I listed 10 things on Ebay last night, got my practice in, didn't drink anything before bedtime except a dose of kava. Kava users get more sensitive over time to it, and I felt a bit of numbing of my mouth and throat, so I know there was some effectiveness. I read a few chapters of the Ray Brooks book "Blowing Zen" before turning out the lights, and I could really not get to real sleep. By now it was around 6AM and finally around 10AM, I gave up, got up, and had a few small cups of sake and went back to bed until 2:30.
Kava before bed-time might not be a good idea if the problem is alcohol. Alcohol works fine for tapering off of alcohol and that's what I'd been doing, with the kava in parallel. I think I might have been over-estimating the usefulness of kava, as the time I felt it really worked for me I was tapering down from alcohol, using lesser and lesser amounts of alcohol, anyway. And I'd gotten medication for a case of pneumonia I had and that made me feel a lot better.
The truth is, I think the kava I was using back then was really primo stuff, and the kava I have now is kind of "meh". In both cases, it was myself that did the tapering down from alcohol.
Breakfast was green tea and some natto, a new brand that has a picture of a couple working in their garden, growing the beans I guess. I like it, the beans are nice and big.
I packed 8 things I could carry w/o needing the trailer and left for the post office and H Mart at about 6:15. Dropped off the packages and then went to H Mart. First I got a carton of sake (some of it comes in something like milk cartons with little spouts; I got "Ozeki" brand with sumo wrestlers on it) and some shrimp flavoried chips, a can of pork pate, and some dried shrimp I've long been eyeing but held off buying because it's $7 for 3 oz. All went well with no bum problems coming or going.
On the way back here I saw that Zuka Foods was open, so I went in. What could I get on the $4 cash I had on me, I wondered. I picked out some "Malta" malt beverage in a little bottle, and some "Exotic Crisps" which are ripe plantain chips. At the check out I realized I only had $3 on me but it came to just $3. Perfect! The crisps and the "Malta" are both from Nigeria, it turns out. The crisps are the best banana chips I've ever had, not too sweet and cut nice and thin. I'll be back for more. The jury's still out about the Malta, as it's awfully sweet.
So I had an odd dinner of pork pate, shrimp and plantain chips, and tried some of the dried shrimp which are pretty good.
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