171st day sober. I did some practice before bed, more open-string stuff. There are all kinds of different kinds of exercises in the String Builder book that just use the open strings and as tedious as they can be, I want to stay on those until I've got decent control of the bow before going on.
I was up at 3 and after coffee etc., I packed some things and did my post office and FedEx route, and stopped and got fried chicken - which I'd done last night too but I was hungry - and picked up a few packing things and at the "irregular" food place an onion and a bag of those itty-bitty potatoes that are all kind of funny colors like purple.
I stopped at the "Indian" dumpster just out of curiosity and there were tons of plastic jars of "100% durum vermicelli" which were very thin noodles maybe an inch long, 500 grams per jar. I loaded up the trailer and came back here with about 60 or 70 jars, unloaded those and sat down and ate my chicken, then went out for another load. There was a security guy snooping around who hung out by where I was going to ride, so I found little things to do until he bugged off somewhere, then when I was going to go into the complex where the Indian dumpster is, there was a zombie with a shopping cart, and worse, the zombie was going into the complex also.
So I rode around the other side and came in by FedEx, looking and listening for the zombie, and there was no sign of it. I loaded up the trailer again, and in the end came out of this with 141 jars of durum vermicelli, which at 400g a jar, is 124 pounds of the stuff.
Each jar is sealed with a neat foil seal, so I think I'm going to swap these in, and swap out my stash of squid-ink spaghetti. This stuff is much more appetizing, takes far less cooking time, and can be used a ton of ways, even to make Indian sweets. The spaghetti's only in cellophane bags and ... squid ink ... I mean...
One advantage of the squid ink stuff though is, it's black. I can clip it into small pieces and toss it out for the birds and keep it a pretty good secret. I *was* putting out things for the birds on the little overhang here until I realized it's really easy to see from the parking lot what's up there. Even sunflower seeds aren't stealthy enough. I've thought of buying a bird seed called "niger" which is black but never got around to it. But this stuff is free.
As for the vermicelli, I think it's a much better emergency store. Each 400g jar is a good daily ration or to hand out to people, and it takes very little cooking. You can put it in a wok with a little water to cook it, then as the water boils off, add a little oil and stir-fry it, add veggies, etc.
Since it's similar amounts of pasta, it's a pretty easy swap to change out one for the other. And I only got a few drops of rain on me, when gathering up the 2nd trailer-load. Heavy rain is expected, which will turn things into a mushy mess.
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