Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 3:45 (it was raining), a downpour woke me up at 5:55am, finally getting up just before my 6:30 alarm.

It finally stopped raining around 7am. At 7:25 I started the process of ordering my Didi. I paid 27mil but it ended up traffic was good and I arrived at Unicentro mall 10 minutes before their 8am opening. I took a seat upstairs in Parmessano and I got a little nervous when I hadn’t heard from Jose so I ordered a latte. When he did show he reported he made an ATM withdrawal but waited quite a while for the machine to return his card.

We had breakfast and discussed how Joe Biden could get stage 4 prostate cancer so quickly. I also told him about Acer’s translation earbuds and I’m waiting for them to become available.

We adjourned to the food court and I had the black pieces in the first game. I attacked his bishop with my pawns in front of my king which you’re not supposed to move. I prevented his king from castling then brought in my knights and a bishop to attack his king. He overlooked a couple things and should have quit earlier but finally resigned on move 52.

In the second game he made the same moves he made last week but this time I knew the refutation and he wasted a number of early moves. In the end he resigned on the 44^th move. I won both games from him two weeks in a row, I don’t think that’s happened before.

It was only 1pm but I wasn’t hungry enough to go to Italian American Grill so I took a Didi to Viva Envigado. My driver’s name was Eligio and I had no idea how to pronounce it. When I got in the car he asked my name and I said, “Terry”. To be polite I asked his name and he replied, “Ali, Muhammad Ali’. (He was not black.) I said, then my name is “Michael Jordan”.

He dropped me off at the mall and I had my usual lunch in Pergamino café. I checked their bags of coffee and hey have about 5 different “flavors” at 360gram bags for about 55mil each.

This is what the atrium looks like today, a nice play area for kids:

I made an ATM withdrawal then took the last available seat in Urbania, but at the table used by people working on their computers.

Teresa called to tell me she was having coffee with a friend in Oviedo mall.

I left at 3:30, bought a few things in Exito and returned to the apt by taxi.

Teresa was already back in the apt.

I finished watching Sicario (7.7) on Stremio, watched The Chris Hayes Show on MSNBC, then started my pre-sleep routine.

 

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