Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once during the night, finally getting up at 5:15.

We’re back to the old routine. Teresa will be heading out to Mayorca while I’ll be heading out to Smartfit.

After breakfast I returned to bed and easily slept for an hour.

I left for Smartfit and found it busier than usual. I managed to complete my workout by varying the order of my machines. Daniel came by and challenged me to a game of speed chess. As I was finishing my workout, I saw him walk by with a chess set and head outside. Five minutes later I joined him and he had a small travel chess set but the pieces weren’t weighted and we each knocked them over once. He had a small chess clock that he set to 10 minutes and we played two games and I won both. He wants to play again when I return on Friday.

I moved to Ganso y Castor where I put an acorn in the tree

 and had a latte. I googled whether Colombia has oak trees and was told they do but it appears at lower altitudes. I asked specifically about Medellin and it appears they may only be in Parque Arvi. The squirrel never came for the hour I was there. ☹

I stopped in Eduardo Madrid and ordered 16 English muffins to be picked up tomorrow between 2 and 5 pm.

I returned to the apt but when I stepped in the shower there was no hot water. ☹ I changed the two D batteries but still no hot water. I wonder if there’s something else I need to do but don’t remember. Maybe Teresa moved/changed something while I was gone? (Later I found you have to be sure the batteries are seated properly (push up) in the container.)

I took a Didi to Mayorca and found Teresa in Il Forno at 1pm. She had her usual salmon and I had short pasta with meatballs. (It would have been better with more sauce.) We each had a juice and the total came to 114,941 pesos ($30).

We took escalators down to the basement where we got a taxi back to Envigado. Teresa got out down the steps from her crafts class and I continued on to the apt.

I left the apt just before 5pm and walked to Eduardo Madrid where I had a latte while waiting for Teresa. She showed up at 5:30 and had a spinach quiche and a latte.

We left just before 6pm and returned to the apt.

I watched some news and read some of my Kindle book and went to bed at 9:30.

 

FUNNY