Last night's almost dying experience really knocked me out. I was not able to feel better (headache) so eventually I gave up - I felt OK as long as I didn't move much.
I did practice about an hour messing around on the plastic shinobue. Frankly, it's a pretty crappy flute as such things go. When you consider that you can often pick up a nice Yamaha student flute for $200 or even $100 as the last one I bought was, it's hard to justify messing around with much of anything else.
An actual shakuhachi would be the one exception to this because, due to how short and wide the bore is, it's possible to do neat techniques on one. But I'm thinking I'll hold out on getting a good one until I'm back in Hawaii where they are much more common on the used market.
The guys next door put out a Coke stand-up cooler and it looked pretty nice so I put a fee ad on Craig's List for it, well, after 4 different bums were done with it and the two dishwashers put out too, there was nothing worth anyone coming to see, so I took the ad down again. But what's funny is, after the bums had gone over everything with hammers etc., I looked around and picked up two dishwasher controller units, that I (Ken) can get about $30 for. I bet the bums didn't get any $30 for the scrap metal.
Ken came by and I got my check and he brought a bunch of stuff to list also, and because I felt so lousy I actually got 15 things listed during the day, so then I was free to feel like utter shit while Ken was over (although I forget all about it, talking about weird techie stuff) and just generally hanging out.
The Mejiro company that I'm returning the bamboo shinobue to, suggests I use the US Postal Service instead of DHL to return it, and I said I will. I think I may have actually already had the money reimbursed, which I'll find out when I visit the bank tomorrow.
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