The day before Juneteenth

I woke up around 2, and had had been so tired when I'd gone to bed that I even had a sink full of dirty dishes waiting for me. I had my coffee etc. then washed the dishes, futzed around on Ebay etc., then had a couple of hard-boiled eggs and cleaned up one of my scrounged cucumbers and had cucumber slices too.

I got going at 4:45. I stopped off in J-town to drop off trash, neatened up the blessing box on 6th because I was going right by there, but didn't have anything to drop off right now. I went over to 5th and stopped at the blessing box there, and decided to take home the most homely-looking of the books, "A Long Way Gone" by Ismail Beah, who was a child soldier in Africa. It's missing the dust jacket and a few of the last pages are torn out, but those are references not the story.

Then I rode over to the protesters at City Hall and gave them a bag of rolls of sign vinyl, telling them "I have a steady source of this, get it to the artists they'll know what to do with it" and they were very thankful. They had snacks and water and lots of various sized and shaped rolls of bread and offered me some but I said I'm OK.

Then I rode over to my bank and deposited my check in the ATM. Ken had given me $350 this time so that's nice. So I'm $80 up from last week.

Then I rode over to Lee's, and got a chicken on rice plate lunch, a bottle of water, and another of their masks. So far I like theirs the best by far. I used my card and it shows choices for how much to tip, so I added a 20% tip and that all amounted to a little over $14.

I had another picnic under the pepper tree, and had a fun time watching the ants wrestle with grains of rice I'd dropped.

Then I rode over to Whole Foods, to get cream for coffee but also looked around which resulted in my buying a $10 bag of pistachios and a $26 piece of tri-tip that was on sale for $10.99 a pound and I think because it has a fair amount of fat in it. Then I just rode back home. I was hoping the dumpster on 10th would have some of those long string beans because they go well with beef, but there was nothing in there at all.

I rode back, contemplating what I'd seen. More than average shirtless crazies, and crazies in general. Lots of bicycles; just tons of people out riding. And again I'm glad I deposited my check today, Thursday, instead of tomorrow, Friday, because tomorrow's Juneteenth and who knows how rowdy it might get downtown.

I put things away, relaxed a bit, got a decent practice in, had salmon on veggies for dinner, cut up and packaged 10 servings of that tri tip I'd bought from Whole Foods, did a load of laundry, and got cleaned up because I was getting kind of smelly. What I didn't do was any packing so I'll have to bet on waking up early enough tomorrow to do a meaningful amount of that.