Thursday, February 11, 2021

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep quickly, woke up at 5am and got up at 5:30.

After breakfast I went back to bed and slept from 7:30 to 8:30.

I left the apt at 9:30 and walked to the mall. I paid the Une and epm bills at Baloto but they didn’t have an amount due for Direct TV. (Maybe, because of my account change, I need to wait to receive a new bill.) In H&M I exchanged my shorts from a large to a medium. I recycled a couple plastic bottles upstairs then paid our cellphone bills at Claro. Downstairs I had a café con leche at Todo Fresa. About 11:15 it started getting a little crowded so I decided to give up my table and I left. I bought a couple bags of milk at Exito before returning to the apt by taxi. (I was surprised security didn’t ask to see my cedula entering Exito so I guess pico y cedula is over for now.)

Jose called me and told me he saw a chess tournament set up in Liga de Ajedrez. (Later I asked Juan about that and he said that all the participants firsst qualified by playing in an online tournament.)

Nejcik resigned our game and I increased my rating to 1479.

I had a 2-hour chess lesson with Juan Castro.

I don’t know what happened but Teresa never made it to mass today..

I finished the jigsaw puzzle this evening. So, it took me about a week – Friday to Thursday – working an average of an hour each evening. That makes a total of about 7 hours while the box claims it’s a 2-3 hour puzzle. Wow! Either I’m not good at puzzles or my decision skills have really diminished. I know there were times I swore there must be a piece missing, that I had tried every piece in one spot, but in the end they were all there. Amazing.

 

The US has 27,192,859 ð 27,264,344 ð 27,388,566 coronavirus cases with 466,600+ ð 469,400+ ð 473,100+ deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 2,166,904 ð 2,173,347 ð 2,179,641 cases with 56,507 ð 56,733 ð 56,983 deaths. Medellin has 186,525 ð 186,918 ð 187,269 cases, an increase of 356 from February 10^th to 11^th. Envigado has a total of 16,848 cases, an increase of 38 from February 10^th to 11^th.

 

Joke of the day

Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.