Up at 1, amazingly. Had coffee and nuts and so on, and got out of here at about 4, with the big box on the bike trailer. The box was significantly longer than the trailer so it was quite a load.
The FedEx place is moved into their new office and it's nice. I went in and asked for a hand truck because "I have a big package" then laughed and said, "There are words I never thought I'd say today, 'I have a biiig package'" getting a laugh out of some customers. Then I went out and got it, and bringing it in said, "'Told you so!" and mentioned it's a big signal generator we'd only gotten $100 for. "That's pretty cheap for a generator" the guy said, and I corrected him "It's a signal generator."
I came right back here but rode a route I haven't taken in a while, through the complex where the FedEx hub and Foxconn etc. I wanted to look again for the "Indian" dumpster which I call that because there's an Indian food wholesale place there and they toss out some interesting stuff. I kept getting dumpsters mixed up and I finally got it right: It's the next one after the FedEx dumpsters.
I stopped at the FedEx dumpster first though, because once in a great while there's something I can use in there. It didn't look like there was, and to be a good citizen I picked up a small Amazon box and tried to put it in the recycle dumpster there that was full of long boxes. Because of my little good citizen move, I noticed those long boxes each contained a 2'X7'X a few inches filler of firm foam. Really useful for packing. I rode off, making plans.
I got back here, dropped off the bike trailer and headed out again for Nijiya in Japantown. I spent about $40 on eggs, beef, broccoli, all sorts of odds and ends, plus what I think of as a "school lunch" bento that has two onigiri, chicken kara-age, tomago, a sausage, broccoli and carrots, two different toppings on the onigiri, and naturally some pickled daikon to eat last. That was only about $6 and an Asahi beer was $2-something more.
I went over to the Issei center to eat, and it was very pleasant and brightly lit, but wow it's getting cold at night. I got really cold sitting there eating, and it took me a while to warm up again on my ride back.
Once I was back I took some rather smelly organic trash (rotting broccoli does not smell good) to the blackberry patch, then got together my cardboard knife with a sharpener, the bike trailer, bungee cords, and took a bag of trash with me too. I dropped off the trash in the "Indian" dumpster where there was room and it'd not stand out, then went to the FedEx dumpster.
My plan had been to cut up the boxes as a favor and I was prepared to be very methodical as I was under the eyes of (probably) a security guard; all I saw was the headlights and who else stayed parked with their lights on for long periods of time?
But as I took each box out, I took some plastic wrap off of it and put that into the non-recycle dumpster, and stacked them neatly as I put the foam pieces on the bike trailer. It all went very smoothly and I didn't have to cut up the boxes to make a neat stack. Soon I was riding off with this big load of the things and it went fine.
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| I need to put the new front tire on so it matches the rear. |
I'll have to bite the bullet and shift my schedule around earlier because it's full-on dark at 6PM now, and it was not only cold but windy. On Old Bayshore I had to avoid a staggering zombie and due to a truck driving by on the road I wasn't able to veer around so I had to simply put a mean expression on my face and ride like I wouldn't mind knocking it down, and it at least didn't lurch at me, just muttered "arghle blarghle" etc zombie stuff. And there were other zombies out there, in the dark, although the rest were avoidable.
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