Friday, December 6, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, slept through the night, finally waking/getting up at 5:30.

DAZN on my television still doesn’t work, in fact now it doesn’t allow me to enter. When I enter DAZN on my computer I get a “403 ERROR” so something’s going on.

I left the apt at 7:30 and found Smartfit a little busier than usual. I stopped at the Chess Press machine and the guy sitting there said, “uno mas”. I said, “solo necesito uno” then I switched to English and said, “where are you from?” and he said, “England”. I replied, “then why are we speaking Spanish?”. His name is Michael, he’s from England and he’s been in Envigado for a year. I completed my workout and was having a latte in Ganso y Castor when Micahel came by. We discussed his visa situation: he may need to leave December 25^th and come back on January 1^st when the clock for his visitor stamp would start anew. He’s currently  renting a room for $300 a month in an apt over the parking lot across the street from the entrance to the park.

He left and I was replacing peanuts in the tree when I encountered a squirrel sitting in front of me with a peanut in his mouth. I showed him another peanut I had but he just scurried off. I put the other peanut in the tree and returned to our apt.

I received the following message from our hotel in Bogota, “Good Morning, the changes of your reservation must be made directly through the Booking platform.”

I went to Booking.com and tried adding Dec. 11^th and was told, “Your new dates are not available. Try other dates if you’re flexible or contact the property.” So I sent an email reply back to the hotel. I think I’m going to have to book another hotel for the 11^th.

The instructions (after I translated them to English) from 2 ½ years ago say I need to bring Teresa’s DS-160 Confirmation Page to the Dec. 11^th appointment which I finally found at the bottom of my desk drawer. 😊

We left the apt at 2:45 and walked to Teresa’s pedicure appointment across the street from Otra Parte and a block down. She was complaining about how the sandals were cutting into her feet so I went to the pharmacy across from Smartfit to buy bandaids. I asked for “curas” and the girl had no idea what I was talking about. I checked my translator and she finally understood when I asked for “curitas”. 😊 I returned to the beauty shop and handed Teresa 2 Band-Aids. I went next door to a small café and had a café con leche. From the looks of their little coffee machine I didn’t trust them to make a decent latte.

I saw this article online connecting tinnitus (which I’ve had for years) with sleep.

Maybe that's why my eyes are so tired every day.

Teresa arrived about an hour and fifteen minutes later. She had a Coke Zero and a couple of pastries. It rained for about 10 minutes while we were there. We left about 5pm and returned to the apt.

I finished watching the old version of Midway then switched to the news.

 

JUST FUNNY