Up at 3:30, had coffee, nuts etc. and finished off the packages I'd set up, and was out the door at 6. Two of the packages were large and going overseas, so I took them around to the loading docks at the post office. That went smoothly.
There was a line to go into FedEx so I parked the bike where I could keep an eye on it, and got in line. Fortunately, one of the workers came out and asked people in line if they were just dropping something off or needed to make copies etc., and I was able to hand the FedEx package to her. I gave her a hearty and genuine "Thank you!". The way things are now, I think it's really important to treasure our fellow workers.
I picked up more interesting medications from the emergency place which throws this stuff out every Wednesday. Couple of AED pads, so that's $10 or $15 on Ebay, some stuff to keep, and made up a box of stuff to offer to Ken.
I got an email from my aunt, so as of now she's still alive.
I sent $20 to Wikipedia so that's my Good Deed For The Day(tm). I should probably kick them $20-$50 a year. I've thought about setting up an account to help add to their content or at least clean up some of the English but haven't felt that strongly about it so far.
Ken came by with a bunch of boxes and wrote out my check and I had the place all clean and vacuumed and pointed out to him all the Motorola radios I'd cleaned last night - they were filthy. I also told him we'd be doing fantastically well to get $20 apiece for them. Oh, well. I'd also soldered up a power connector jig so now it's just plug 'n' play.
Ken hung out and we talked for a LONG time. I told him how it's frustrating, how Ebay keeps finding creative ways to crap out on me, and there was a line at FedEx, and all the little annoyances. And we talked about tons of science-y stuff of course. I told him about how awful Beyond Burgers are, and he vented his disgust about "Country Crock" which is this sort of margarine in a tub. I called it Country Crock of Shit and we laughed over that. I pointed out how in the 1970s it was a mini-Depression so there was this nostalgia for "old times" and tons of things were name Country this and that. (I don't remember being that disgusted with Country Crock actually, it was just another form of margarine to fry eggs in or put on toast. We kids took what we could get.)
After Ken left at midnight I was hungry so I made ... chicken curry. It came out really well considering I'd never made curry before. But I had S&B "Oriental" curry powder on hand, and a bit of tempura batter made a fine thickener.
I did the curry because the chicken I have on hand has ... an unusual taste. Not bad, just a subtle thing. So I thought it might work well in a curry. I think the "boneless chicken thigh" I get at Nijiya might be meant for, or at least often cooked as, yakitori. I've watched a ton of videos on yakitori on YouTube over the past week and I don't think I want to do something that can get smoky like that around here. But I did search and found the one yakitori place in this whole area, and it's just up the street. So maybe I'll get some take-out yakitori from them sometime.
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