256th day sober. I cooked myself some beef which I ate with raw onion, mayo, and mustard after coming back in from the post office etc. I'd also picked up a ton of pills in little packets and other goodies from the emergency training place.
The idea was to replicate buying a hamburger at 5 Guys, a nice heavy dinner that would last me through Ken being here etc. until late in the night when I'd have a chance to eat again if desired.
In the end, though, the prep time and clean-up factor in, plus eating here means "recovering" from eating here, whereas if I get a burger at 5 Guys I eat it there and "recover" by riding my bike around, gathering packing stuff, etc so I'm fresh and ready to go when I'm back here. Conclusion: I'll keep reserving Wednesday night for a burger or a shawarma or chicken, cooked by someone else.
Ken came by late because he was testing some pulse generators - he came by with a bunch of stuff in his truck but only offloaded the stuff he wanted me to sell. While he buzzed around doing stuff, I sorted the pills and stuff. I kept the aspirin and band-aids, put the expensive little "123" lithium batteries, lens wipes, saline for eyes, little squeezy things of eye drops, and some pills called Loramed for Ken. The rest gets donated - a mix of various pills, some cough drops, packets of various creams, etc.
Once Ken was done and I was done with the pills, it was time for "tea and bullshit" and we settled down to talk. He'd brought by a gadget with 48 little counter knobs on 48 10-turn 10k pots, and 48 little panel voltmeters. We weren't sure if the knobs needed a "spline" key to take off or just a very small Allen - I got my secret stash of Allen wrenches from upstairs and it turned out one of those fit. So while we talked, I took off all the knobs, because I was amazed how well it was all going.
Finally Ken was done, as it was well after midnight, and I figured maybe I'll take this gadget apart and list the parts tonight, and maybe I'll listen to a video while I take it apart. And my browser, itself, was down. It wasn't the internet connection, and I actually even called up Microsoft Chrome or something by mistake, if I wanted to use that, which I really didn't. Besides all the stuff we do on Ebay isn't on there.
So I just listened to the radio - some quack doctor on the Art Bell show - and finished taking the gadget apart. After a couple of hours I was done, and the browser was working again. And my good old headache was back, too. So I didn't feel like practicing or listing anything, just going to bed.
It was interesting having a 1985 level of internet access again, though. This is why I insist on having real radios around not some internet radio thing. And I collect books. Music-wise, I insist on having actual physical books to study from, even though it's all online. I thought, what if the internet's down for a few days? I'm set, and I was really glad I'd packed every possible package and gotten them sent out. People will have to get used to these outages.
I woke up at 2:30, and as usual was outta here at 4, rode downtown. I stopped at the little free libraries and dropped off bags of pills that I'd sorted out last night, and got a couple of books to read. I went over to the bank and did my deposit and that all worked out right. I didn't feel like going much of anywhere out of my usual way so I just got a few things at Whole Foods, stopped at the Amazon place for bubble mailers, and did some shopping at Nijiya on my way back - except they didn't have anything I wanted (was hoping to pick up a bento) so I didn't get anything there and instead got the tempura "appetizer" from Minato, which is really a meal. I stopped by TAK Market for some O'Doul's and got back here.
It's a nice boring night too. Except where a truck with tons of crap filling up the back, as zombies like to do, came screaming through the parking lot too fast and in trying to get around the corner, lost some things. The funniest was a wheel, with a tire on it, that came off and rolled, comically, around in the parking lot before coming to rest in front of the hot-rod place. I actually went out and had a look, and started to pick up a few things like some interesting software (these zombies must be looting tech companies' dumpsters) and then dropped my haul when I saw that just around the corner the truck had dropped a ton more stuff and there were zombies about. I don't want them thinking I was "taking their stuff" but I actually did pick up an interesting little LCD display I'll stick on Ebay.
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