I packed a lot of things last night and realized it was half past midnight so pau hana. I watched documentaries and drank sake and did a little voice exercises.
I woke up a bit after 8, went back to sleep until about 10:30 and got up. I just had some raw sunflower seeds and ice water with lime and loaded up the bike and got going. It was really nice to be out in the sun and the clouds were beautiful today. The drop-offs went without a hitch, and I got back here in time, I thought, to keep a bank appointment at 2, so I went to make one but the appointments had filled up and I made one for 2:45.
That was perfect because it gave me time to scramble some eggs and eat them, and head out in time with a couple of books which I exchanged at one little free library for a book called "Free Food For Millionaires" which I'd just been reading about on Reddit, and a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. I got over to the bank and that went without a hitch, then went over to the Amazon hub to harvest bubble mailers and pick up a book, The Death Of Ivan Illich, because it's a classic and Morris Berman had said so-and-so on the Right hadn't ever read it, and I realized I hadn't either, so I'd better correct that.
The trouble is, they've got some new system in place that depends on a person having a smart phone. I had to tell them my email address and they got me my package all right, but it takes longer for everyone to do everything so there was an actual crowd in the place. I hope the work the bugs out of this new system. In the meantime I'll have to print out the bar code and boogy right on over, or keep my email address written on a card to show them.
I then went to Nijiya and got a ton of stuff, including a nice chirashi-don, and had it all loaded on my cart then realized I'd forgotten something. The checker (I was the only non-staff person in there except for one lady with a couple of kids so I really lucked out) let me just park my cart near the front and I went and got the missing thing: A tall can of Asahi "dry" beer. "I can't have the full chirashi experience without beer!" I told the guy and we had a laugh. The beer was only $3-something but I got careless on the buttons and got $20 cash back also. I got a $10 and two $5's because as I said to the guy, I've been keeping a cash-stash in small bills of escape money, although I'm less worried now that the election is settled. And by the time things get crazy again, I should be back home in Hawaii.
(This got me thinking ... do I wait the full 4 years, or do I, if I can save enough to get by on for a year, leave in 3?)
I got back here and enjoyed my chirashi-don and beer, Mmmm good! But I had tons of beer left in the can after eating, so I watched a couple documentaries while I finished taking this signal generator apart which really had some good parts like the ceramic strips you usually only find in old Tektronix oscilloscopes. When I was done with that, I packed 4 large things to take to FedEx tomorrow because we're due to have rain on Monday and Tuesday so if I can run 'em over to FedEx tomorrow (Saturday) then on Monday and Tuesday I'll have less things, and can wrap them in plastic or something.
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