Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up several times during the night, once with a cramp in my calf so I took a little Epsom salts, finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

After breakfast, Teresa informed me we will be without water from 8am to 4pm. I told her I’ll shower at the gym after my workout.

I booted my computer but it couldn’t find my D: drive. Shit! Luckily, I just backed it up last night so I could always run off my external hard drive. Maybe I did something to accidentally delete the files on it but I can’t imagine doing anything that would cause it to disappear. I rebooted my computer and all was good again.

I checked Google Flights and the flight I’ve been monitoring jumped up to $3723. Yikes! As I said, it’s a good thing we already have our tickets.

I packed my gym bag and at the last minute remembered to pack a towel. Whew! (I did forget to pack deodorant but that can be corrected when I return to the apt.) I had to remind myself of the combination to my padlock. (Interestingly, most of the padlocks I see here are those TSA locks while I’ve got this big clunky padlock.)

I left the apt for the gym at 7:45.

First let me set the scene: Around the corner from our complex is a tree containing what looks like the bottom portion of a plastic milk container which I assume contains food for the birds and/or squirrels.

Today there was a red squirrel with his head inside it looking for food. He didn’t seem to be alarmed by my presence as I took these photos of him.

He even sat in one place long enough that I was able to take this video:

He seemed to be scolding me for my presence so I placed  a peanut in the usual place and continued on to the gym.

At Smartfit I got an error trying to enter through the turnstile. When I stopped at the front desk the girl asked me something about having a doctor’s prescription to be able workout. I told her I have a May appointment with my urologist and do I need to bring some document from him but she said “no” and allowed me to enter so I guess all is okay.

I went up to the 3^rd floor and put my things in a locker. Back downstairs I soon realized I forgot to take out my thermos so after a couple exercises, I went back upstairs and retrieved it.

Back downstairs there was some type of competition going on. One or maybe two girls were doing exercises with a few other girls gathered around while one instructor appeared to be timing her and another appeared to be filming her. I have no idea what that was about.

I completed my workout, took my shower upstairs and left.

I was walking on the sidewalk when I noticed a spot that was wet. (Balconies here have an outlet pipe so when they wash the floor the water can go out the pipe.) I walked around the wet spot and just then the woman on the balcony sprayed her flowers and got me in the back of my neck.

I stopped in Pasteur pharmacy and bought a 10-pack of Zopiclona for about 20mil. (I can’t believe I didn’t buy enough my last time in Todo Drogas.)

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor while noticing a lot of squirrel activity in the trees. I managed to snap this photo just as a squirrel discovered the peanut I had left there.

Then he came back down and searched the area carefully for more food.

I left at 10:30 and returned to the apt.

Teresa returned at noon from her workout in Mayorca’s Smartfit.

We had pasta for lunch.

Terea left at 2:45 for her arts & crafts class. She’s now learning how to make bracelets.

I left at 3pm and had a latte in Eduardo Madrid while waiting for Teresa. (I returned a bag with three plastic containers for them to reuse.) Right at the stroke of 5pm it started raining, pretty hard, and didn’t stop until 5:45. I traded emails with Teresa and she told me she was waiting for the rain to stop. She finally arrived just after 6pm. We had lattes and shared a cheese croissant. We left at 6:45 and returned to the apt.

We have running water again!

We heard some cheers and surmised there’s a soccer match going on.

I watched some news interrupted by buffering.

I have an Amazon Firestick hooked up to my TV and I listed on my JBL headphones. Interestingly when I turn off the TV or just switch to Direct TV (HDMI 3 to HDMI 1) I can still hear the HDMI 3 program on my headphones.

I finished reading Personal (Jack Reacher #19) on my Kindle.

 

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