. We had to wait
about 20 minutes to catch a bus to Caldas.
First we made a stop at the ATM so I could take out more
cash then we walked up to Merkepaisa. Because vegetables are on sale today that
area of the store was a madhouse with people trying to choose and bag their
vegetables and stockers trying to get past them in the narrow aisles to put up
new stock.
We finally got out of there just before 10am after Teresa
and I had a miscommunication over who would pay for it. Now I understand that because I only gave her
500mil on the first of the month and she purchased some groceries last weekend
and all the meat yesterday, she didn’t have enough cash to pay the 344,100
pesos today so I paid for it with my debit card. (We settled that after we got back to the
finca. I gave her the 500mil and took
back 345mil. From now on I’ll give her
the full 1 million pesos at the beginning of each month.)
Walter was waiting for us with his taxi and we made one stop
so we could pay another 100mil towards the exercise machine. I guess Laura forgot to do that a few days
ago.
At the finca he drove all the way down the path until we got
to where it’s covered with rocks.
Between the 3 of us we managed to carry everything down in one trip and
I gave him 20mil.
I had Teresa call a hotel in Manizales.
Now I have to put her in touch with my Spanish speaking brother so I can
find out what she learned.
I hadn’t been upstairs in the loft in several weeks so I
followed Teresa when she was going up again.
She has it pretty well organized with a card table in the middle. I asked her why she didn’t have a lightbulb
in the socket above and I understood she wasn’t sure the lightbulb she has
worked. I took out a working bulb from
another socket and tried her lightbulb and it worked. I then put it in the socket above her head
but it didn’t work. I asked her where
the switch is and she didn’t know. We
looked around but didn’t find one that worked on that socket; another thing for
the electrician to look at when he finally arrives.
As zopiclone is sedating, it is marketed as a sleeping pill. It works by causing a depression or tranquilization of the central nervous system. After prolonged use, the body can become accustomed to the effects of zopiclone. When the dose is then reduced or the drug is stopped, withdrawal symptoms may result. These can include a range of symptoms similar to those of benzodiazepine withdrawal.
In the United States, zopiclone is not commercially available, although its active stereoisomer, eszopiclone, is sold under the name Lunesta. Zopiclone is a controlled substance in the United States, Japan, Brazil, and some European countries, and may be illegal to possess without a prescription.
Zopiclone is known colloquially as a "Z-drug." Other Z-drugs include zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien and AmbienCR) and were initially thought to be less addictive and/or habit-forming than benzodiazepines. However, this appraisal has shifted somewhat in the last few years as cases of addiction and habituation have been presented. Zopiclone is recommended to be taken on a short-term basis, usually a week or less. Daily or continuous use of the drug is not usually advised.”
After reading that I don’t think it’s something I want to
take without a doctor’s prescription but I thank him for thinking of me.
We started watching The
Siege (6.3) and stopped again at 8pm to watch Master Chef. The chefs had to make what they said was mousaka
but it looked more like pastitsio (Greek lasagna) to me.
I took my sleeping pills at 10:15 and we went to bed at
10:30.
T-shirt of the day: A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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