222nd day sober. I woke up at about 2:30, and practice had gone well last night. I ended it with working on the regular old C major scale up to high C. I know the C scale from C below the staff to C in it so well that I don't have to even think about it. I feel it would be quite handy to have the next octave be automatic also.
Part of that was because if Music Village has any trumpets I like it'd be neat to be able to do a 2-octave C scale, but this 2nd octave needs a lot more practice and I didn't go. By the time I'd had some coffee, cleaned up a bit, and packed some more things, I ended up getting out of here at the regular time, at 4.
The bank deposit went fine, and then I decided to do routine stuff around downtown instead of going to check out Music Village. It was really cold outside, and it'd be dark and there was a ton of traffic and evne tons of zombies around, although cold weather usually slow them down and they find places to hide instead of being out staggering around. Maybe Friday night is a particularly good one for begging or biting people in general, or maybe some really good drugs have hit town. In any case it did not feel like a good night to depart from my usual routine.
After the bank I went to TAP Plastics to look for a hand soap dispenser bottle with a wide bottom, but they didn't have 'em. I ended up going to CVS where I found some kind of weird coconut soap stuff in just the right kind of bottle and got that, along with some rubbing alcohol.
Next I went to Whole Foods and got a bunch of chicken wings and a near-beer and ate in the upstairs area. The bartender said he'd not seen me playing for a while, and I said my tips had gone 'way down so I decided to take some time off. After eating I went back in and bought olives and cheese and veggies and things like that, to stock up for a few rainy days.
I talked a bit with the "Save The Children" hucksters with their booth set up by the bike racks too, and the Trump Stump showed up with her bike. I talked a bit with her, asking if she'd seen the sign someone put in their yard about the "Reecall" and said I'd always wondered about that "ree" thing and ended up looking up all these videos with frogs making noises and they really do mostly say "ree". She said she'd voted for Newsom to be "outta there" and voted for "the other guy". I played along and said I'd voted for "the other guy" too, the Democrat. She said "No, the *other* guy, the black guy on the radio" and was getting pretty miffed. I said, "Him?? The guy's psychotic! You know they have rubber walls on that room at the radio station he's in!" which is pretty damn funny but she didn't think so.
I stopped by the Amazon place for some coffee filters I'd ordered, and even had time to stop at Nijiya for a few things.
The weather report says it will start raining tomorrow night and then rain on Monday and Tuesday.
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