Was up at 2. I feel a bit better, less sniffly and in fact all clear when I woke up. Just a little "stuff" but my throat's not scratchy any more. Of course I could have taken my temperature, but that requires effort, a thing I deplore.
I've been thinking about why I "prep" IE have food and things stored up, so that I can hole up in here for months. If things get as bad as they might, what's the use? The only answer I can come up with is, the preps give me some time. Time to think or to contemplate, choose my own ending or maybe make it through long enough to do my part for the socialist revolution.
I rode over to Nijiya first and got two little bottles of the "Seasoned pepper" (1/3 salt, 1/3 pepper, 1/3 MSG) I like to use so much, some green onions, another thing or two, and a small bento, my favorite, 3 kinds of fish with seaweed on rice. I found a place to sit and eat around the corner and it was pretty nice, with it being calm and quiet and the air so clear. I left some fish bones and skin and some rice under a tree for some critter to find, because it's hard time for them, with so few people leaving scraps around.
Next was the bank, but I decided to try riding down 6th street instead of 5th and found a neat discovery: A "little library" by the Weslayan church with some food and books in it. The books were almost all on learning Russian and I didn't need any of the food, but it was a nice assortment of peanut butter, a cup ramen, peaches in syrup, etc. Now I know another place to drop off books or any donations I might want to.
I went over to my bank's ATM and deposited my check. It was really easy! The ATM couldn't read Ken's messy handwriting for the amount so it just asked me the amount, like "what am I supposed to be seeing here?" and I put in $300.00 and it accepted that (it'll get checked over by a human later no doubt) and it was all just really easy to do. I could have been banking this way for years. My transactions are really, really simple. Just depositing a check each week. I don't even take money out at the bank these days, just getting cash back at various stores. And for printed checks, I can just order some of those online from any of a number of places.
I rode over to Whole Foods and parked the bike and walked up to the hardware store, that had just closed. So I walked further up to CVS and got a big bottle of aspirin, a couple cans of corned beef hash, and a big can of pickled jalapeno peppers with carrots etc which is really good stuff. And a plunger because I want to try the plunger and bucket style of "washing machine".
Whole foods is like a game now, "Like hopscotch, without any hopping, or scotch, which takes a lot of the fun out of it", I observed from behind my mask. The line's inside and zigzags all over around where the buffet stuff used to be. I saw two armed police officers and at least one security guard. I got some sardines and cream for coffee and cal-mag-zinc pills and stuff, and got a $100 bill "nice and new, because it's going to go in a gift card" as I tell them, yeah, the gift card is to myself, it's my cash emergency savings. Now I'm up to $900.
I have to pay taxes in July, so I'm going to have $1000 cash emergency money, what's in the bank is what I'll pay taxes on, and as soon as possible I want to get back out there busking. I feel like I might be able to have a try playing outside Whole Foods again, as long as I'm really neat and clean and tasteful. I have to not be annoying to my captive audience in the line outside, and not tick off the cops.
I re-arranged everything in the bike bags and went over to the Amazon pick up place. It's really calm downtown, with most people being serious about staying in. Plenty of bums out though because if you're a bum, where are you going to go?
It turns out the Amazon place closes at 7 now and I was 10 minutes late. Oh well. I'll have to pick my things up on Friday.
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