Some new rules I guess

 The leek and onion soup I made last night made me feel better enough that I got 10 things listed (and Ebay, in it's usual capricious manner, deleted one) and did a little practice on the headjoint but was really not up to it and went to bed. 

I woke up first around noon because some idiot knocked on the door asking about welding and whether this or that person was here. Because when faced with a place with a big sign saying they do welding, and a place that's unmarked, of course the welding must be going great guns in the unmarked place, right? 

I went back to sleep again until about 3 which is good. 

I'm still tussling with Mejiro about refunding the shinobue I bought from them. So, some new rules are in order. NEVER order anything from overseas. I already have the rule of being very cautious about ordering anything that's not Prime, but so far I'm going to be perfectly content to never do business with Mejiro again. It looks like I'll have to pay the return shipping but the box I've got it in weighs just under a pound so it won't be too bad. 

The plastic shinobue worked out OK because that was one they were selling from inside the US. Of course face-to-face, in person, is really the only way to do things and the way technical systems are deteriorating (ATM at my bank no longer works, sign-in system at the Amazon hub same) it's how I do things these days if I possibly can. 

Gmail has changed now to make it nearly impossible to read a simple email. And, forget about printing out an email. So, if you want to save something (you can't cut-and-paste from Gmail) you have to write it out in longhand then transcribe that to Notepad. It was like pulling teeth to get to read the message from Mejiro that they're out of the office until August 30th, which is even more reason why I deeply regret doing any business with them. 

Internet is slow as hell, of course. Which is sad because I found a new video on YouTube, James Galway at the BBC which is a sort of biography like "Being James Galway" but different. It's got some great footage of him in his prime and also neat stuff like how he'd futz around on a pennywhistle to annoy his dad, playing two at once! And, I believe, a nice shot of him having a go playing a shakuhachi, very well of course. Because I have to stop often to let the video load, it takes a while to get through an hour-long video. Maybe a couple of hours. 

Ebay is hanging by a thread. Last night, as often as not looking for my own items, Ebay could not find them. Now, I can't read messages from other users because their security certificate has been revoked. That's confidence-inspiring! 

Last night I had a weird but kind of neat dream, that I went with my friend in Hawaii to go "shelling" or, collecting seashells. The shells were rather sparse in the dream but unless we really are in the ecological doom times, I know where shells are amazingly plentiful even on "overcrowded" Oahu.