Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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

At 7:20 I started ordering my Didi ride. The driver was only 4 minutes away and traffic was light and the fare was only 16,000 pesos.

This sign over the highway reminds everyone there’s been 8,830 injuries on this road this year.

I arrived 20 minutes early so I walked twice around the mall, adding some steps to my daily total.

I had to wait about 15 minutes in Parmessano for Jose as he had a line outside the bank.

I had my usual 1 slice of French toast with 2 scrambled eggs and a latte for 55,000 pesos.

We moved to the food court and I had the Black pieces for the first game. He quickly got the advantage and I blundered a rook on my 16^th move and resigned.

We didn’t even use an hour for the first game.

I had the White pieces in the second game and again he got the advantage (prevented me from being able to castle my king) but blundered a bishop on his 28^th move. He’s a strong endgame player and I was low on time but he didn’t see my threat and I checkmated him on the 73^rd move.

It was only 1pm as I ordered a Didi to take me to Viva Envigado for 20,400 pesos.

I recorded this “Christmas parade” as I was waiting inside the entrance for my ride.

I stopped first in Pergamino where I had my usual granola with yogurt and berries.

I went down to the banking area where I made a 2,000,000-peso withdrawal. (Capital One only allows me one withdrawal a day and I’m waiting on my new USAA debit card.)

I had a long wait to use a consignacion ATM only to find it not working.

I went down to Urbania and had a latte while checking my cellphone.

I left about 3:30 and stopped at the consignacion ATM outside Exito where I was able to make most of my monthly deposits.

Since I didn’t have anything heavy or unwieldy to carry, I just walked back to the apt (adding a few more steps to my daily total).

I watched Wake up Dead Man (7.4) on Netflix.

I watched the highlights of Sunday’s Bears game.

I heard a few fireworks in the evening.

 

According to my step counter I walked 4,952 steps today which is very good for a Tuesday.

 

FUNNY