I need to list 23 more items to make it a total of 50 items for this week, and was taking some parts off of some Dell servers Ken had brought over, when I decided I was just really tired (it was a bit past midnight) and I'd wind down and go to bed.
Which I did, but not before noticing that the little white zombie car with the trunk held closed by a bungee cord kept going through here. I need to do my practice NOT during zombie hours, because I don't know why that zombie car is patrolling through here but I've seen it in conjunction with other zombie vehicles and that RV that left a streak of shit on the parking lot so any conflict with one of them will mean the rest of the zombies will join in.
Time to start doing some training/drills with the Glock, I suppose, plus no more flute/trumpet/whatever practice in the middle of the night. I can list then, because it's a quiet activity.
I went to bed, actually, at 3AM and woke up at 11AM. I probably actually got out of bed around noon.
I had my coffee and so on, and eventually got my used books together and into two bags of about equal weight, and got on the bike and meandered my way to the used book store. It was pretty hot out there.
At the book store, they didn't have any new music books and it turned out they only wanted "a couple" (a few) of the books I'd brought, so I got $10 trade credit. So with the credit I already have, I have about $12.50 trade credit. If nothing else I can keep building it up and get one of those "everything the Beatles ever wrote" books.
Of the books I got back, I picked out a few to stick onto Ebay and one to keep and read, and took the rest over to the little free library/pantry in front of the Peace And Justice Center on 7th. Then I decided to just wander around and explore a bit. I rode East on Santa Clara to 13th street or so, and ended up turning South and found the "College Convenience Store" I think it was called. I found a Coke Zero and eventually figured out they had the Slim Jims right up at the front. My money was tangled up in my wallet sort of, so I got out a $1 and said, "Here's a $1..." and then "Here's another $1...." and the Indian guy behind the counter said, "What is this - gimme!" and I'd untangled the other $3 I needed and gave that to him, and said he reminded me of the seagulls in "Finding Nemo" where they say "Mine! Mine!" and went out.
I had a nice shady place with a low yard-wall to sit on lined up, and walked the bike over there, but on the way a guy had a lot of tools all spread out on the other side of a fence, a Mexican guy who was dealing, somehow, with a skinny white guy. I thought it was a garage sale. I looked over at the stuff and said, "Let me look at those wire cutters". The Mexican guy gave me a glum look and said "This is not a sale" so I walked on, to another shady place to sit a bit further down.
This area, south of the college, is pretty scruffy and the underclass have rules of their own. What the tools were all spread out for, or why the skinny white guy was hanging around, walking away then walking back, I'll never know. Drunk? Stoned? Been hit on the head a few too many times? The answer will be Yes.
The Slim Jim and Coke were refreshing, though, so that was nice. Once I was finished I rode over to Dai Thanh for some shopping and made my leisurely way to Nijiya for more shopping. On the way I found a couple more free books. I got a few things in Nijiya and what's becoming my customary pack of Black Black gum. The older white guy who'd been to Japan was the checkers and he said, "That's for people who don't get enough sleep" and I said I always chew it before "my music practice".
The wind on my way home was nuts and I almost considered doubling back and getting on the light rail at the Japantown stop to take it one stop upwind of here, but decided I wasn't quite that demoralized and I just kept cranking along. At least I didn't have to dodge any zombies - the heat seemed to have them off the street.
I got back and did some math and I'm only $10 or so short of spending half my pay check, but I have $30 cash on me so I'm probably set for the rest of my week.
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