Last night I took 2 sleeping pills at 10:45 and went to bed
at 11pm. I fell asleep quickly and
although I woke up twice during the night I didn’t make any trips to the
bathroom and quickly fell back asleep each time. I finally woke/got up at 6:45 feeling
refreshed. The question is why? My best guess is because I was out biking
yesterday in the fresh air. Perhaps the
fact that I’m now taking a magnesium pill in the afternoon might have something
to do with it?
Another new month – time to pay the bills.
I was surprised when Laura came out of her bedroom at
7:30. She informed me that she only has
one class today starting at 10am.
At 8:15 I left to pay the bills at the bank. At Bancolombia they were filling the ATM
machines with the usual guard with the shotgun standing by. I got in line to use one of the automated
payment machines. While waiting I heard
a ruckus and looked up and saw a man arguing with a guard holding a pistol at
his side and there were 2 policemen behind him.
Where did they come from so fast?
They eventually went outside and were checking his papers (cedula
maybe).
I paid all 3 bills, got my change, and headed back to the
apartment. Sorting everything out I
found I was missing the receipt for my health insurance. How do I send them confirmation of my payment
without that receipt. I took a photo of
the apartment receipt and emailed it to the agency. I put the last month’s receipts and this
month’s receipts on the kitchen table to remind me to talk to Teresa about the
one missing when they return.
I was watching the Today
show when they returned just after 9am.
After MT left and I reached the next long commercial I went to the table
to talk to Teresa about the missing receipt and only 3 of the 5 receipts were
there. I asked her what happened to my 2
receipts. I understood Teresa used them
for note paper and gave them to MT. I
told her I need those for my files.
Teresa left the apartment to get them back before her mother throws them
away.
Now it’s just before 10am and I can’t leave for the gym
because I don’t know if Teresa has keys with her. What a great start to the morning. At 10:15 I looked around and didn’t see any
keys so I guess Teresa did take them with her.
As I was leaving the apt I ran into Teresa. We agreed that we would meet at the apt at
12:30 and then have lunch at Deli Hoy.
At the gym my iPod battery died about half way through my
workout. Seven and a half days at 2
hours each means I got about 15 hours playtime before the battery died. I might be able to get a little more playtime
because today when I first started it I may have left in on pause. I completed all my exercises in a little over
2 hours.
On the way back to the apt I ran into Chuck and Darnelle
sitting at one of the tiendas by the park.
We talked for a bit and decided we’d try to get together this weekend.
Back at the apt Teresa reminded me she had a massage appointment
so I delayed my shower and we walked down to Deli Hoy for lunch. We
finished lunch at 1:30 and I was surprised that Teresa didn’t seem to be in
that much of a hurry then I learned that her appointment wasn’t until 2pm. So we had plenty of time after all. Afterwards, Teresa headed to Stella Duran and I went back to the apt
where I took my shower.
I was going to go play chess in the park but today is just
too hot.
When Teresa came back I had her call Natalia about not
having a health insurance receipt this month.
She talked to an assistant but I understand I’m the only one paying from
Envigado so they should be able to differentiate it from other payments.
I started charging my iPod at 2:15 and I noticed I have no
internet access.
On Direct TV they have a lot of World Cup (soccer)
elimination matches going on: Check Republic vs Germany, Lithuania vs Scotland,
Rumania vs Aremnia, Slovakia vs Slovenia, Norway vs Azerbijan and San Marino vs
Northern Ireland. (I hope I got those
translations correct.) These are all
matches preceding the World Cup to be played in Russia Colombia played Venezuela
At 5pm we walked down to Wilson Wilson
When we got back to the apt at 7:30 we had internet again. But my cell phone wasn’t getting internet. I reentered the password – Teresa’s cedula
number and I finally figured out what happened.
MT and Teresa have the same network name – Alzate so when I save the
password for one location it won’t work on the other. Une
shouldn’t use such a common word for their network names.
I understand MT will be in the hospital for 8 days
recovering from her surgery; she will have most of her stomach removed. We’re waiting to hear when the
anesthesiologist will be available to schedule the surgery but I understand it
will be very soon – maybe even early next week.
Teresa informed me she has to visit the finca either
Saturday or Sunday. I might go with her
just to see how the highway has changes and to take a few photos.
Among new US Oviedo
At 9pm I was still getting a flashing yellow light on my
iPod which supposedly means “Device is syncing with iTunes or in use as a
disk”. I’ll bet it’ll still be the same
tomorrow morning when I get up. I closed
iTunes but that didn’t seem to change
things.
I asked Teresa how long she’s going to be at the finca. 20 minutes?
30 minutes? She replied 2-4
hours. No thank you!
At 10:15 I decided that an 8 hour charge should be enough so
I disconnected my iPod from my laptop.
T-shirt of the day: This charade of being a responsible
adult has gone on long enough.
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