I venture out a bit

I was awake around noon and up out of bed at 2, and had a bunch of stuff packed for the post office and FedEx.

My "new neighbor" is, I believe, no other than local character "Crazy Chrissy" and when you have "Crazy" before your name as a sort of honorific, you have reached the pinnacle of bum-dom. She's got her two junk cars parked just about directly across from here and is up most of the night doing stupid meth-head stuff like re-arranging a tarp (and never getting it right) for hours on end.

Regardless of Ms. Crackhead, I practiced last night. Someday, some year, busking may come back and I want to be competent.

I left here at about 4 with my boxes and packages, and went first to the post office. They're keeping their hours the same as always. Next stop was FedEx where I was going to drop off my 3 boxes, then leave the bike there while I shopped at H Mart. That is now out of the question - the whole side of the place with the copiers is closed, and I can't keep my bike there. They're also only open for about 3 hours a day, from 3-6, and I think 3-4 on Saturday, and not on Sunday at all.

So I rode over to Nijiya because I thought, well, I'll ride back to the shop and drop off the trailer and then I'll wonder if I should just go to Nijiya instead of back to H Mart, so why not ride on over? A barbershop I used to go to on Hedding is still open but two others near there are closed. Hmm. Over at Nijiya the eggs were all gone, and I got some other things and some cash back, and then stopped by Minato's for that order of tempura I was going to get the other day but didn't because it was too cold and rainy.

So I got my delicious tempura, and got back here and unloaded everything, and ate the tempura; theirs is really good, even better than Suehiro's back in old Honolulu.

I decided I'd do a trash run and go to H Mart after all, so I bagged up my trash and took off, dropped the trash off and locked up the bike (can't lock it with the trailer as it's large and bulky and besides the bums will just steal the trailer) and got a few things. There were two packages of eggs left in the whole store with a limit of one, and I got one. And I got other odds and ends including a tea pot I can use to heat water on my butane stove in case the electricity goes out or I just want to bring the electric bill down for Ken.

I looked a bit for boxes and stuff on the way back but didn't find anything. Things are really quiet and just about all businesses are closed.

I ended up putzing around taking a couple of large pieces of equipment apart for the parts, and that kept me busy until almost 4AM. I put the parts out for the scavengers and at least have some parts to list now. And people continue to buy oddball things (a panel meter, an old catalogue extolling the virtues of iridium, some IC's in a tube, a manual for a now obscure old CPU) so I'll have some things to take with me tomorrow.