Monday, May 5, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6:30am.

I forgot to mention yesterday, May the 4^th be with You!

The street is very wet so we must have had a lot of rain overnight.

At 8:15 I left for the gym which was not as busy as usual. I forgot to mention yesterday afternoon we heard a couple of loud cheers during our games (not for us). The two Medellin teams, Atletico Nacional and DIM were playing each other which ended in a 1-1 tie. I mention this because maybe a lot of fans were partying last night and slept in late this morning.

I completed my workout as usual. I was on the treadmill when I saw the word “queda” on the Cheyron for Sports Center and was looking it up on my cellphone when my treadmill suddenly stopped. It turned out I let myself wander too far back and the tether triggered the emergency stop. I reset it to finish the last 10 minutes.

If I had to mention one thing about getting older, I would mention my legs seem to get heavier every year.

I had a latte in Ganso y Casto for about 90 minutes.

This is a fairly common bird here with a distinct cry:

This pit bull was hoping to get lucky catching a squirrel but it stayed safely away.

I returned to the apt about 10:30.

I’ve been exercising my little finger when I think of it and now I’m finding it easier to type.

I just completed a speed test from my computer and got 315.98 Mbps download and 435.72 upload.

Teresa returned at noon with a few groceries.

Using my gift card balance I purchased an Amazon Firestick 4K Max to be delivered to my brother’s house with an expected delivery date of Thursday, May 8^th. I’m still trying everything I can to get a better Medellin TV connection.

Teresa had asked me about Carotenemia. I looked it up and you can get it from eating too much of certain things like carrots, papaya or avocado. The irony is almost every lunch she asks me if I want avocado and I always say, “no” but I’m sure she eats a lot of it.

I left the apt at 2pm and today tried this new café (at least new for me) Anamasté Boutique Café:

I had a latte while reviewing my English Opening notes.

The waiter saw my chess notes and came out with a small magnetic chess set, like the one I bought from India, that visitors can use. He also mentioned they have books in English inside for reading. I followed him inside and they had about a dozen books including “1984”. A girl at a nearby table asked me in English where I’m from. We had a little talk: She has an embassy interview later this month. I told her not to be disappointed if she doesn’t get a visa as most young girls don’t, even though she has family in New York. (I didn’t tell her she’s also too cute.) I asked her to tell the waiter I have a book in English to contribute to their library (I’m thinking my Paper Towns by Mike Green) and he said he would gift me a free latte. Sounds like a deal. Now that I have a Kindle with free books and I don’t know if the used book store in Envigado is still open, I can get it off my desk.

While I was there we had a rainstorm come through for about 20 minutes necessitating me to move away from the open wall.

I paid for my latte (about 10,600 pesos) left at 4:30, printed My Medications and Wellness spreadsheet at the copy center, and bought a bag of milk in Ara on the way back to the apt.

I finished watching Hostage and then watched Britain and the Blitz on Netflix.

It was about 8:15 when I noticed the downpour outside. I’m wondering if we’ll ever have hot, dry weather here again.

I went to bed my usual 10pm.

 

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