Thursday, June 18, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 11:15, fell asleep quickly, a trip to the bathroom at 2am (it was raining), fell back asleep quickly, finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

According to my Fitbit, I got in 2,458 steps yesterday and last night I slept for 6 hours and 28 minutes for a sleep score of 77.

I left the apt at 9:15 and met Marcos at Tostao. I asked him about the $2800 for cremation and shipping the ashes to Florida and he thought that was reasonable. The $20,000 he quoted earlier, besides shipping the body ($6000), included burial.

Chris Cajoleas came by and we chatted briefly. He’s seen all but 4 of the World Cup matches thus far, probably all at Barrio Sur. He still can’t raise his right arm so he won’t be playing tejo for awhile.

Marcos got a call from Johana, she was at the bank and was missing some information so Marcos had to leave early.

I left at 10:30 and stopped in Ara for some apples, but they were out of the lettuce Teresa prefers, before returning to the apt.

I left the apt at 2pm, printed some chess notes at the Bancolombia kiosk then had a latte in Los Porteños.  I left there at 4pm and picked up a package in the porteria on my way back to the apt. It contained Teresa’s clasps for making bracelets.

I ordered some chess books, 50 Mistakes You Should Know: Valuable Lessons for Every Chess Player from New in Chess and The Step Method, Workbooks #3-5 from Amazon. The later were recommended by my chess course and all had to be sent to my ship forwarder in Florida.

I checked statistics on my games vs Jose and I have a winning percentage of 42.5% with the White pieces and 36.4% with the Black pieces. ☹

I checkmated mekael965 in 21 moves, increasing my rating to 1494.

Aargh, I forgot to pay Innovation Corp to have my Fitbit band forwarded on from Bogota. Tomorrow!

I watched Canada defeat Qatar 6-0 on Telemundo.

 

RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!

 

FUNNY