Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up twice during the night, woke up at 5:45 and immediately got a cramp in my right calf ☹, then relaxed until getting up at 6:45.
Today is Good Friday!
According to my Fitbit, I got in 2,717 steps yesterday and
last night I slept for 5 hours and 19 minutes.
Teresa informed me she’d like to have lunch today in El
Tesoro mall.
I left the apt at 8:45 and timed my walk to Smartfit - exactly
5 minutes unless there is a holdup crossing Avenida Poblado. The first floor of
the gym was almost empty; I counted a dozen people mostly men. The Abdominal
Crunch machine no longer had the sign on it but it still wasn’t repaired. I
completed 21 minutes on the treadmill with a final heartrate of 126bpm. It’s
become obvious the limiting factor are my lower legs not my heart.
I had a latte in Ganso y Castor for about 90 minutes.
The past week or so I’ve been going across the walkway and buying a ripe banana
for 1mil to increase my potassium.
I stopped in a not very busy Ara and bought a bag of
milk before returning to the apt.
I’ve squeezed out most of the juice for my tea from my
dried-out lemon, now I’ve cut it up into small pieces and keep them in a jar in
the fridge. It only takes a very small piece to give me the lemon taste I want
and the piece can even be reused. 😊
Change in plans. Teresa now wants to have lunch in Otra Parte,
I’m guessing because it’s closer. We left the apt at 1pm but found Otra
Parte closed for the holiday. I mentioned Salpi Jugos is next door
but on the way there she stopped and said it’s closed. (I don’t know how she
knew as we weren’t quite there yet.) we turned around and walked a block the
other direction and across the street to Picositas which I think of more
of as a small bakery than a restaurant. Teresa ordered some type of casserole
and I a chicken sandwich and we each had a juice for a total of about 110,000
pesos. My sandwich was barely warm and covered with cheese so obviously its not
meant to be eaten with the hands.
Teresa liked her lunch, me not so much.
On our way to Gardenia for coffee we walked past Salpi
Jugos and it was open!
I had a latte and Teresa a tinto and later she ordered a
yucca waffle with berries and vanilla ice cream
Which were underwhelming.
She worked on a purse while I went from my cellphone, to my
chess book, to my Kindle.
We met a gringo at the next table named Johnathon (sp?) with
his Whippet named Coco. He has an apt he bought in Poblado for his investment
visa and walked here today with his dog. He spoke good Spanish and was able to carry
on a conversation with Teresa. He mentioned he will be in St. Charles (IL) in May
to visit a sister. When Teresa mentioned the purses she makes and sells, he
said it would be easy to set up a website to display her products and accept
payments into her Bancolombia account.
He left and before long it started raining and when it became
a downpour we moved to an inside table.
Finally, about 4:30 the downpour lessened and we returned to
the apt huddling under my umbrella.
I got ChatGPT to work again I just needed to summarize and
copy my long post to a new chat.
It’s time to deice the ice maker but Teresa has stuff in the
utility sink so hopefully tomorrow night.
I watched some news, did my pre-sleep reading and went to
bed at 10pm,
RELEASE ALL THE
EPSTEIN FILES NOW!
FUNNY
