Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 10pm, waking/getting up at 5:30.

After breakfast I took a nap for an hour but didn’t sleep until the last few minutes.

When I went to put ice in my thermos the ice maker wouldn’t deposit ice. I forgot to deice it in December. ☹ Well, I’ll be doing that tonight so I took out the refrigerator manual to remind me.

I left at 8:45 for Smartfit and just before crossing the street a man comes up to me and asks me, in Spanish of course, where is Clinica Las Americas. In Spanish I told him I’m a gringo but continue straight ahead for one block and it’s at the stoplight. 😊

I found the gym as busy as usual but it seemed to lessen around 9am. I saw Stacey come in for his 9am workout.

I’ve heard one young trainer there say “bye” so between machines I asked her if she spoke English. She told me just a few words like “good morning’ and “bye”. Well, that’s a start. After a few minutes she came over and asked me some questions like where am I from and what parts of Colombia have I visited. I completed my workout including 18 minutes on the treadmill, finishing with a heart rate of 131bpm.

I walked over to Ganso y Castor and had a latte for about 90 minutes, enjoying people watching with the music from the overhead speaker. Teresa called and asked me to pick up a head of broccoli in Ara on my way back to the apt. Finally, my new Capital One debit card arrived to my ship forwarder in Miami. I won’t get into all the challenges I’ve had getting that to happen. I contacted the lady in Bogota and asked her to release everything from my locker. By the time I left the peanut was still in the crook of the tree. ☹

I stopped in Ara but they didn’t have any broccoli.

Teresa wants to go to Santafe mall because she needs something from Medipiel. I also need more skin cream from them and I need a new swimsuit.

After lunch she needed to rest a bit.

I was about to post something I found from Bob Burford when I lost the cursor on my computer. I thought I had more AA batteries but I couldn’t find any in the usual spots.

I went to get ice for my glass of water but no ice would come out. I checked and I should have deiced it back on December first but I forgot.

Finally about 3:30 Teresaa thought it was going to rain soon and decided we weren’t going to Santafe so I left the apt, bought a pack of AA batteries at the little store next to Asados Rogelio, paid the Movistar bill in Gana and stopped for coffee at Los Porteños. I understand they no longer have the large tin cups of coffee only a smaller size. Anyway, today the coffee didn’t taste as good as previously.

About 4pm it started raining, soon became a downpour and I moved inside where it was dryer. The rain finally stopped by 5:15 and I returned to the apt.

I heard about ICE murdering a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis trying to escape in her car so I watched the news the rest of the evening. We’ve got incompetent amateurs running the US federal government.

Just before I went to bed, I turned off the ice maker, dumped the ice in the container and cleaned the ice chute.

My step count total for today was 5,644 steps.

 

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