I woke up around 2:30, packed some more things, had my iced coffee, and was out the door at 5. The drop-offs went OK except at one intersection where I had to make a hard left turn at the light the long "getter stick" I had with me got tangled up in the bike somehow and fucked up the rear brake so it dragged and I had to pedal really hard against the drag to the post office. At the post office, after dropping off the packages, I tried to figure out what's wrong with the rear brake and could not, so I just unhooked it. I can get by on the front brake only.
It was the usual, picking up both packing materials and veggies here and there. I'm just finishing off the bunch of celery I picked up a couple of days ago - the outer stalks had to be discarded but the inner part was fine and in fact it's some above-average celery.
I got back and put things away, and got set to go out again without the trailer for shopping, but first I took the long 22-inch bolt I had and got out a piece of strapping, and a cut-up bicycle tube I'd prepared, and wrapped a handle onto it, with a wrist strap. Then I took yellow tape and wrapped the whole thing in yellow tape. It looks pretty harmless, yellow with a white strap, so I can carry it when I'm not using the trailer and carrying the much longer "getter stick". This is my "tunker" stick, in case I have to "tunk" someone. But I can explain to a cop that it's a tool of my trade, for reaching things and also to push those walk buttons at intersections. And if a cop says too bad, I can't have it, it's easy to make another.
It honestly took me about 15 minutes to do all this, and I headed out again at 7. H Mart was really busy, and I just went around and got what I was after and the checkout was pretty quick too. I rode back along Rogers Avenue, in keeping with my usual rule of not being predictable (such as, my being observed going one way along a certain road, then returning, so that a potential attacker could lay in wait). Rogers Avenue was pretty clear of bums when it was first resurfaced, but they're now back in force. It's just an endless string of bum camps, mostly set up around this or that broken-down car.
I got back in here and did a bunch of things like put away dried laundry, wash today's mask and hang it up and get out a clean one to wear tomorrow, put packing materials away, yadda yadda. I finally settled down and had a couple of hard-boiled eggs with furikake and Kewpie, and a roasted yellow corvina from H Mart, accompanied by their cheapest beer, "Big Wave Golden Ale".
Yellow corvina's a good fish, but it seems they don't gut them before they roast them, and this particular one had eaten a smaller fish and there was some stomach acid in there. That was weird. I didn't eat those parts of course, but it's the first time I've tasted a fish's stomach acid.
I also put $40 into my cash stash so now I'm back up to $980.
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