surprise rain

 200th say sober. After Ken coming by last night and after doing some corrections on Ebay listings and stuff, it was past midnight and I was tired so I went to bed. 

When I got up, around 11AM, I had plenty of time to pack some more things, load up some gallon bags of brown rice to donate to the little free libraries, and go over to the bank. I mailed the packages off at the post office downtown too, and after the bank I went over to the used book store and got a couple Kurt Vonnegut books I've not read and "The Producers" on DVD. That's one of those movies that I keep hearing about but have never seen. 

Then I doubled back to Whole Foods for some shopping and there's a beggar working the area near the bike racks, a black guy with a red-painted ammo can with a lock on it (to give the impression he's working for some kind of a charity; this would fool only the most gullible) and making noise about "Last donation of the day, do you wanna do the last donation of the day..." etc. 

After my shopping was done I noticed the beggar was gone and I looked at the time - 4;30. So if I were busking, I could play the 4:30 - 6:30 time slot. 

But I'd gotten an earlier start today for a reason, and by the time I had picked up Amazon things and bubble mailers, stopped at Nijiya for tea and eggs and TAK market for some near-beer, it was dark and I felt some drops of rain as I got close to home. 

I hurried on home as, waiting for a light on Old Bayshore, I noticed another bicyclist behind me and was not sure if it was a zombie or not; it was hard to tell in the dark. Since normal people tend to have lights on and wear light-colored clothing, I had to assume it was a zombie so I put on some speed and took a nice twisty hard to follow route back into here and got the bike inside and locked the place up quickly. 

There's a lot more traffic now and no lack of zombies. In fact, when I was loading my groceries onto the bike at Whole Foods and I'd noticed the one beggar was gone, there was an only-slightly-affected-by-the-zombie-virus type just sort of hanging out on the sidewalk, and I wonder if it was Beggar #2 for the evening, because crack and rotgut are not things that buy themselves. 

This is something a lot of people may not realize about that Whole Foods there. It may look nice but there are all kinds of places homeless hang out scattered all around there. That's why they have to have good security around there. 

So I got back here safely and had olives and cheese and near-beer and such snacks, while watching it get wet outside.