Monday, January 8, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 11pm, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 7am.

Today is a holiday, Epiphany.

I completed my workout in Smartfit between 9am and 10am. Being a holiday I was a little surprised it was as busy as usual. Doing an exercise on the butterfly machine I can feel the bones in my (left) wrist rub together. ☹ The discomfort and weakness also bothers me a little on the chest press, arm curl and shoulder press exercises. I may need to see a doctor for something to relieve the arthritis in my left hand. I increased my treadmill speed to 5.5km/hour for the same 15 minutes. I was shocked (not pleasantly) to find they didn’t have hot water in the showers today. ☹

Laura booked a 2-bedroom apartment in the Playa Cartagena Apartments for February 22^nd to the 27^th for 2,313,007 pesos or $595. We should arrive by noon on the 22^nd and they will arrive early the next morning. So, I owe her 5/9 of 2,313,007 pesos or 1,285,000 pesos that I will probably pay back by paying for some of their meals.

I had a latte in Los Porteños until 11:30 when I returned to the apt.

Teresa just informed me we’re going to Hotel Mariscol in Santafe de Antioqua with the darker side of her family for an overnighter, January 20^th and 21^st. It’s nice they have a car and they invited us.

I had an hour nap after lunch.

I left about 2:30, Eduardo Madrid was closed for the holiday so I continued on to Parva. I was drinking a café con leche when I noticed a row of Poinsettias in the back that were all wilted. I touched the soil and it was dry. I pointed this out to the server who spoke English and he watered them right away.

Troyclough resigned our game on the 42^nd move increasing my rating by 5 points to 1585.

Laura texted she’d like me to transfer the $300 I owe her for the apt to her bank account. I think I did this once before from my USAA account so I’ll check my notes.

I left about 4:30 and found a lot of people hanging out in the park of La Buena Mesa enjoying the weather. The small grocery store closed but I got the last bag of milk in Ara before returning to the apt.

I see from my bank account that I transferred cash to Laura on July 7^th.

That was easy! I logged into my USAA account and transferred $300 into Laura’s account. It should be there in 3-5 days. An email USAA sent me says the money should be there in 2 days.

Teresa showed me a text exchange from Dec. 21^st where Dr. Uribe’s office changed our appointment from tomorrow to Friday, January 12^th at 10:30. Too late to change my meeting for chess with Jose for tomorrow and I’m going to miss my workout on Friday. ☹ I reminded her that if her office calls again to cancel/reschedule our appointments, just to cancel them.

 

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