Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 12:30am, finally waking/getting up at 5:30am.

After breakfast I went back to bed for a 90-minute nap. When I got up I found we had had a little rain but soon it was just a few raindrops.

I left the apt at 8:45 and walked to the mall in a light drizzle, glad I was in pants, t-shirt and jacket. (When are we going to have summer weather again?) In Auros I had my cedula scanned and copied to my USB drive. I bought a blueberry muffin in Starbucks for 9,500 pesos. (As I had read online, they are back to taking your name again.)

Also, some English on the back of the bag.

I had a latte in Urbania with my muffin while reviewing my Dutch defense book.

I left at 10:45 and bought a couple items in Exito. I looked all over trying, unsuccessfully, to find Mexican salsa although I did come across Hunt’s Diced tomatoes in 3 different locations.

I returned to the apt by taxi.

I sent Movistar’s Paola my contact information but with my cellphone number and I told her someone needs to call me in English or text me via Whatsapp. She replied that she needs contact information for someone she can talk to in Spanish so I gave her Teresa’s name and number. Teresa is giving me lots of pushback about they can only install it in the living room and they can’t make any more holes. We’ve already agreed and discussed this several times but Teresa had to go over it again. I understand right now Paola is checking with Bogota to see if they can put the account in my name. I’m expecting the biggest problem is going to be paying for it. I don’t have a Bancolombia account but why would I need one? I just put cash into their Bancolombia account as I do with our health insurance and Smartfit. Maybe it’s a credit thing, we’ll see.

I left at 2pm and returned a bag of plastic containers to Eduardo Madrid bakery and ordered another 16 English muffins for pickup tomorrow afternoon. I had a latte while completing another 12 chess puzzles.

I received a Facebook post from Bob Burford’s estranged daughter challenging a few things he said that I had posted on my blog. She asked me to delete 2 specific posts (can’t remember the dates) but now I can’t find her post. (I’m far from an expert on FB.)

I left at 4:15 and returned to the apt just after Kelly had arrived to give Teresa a massage.

I watched some news on CNN & MSNBC.

I finished reading Lee Child’s book of crime short stories Safe Enough.

FUNNY