I woke up about 6:20 then fell back asleep finally getting
up at 8:35. After my shower I watched
some Olympic highlights on the Today
show.
I left about 10:30 for the health club. There seemed to be less people there today
and I quickly got a turn on the two most popular apparatus – the leg extension
and chest exerciser. I continued with 19
minutes on the treadmill but forgot to do a weigh-in. I left about 10 minutes earlier than usual
because Teresa wanted to make lunch in time for her friend Martha who is
supposed to pick us up at 1pm.
She arrived at 1:20 in her large Mitsubishi SUV. She drove to the doctor’s office a few blocks
from Floresta Station. I almost felt
seasick on the way because she braked so much.
I thought she had her left foot on the brake while her right was on the
accelerator but I looked and it wasn’t.
I think she just moved her foot on and off the accelerator so much. She’s the most defensive driver I’ve seen in
quite a while.
Teresa got some type of facial that took about 90
minutes. In the meantime I watched some
Olympics. I forgot to mention – the
other day when I came back from the chess club I turned on the Olympics on
Direct TV and Colombia
was broadcasting some sport that was a combination of basketball with dribbling
but they threw a small ball into a soccer goal.
I don’t even know the name of that sport. I turned on my Slingbox and watched some
swimming and beach volleyball. Another
time Direct TV was broadcasting sailing – watching paint dry sounds more
exciting. I switched to NBC and watched
some women’s gymnastics.
Martha drove us to MBE.
I ran inside while she looked for a place to park. I received an envelope from one of my
pensions and another Fed-Ex Express Envelope.
The pension letter was just an annual notice regarding
tax-withholding. The Fed-Ex envelope
wasn’t even addressed to me so both were basically garbage. I asked about my book and the lady believes
it will arrive this weekend. I asked
about paying my bill for August and September and after some back and forth it
appears the 2nd bill I paid in April was for a package I received
that was over the free weight limit. I
ended up paying 88,800 for July’s bill.
I don’t know why it’s so high. I
thought the charge was $16 a month which would translate to about 48,000
pesos. Anyway I was in a hurry so I just
paid it and left.
At El Tesoro we luckily found a parking place right
away. We arrived at the dentist 20
minutes late. After Teresa had her
stitches removed Martha had a free examination.
We went to J&C
Delicias where the ladies had surf & turf arepas and I had a Caesar
salad. Of course I had chosen the table
right in front of the TV so I could watch more Olympics. A young Colombian man won a gold medal in
weight lifting. The caption on the screen
said that this was Colombia’s
3rd gold medal. Then they
changed it to their 2nd gold medal.
Then they changed it again to their 1st. Every few minutes it changed again. I don’t know if they are talking about this
Olympics or all of them. I picked up the
check of 92,300 (about $31).
Martha drove us back to Envigado. On the way at one point we were going
downhill and there were no other cars in front of us and Martha purposely
slowed down which just about drove me crazy.
At the apt Teresa informed me that her cousin died today,
and she wanted to call her aunt and since we were out of minutes she sent me to
add more. I’m glad she asked me right
away instead of waiting for me to change clothes. When I got to the corner I had just missed a
green pedestrian light to cross the street.
While waiting I saw 4 soldiers on my side of the street with their
semi-automatic weapons not slung over their shoulders but at the ready but pointed
down. They were drifting in my
direction. Before the light changed one
of them was standing right next to me. I
asked him if there was a problem but of course I didn’t understand the
answer. I asked him if they were just
practicing and he replied yes. I got the
green light and after I crossed the street I saw 2 other soldiers frisking a
man. One held his rifle ready and the
other held the man’s hands behind his head with his one hand and frisked him
with the other. I’m not sure if that was
just practicing or not.
I added 50mil to our cell phone and when I returned (5
minutes later) they were all gone.
T-shirt of the day: Got milk?
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