Monday, November 10, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets, went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 5am, finally waking/getting up at 6:30.

I made the mistake of not asking Teresa to set out my gym clothes before she went to take a nap. She finally got up at 9:15, I got dressed and walked to the gym. Smartfit was busier than usual and I had to get creative with the order of my routine. I completed 13 minutes on the treadmill but the pulse rate meter wasn’t working but at least I didn’t feel exhausted at the end. A Colombiana spoke to me in English. She lived in New Jersey for a while with her daughter and she has a son in Tampa Bay.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor but had to take a different outside table than usual. I left at 11:15 and returned to the apt.

My daughter has had some intermittent back pain so she got an x-ray and it appears she has a slipped disk in her spinal column. She’s going be having some physical therapy for it.

I left the apt at 2:30, printed a page of chess notes then had a latte in Otra Parte with Teresa possibly joining me later. She didn’t, she was too busy working on her bracelets. I left at 5:30 and returned to the apt.

I watched a couple more episodes of The Diplomat on Netflix.

I finished reading Peter Attia, MD’s book Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity. “If there’s one type of food I would eliminate from everyone’s diet if I could, it would be fructose-sweetened drinks, including both sodas and fruit juices, which deliver too much fructose, too quickly, to a gut and liver that much prefer to process fructose slowly. Just eat fruit and let nature provide the right amount of fiber and water.”

 

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