Yesterday evening I not only listed a dozen things on Ebay but I found a thing or two in the bountiful dumpster and I found some interesting indoor/outdoor carpet squares and rectangles and also four "Metro Cart" shelves and two uprights, so it was a 2-tripper. I put the carpet pieces upstairs as at the very least I can put carpet on the stair steps and I may carpet part of the loft.
Then after listing, I practiced octaves on the shinobue for an hour and read the rest of "Frightful's Mountain". I'd say it's the perfect book for a teenager who is interested in nature and falconry.
I slept in until 6. Nothing had sold so I didn't have a trip to the post office to worry about, and told myself I could sleep in.
I still checked the bountiful dumpster and only found a few small things. There are bums who live in that parking lot and I think they may be going through it first. Sadly, they may be taking the fiber optic cables and other neat stuff just to sell the stainless steel. I can only hope the bums eventually lose interest, as they do not tend to have long attention spans.
It doesn't matter to me whether I find tons of stuff or not stuff there. My pay stays the same: a fixed $350 a week out of which I have to set aside about 20% for taxes. There's really not any things in there I like to set aside for myself. And I can't just set things aside and put them into a storage unit for myself, to sell later, as Ebay has me under a strange "non-compete" clause where if I started an Ebay account of my own, they'd accuse Ken and I of "shilling" and shut us both out for life. I can't do that to Ken. So whether the bums get most of the good stuff first isn't even worth worrying about.
I've been keeping the shinobue out of its sleeve and on my desk here more and more, and after I got up and had coffee and did some push-ups and doing my little ride out to pick up a few things, I found I can play "Midnight Special" just fine and not only that, but I can then play it again, an octave up! Take that, trumpet!
I think getting back into exercising and building up "core strength" would help me a lot as a flute player. Plus, I must assume when I'm back in Hawaii, that I may be homeless for a while and will need to be physically fit for that. Interestingly, the better I get at playing the flute, probably the less worries I'll have about being homeless.
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