Last night I went to bed at 10pm, waking/getting up at 6am and it’s raining. Did I sleep through the night? I don’t remember getting up.
The rain stopped by 7am so we’ll see if the skies clear or
not.
The skies were pretty clear when I left the apt at 9am. I
met Marcos at Tostao where we had small café con leches. Marcos is 73
years old and he complained about the dog he’s sharing with his kids who live in
Sabaneta. He said he has to walk it 5-6 times a day so it can pee and poop, also
it pulls him when they are walking. I told him about how dogs pee a little to
mark their territory so maybe it doesn’t have to be walked so often. I
suggested he hire a dog walker – he said they only cost something like 50mil a
month. I also suggested he check the internet and see if an 18-month-old dog
can still be trained to heel then he could pay someone to train it. He'll be
taking the dog to the groomer soon so he’ll ask them for references.
He left at 10am and I moved to Peccato where I had a
latte for 8mil while working on a couple chess puzzles.
I’m hooked on Jimmy Buffett’s song Margaritaville, playing
it all the time on my iPod and trying to memorize the words.
I’ve recorded the specifications for my 5-year-old notebook
computer as I’m looking for a laptop already installed with Windows 11. I don’t
like my notebook keyboard as it’s mushy for typing. I’m also going to need 1
terabyte of SSD storage as my two current internal drives are about 80% full at
600GB. I’ll then gift this notebook to
Alejandro. If I find one online I can send it to my brother to pick up later or
maybe I’ll just stop in Best Buy when I’m in Chicago.
At noon I had a Didi take me to the clinic Medical on Calle
7 where I found Teresa waiting for me. We had a nice lunch in Boulevard café
for 29,000 pesos each ($7). Teresa went into the doctor’s office while I remained
in the café. She returned about an hour later and reported all is well but she should
change her implants by the end of this year.
We returned to the apt by taxi.
Laura texted Teresa that she missed her flight in Bogota and
the next one is at 5pm.
Teresa made lasagna for tonight when Laura arrives.
Teresa asked me to buy a loaf of pan de maiz (corn bread) in
Eduardo Madrid or Parva. Eduardo Madrid didn’t have it and neither did Parva so
Teresa switched to Pan Aliñado which I later translated to seasoned bread.
I hadn’t been in the area in a while and I now see Na
Pizza has changed their name to NY Pizza.
Back at the apt I took out the garlic spread but Teresa
decided it’s to old to continue using. We bought it years ago in Pricesmart
and would have used it up by now if Teresa would let me know ahead of time when
she making pasta plus I could find the pan de maiz she always insisted we use
for garlic bread. Now I know we have another bread we can use.
We were wondering when Laura would arrive and finally
decided we’d wait until 8pm and if she wasn’t here by then we would start
eating without her. I had just dug into my lasagna when Teresa reported she was
downstairs.
I went down and she said it was 170mil which I gave to Manuel.
I asked Laura why so expensive and she said it was 150mil and she tipped him 20mil
– yeah, with my money.
We finally sat down and had lasagna with bread.
Laura gifted me two t-shirts, one with COLUMBIA on the back.
Teresa wanted to pronounce it COL OO MBIA with a Spanish produced ‘u”. 😊
EL ARROYO
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