First I want to say, my favorite coffee filter to use in my little Vietnamese "phinn" coffee maker is ... a piece of paper towel. It works great. Basically 1/16 of a regular size paper towel, or 1/8 of the half-size ones I use. It filters fast, doesn't impart any flavor of its own of course, doesn't let any grounds through, and it even leaves less grounds to wash out when I toss out the used grounds. There's a little sediment left but it's fine, and fine with em. Once you've had coffee in Barcelona, where you learn not to go for that last swallow because you'll get a mouthful of grounds, all else is relative.
I was up until past 8AM packing and listing stuff, and also started up another brew, which is bubbling along happily.
I woke up around 3, so I had time for coffee and nuts and vitamins and to get feeling awake, and packed up a big load on the bike trailer. I have a box that some super-duper gaming system (I think) computer came in, and it was perfect to put all the smaller boxes in, and that went on two of the two big boxes. It was a pretty impressive stack of stuff.
The drop-offs went fine, and I picked up some won bok from behind H Mart, a lot of small boxes from the electrical supply, and a watermelon from the dumpster by Grill-'Em.
I dropped that stuff off, then did a trash and organic trash run. Trash went into a dumpster and organic stuff went into the blackberry patch. Since I'm scrounging much of my veggies I throw away a fair amount, then with making brews, I'm ending up with even more. Throwing this stuff under the trees here would only get me in trouble, probably, but it disappears into the blackberry patch and may result in a better crop next year.
I'd been thinking back and forth about whether to go downtown and knock off some errands as well as pick up my latest Amazon things, and arguing for it was the fact that the air was really nice and cool and clean, with smoke to the East and West but not right here. It's supposed to get worse over the weekend. Arguing against it was the fact that it was already almost 8, downtown's not the nicest place to be after dark probably these days, and I was tired from such a long night last night.
So instead I went up to the gas station on 1st and got a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada and a beef stick, then to be different I rode over to the other place that I've gone by 100s of times but only been in once, years ago, and got some pork rinds. I had $3 cash for those and the lady really wanted exact change which I didn't have so I guess I won "the change game" because I got change back.
By this time it really was getting dark. I took a quick circle around the Bay 101 casino, which is empty so it was kind of eerie, then rode back here and zoned out for a bit having beer and snacks.
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