I woke around noon, I think. Laid in bed doing sort of deep breathing exercises until about 2, then got up. After tea and natto and nuts and vitamins, I finished the packages I'd staged and packed some more, except for 3 I'd do later.
I was out of here around 6, did my drop-offs fine, and picked up some packing supplies. I also picked up a big orange tackle box sort of thing with an EMS sticker on it, thinking it would make a great first-aid kit. I'd put all our first-aid stuff in it, and we could sell the metal first-aid box. But on Brokaw Road it fell off the trailer and when I picked it up off of the road, I realized it had a hole in it. So I left it by the side of the road for someone to pick up. I dunno, the hole wasn't in the bottom or anything, maybe I should have kept it...
It was about 7:30 when I realized if I want to get over to Sam & Curry I'd better hurry because I think they close at 8. I got there, and they told me "We don't have much things left" but they had what I wanted, goat curry on rice with some spinach and various garnishes. It was a bit over $10 and they had a hard time coming up with change, having to hit their tip jar. I'll use my card next time.
I rode home and had my curry - it was pretty good. The goat curry was just spicy enough but not quite salty enough, while the spinach was a bit over-salted. I ate some of the rice too, because yum, rice, but left a lot of it out for the birds when I was done.
I washed my head/hair and shaved/trimmed but realized I didn't have time for a full bath by the time Ken was due so instead I worked on packing the three packages I'd have to by midnight or they'd be "overdue" and we'd lose standing on Ebay. When Ken came by I explained this, so he did his thing, bringing in a lot of electrophoresis stuff, while I did mine, packing the packages. Or staging them anyway by which I mean putting them in their boxes with padding and printing the labels but not doing the final taping-up and covering up old labels etc with brown tape.
Ken wrote me out my check, $400 this time, and said he could have his tax guy do my taxes, and I said that really, in the past I got stuck using a tax guy because I had tons of write-offs that I wasn't taking into account on my own so I'd gone to a tax guy a mutual friend of ours used, but these days I have no write-offs and it's really straightforward. That in fact, while I'll have to do my 2019's on paper, it looks like I can used TurboTax online for free for my 2020's.
Ken had also brought by my new driver's license so at least I'm up to date even if it's not a Real ID compliant license. You have to go in person for that, but at the rate things are going, with the vaccinations, it should be pretty safe to do that in a few months.
Ken also told me he's had both shots, and Suzy also. That takes a worry off of my mind because when Ken's over we're not masking, and we're hanging out in a small room together. I'd hate to have it mildly or something and pass it to him.
Then I made him tea and we had the usual hang out and BS session, talking about everything under the sun.I told him how "humbly" I plan to live back in Hawaii and how much of a relief it will be, since I'll really not have anything worth stealing. "But you keep large amounts of cash around..." he said. I went upstairs and got my cash-stash box and counted out $250 and a bit more. "But back in Hawaii I never did this; I kept my money in the bank" - because in Hawaii I was never concerned about the whole system breaking down.
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