Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 9:30, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 5am.

I’ll be trying to take a nap later before tomorrow’s 2am pickup to the airport. We’ll see how that goes.

Teresa insists there is a new restaurant somewhere near our gym. I left the apt at 7:45 but I don’t see any new restaurant near Smartfit. I completed my workout having to drastically change the order of my routine.

In Ganso y Castor a waiter quickly took my order for a latte but 30 minutes later I had to go into the kitchen to remind them.

I left at 9:45 and as I entered the porteria the portero Julio handed me a small package – my new power cable.

Back in the apt I first plugged the old power cable into the laptop – no light. I plugged in the new power cable and the light came on so I believe that problem is finally solved.

At 12:30 I took a Didi to Mayorca where I recycled my old Nook e-reader in their electronics cycling bin. I met Teresa upstairs in Crepes & Waffles where she already had a table (allowing me to skip the line outside) and was eating a salad from the salad bar. I had the Cesar salad and the check came to 78,650 pesos ($20.18).

We went downstairs to Medipiel where she bought some type of cream, at a discount, for 69,100 pesos ($17.75).

We went down to the basement level and caught a taxi back to Envigado.

I got out at La Bahia across the street from the mall while she continued on to her crafts class.

Upstairs in the mall I tried to pay the cellphone bills in Claro but something was wrong so Teresa will have to take care of it later.

I went into Jagi and picked up my hat – it’s perfect, exactly as I ordered.

I returned to the apt by taxi and dropped off Teresa’s gym bag.

Jeannie sent me another photo of Annie James:

I left the apt at 4pm and stopped in Gana but there’s still something wrong with paying my Claro bill. I had a chicken sandwich with a glass of water (want to stay away from caffeine for now) in Eduardo Madrid while I waited for Teresa to arrive. I sent a reminder to Carol about my 2am pickup and my son about at 5:30pm pickup in O’Hare. When Teresa arrived she wasn’t hungry so I led her to Gana where she had a conversation with the Gana lady. After a bit she took my money and gave me a receipt and underlined the account number and amount. I think the problem might have been a previous receipt was printed under the wrong number so I need to remember to check that in the future.

Back at the apt, Teresa helped me with the final packing and I put the carry-on by the door.

I set my alarm to 1:30am, took my sleeping pills and we went to bed at 7pm. It took me a while to fall asleep.

 

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