I woke up at 8 and had breakfast, washed hair and shaved which I should have done last night, but last night I'd been very sleepy by midnight so I'd just photo'd a dozen things to put on Ebay and then gone to bed.
I headed out just a bit before 10, which is honestly about half an hour earlier than I'd been leaving so it was good. Going out and doing drop-offs in the morning is really growing on me. Traffic wasn't bad at all and it was sunny and peaceful.
After dropping off the last box at FedEx, I rode around the back of the complex to see if anything interesting was being thrown out, and there was a homeless guy with a mop top of frizzy hair, right in one of the dumpsters. "You're all the way in that thing" I observed. He said it was the only way, and he had all kinds of different vegetables dug out. He said "We see you all over here all the time" and I came back with "Delivering packages, that's what I do". That's all I need, I thought, these bums observing me all the time ... but then my gathering packing materials all the time is probably observed too, so they know I'm operating at a different level than them.
On the way back I had pretty good luck finding foam sheet for padding. I got a decent load of it from Sanmina and the cross-fit place.
I looped around out to Old Bayshore and while the El Tres Reyes food truck had a line as usual, there was another truck right out on the side of the road with no line, and I paid $4 for some chicken wings. I got back in here and ate them, and they were the best lunch-truck chicken wings I've had.
After my wings and a little time to give out feedback and relax, I headed for downtown at 12:30 or so. As I got near Santo Market I decided I'd not had boiled peanuts in a while and I really wanted some. But as I pulled in there, there was a bit of a scrum of people waiting for stuff so I rode on.
I remembered that DaKao has them also, and they're right around the corner from Dai Thanh. So I parked the bike at Dai Thanh and got a big bag of raw peanuts and a couple of merlitons and $10 cash back. Then I walked around the block to DaKao and sure enough they had a couple bags of boiled peanuts there. The last time, I'd come late in the day and some other guy got the last bag. They were only $2.25 too.
I remember the first time I had boiled peanuts. It was when we were living in Waikane, and I walked up to Coral Kingdom, that lovely tourist trap, to look around or something. There was a tiny stand set up with a guy selling boiled peanuts. That was the weirdest thing I'd ever heard of, and the guy gave me some for free. They were good! I don't remember if I bought a bag that day or later, because I was a pretty broke kid. But since then I've loved boiled peanuts.
I took my precious boiled peanuts over to the park by the art museum and I wanted to sit in the sun but none of the benches were in the sun. So I set up at the base of this art statute in front of the museum. It was really dead, with hardly anyone walking around. But I had my bake in the sun and my boiled peanuts.
It was time to head for home and I stopped at Nijiya and got all kinds of things from sake to eggs to you-name-it, to the tune of just under $50. The thing is I'm going to be shut in until Sunday because rain's coming in plus there's Christmas which means almost everything will be closed anyway.
On the way back, loaded with groceries, I stopped at the lunch truck that parks out in front of the complex here and got a sort of sausage and egg sandwich for $2. The lady wished me something about "Crisman" and "Happy New Year!" I replied "Happy New Year" and only as I came back to the shop here I realized that "Crisman" means Christmas. I ate my little sandwich with hot sauce and some tea.
If I was actually drinking 2 handles of vodka a week that works out to 1400 calories a day in alcohol alone. So if I feel like eating a bit more than usual I'll go with that for a short while anyway.
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