Temperature inversion

 I was up all night, at least got in an hour octaves practice on the two shinobues. I didn't sleep that well but better than the night before, and woke up at 4. 

Usually it's 10-20 degrees warmer inside here than outside, but when I woke up it was 95 degrees outside and only in the low 80s inside. 

I finished up the things I'd staged, and it wasn't too bad, riding up to the post office. It wasn't even as busy as I expected. Maybe people were taking the day off due to the heat. 

After dropping off the one FedEx box (not sure what's going on, shipping costs are 'way up and for some reason two boxes were cheaper to send by the US postal service) I checked the organic dumpster and got a cucumber, and got yelled at by some lady on a PA system they have set up. She rattled off a lot of stuff like how they save photographs of people loitering around and supply them to the police and so on. Like the police would bother. I said, in the hope they have a microphone set up too, "All that, for minimum wage!" and took off. 

The dumpster where I was getting all the neat medical stuff is a shadow of its former self now. They're not getting stuff, or someone else is getting it, or they're being more careful or something. I got a little point-of-sale printer which I took apart, and that was about it. 

I'm working my way through "'Tis" by Frank McCourt, and ought to get a copy of "Angela's Ashes" to re-read. I'm really glad to have such a nice supply of books, from the little free libraries. The internet continues to get worse and worse, and YouTube "breaks" a lot these days. It's OK as long as I pick really old stuff to watch. 

There had been a pretty new looking, red Toyota truck parked in front of the shop all day and in the evening I found out what the deal with it was. It's Chuy's. He bought it, I'm pretty sure, for $58k. He just barely speaks English so it's a little hard to communicate, but when I said, "Cinco... ocho ... thousand?" he agreed. Wow. I told him how beautiful it was and how great, and I'm sure he felt great driving it off. That's a LOT of money considering he could have had a whole new engine put in his old Saturn wagon for a few thou. The guy sure worked for it though, and like as not he paid cash.