Shot Day

 352nd day sober.  I got 20 Ebay things listed so I've met my self-imposed quota of 50 things per week on Ebay (subject to variation like if I list a lot of large things). 

I practiced to the extent of getting warmed up, then decided in favor of sleep and went to bed. 

I woke up around 2:30. I really wanted to be out of here by 3:30 so I got to work cleaning up, washing hair and shaving, and just had a cup of coffee for "breakfast". 

I got out of here at 4, and visited my three regular little free libraries, dropping off these loaves of really dense bread, I think like a dense raisin bread, at each one - freebees from last night. And the Japantown one got a box of black tea too. 

Then the bank where I did my deposit. when I was done I really had to "go" so I rode over to the food court on S. 1st street and was locking my bike up when I noticed this female ghoul staggering around. She looked like she'd put on her make-up by having someone paint it onto their fists and then give her face a good pounding. She looked like a very dysfunctional juggalo, the kind the other juggalos would run away from. She staggered up to me and started nattering on about something, then asked me for a dollar. "I just happen to have one..." I said and pulled the $1 I had in my wallet out and gave it to her. She started on some tale about how some "Mexican lady" who works in the food court had "beat her up". Then took off to spend her dollar. 

Whatever. I used the loo and spent a few minutes talking with the tall skinny black guy who works at The Fountainhead. He remembered me all right, and I told him I was back to playing trumpet. 

Then I got going to find the place to get my 4th shot. South on First, then turn right on Keyes which is where Burger Barn is, then it was a long ride along Keyes which becomes Story, through a super Vietnamese area then into a more Hispanic area. The vaccination place was supposed to be in this one mall, with numbers on the shops that looked like No. 1775 was in there, but I'd have to walk around. 

So I parked the bike in front of Harbor Freight and found I was right next to the place. I filled out the 4 pages of forms and said I'll get Pfizer again, because maybe they'll want to do a study of people who've only gotten Pfizer. 

I was led to a table with two nurses, an older nurse teaching a student nurse who is taking nursing at San Jose State. Frankly it was kind of funny because the older nurse was telling the younger one what to do at every step, and why to put this sticker on the front of my vaccine card and not the back, and "Now you've compromised your clean field" and so on. Eventually we got to the shot, which she made a bit of an ordeal of, pushing in really hard. But she got it done, and I looked when she was putting the bandage on. "Your hands are shaking" I observed and she said, "I know" like she knew she was nervous as hell. I wonder if I were her first dart boar... er, patient? 

So that was that, and I headed back. I was really hungry and I also wanted to pick up some diet soda because it's really nice to have when I'm sick. I passed a King Eggroll and stopped in. I ordered 4 chicken wings and 2 egg rolls, and that was a little over $10. Wow. I didn't want to eat inside so I sat over at the far side of the front, which made for some fun people-watching. That area has bums who are really far gone. Really. 

I was surprised as I ate my chicken wings, as apparently to King Eggroll, 2 wings are 4 pieces. No one's counted them that way for decades but they still do. So I have a ton of fried chicken and tried an eggroll, which turns out to be a real carb-bomb. A bum was riding around on a bike so I called out to him and gave him my untouched egg roll and the bag with the little cups of nasty pink sweet sauce. He was thankful. Also, "Did you know your forks are backward?" I asked about his bike. "I know, that's the way a guy built it". Well, you can't argue with that. He had a flat rear tire too but "That's my life!" he said. 

After eating I rode past tons of bum camps and "gone" bums and got back to the Vietnamese area and stopped in at a market there I've been to before and like. I found some chicory coffee that's $5 a can, as the French Market stuff is now $7 or $8 a can, even there. So I got a can of that, and looked at their soda offerings. They didn't have diet Pepsi or diet 7-Up, but I noticed cute little 6-packs of diet tonic water. I looked at how much each held and did some math and realized if I got two of those little six-packs, I'd have the equivalent of two, 2-liter bottles. So I got those. At the check out I found out that they must have been about $7 each but it saved me a side-trip to Wal-Mart. 

I stopped at the Amazon place and picked up a couple of things I'd ordered, most importantly being the Cichowicz flow studies book, and a bunch of bubble mailers. I'd also ordered, last night at 4AM, a USB SD card reader as mine is crapping out. First I thought it was just a dirty connector, then I thought maybe it was the connector on the computer, but it's the reader which has a little flexible cable and that part's failing. If this were Cuba I'd get in there and fix it but it's so easy to just order another one on Amazon. That isn't in yet, though, and I won't need it for a few days anyway. 

I stopped at TAK Market near Japantown for a 6-pack of O'Doul's and a couple big Slim Jims because I figure for this weekend I'm going to go off my keto diet for a bit. I've also emailed Ken and said I don't know how functional I'll be this weekend because of getting my shot. So if he comes over on Sunday to do things, I might just stay in bed while he does his work.