25th day sober. Up at 2:30 so I guess I needed the sleep. I had vitamins, nuts, and tea, and eventually got to packing some things. I thought I could push things later an hour since they're large, they're going by FedEx. But in reality two of them were international Priority Mail so I realized I have to get done what I can by 6. That meant 3 of the 4 packages.
I packed those and was out the door at a quarter after 6. The drop-offs all went well, and I stopped at Baba's Falafel for a gyro, which I ate at the egg-shaped robot place.
I picked up some shipping stuff and at a new place I've found for firm foam, the guy there (Hispanic I'm pretty sure) insisted I come into his shop and take a bundle of foam pieces he had. Nice guy! I think if I can take his foam scraps I'm solving a problem for him (it takes up room in his dumpster) and I get excellent packing foam.
At the Smithfield site, they've got areas scraped down to the dirt so I think they're going to eventually, once they've got it all turned into mountains of rubble and then the rubble cleared away, going to turn it into an Amazon parking lot. That's kind of interesting because a driver could not even own a vehicle themselves, take the light rail or the #60 Airport Flyer bus and walk in, pick up an Amazon van and work. It's not the kind of work I'd like to do but I can see a lot of people who've worked for UPS or FedEx giving it a try.
When I was back here I ate some celery and did a thorough bath, washed hair, shaved, trimmed, etc. I also vacuumed the office and cleaned the bathroom. When I was done with that and had put a few things away, I got out a large thing that needs to go out tomorrow and Ken came by as I was packing it. Ken did his thing, bringing things in, while I finished the packing job, and he wrote me my pay check - $300 this time.
Ken said he can take the package to FedEx tomorrow and put it in his truck. I said it seems Ebay is really looking at shipping and even handling times, so packing something and then sending it out 2 days later isn't going to fly any more. I told him I think I need to prioritize shipping, even if it means listing less, because we've got stuff we've been sitting on for 8 years now and when we've got "top rated seller" status all that oddball stuff starts selling, and we could use clearing it out.
After sorting and counting out a bunch of parts, I wanted to make sure I got my practice in, and did so, for a bit over an hour. I recalled how, on trumpet, what I found helpful was on each little exercise to play it over 5X or until I can get it right even if it takes more times than that. So it was lots of over-and-over while halfway watching more Ken Burns "Jazz" videos.
I also discovered something weird. I can make super high notes if I'm on G or A, something high already, and I change my mouthpiece angle or really just move my jaw a bit or something, and I can get these super high notes. Now, it's possible to get a squeak if you don't cover the holes you're supposed to cover but this is different because I can do it from G and that's got no holes covered. Plus, I can take the super high note I get on G and press other keys and turn it into other high notes. It's pretty damn cool, frankly. I don't want it happening all the time, though, and I think I was getting tired and tensing up, or, the #2 reeds I got a whole box of (10) may be too light for me already. So I'm just going to work with them for a while before I go to 2-1/2s.
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