After getting in last night, I neatened the place up a bit and set up a box of stuff from my latest haul from the dumpster of the place next door to the medical place. The medical place had theirs locked up, but next door had a bunch of stuff. I kept a good amount for myself like some Hoppe's No. 9 and another type of gun oil, bike tubes, a set of bike brake pads, etc., and some will go on Ebay, but a the largest part went in a box for Ken, everything from one of those handheld super bright lights that work from a car cigarette lighter to wax seals for toilets, stuff like that.
I had the bathroom cleaned and the office vacuumed and was going nuts trying, one more time, to find these teeny op-amp ICs we'd listed years and years ago. When Ken came over I told him about them and he looked through the whole shop and he actually found them - they were in tubes, in with all the others that are in tubes. I was looking for parts on a reel. It was a huge relief!
He brought over the book on flute repair I'd ordered, but didn't have the trumpet valve springs I'd ordered. We talked about things for a while and when he noticed it was a quarter after midnight, he got ready to go. He looked "one more time" in his truck for any mail for me, and found the valve springs after all. So how I have them and can just hope they fit, and that I can install them in the cornet without messing anything up.
I tried an experiment last night, I tried the idea of mixing wheat gluten and ground beef. They don't mix. I eventually put the whole mess in a pot and cooked it well with some garlic and it was actually pretty good. I still want to try making wheat gluten noodles.
I was up today at a bit after 2, got cleaned up and shaved and all that, and took my bags of books and headed downtown. First was the bank and amazingly, the IRS hasn't cashed my check yet. I hope I remembered to sign the thing. If not, I suspect they'll send it back to me to sign. In the meantime, I think I'll pay that other will they sent and make sure I sign *that* check.
Next was the book store, and I ended up getting $16-odd for the books. I didn't see any DVDs I was that keen on buying and their music books have been almost totally wiped out. There's maybe a half-shelf on piano, a few on organ, a handful on trumpet, a few old ones on strings, and everything else just gone. They had tons of band methods, books on the recorder and the bagpipes and things like that, and they're all just gone. So I just took the little credit slip, which is just the amount written on the back of one of their business cards.
I went over to whole foods and had baked chicken and broccoli and a club soda first, then got a bunch of the stuff I usually get. It was windy, not all that warm, and the black guy sitting on the bike rack with his eternal refrain about raising the minimum wage seems to be a feature there now. The petition guy seems to be gone - he probably got in a fight with the wrong person. If I were playing, I'm pretty sure I could play "around" the black guy, or even just play a bit later because I think he quits around 6 or 7.
From there I rode over to Wal-Mart because Ken thinks the soda water with lime juice I offer him is fine, but needs some sweetener, and that means "blue" Sweet & Low. There's pink, yellow, and blue and they're all different formulations. So I figured Wal-Mart would have it but they didn't. I got some other things though to the tune of a bit over $20.
I came back by the Amazon place and picked up my coffee filters and a bunch of bubble mailers, and then went to Nijiya.
I got things there, too, so I had the bike pretty loaded up on the slow slog against the wind coming back here. The cold wind keeps the zombies in their hidey holes though so it has its advantages.
More wonderful news on the radio, both Ukraine and the coming war here. A guy is talking about the overall plan of the January 6th insurrection; to get all the Democrat politicians (and I seem to remember a few Republican ones who weren't loyal enough) into the basement and gas them or otherwise kill them. Lovely. This is why I've got a couple of guns now and hope to obtain more off of dead bad guys if it comes to that.
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