Up at 7:30. I'd gone to bed at midnight last night. This is perfect because I want to be able to stay up until midnight because when Ken's over he's generally here until then. And I want to be up early enough to get my work done in the daytime.
I took my temperature after putting my bedding away and doing some exercises, and it was 97.9. I'd had 450ml of sake last night which wasn't good. I'd have fallen asleep just as well on 300ml. At least I slept through the night without getting up midway to use the bathroom.
What sake I'm drinking now is nothing compared to the onslaught of the vodka I was drinking. I was going through two "handles" a week and some math reveals that's 500ml a day. Of vodka. Plus any beer I might have had during the day. And my nice fizzy Alka-Seltzer morning drink was probably masking the bad effects. When I ran out of Alka-Seltzer is when I really crashed.
This is the last day of the days getting shorter. Tomorrow's the winter solstice; the shortest day, then the days will start getting longer again. We've made it this far.
By noon I had cleaned up a bit, caught the temple's 10:10 service on livestream, done a load of laundry, and had some scrambled eggs to add to the natto and almonds I'd broken my fast with.
The air quality is "orange" at a bit over 100 but I've got to go out there.
I left at half after noon, and went right over to Dai Thanh downtown for things like dried squid and shallots and a new cutting board, then decided I wanted to have a slice of pizza from Pizza My Heart so I went over there and got a slice of "Big Sur" - they've changed the recipe a bit. I went over to the park where the kids skateboard and a dude was doing neat tricks on a bike, and sat on a bench and ate. "Big Sur" used to have artichoke on it but that's gone and there were a couple little pieces of pineapple. Those got tossed in the grass. It was good pizza though, and it was fun watching the guy on the bike - he'd do this thing where he'd stand on top of the bike with one foot on the seat and one on the handlebars and cruise around just forever that way. The big security guard dude came over and sat near me on the bench (there was a divider inbetween) and I made a bit of small talk with him.
Pizza done with, I went to the Amazon Hub and picked up my latest book purchase, The Will To Meaning by Viktor Frankl, and about 6 bubble mailers.
The next stop was Nijiya, but first I noticed Kogura's was open, and went in there to see if they had "ojuzu" or Buddhist bead bracelets and they did, so I went over to Nijiya and did my shopping and got $20 cash back then went back over to Kogura's and picked one out, and looked through the rest of the store - they have neat stuff including a nice assortment of MAC knives. I told them how when I was a kid my mom had a MAC knife and it was her "special" knife not to be used by kids to cut any old thing ... we had a chuckle over that.
Next stop was ... back here. I'd gotten a "school lunch bento" even though I'd just had pizza but I guess I just wanted to eat a lot today and had no problem finishing the bento, which was good.
I'd gotten back here at 3 so although I felt like I'd done a lot of stuff I'd only been out 2-1/2 hours. It was nice being out in the sun. This business of being a night-owl, that I was for so long, was just not good.
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