Monday, March 29, 2021

Last night I went to bed at 10:30, quickly fell asleep, got up three times during the night, finally waking at 5am and getting up at 6am.

I left the apt at 8:30 and walked to the mall. I went to Exito’s information booth and explained that I wanted to return the bathrobe I had bought. The lady sent me to the Exito Wow! station. There were 3 girls behind the counter doing nothing but one of them directed me to the machine where it gave me a turn number. It appeared on the board a minute later and the girl gave me a credit card for the robe. I went to the nearest cashier where I bought a package of underwear with the credit card.

In the mall I recycled a plastic bottle, withdrew a little cash and had coffee in Todo Fresa.

I left about 10:30 and took a taxi back to the apt.

Jose responded to my text that he won’t be able to play chess tomorrow. He is in the process of getting dental implants and I guess he’s not feeling up to it. Since I’m now free tomorrow I plan to go to Cedimed (alone) to get my blood draw.

We left the apt at 12:15 and arrived at El Tesoro by 12:45. Teresa waited downstairs at O’Cake and I went upstairs to Dr. Rendon’s office. I tapped on the glass door as usual and they asked me to sit in the large waiting room. I called Teresa at 1:45 to inform her I was still in the waiting room and she convinced me to take her to lunch. (Remember they had changed my appointment from 2pm to 1pm.) We were sitting in J&C Delicias at 2:05 when Dr. Rendon texted me. I explained what happened and we agreed I would come back at 3:30 to complete my root canal. I was there by 3:25 and I waited until 3:50 for him to finish with his previous patient. It was 5:10 by the time he finished the root canal.

Teresa exchanged a pajama top at Clonhadas and did some window shopping. I noticed Cinemark theater was open and I tried downloading their app but the only locations that came up were in Bogota so I just uninstalled it.

We had coffee and shared a banana muffin in Starbucks but that was the worst café mocca I’ve ever had.

At 6pm we took a taxi back to the apt and were home in about 35 minutes.

I finished Dean Koontz’s Watchers on my Nook.

About 10pm it occurred to me that maybe the clinic is observing pico y cedula and I won’t be able to get in tomorrow because it will be the 30^th and my cedula is odd. I asked Teresa about that and she assured me that they don’t observe pico y cedula.

 

The US has 30,223,198  ð 30,281,704 ð 30,318,445 coronavirus cases with 548,000+ ð 548,800+ ð 549,000+ deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 2,375,591 ð 2,382,730 ð 2,389,779 cases with 62,790 ð 62,955 ð 63,079 deaths. Medellin has 205,366 ð 207,568 ð 208,428 cases, an increase of 859 from March 28^th to 29^th. Envigado has a total of 18,563 cases, an increase of 73 from March 28^th to 29^th.

Joke of the day

My friend decided to walk to the edge of the earth to prove that it’s flat. He came around eventually.