Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, again at 4:15, finally/waking/getting up just before my alarm at 6:15.

Teresa had already left for her gym class.

I left the apt at 7:30 and took a Didi to Unicentro mall for 19,800 pesos. Outside I saw a fruit cart with bananas but I didn’t see anyone working it (later, when I left, the cart was gone). It was only a 5-minute wait for the mall to open.

Upstairs I met Jose and we had our usual breakfast (this time I remembered to bring the maple syrup). We discussed some options since his debit card didn’t arrive to my ship forwarder.

As I left, I noticed a restaurant upstairs named Shake N Shack that I’ll have to check out next time.

We adjourned to the food court where I had the Black pieces in the first game. I thought I held my own until I misanalysed a move and it was downhill from there and I finally resigned on the 48^th move.

It’s nice that most of our games are close.

I had the White pieces in the second game and he quickly blundered a knight but then trapped my queen and I had to give back a piece for a pawn to rescue her. He blundered again on the 25^th move (I forked his rook and queen with my knight) and it was downhill for him and he final resigned on the 36^th move.

It was 1:30 when I ordered a Didi to take me to Viva Envigado for 20,300 pesos.

I considered Sarku’s but it was very busy so I went on to Pergamino where I had my usual granola bowl with yogurt and fruits and an iced tea (didn’t care for it).

I used a consignacion ATM to pay for our health insurance, gym membership and Medellin TV and I withdrew 2 million pesos for the downpayment for MT’s hearing aids.

Downstairs I had a latte in Urbania.

I finally checked my English dictionary and found, “Chelated” is “a chelate compound”. A “chelate complex” is “a complex where a metal ion is bound to two or more atoms of the chelant”. Now we know!

Teresa called just before 4pm to inform me it was pouring outside and I shouldn’t be in any hurry to leave. The lights went out, but less than a minute, four times between 4pm and 4:30.

I finally left Urbania at 5pm and bought 3 bananas, a package of blueberries and a 10-pak of pads in Exito.

The taxi line outside was unbelievably long so it was easier to just walk back to the apt in the light drizzle. I passed Jerry McNamara on the way and he said, “we have to get together for coffee” and I replied, “definitely” and continued on my way.

My social security transfer from Capital One is now in my USAA account.

I watched the first episode of 1923 (8.3) on Netflix.

Teresa confirmed with me that today is the 3^rd. She then told me tonight there will be a lunar eclipse seen from Colombia. I kidded her about it probably being too cloudy and we can’t see much of the sky from our balcony anyway. I then googled it and found out it was last night.

I watched the news the rest of the evening until just before 9pm when I switched to reading.

 

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