My understanding from the emails Ken had forwarded to me is that the inspectors were going to be around the 8th or 9th... and since they'd not been around on the 8th, for sure they'd be here today. And they wanted "accessibility" from 8AM-3PM which roughly matches the first shift (7AM-3:30PM) at most industrial places.
Since I'd been going to bed around 7AM lately, I decided to just stay up. With lots of coffee etc., and I put lots of personal stuff upstairs and made the place look as much as possible like a place someone doesn't live in, and put on my outside, "normal working stiff" clothes on before 8. I also did some Ebay listings, packed things, and as it got to be closer to 3 in the afternoon packed a few more things, and once it was actually a bit after 3, I walked out to the lunch truck and spent $9 on a half-burrito that was full of eggs and I think sausage trimmings with no potatoes (yay!) and two little "boats" of chicken wings.
I walked back here and ate the half-burrito and one serving of chicken wings, and put the other serving in the fridge. I took off for the post office and dealt with the aggressive traffic OK; my bright white "getter stick" is sure handy for visibility among its other uses. I didn't pick up anything, just dropped off the post office stuff (of course the chute jammed on the first few boxes I put in, so I just grabbed a USPS tub and put the rest of the stuff in it and put that on the counter.
Meanwhile I was going back and forth on the phone with Ken about one package, one of those tricky ones I can't seem to mail because everything's in grams and centimeters which is OK except then the system decides it weights 700 oz. or so and I can't cancel the order because it requires signing on with Ebay Italy which I just won't do.... Ken had actually called me to tell me he'd come up with the same idea I'd just thought of while riding, to have him do it "manually" and just print the label.
So I got back here, put the trailer away, got my bucket 'O' organic stuff and blessed the blackberries with it, really got back here for the day, and packed the thing and called Ken who didn't answer, of course so sent the information by email. Then I ate the 2nd batch of chicken wings, drank some, and went to bed.
I got about 4 hours' sleep and got up at 10:20 or so, and since it was a good time to call Ken I did, and told him he could swing by and pick the package up but he was just pulling into his driveway, and I told him to call me back when he's ready to take down the information but ... 30 minutes later he hadn't so I called him. Finally we got his figured out and he'd marked it on Ebay as "shipped" so they won't ding us. This is the kind of annoying stuff I have to deal with all the time. It's just amazing that Ken and I just plain get along. Things can get frustrating but we just work it out. We're like two guys who knew each other since we were kids, working on bikes and stuff.
I just got out my new sketch pad here and it "takes" pencil rather well. I'd been eyeing a pencil lead holder that uses 2mm leads at Michael's but was not sure; didn't I have a couple nice Pentel mechanical pencils already with leads that thick? So I didn't buy it. But when I got back I checked and my beloved Pentels (they're really nice) are 0.9mm so I went ahead and ordered the 2mm one and some leads on Amazon.
The Pentels are "Twist-Erase 0.9" and are actually really nice for doodling especially if you're used to those fine pens people draw manga with. The 2mm stuff I have coming is probably just about right for sketching in this 5.5X8.5 sketch pad I picked out because I'm thinking it might be a standard size for me in that it's big enough for a fairly large sketch but small enough to be easy to carry around with me on the bike.
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