Before going to bed, I packed a thing that absolutely had to go in the mail today, so that even if I woke up too late to do any other packing, I could grab it and get it to the post office. But I actually woke up somewhere in there between noon and 1, and was able to pack all the things that had to go "within 24 hours" and the one we'd promised the buyer would go out today.
I loaded everything on the bike trailer (one package was over 40lbs being a big roll of coaxial cable) and left here at 5. My left ankle is still bothering me. It's not the Achilles tendon, but something that steadies the ankle side to side, which bike riding takes more of than I thought. I have to pedal with my foot arches centered on the pedals rather than the balls of the feet, and it works OK as long as I'm not trying for any real speed or acceleration. Just poop along and make sure I do any hard pushing with my right leg, and I'm OK.
It was grey and windy out there and not all that warm. I was able to get out and back with a minimum of fuss, although there are more cars on the road now. Since I had the trailer, I checked my usual places for boxes etc., and I saw a box of junk being left out in back of one place, and actually said aloud, "Holy shit, is that a mass-flow controller?" It was, along with a bunch of other interesting stuff, about 50 lbs worth, so I loaded that onto the trailer and got back here. I unloaded my treasure and cooked up some scrambled eggs with green onions and the sort of half-serving of that beef I'd cut up last night, after weighing out 5, 4-oz portions. At least it tastes good.
I'd been pretty hungry out riding around, and stopped in at this falafel place I'd been to before the shutdown, but their prices have gone up so that a plate, instead of being about $10, is almost $15 now. I looked at the time and said something like "Oh! I have time; I'll come back" and left. The reason for the rise in prices is something I read about on Reddit. Delivery services are charging the restaurants, so the restaurants, to make the same money, have to raise the prices.
The new conditions have me swearing off restaurants which at least in theory should be good for me financially as well as nutritionally.
After eating I got out the $80 I'd squirreled away the other day, which turned out to actually be $60, and rode up to H Mart. Besides the usual things to buy, I wanted to buy just a bit of drinking alcohol. I felt like crap yesterday, and a bit crappy today, with phlegm in my nose and throat, a slight sore throat, and just feeling "blah". But yesterday, feeling shaky and my temperature going up and down, I thought maybe I needed a little alcohol to taper off, and so I'd had a little in a cup of iced coffee and then what was left at bedtime. This is why I picked up a little 200ml bottle of Chinese 112 proof white liquor, so have a little if I felt myself getting hot and cold and having tremors etc. But so far I've not felt that today/tonight. So I wonder if I'm fighting off some sort of a "bug" that was making me feel hot and cold and shaky. I note that drinking alcohol didn't really make me feel any better while when I was in trouble with alcohol and felt shaky, a drink would make me feel better very fast.
I noticed H Mart did have a package of the beef ribs I like to buy, but I have to buy almost $40 worth at once. It does keep pretty well, frozen. If I'm not "cheating" by eating restaurant food, buying beef, fish, etc and freezing it and using it every day, I don't have the problem of it getting too old.
I saw a few bums but there were no bum interactions. There was a guy out begging at one of the busy intersections, and scavengers are ever-present, but at least no one hollered at me for a cigarette.
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