I was up, though not as early as I'd have liked, at about 3. After coffee and chocolate and nuts etc I was out the door at 4:20 (lol) and first dashed over to the post office and sent off Ebay packages.
Next was Dai Thanh where I got a bunch of stuff, including more salt and cardamom seed to be more in proportion to the black pepper I have for making biltong. I've wanted to for years.
After that I went to Whole Foods and parked the bike. I walked up to the hardware store and got another gallon of Simple Green (they'd restocked too) and a package of cheap bristle paint brushes that I find useful around here, worked out to $1 a brush.
I put the Simple Green and brushes in the bike bag and cleaned up and masked up and got into the line. More things are gone, and among other things I got a couple cans of psyllium fiber because a shelter diet is famous for giving a person constipation. There were two cans left of my favorite sardines, and I got a couple of the same brand in this weird lemon flavor that I've always thought must taste awful, but I also know that in a hard bunker-down situation, any variety will be welcome. It's the same reason I got 3 kinds of different dry beans at Dai Thanh.
At the checkout the kid said something about "one item" but he checked my things through, but this is a foreshadowing of when it may be one each of any item. It's getting tougher out there.
I'd spent about $140 today, but each buying trip like this buys me at least another week of hunker-in-the-bunker time.
And now I hear Whole Foods workers are striking tomorrow. I guess it's a good time I got in there today.
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