I just stayed up overnight and packed the few things that had sold, including one large thing that, as I have things planned, had to go out today. I took that up to FedEx and then came back here, dropped off the bike trailer, and headed back out, this time for downtown.
I had a few small packages which I took to the downtown post office. When I got back from the FedEx run it was 9AM so I figured I'd be out early enough that the zombies would not be active. And indeed, I saw several zombies sleeping on the sidewalk, side of the road, etc. But it was warm enough that some *were* active. There was yelling and noise in St. James Park, and a zombie sitting on the steps of the downtown post office muttering to itself about being "angry, angry".
As I went in, I set my water bottle down next to it, "Here's some water...". I dropped the packages off and then went back out and there was no more muttering about "angry ... angry".
On 2nd street an angry zombie, what might be called a fast walker, came along ranting something about probation and court and so on and started rushing in my direction - I was in the curious situation of trying to look like I was not even aware of the zombie, while speeding up in quite a bit of haste to avoid the zombie.
I rode down to Big-5 which wasn't going to open until 10 so I had 20 minutes. I went into Wal-Mart where it turns out they sell batteries at Customer Service which isn't manned until 10, so I got to hang out with the weirdos waiting there also. One short, loud lady was waiting to get a money order to pay her rent, and the guy behind me was doing some kind of Walmart-to-Walmart money transfer. Me, I just wanted a couple of CR2032 batteries for my calculator, which I got for $5 and got out of there.
Next was the Amazon place where I picked up some bubble mailers and the non-sugar sweetener that I hope is the kind Ken uses. That was pretty simple.
I got a couple of books, "The Winter Of Our Discontent" by Steinbeck and one by Orson Scott Card that the used book store might want.
Then I went to Nijiya and got a package of shrimp (so I can try out the shrimp boil I got a package of last week) and a package of celery and a little package of 10 sticks of "Black Black" gum.
I even had money left, given that I had my change bag with me, to get some spicy chicken wings from a lunch truck out by Old Bayshore. And all of this without touching my bank account.
The crazy wind that had made it rather unpleasant yesterday was gone. There was just a cool refreshing breeze. It was really nice out there.
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