Thursday, October 27, 2022

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at midnight, fell back asleep, got up again at 4:30, fell back asleep, woke up at 6:30, did my Kegel exercises and got up. Teresa had just left for the gym.

I left the apt at 8:45 and took a Sabaneta bus to Calle 7. I walked up to Cedimed and picked up my blood test results. I had a 5-minute wait for a bus back to Envigado. I took this photo of “Hijamia Coffee House” which I saw between the casino and the Pasteur pharmacy on the Gold Mile. Could this be a 3rd restaurant of theirs?

I texted Glenn and learned he’s having breakfast at Los Porteños so I told him I would meet him there in 5 minutes. I took this photo of work on the street off Calle La Buena Mesa.

I met Glenn and he had finished breakfast and I had a large latte. He’s trying to schedule a medical procedure he wants to have in NY. I checked my blood test results and everything appears normal:

VLDL 18.8 (0-30 is normal)

Total Cholesterol 189 (less than 200 is desirable)

HDL 58 (sub optimal; optimal is over 60)

LDL 112.2 (less than optimal; optimal is less than 100)

Triglycerides 94 (< 150 is normal)

PSA <0.01 (still cancer free; Yay!)

I have an appointment with Dr. Castano next Monday afternoon.

I called CS at (877) 686-1937 and talked to Blaine and because I spend so much time in Colombia it appears it would be better if I was an international client. Now I have to talk to someone else to make the switch.

I talked to Shawn at (800) 472-9813 and he recommends I stay with the brokerage account, they will change me to an international client, I won’t have to fill out the Travel Notice but I won’t have any banking privileges (but I will have a CS debit card, go figure). He is going to email me a short application I have to fill out and email back.

Today I see the 1% charges added to my USAA transactions. So, on with the goal of using Charles Schwab as my ATM (0% Foreign Transaction Fee) and USAA for my online and in-store purchases (1%).

Dr. Castaño’s office called and I accepted to change my Monday appointment to tomorrow at 3:40pm.

At 2pm the downpour started. So much for me going to Viva Envigado this afternoon. (We have one egg left and a little milk.) I joined Teresa in her nap and didn’t wake up until 3:30. The rain had stopped but I have a new plan. The egg and milk are for Teresa’s breakfast tomorrow and I’ll go to VE tomorrow, have breakfast and bring back eggs and milk.

Tomorrow I’m going to try an experiment. Within seconds of each other I’m going to make ATM withdrawals with my USAA card and Charles Schwab card and see if I get the same CER.

For supper I ordered chicken wings from Rocket Wings.

Today I got in 2,361 steps.

 

Fun pix