Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 9:45, fell asleep quickly, got up once at 4:15, took a while to fall back asleep, finally waking at 6am and got up at 7am with Teresa.

According to my Fitbit, I got in 4,454 steps yesterday and last night I slept for 5 hours and 52 minutes. Pretty good!

We left our room at 8:15 and checked out the restaurants in the park for breakfast. Only one seemed to be serving food and Teresa inquired about something and I guess she didn’t like the answer because we left. I led her across the street to Jimaye (sp?) but it wasn’t open. We returned to our hotel and had breakfast there.

I tried something different a Colombian costa (sp?)  coastal breakfast called Mix de Fritos Caribeños

It was okay, nothing I would order again and it confirmed I’m not a fan of yucca.

Innovation Corp contacted me about my package. It will be 107,000 pesos or $25 if I use Paypal.

Had a problem linking my USAA debit card to my Paypal account. Apparently, there’s something Microsoft Edge is auto filling that Paypal doesn’t like. I’ll deal with it later.

They fixed the toilet by the pool but when I flushed it, it kept running. They probably need a new flapper as this one doesn’t seal properly. I’ll tell the owner next time I see her.

We seem to be the only ones staying at the hotel this week so we have the pool to ourselves.

Every day, it seems, a ripe mango falls from the tree into the pool and I retrieve it for us to eat later.

For lunch we shared the same sandwich as yesterday.

Teresa and I both noticed my feet looked swollen. They even felt different, a little warm and swollen. They felt better when I got up and walked around a bit.

Well, another couple is now staying at the hotel. They have a room right off the patio next to the pool.

This week I’ve won 2 games against Chesswiz98 and one against Troyclough, increasing my rating to 1531.

I added another game and Chess.com paired me with a 400 rated player from Portugal named IsaqueG1. (I think the significance of that number is a player that is playing correspondence chess for the first time.) He turned out to be pretty strong (I had my chances) and beat me, increasing his rating by 62 points to 1021 and lowering mine by 14 to 1517. ☹

For supper we went to Jumaye where Teresa had trout and I my usual chicken breast for a total of 88,500 pesos ($25).

We walked down to Tienda D1 where Teresa bought some inexpensive body cream for 13,500 pesos.

She stepped into a tienda de artesenal where she got a business card from an employee as she may be able to sell some purses there.

I looked around for a Bancolombia consignacion ATM but only found a branch office that was closed.

We returned to our room and got ready for bed.

This is the first McDonald’s that opened in Des Plaines, IL. I walked past it twice every workday for a year or two in the early 70s.

 

RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!

 

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