I got 15 things ready to list last night but felt tired so I didn't list any of them. I packed a bunch of things, too. I also organized my clothes into the 6 banker's boxes that fit on the two shelves just fine. I realize now that I'll need three more for jackets, sweats, and shoes, making three more that will sit on top and I suppose the random things that used to occupy any flat surface in the loft will end up on shelves on the book case, once I have it painted and put together.
I did the 2nd coat on the next strip" of the loft, so now I have a lot of painted area to move things onto. I also really need to do some laundry so I need to see if I can arrange the book shelf, laid down, to paint plus its shelves, and still have room for the drip pan so I can do a load of laundry.
I'm listening to all this news on the radio about the fascists banning abortion, and I keep thinking, "Where are the guys?". I remember when Roe v. Wade was challenged in the 90s and there were a lot of guys saying they were glad women had abortion rights because for instance, a guy and his girlfriend want children but later, or a guy has sex with a gal who swears up and down she's on birth control but is not, etc. Also to hear guys talk, child support is a huge bugaboo. So where are they now?
I went out with 12 packages and dropped them off, and did some shopping at H Mart, spending almost $40. Now I'd better not spend any more, because it means out of this pay-period I'll only be saving $70 and I dropped into the negative the last pay-period.
I picked up a few goodies from the bountiful dumpster and also got a couple packages of romaine lettuce from the veggie dumpster. Also some lettuce stem type things from H Mart's "organic" dumpster I plan to put into curry. I got home and snacked on seaweed-flavored peanuts, my last bit of cheese and olives, and three romaine lettuce hearts.
I re-arranged a lot of things up in the loft for my next paint session. I'll not only be painting the next section but I've got the book shelf and its shelves laid out on cardboard. It's very tall and unwieldy, and frankly not of the best quality but Ken brought it over and I think it's like this weird green table we have in the bathroom; his dad built it and Ken will never-ever be induced to say anything decisive about whether to keep it or not. Hence it must be kept. So at least it can get a new coat of paint and will look a lot better.
I also took a piece of wood we had around here and cut it into 4 shorter pieces, used super-strong double sided tape to glue them together making two spacer blocks, and put one in each end of the "new" plastic shelves I'd just gotten. For some reason, one of my inserts we letting one corner down and it did not look good. The way the shelves are made, my spacers clicked right in and it only took a few minutes to measure, mark, and saw the wood with one of my hand saws.
I will probably mostly stay around here this weekend as there's a lot of painting to get done, plus I don't want to spend any more money and besides, until I can do some laundry I don't smell very good.
It used to be that if I was *really* hard up for a clean shirt I'd just go to Muji's and get some new ones. But Muji's is gone. We've also lost the downtown Walgreens, the Safeway, the McDonald's, the good Thai place, Da Kao, Johnny Rockets, I think Dai Thanh has at most a year or two left, and so on.
Population wise, San Jose California and the island of Oahu, Hawaii, are very close in population but Oahu has two Nijiya markets, Marukai, Don Quijote which is like an awesome Japanese K-Mart, the local, excellent, Foodland chain of markets (which I've actually worked for) real health food stores (worked for one) along with Whole Foods, just yadda yadda you name it. Muji has pulled out of the US entirely, but chances are pretty good the same T-shirts I used to buy there will be found in Don Quijote or whatever Holiday Mart's called this quarter-century.
There's just something about being at least 2,500 miles from anywhere else; if you need it, it's there. This is why I plan to travel back there *very* stripped down. With as much as airlines charge for checked bags and considering that I'd not put anything very valuable in one, I'll probably just travel with one carry-on bag, as I can buy what little I'll need once I'm back there.
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