Dealing with humans. My Actifit Diary: April 30 2026

Another holiday! Why? Because the president said so. To stimulate the national tourism. It’s a recuperable holiday, meaning that it’s not a paid holiday – at least that. And nobody really cares about that, anyway. Usually it’s just the bigger companies and those that have chosen the complicated SA structure that comply with that. Most businesses are open, and so are we. We’ll still make bread, no matter what. And I’ll make some experiments. The Olive bread was quite good, tomorrow I’ll work on getting the 100% Whole Wheat bread right.

It was market day today, and after that great Tang So Doo (finally learning the name of what I’m doing there…) lesson and a great and inspiring meeting afterwards, I had turned off my alarm. And I still woke up hyper energized at 6am, 15 minutes before the alarm usually goes off. Got up, made coffee, had a few thoughts that I’ll try to put into an more interactive post on the main account, sent a few stock updates to my brother considering the movements of big tech yesterday, and went to work.

The market was amazing, weather amazing, everyone in a good mood. Just one aggressive “ambulant salesman” and one crazy woman that threatened me and others with being killed by the Islamic state. Yeah. We have that here. The ambulant salespeople are generally cool, I always tell them that they can just stand outside at the entrance, that’s public space, but that they can’t be inside the market which is private property (for which everyone selling pays a contribution/rent). But from time to time there are those who tell me that this is Ecuador or South America and since they’re from here and I’m from Europe, they can do whatever they want and I can’t. But being 1,80m, quite pumped after 3 years of gym and on top quite versatile in my martial arts, I just smile and repeat. Smile and repeat. And I follow them. And smile, and repeat. Only 2 times I had to call the police because they were threatening me, but since it’s a small town, I do know the police very well and they show up quickly – by then, the threatener usually left already.

Ellie had free today, so she dropped by after her gym session for some coffee. Both types. That makes the day even better, every time. We went to Ibarra together. Her daughter is in a modelling course, learning how to walk and present and speak and do all that modelling stuff. I’m not a fan, but there are some positives to it. Meanwhile, I was shopping hardcore. 80$ worth of spices and stuff, and 240$ worth of bags of all kinds for the bakery. That should last for a while.

And then another Tang So Doo class in the evening. I was a little late, as the modelling course went on for longer than expected, and I went by myself this time. Since I’m more advanced than Kami, we went into other stuff this time, more technical, more nitty gritty corrections, and it was as awesome. And since it’s a holiday, today is basically Friday, so I’m allowing myself a beer. But I’m also tired, and tomorrow will be a kind-of-work day for me, so I’ll leave it at one. But it tastes really good after a long day, especially in the hot sun in Ibarra.

Wow, long one today. And not many pictures. Sorry! Have a good night!
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Daily Activity, Martial Arts, Walking