At the health club I weighed in at 77kilos. I walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes at
speed 5. Monday I’ll go back down to 15
minutes but increase the speed to 6. As
of now I believe I’m getting more out of breath (cardio) from the weight
machines than from the treadmill.
After lunch I took a bus to the metro, got a seat, and got
off at the Hospital station. It was a 40
minute trip total to Dario’s store.
I played the black pieces first and won easily in the
endgame. With the white pieces I played
my usual opening and early it looked like he was going to mate me but I
deflected his attacking pieces by attacking his king. We went into an endgame with seconds left on
our clocks. I claimed the win when his
flag fell but I noted afterwards that my flag couldn’t fall – equipment failure
– so it was probably a draw.
My clock is about 40 years old so it probably could use a
good cleaning. I’ll see if Laura can
help me find someplace to take it for repair.
On the walk back to the metro I noticed a building – Banco
de Sangre – which I assume is a blood bank.
I saw another building called Policlinica which I assume is “police
clinic” whatever that is. Today I saw a
van had just pulled up outside, 3 police officers opened the back door and
helped out a man with his hands handcuffed behind him.
I got another seat on the metro and on the bus back to
Parque Envigado.
I stopped at the corner store and bought a 1.5 liter of
Coke.
I received an email from Trip Advisor that they posted my
review of Parmessano Restaurante.
A woman in the building stopped by and gave me 120mil to pay
for the garage space use for July & August.
Today’s Medellin
Living reported that Medellin’s
taxi fares have increased effective August 10th. The taximeter starts at 3,000 up from 2,700;
the minimum fare is 5,000 pesos up from 4,600; fares have also gone up slightly
for time & distance; and the trip from the Rionegro airport using the white
taxis has gone up from 60,000 to 65,000 pesos.
A white taxi from Medellin
to Rionegro is only 55,000 pesos. The
trip to and from Envigado is slightly higher.
Today maybe I figured out how to post articles from Medellin Living.
I watched more Olympic coverage in the evening.
T-shirt of the day: Money over everything.
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ReplyDeleteI don't beileve 'Policlinica' i has anything to do with the Policia, Terry.
ReplyDeleteI Googled it using the phrase 'Qué es Policlinica, Medellín' for key words and found an article about someone taking a neighbor (or friend, possibly) to one and it sounded for all the world like an emergency room of some sort.
The article mentioned 'urgencias' (emergencies) and called it a policlinica, advising that is a place where a number of different types of traumas could be treated.
Maybe someone else who reads your blog will comment and explain to us more clearly what it is.
Regards,
Paul M.
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Policlínica is a sort of local walk in clinic, out patient clinic. They deal with small helth issues, family practitioners, etc.
ReplyDeleteNoMeInteresa, thanx... A walk-in clinic makes perfict sense. Not sure why I didn't leap to that conclusion.
ReplyDeleteMaybe cuz it didn't seem to me very likely that there would be such things as walk-in clinics in Colombia since they have socialized medicine where I thought everyone could go anyway.
PM
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The reason I question that it is a medical clinic is it doesn't seem like a place to take a prisoner. And there is a clinic right next door.
ReplyDeleteTerry, I beleive that NMI has got it right. Afterwards I looked in mmy dictionary and the word is there, too. It's basically an out-patient treatment center/clinic. (See definition in spanish below.)
ReplyDeleteIt is a comination of the roots 'poly-' and 'clinic' and that prefix is from the Greek meaning 'many', as in 'polychromatic' [many colored], or 'polygamy' [many wives]; likewise: polyester, polymer, polysyllabic, and so on....
And here is how the DRAE* defines the word 'policlínica':
2. f. Establecimiento sanitario que atiende a pacientes de diversas patologías en régimen ambulatorio.
So it sounds to me like what you saw was the police taking some arrested 'hampón' in to see to his wounds.
* Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
OK – HTH
Paul M.
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