I was up until 6AM but got some practice in before bed as well as my morning practice session. I've got to get good at this thing. James Galway wanted to get good at this thing also because it beat just working, or not-working, at the docks. Well, I don't want the rest of my life to be about Ken selling beat up old test equipment.
A bit less time on the octaves on the headjoint except as a warm-up, and more time working on the main problem right now which is the flute shifting in my hands and making my tone go to pot.
I want to be out busking in June. I wish for the life of me I could remember what songs I was out playing when I was busking with flute, not long after moving here to San Jose. I guess it doesn't matter because I know I'm further along in the Wye beginner book than I was then. I think I'd stopped about at the page with the cave man.
I got 12 Ebay things listed including parts from a power supply I took apart, and went to bed at 6AM after practicing about a half hour. I woke up at 1, so that's about 7 hours of sleep.
On the radio they're talking about how, once Roe v. Wade is gone, the Texas bounty law won't matter and they don't think many will try to use it to cash in. I think they are very wrong. I think the nice liberals on NPR are vastly underestimating the hatred the right-wingers for anyone who isn't exactly like them and that means not just racially but not having "proper thought". The Republicans are calling for shooting Democrats in the streets, after all. So we're going to have several states with the equivalent of the "refuge slave act" and we here in California will have to take being a sanctuary state seriously.
And in the midst of our country becoming Gilead, the baby formula shortage has become bad enough to be noticed even in the ivory towers of NPR, and it turns out importing it is illegal so while people in the US are trying to get it from such places as Germany, it's being seized at the border. Let's hope we've got some good smugglers.
First thing of the day was practicing, which I did for just under an hour.
Then I put the new bike tire I'd been saving for well over a year now, with a new tube, on the front wheel of the bike. Now the bike has matching tires which is nice. I also had to replace my computer mouse, as the one I'd been using for so long was beginning to malfunction. I tried a couple others I had around here but ended up taking one I'd listed off of our Ebay listings and using that - Dell makes a better mouse than the no-name guys.
I took off for the post office at the usual time with packages I'd already packed and some more I'd packed today including one large one going to Korea.
The post office went OK, the chute was jammed of course and there was a big pile of packages people had left at the counter as always happens when the chute's not working. So I put mine in among those.
After the post office I just had one box to go to FedEx and to make things different, I rode up to Trade Zone road and turned right and rode along until just past Capitol to check out a place called IndiaMart. It's a little shop in a typical little strip mall with a massage (lol) parlor, a tailor, a little Chinese takeout place, etc. It's really neat though in that they've got a ton of things in there. I just got some celery as I only had $3 cash on me and that was $2. The place is really neat.
I rode back along Trade Zone, past there I'd come up and over to Oakland Road - the traffic's a bit hectic there but I was able to deal with it OK. I rode down Oakland Road to the FedEx place and dropped off my one box and then it was just the usual routine, picking up packing stuff and stuff that's useful among the various places I check on my route.
I got back here with the usual amount of packing stuff and a few goodies (books) and after eating, got busy putting the packing stuff away and putting things I've listed away.
Ken came by at his usual time, I got my check, and we talked for a while, all the usual things. Ken hadn't read my email about the overdue water bill yet, but now he was able to look at the bill. I offered to go pay it and he could pay me back later but he said money's not the problem and he'll go online and try to figure it out. Also he brought my ballot so that's one less thing to worry about. I told Ken about the Indian market because he likes to go to them too.
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