Last night I went to bed at 9:30, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6:30.
When I woke up I still had some haziness in my head so the
first thing I did was take an Excedrin migraine. It took about 20 minutes to
kick in but I’m feeling much better.
Teresa often forgets where she left her cellphone in the apt
so she asks me to call her so she can locate it. š
A busy day scheduled for today: a 9am breakfast with Glenn
in a new (for us at least) restaurant, pay the 1st of the month
bills in Viva Envigado, and a 1:30 appointment with Dr. CastaƱo in El Tesoro.
I left the apt at 8:45 and met Glenn outside Bodega
Cocina in the Centro Ejecutivo La Casona, the same strip mall where Envios
Market resides. This restaurant is more like a closet than the usual garage.
Glenn introduced me to Andrew, the owner. His was born in Chicago but his
parents moved back to Bogota was he was just 2 years old. Most of his business
is deliveries of items like bacon, sausage and ribs.
We each had a couple fried eggs with bacon. The coffee was
self-serve from an urn on a cart against the wall.
This is the order of things as I remember it, the
significance will become clear shortly:
We started with coffee for each of us. We both placed our food
order while seated at the table. Glenn then went to buy a bottle of water and I
refilled my coffee. After we finished eating he was looking at an order sheet
and asked if I had a pen. I turned to my right and my fanny pack and tech bag
had fallen off the chair. Then I noticed it was Glenn’s (he has a backpack),
not mine. I got my pen out of my fanny pack from the chair on my left. He
ticked off a number of items he wanted to have delivered. We left, he headed
north and I walked across the street and soon was on a taxi to Viva Envigado.
I paid the apt rent, my health insurance, and our gym
membership for the month and made an ATM withdrawal.
Glenn texted me that he returned to his apt and his iPad was
not in his backpack. Could someone have stolen it during the 20 seconds I was
getting a coffee refill? He texted me about 30 minutes later that it had fallen
out of his backpack and Andrew found it under the table. Whew, I was afraid I
was going to owe him for a new iPad.
I bought Blancox (bleach) and a package of granola in Exito
and returned to the apt by taxi. I dropped off my groceries and ordered a Didi
to El Tesoro.
I arrived at 1pm for my 1:40pm appointment. I went straight
to the doctor’s office to see if they were on time for appointments but found
it closed. I sat in the general waiting area until 1:30. I went back to the
office and both seats were taken so I confirmed my appointment and returned to
the general waiting area. When I saw the two men who were seated leave, I moved
back to the doctor’s waiting room. I talked briefly with another gringo, from
Miami, who was there for the first time. Inside, I showed Dr. CastaƱo my PSA
result of 0.02. Remember my previous results were <0.01 but he said the
difference is insignificant. After I explained my current situation he did an
echogram (I think that’s what it's called) on my belly, gave me the cough test and
declared me no longer incontinent. (I think that may come soon but I still leak
a bit.) I mentioned my daughter is getting married in Athens, Greece on
September 5th and he said he’s going to be there next month for a
medical conference. My next appointment will be just after my next PSA test in
6 months.
The secretary gave me an appointment for Tuesday, November 7th
at 2pm and the visit was 340mil.
I went down to Natto Bowls and had their Thai bowl and
a bottle of water for 44,578 ($10) including 10% tip.
I went back up a level to Valentina Bakery where I had
a pistachio croissant with a latte for 30,800 ($6.50) including tip.
I returned to the apt by taxi. No sooner had I arrived but
Teresa texted and asked me to meet her in Viva Envigado. I had a Didi take me
there and found her with MT at Dunkin Donuts. They soon made a trip to
the restroom. I had noticed something dark on the floor next to their display
case but just thought it was some spilled chocolate. A salesgirl went to pick
it up but visibly reacted when she saw it so I thought maybe it was dog poop.
She went back behind the counter and brought back a piece of cardboard and
scooped it up and dumped it in the decorative plants. When the ladies returned
from the restroom, I took a look and saw this:
About 7pm I suggested we get something to eat. We went up to
the 3rd floor and Teresa led the way to the food court and Vin
& Gretta. They had a lot of stuff I don’t like so I ordered their Cesar
salad and they each got some type of salad and with a bottle of water and the
total came to 114,600 ($25), a little expensive for fast food salads. I wasn’t
very hungry so I didn’t come close to finishing mine and we got the rest to go.
We stopped in Exito because Teresa has been meaning to
buy a new mop handle but they didn’t have any. I guided them the back way
through the parking garage to Home Center but they had already closed.
We returned to the apt by taxi, dropping MT off on the way.
tRump’s Arrest
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