I had an awful night.
I’m not sure I slept at all last night.
Teresa got up about 7am and I got up about 9am. I took 2 sleeping pills and went back to bed
but I’m still not sure I slept. I got up
at 11am and at least I felt better.
I checked the new US movie releases and I would like
to see Trumbo (7.4) and Killing Them Safely (7.8).
Locally, Spectre, The
Hunger Games, and Secret in their
Eyes are playing at El Tesoro.
We left the finca at 12:55, got past the killer dogs
undetected and only had to wait 1 minute for Walter to pick us up in his
taxi. This time we were smart enough to
turn so that we were on the correct side of Avenida 80 for the clinic. We got there at 1:10 for what I thought was a
3pm appointment. We paid 2,500 pesos in
one building and then went over to the other.
Teresa talked to someone and then reported something about “we have a
bad appointment and have to return to Envigado.
And the urologist is here in Itagui
but my biopsy results are in Envigado.”
We got our 2,500 pesos back and took a taxi to Envigado.
Teresa said I could play chess in the park while she got a
new appointment in Nueva eps. In the
park I soon found the older man I had played against a few weeks ago. After a short wait we played two games. In the first game I had black and was able to
play my opening. I castled, he didn’t
and I tied up the queen side and soon was pushing pawns toward his kingside. I got him so cramped he was unable to move
his rook, knight, or bishop. I checked
his king, he interposed with his queen, I checked a 2nd time with my
knight and his king had to move away from his queen allowing me to capture it
and that was that.
In the 2nd game I had white and again was able to
play my opening. I tied up the queen
side and the middle, we both castled kingside and again I pushed pawns at his
king. I also had a bishop, knight and my
queen and pawns attacking his position and I traded appropriately so I could
mate him with my strength of position.
Teresa came back for the last few minutes of the game. I understand we have to go back to the clinic
in Itagui early
Monday morning.
We stopped in Frisby where Teresa ordered a chicken combo
but then changed her order to the same as mine when I ordered a Friburrito and
large Pepsi for 23,400.
We stopped at Exito where I picked up 2 packages of C
batteries for a flashlight Teresa has and she picked up some arepas, eggs and a
bottle of laundry detergent.
We took a taxi to the highway but had to wait 15 minutes for
a bus. We took a Montenegro bus
for 4mil that dropped us off at the junction with Caldas. After a 2 minute wait we were on another bus
to the sideroad. We got past the killer
dogs just before it got dark and arrived back at the finca by 6:30.
I found that the C batteries aren’t large enough; I need D
batteries. We’ll exchange them the next
time we visit Exito.
After a little discussion I think we’ve decided to go to
Mayorca Sunday to see Secret in their
Eyes (6.2) at 2:30pm.
The Colombian Peso closed for the week at 3108 against the
dollar.
I took 3 sleeping pills at 10:30 and went to bed at 11pm.
T-shirt of the day: Young and free.
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