Awake at noon, up at 1. My bike had a flat. It was the rear wheel which has the fancy Schwalbe Marathon tire on it.
After some breakfast and too much Reddit, I repaired the flat. I found the piece of metal in the tire, hell, that could have come from the shop here which has all these random shards of metal embedded in the office carpet that randomly migrate out. Or anywhere in this area, which is full of machine shops.
I really need to keep the bike cleaner because it was filthy job and I can't get all the black gunk off of my hands. I found the leak in the tube but just put in a new tube for now. Of course I put Slime in the new one too, even though it's a huge mess to clean up when the Slime finally can't handle it and you have to go in and ... repair or replace the tube. Because it's the Slime that gets me home. I could have gotten that leak on the way home yesterday and it slowed it down enough that at worst I have to pump a bit with my little pump.
I got the bike put back together and left with three large boxes that had to go at 5:15 or so, rode up to FedEx fighting a strong cold wind, dropped them off, picked up an interesting oversized coffee mug, the kind you use like a small bowl, made in Poland, behind FedEx. There were lots of other wine glasses and stuff too but I left those lined up on the curb. I mainly wanted to neat big Vans bag they were all in.
I rode over to the storage and it wasn't busy at all like I thought it might be. I didn't see anyone else and think I heard the nearby elevator operate just once. I picked out 9 small things to list and put those in the bike trailer and then unwrapped the oscilloscope plug-ins, stacking the bubble wrap on the bike trailer. So now it's easy to see what plug-ins we have.
That was enough work there and it was now fully dark so I closed up and went out, and decided to go to Pho Bel Air and get one of those pork and shrimp on noodle things. That was about $18 with tip but I felt like I'd turned a bad day around and I should have some enjoyable things on the weekend. And I'm still on track to be able to go to Mitsuwa Marketplace tomorrow.
I didn't get to go to O'Reilly's for a buffer thing for my drill but I'll pass by one tomorrow. I did get my shoes shined and also did a bit on my Tiny Tax(tm) project. How Tiny Tax works is, try to do some tiny thing toward filing my taxes every day. So one day, figure out how to make new folders in Windows 10 and make a file for Taxes and then sub-folders for 2020 and 2019. Yesterday I moved a piece of paper saying how much I'd made in 2019 into my taxes tray (just the top of a banker's box). Today I printed out two copies of the 1040 form and saved the instructions into the 2019 taxes file. A tiny bit at at time. Honestly, I could have done 1 line a day and had them all prepared even if I wasn't able to pay, by April 15th. Tiny Tax is a way around this.
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