Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly
(though there were lots of fireworks outside and people talking from their apts
and balconies), and startled myself awake about an hour later. I don’t remember
any other details except that was the feeling I had at the time. Thirty minutes
later I was still awake so I got up and closed the bedroom window and blinds,
and turned on the fan. I quickly fell asleep finally waking/getting up at 6:30.
I left the apt at 8am and met Glenn w/ Bianca at the
La Frontera mall 20 minutes. We took a Sabaneta bus to Parque Poblado, from
there it was just a 5-6 block walk to Ganso & Castor Manila. We shared
an almond croissant over coffee then he had eggs florentine and I had my usual
Acai berries with granola and fruit and Greek yogurt. The berries (at the
bottom of the bowl) were still frozen so I had to wait a few minutes for them
to thaw. Glenn finally found the cause of Bianca’s health problem – gastrititis,
and she’s now taking medicine for it and doing much better. James should be
returning to Colombia on the 1st of January so I assume he will be
joining us next Sunday.
We left about 10:15 and shared a taxi back to Envigado.
They got out at Jumbo and I continued on to Viva Envigado. For the first
time they checked my cedula as I entered the mall. I had a café con leche at Todo
Fresa while getting caught up on my cellphone. Michael, my son’s cousin, texted
me and challenged me to a correspondence chess game on Chess.com which I accepted.
As I left Todo Fresa I put the $2 bill my
brother sent me in their tip jar. I told them, via my translator, that it is
rare and for good luck so not to spend it.
I had to show my cedula again as I entered Exito.
I picked up a few things and returned via taxi to the apt.
Chicken fajitas for lunch, yum.
I enjoyed watching the Chicago Bears defeat the
Jacksonville Jaguars 41-17. Now if they beat the Packers next Sunday they will
be in the playoffs and Ryan Pace, Matt Nagy, and Mitch Trubisky might keep
their jobs. We had a little rain during the end of the game then the sun came
out. But then it got dark and started raining again.
If it isn’t raining the plan is to go to Pricesmart.
I beat Teresa in parcheesi today 3 games to 2.
It seemed to rain the rest of the evening, although at
times it wasn’t more then just drops.
On the evening news we saw that Cali won some futbol
championship and thousands celebrated in the streets. No social distancing
there.
In June, Mike Pence,
supposed chief of the coronavirus White House task force put pen to paper to
assure Americans that the so-called second wave of COVID-19 cases was all just a fictional media narrative. "In recent days, the media has taken to
sounding the alarm bells over a "second wave" of coronavirus
infections. Such panic is overblown," Pence wrote in the lede of the piece.
Beyond spouting a bunch of platitudes about Trump's amazing
leadership, Pence said the country was "winning the fight," cases had
"stabilized," and new outbreaks were being contained through early
detection and increased testing. Trump had "rallied the American people to
embrace social-distancing guidelines" and, because people had done so,
"all 50 states have begun to reopen in a safe and responsible manner,"
Pence wrote.
"The media has tried to scare the American people every
step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no
different," he added, concluding, "We've slowed the spread, we've
cared for the most vulnerable, we've saved lives, and we've created a solid
foundation for whatever challenges we may face in the future. That's a cause
for celebration, not the media's fear mongering."
When Pence wrote that op-ed
in mid-June, the U.S. has just passed 115,000 COVID-related deaths and was averaging some 750 deaths per day over
a 5-day period. At the time of this writing (Dec. 20), the U.S. had surpassed
317,000 deaths due to COVID-19 and the country recorded a record 3,600 earlier
in the week. Heckuva job, Mikey. And thanks for Wall Street Journal for
lending your pages to the guy who had already botched the coronavirus response
from Day 1.
The
US has 18,780,292 ð 18,885,136 ð 19,092,658
coronavirus
cases with 330,000+ ð 330,800+ ð 332,600+
deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 1,574,707 ð 1,584,903 ð 1,594,497
cases with 41,690 ð 41,943 ð 42,171
deaths. Medellin has 142,160 ð 143,224 ð 143,949 cases, an increase of 713 from December 26th
to 27th. Envigado has a total of 12,569 cases, an increase of 80 from
December 26th to 27th.
Joke of
the day
A small church
had a very attractive big-busted organist named Susan, and her breasts were so
large they bounced and jiggled while she played the organ.
Unfortunately,
she distracted the male part of the congregation considerably. The very proper
church ladies were appalled.
They said
something had to be done about this or they would have to get another organist.
So one of the
ladies approached Susan very discreetly about the problem, & told her to
mash up some green persimmons & rub them on her nipples and all over her breasts,
which should cause them to shrink in size, but warned her not to taste any of
the green persimmons, because they are so sour they will make your mouth pucker
up & you won't be able to talk properly for a while.
The voluptuous
organist reluctantly agreed to try it.
The following
Sunday morning the minister walked up to the pulpit and said, “Dew to thicumsthanthis
bewond my contwol, we will not hab a thewmon tewday.”
