Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, woke up but didn’t get up about 2am, waking/getting up at 6am. One strange thing; sometime during the night I heard someone say, “Terry”, and I said, “Yes”. I opened my eyes but no one was there so I must have dreamt it. 😊

We left the apt at 9am and Elson was our Didi driver. I’ll try to describe him: long black hair, 2 nose rings, a skull ring on one of his fingers (couldn’t identify the other ring), a chain bracelet plus numerous thin plastic bracelets on his left wrist and tattoos covering both arms and hands except his left hand (I guess he hadn’t gotten to that spot yet).

We were twenty minutes early for my appointment so Teresa went to O’Cake because she was hungry. I took a seat in the general waiting area and was finally taken about 30 minutes after my 9:20 scheduled appointment. All my blood test results were good and Dr. Castano did an ultra sound on my abdomen. All is good. The cost was 290mil and my next appointment is Tuesday, May 20^th at 9am.

It was a 10-minute wait for the elevator and I stopped on the 6^th floor at Urogine where I got my blood pressure taken – 136/83. When I asked google if this was a good reading for a 79-year-old man it replied, “No, a blood pressure of 136/83 is not good for a 79-year-old man.” But then it said, “We recommend a systolic blood pressure goal of <140 in patients less than 80 years of age and a systolic pressure of 140-150 in patients 80 years of age or older.” Well, I’m close to 140 systolic and close to 80 so maybe that’s close to acceptable.

I waited for Teresa outside H&M and at noon we went to J&C Delicias for lunch. I had the chicken teriyaki and she had salmon.

I told Teresa about the change in our Avianca flight and she told me she has a massage appointment with Kelly this afternoon at 4:30.

While we were there it started raining and got quite cold. I was so glad I had brought a jacket. It seemed to take forever to catch a waitress to give us our check as we were freezing to death. (Is Bogota going to be cold like this?)

We had lattes (to warm up) and shared a slice of cake upstairs in Valentina’s.

We left at 2:30 and luckily there was no line for a taxi. When we got in, the driver had the A/C on. I asked him to turn it off and he motioned that he needed it for the windshield. I reached over and turned off the A/C and turned on the fan and hit the button for the defroster. We returned to the apt for 18,300 pesos and I gave the driver 20mil and told him to keep the change.

I felt I was in a losing position against octopusmotor (1681) but I managed a draw increasing my rating 1 point to 1626. Now I get the White pieces against him.

ONEIPAMETATO1453 resigned our game increasing my rating to 1630. My rating has never been this high before, now we’ll see if I can keep it over 1600.

 

JUST FUNNY