Up at 4 in the afternoon. My gut's still a bit unsettled and arm a bit sore, and I woke up tired. At least I know the shot I got sure wasn't just some saline. I thought I was going to get Moderna but apparently it was a Pfizer day because my little CDC card says I got "P'zer" which is fine with me.
And no, there's no way they're putting a microchip in. That needle's like a 28 which is far too small for any microchip to go through. And for that matter, if I find I'm getting senile, I think getting chipped is a great idea. There ought to be a standard place like the back of the neck where a senile, lost, person can be checked just like they check a lost dog or cat.
Anyway I woke up tired. I just want to stay in bed for a week. At least I practiced last night and worked the full set of exercises on page 23 of the Koga book. These days, what I do is take each column of 3, 4-not figures and play each one 6-7 times then right on the next, not stopping until I've done the column.
And it's so hard to get a handle on just the right technique. Just like that sport I did, there was no way doing X number more curls or being able to run a 5-minute mile was going to make me suddenly improve. It will just take time and dedication.
I got the packages I'd set up finished and loaded 'em up at took off at about 6:20 and got to the post office in time. The chute didn't even jam.
On the way back I looked through the strip mall there and decided to check out a place called KingWuu, and got duck wings. That was about $10.50 with tip, and I ate 'em behind FedEx as I wanted to be out of the cold wind. They were good! They kind of had a "tea egg" taste. My gripe is, they include all 3 wing parts, the drum, the flat, and the tip. I suppose a real Chinese person would eat up those tips but they don't do much for me.
I took my one FedEx package into FedEx then went back around the back. There was a homeless guy with a bike trailer who'd ridden by while I was eating, and gone rummaging in the dumpsters, then left, then had come back. He'll be gone now, I figured. I pulled a couple good boxes out of the FedEx dumpster, and the guy was still there, pulling packages of fruit out of one of the H Mart dumpsters. Oddly, the guy seems to be fairly sane and we had a nice conversation. He kept offering me strawberries and I said I'm trying to limit sugars in my diet. I said I figure he must live along the river and probably has lots of people to give them to, and he said he did. I told him a bit about what I do, and about the decent deals at Fry's now that they're closing, how I got a decent flashlight for $2 and all those bubble mailers.
I felt like getting something else to eat and went to the falafel place and got a gyro. I had a nice talk with the gal there about the insurrection and the importance of voting etc. These folks appear to be pretty observant Muslims and naturally, anti-chuds. I was going to eat the gyro over by City Gym but when I opened the package I saw this is going to take using a spoon or something so I wrapped it up again and put it in the bike top bag.
I stopped a couple of places on the way back for packing materials and found a bunch of office break room type medicines, which I can donate in the little free libraries.
I got back here and got started on the gyro, and wow it's a lot of food for my $8 or so. I'll have to stop by there more often because they have this great yogurt drink too. I put half of the fillings away for later and put the pita out for the birds.
I packed things that had to be packed before midnight and Ken came by at the usual time while I still had two to go but he didn't have anything to drop off or much to do so I made him iced tea (hot tea and a big bowl of ice) and I took a couple of asides from our BS session to go get the things, and packed them right while we talked. I showed him the Fry's bubble mailers I'd snagged and he wrote me a 2nd check for the $90 those cost, which I figured he probably would. I also told him small boxes are not going to be an issue from now on because I'd stopped by that place and got a few and a stack of Uline small boxes they had just sitting out there.
We talked about a number of things and I told him how I'd watched a tutorial online about Schlieren imaging and now I actually understand how it works, and it's pretty cool. We got talked out fairly early this time and Ken left at just a bit after 11.
I cooked up the leftover gyro fillings with some broccoli and stuff, and it was pretty good. Now to get back to my addictive watching of "Bush Tucker Man" on YouTube, which makes me very nostalgic for my childhood.
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