Thursday, January 27, 2022

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 3:15, woke/got up again just before 7am, brought my newly recharged cellphone back to bed, turned off the alarm when it went off at 7am, did my Kegel exercises, fell back asleep, finally waking/getting up at 8:30.

I’ve decided I would like to have my hernia surgery between the 15^th and 28^th of February. I had Teresa call Dr. Gomez’s office and the secretary said something about sending me an email in the next few days about hospital choices (and hopefully dates).

Months ago I installed the Alarmy app on my old cellphone and set the alarm to go off every morning at 7am. If I want to activate/hear it on a particular morning I would just leave it turned on while it recharged next to my bed. If I didn’t want to hear it I just turned it off before going to bed. I uninstalled the app some weeks ago but it still goes off at 7am. I thought that might stop happening when I moved everything to my new cellphone but no. I reinstalled Alarmy and turned off the 7am alarm so we’ll see if that works.

Teresa informed me Laura has another doctor’s appointment today at 3pm.

I upgraded my Keep My Notes app to the premium version for $9.

Those 3 remaining games I had where I was playing the Black pieces? I won one and lost one and thought I might be able to get a draw in this 3^rd one but I think it’s going to be a loss for me.

Laura left at 1:15 and Teresa is going to meet up with her at 3pm for another doctor’s appointment.

I believe movies changeover in Cine Colombia every Thursday. I just saw that Nightmare Alley (7.4) is playing in Viva Envigado at 5:30. I still have a free pass with lots of snacks that I can use so I told Teresa of my intentions.

I left the apt at 4:45 and walked to the mall. In Cine Colombia there was only one other person ahead of me to buy a ticket. A complication is the movie starts at 5:20 not 5:30 so time will be a little tighter than I originally planned. There was no charge for the ticket, I just had to show the Bar Code on my cellphone with the special email offer from January 5^th. Their computer only showed one other person seated in the theater so I purchased a ticket in the 2^nd row front and center.

I had to show my ticket and vaccination card to enter the theater area. The place was almost deserted with only one person ahead of me at concessions. Again I showed my email from January 5^th and they gave me a hotdog in a special little box and put that with the condiments in a small paper bag. They separately handed me a little package of shoestring potatoes that Colombians like to put on top but I handed them back and said, “I don’t need these, I’m a gringo”. I also received a little chocolate bar, a medium popcorn (salt not sugar) and a cup for my soda. At the soda machine they didn’t have any working Coke or Pepsi dispensers so I chose a Postobon manzana (apple) with lots of ice.

In the theater I took my seat noticing a couple sitting in the rows ahead and behind me. I hurried to set up my hotdog before the lights dimmed. I skipped the packages of mayonnaise and catsup and got mustard on just as the lights went down. I was halfway through my hotdog when two young ladies sat down next to me. (The whole theater and they chose seats next to someone else?) About 15 minutes into the movie one of the girls left. She came back 15 minutes later with three guys and they all sat down together.

I enjoyed the 2 ½-hour movie and was surprised by how many actors I recognized, at least by face.

When I turned my cellphone back on I had calls from Teresa and texts from Laura, “where are you?”. Again, Teresa forgot I told her I’m going to a movie. Sigh!

When I walked out of Cine Colombia I came across this little miniature golf setup.

I returned to the apt by taxi and was surprised no one was there. Teresa soon returned with Esmeralda and she approved taking our old mattress. Esmeralda showed Teresa some clothing catalogs while I got ready for bed.

 

The New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US with 643,615 ð 619,958 ð 586,948 new cases and 2,367 ð 2,441 ð 2,499 new deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of yesterday, Colombia has a total of 19,512 ð 17,889 ð 17,663 new cases with 260 ð NOT REPORTED ð 273 new deaths. Medellin has UNREPORTED ð 1,533 ð 1,324 new cases from January 26^th to 27^th.  Envigado has UNREPORTED  ð 72 ð 62 new cases from January 26^th to 27^th.

 

T-shirt of the day

Unsteady.