Monday, June 14, 2021

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once about 4am, had trouble falling back asleep, finally gave up and got up at 6:45am. I went back to bed at 7:30 and slept until 9am.

Today is a holiday – Sagrado corazón (sacred heart).

At 10:30 I walked to the mall where I recycled a plastic bottle then looked for a couple hangers for my shorts in Home Center. What they had was a little fancier than what I wanted and had purchased before so I passed. I paid my cellphone bill in Claro and tried to make an ATM withdrawal but the machine said it was empty. In Todo Fresa I spent about 30 minutes planning my next move against eschneiderag9, rated 1597. I should be able to checkmate him, and I don’t want to screw up this opportunity.

I returned to the apt by taxi.

Teresa is eager to get out of the house, so she arranged for us to meet Esmeralda and Alejandro for ice cream in Arkadia mall.

I’m seeing a lot of advertisements on Direct TV that Cine Colombia is reopening tomorrow.

Troyclough resigned our game increasing my rating to an all-time high of 1543. 1550 here I come! (I’ve got two games in progress and I should win them both.)

Michael blundered his Queen and resigned increasing my rating to 1544. My next win should put me over 1550 for the first time.

At 2:30 I heard thunder and, even though it isn’t currently raining, I noticed the street was wet.

Eschneiderag9 resigned our game (I was 2 moves from checkmating him) and my rating is now1553. Woo hoo!

At 4:45 I noticed it was raining but it didn’t last long.

I beat Teresa in parcheesi today 5 games to 0.

I made arrangements with Jose to meet for chess tomorrow.

We (actually Laura) ordered from Chiclayo again. Nope. Laura called back a minute later to report it’s closed. Well it is a holiday.

We had an intermittent drizzle in the evening.

 

The New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US with 14,464 ð 14,288 ð 14,020 new cases and 384 ð 362 ð 339 new deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of yesterday Colombia has a total of 3,724,705 ð 3,753,224 ð 3,777,600 cases with 95,192 ð 95,778 ð 96,366 deaths.  Medellin has 322,185 ð 323,908 ð 324,710 cases, an increase of 802 from June 13^th to 14^th. Envigado has a total of 25,620 cases, an increase of 39 from June 13^th to 14^th.

 

T-shirt of the day

The angel’s wonderland.