Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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

So far, it’s an overcast morning so I don’t know what to expect this afternoon – sun or rain. I finally decided to wear pants and a t-shirt but no jacket. (In hindsight better would have been the opposite – shorts, sleeveless t-shirt and a jacket.) I ordered a Didi (my driver’s name was Disney) and arrived 10 minutes late to Unicentro. We had breakfast in Parmessano before moving to the food court.

Well, that was embarrassing. I lost 2 games in less than 2 hours. The first game in 15 moves and the 2^nd in 24 moves.

When we finished, it was only 10:50am. My backup plan, should we finish early, was to have lunch in Italian American Grill, but that won’t work today because they don’t open until noon.

I ordered a Didi to take me to Viva Envigado for 18,000 pesos. I made an ATM withdrawal then stopped in Exito and paid the epm (utility) bill. I went upstairs to Santa Leña where I had this strange egg sandwich with bread twice as thick as usual. I definitely needed a knife and fork for this one.

I went down to Urbania where I had a latte for a couple hours.

I stopped in Exito and bought a new 20-pack of pads for 55,000 pesos before returning to the apt by taxi.

Someone on Facebook reported that as of today, McDonald’s now sells apple pies.

Teresa had a massage from Kelly from 4:30 to 5:30.

This is Teresa’s workshop when she’s working on a purse or bracelet:

our dining room table.

This is strange. I was balancing my checking account and found a $4.04 credit from Avianca but I have no idea what it’s for. The last time I charged something to Avianca was last December. (Maybe I bought a drink on the plane, charged it, but it was included?)

I checked my Firestick internet speed with my laptop turned off (so as not to interfere with it) and got a download speed of 65.22 Mbps.

I turned on my VPN and set it to the US and tried again to order that chess book from ThriftBooks.com and again received the message, “Unable to process your card. Please check your billing address and try again.” ☹

The day didn’t exactly turn sunny but at least we didn’t have any rain.

I watched the Chris Hayes show on MSNBC then read some of my latest book.

 

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