Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 11pm, got up once during the night to pee and retrieve my charged cellphone, waking/getting up at 6:15 just before my 6:30am alarm.

My legs still feel fine from Sunday’s long uphill hike.

I took a Didi to Unicentro mall for 17,900 pesos. (I’m starting to realize I can judge how bad the traffic is by how much they want to charge me for a ride. About 20mil is pretty normal, above that is slower and under that is faster.)

I met Jose in Santa Leña and we each had the 3 pieces of French toast even though we both thought 2 pieces would be sufficient. I suggested next time one of us order the 1 piece and the other the 3 piece and we just move one piece to the other’s plate.

I had the Black pieces in the first game and he got an attack but with one pawn move I threatened checkmate and he had to sacrifice a rook for a pawn and it was an easy win for me after that. 😊

I had the White pieces in the second game and was winning in the endgame but misplayed it and ended up losing. ☹ What frosts me is I was ahead on time so why was I in a hurry?

It was exactly 2pm when we finished.

I stopped at the Exito kiosk to pay my Movistar bill but the girl was out to lunch. (Jose warned me that she’s usually out to lunch from 2pm to 3pm.)

I returned to Viva Envigado in fairly heavy traffic for 21,000 pesos.

I had my usual granola and yogurt lunch in Pergamino. Down in the banking area I put 80,000 pesos in Rob’s account for Medellin TV. I was having a latte in Urbania when Teresa called and asked me to pick up some green apples for her in Ara.

I left at 4:30 and took a taxi to Ara where I purchased a bag of milk for me and 5 green apples for Teresa.

I dropped everything off at the apt and walked to the Gana office where I paid the Movistar bill of 64,393 pesos. I stopped in Eduardo Madrid and they had fresh bagels 😊. I bought a sleeve of 6 sesame seed bagels and a slice of carrot cake for us to share later and returned to the apt.

Kelly showed up at 6:15 to give Teresa a massage.

The portero stopped by and dropped off our epm bill of 389,287 pesos ($99).

I watched another episode of Hostage on Stremio, watched some news on IPTV, then started my pre sleep routine.

 

FUNNY