283rd day sober. I slept in until 4 again. I'd given myself a haircut, as well as listing 20 Ebay things, last night so I probably didn't get to bed until close to 9.
I woke up at 2:30 because a guy came over for an oscilloscope he'd bought. Of course he wanted to stay around and probably talk for hours but I cut that off right away. Handed him the scope, OK all's fine, thanks, bye and shut the door lol.
Then I went back to bed until 4.
I packed a couple of FedEx things and took my shakuhachi book to get it spiral bound but the guy who normally does that at FedEx wasn't there so I'll have to get it done another time. There's always that one guy/gal who is best at craft work like that, and I can wait.
I got the kal bi plate from the Hawaiian place and checked a couple of places for packing stuff (not much) and got back here and ate. Then I vacuumed the office and cleaned the bathroom and got ready for Ken to come by and sure enough, I heard some noise outside and there he was - his noisy truck is in the shop so he was driving his wife's faithful Corolla.
He brought the package with the Shakuhachi Yuu in it, and we got The Scope That's Going To Australia finally labeled and he got that into the car, and it was tea and talk for a while. Rockets, various ores of uranium, the possibility of monoatomic oxygen as a fuel source, really no subject was safe. It was a good old time, only interrupted by Ken's blood sugar sensor beeping. I forgot to show him the bottle of Mexican 7-Up I got in case he gets low sugar.
Ken and I are sure pals though. He told me about a guy who came to the old shop years ago who'd been on a Russian ice breaker that had been a US ice breaker, and had been used to rescue a whale long ago, and how they'd talked at the shop there and then Ken had seen, not long after, the documentary about rescuing the whale. He said he wasn't sure if I was there at the shop at the time and I said I wasn't sure if I was either, as I was quite a bit of a souse back then and may have been 3 sheets to the wind and seemed fairly normal but too drunk to remember.
Then we got into talking about Autenite, an ore of uranium, and suchlike things. And pretty soon it was time for him to go.
After he went I got the Yuu unpacked and put it together and blew a little Ro and then put it on the music stand. How nice to get something from Monty Levinson! He's such a nice guy, and the package included a printed out sheet advertising a book by him that I think I might just have to get, it's only $25. In another week or two, though, as I've been spending a lot. I sure didn't save half of this last paycheck.
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