The Bee

 I got 20 of the little modules (anywhere from 1-8 of each one so it's a lot) ready to list but didn't list them. I packed 5 or 6 large things to take to FedEx and called it a night. 

I practiced and moved to the next page, where there's a piece called The Bee. It's not too hard to play, but what surprised me is, I seem to remember playing this piece before. All those years ago when I busked with a flute a bit - it was a student Yamaha I'd bought new. 

At the time, I was "puffy" in that I ran out of air a lot - I mean, even more than I do presently. I don't know why I have so few memories of this earlier, flute playing time. I remember proving to myself that I could always pay for my monthly VTA bus and light rail pass, which at the time was about $70. 

Later I remember wanting busking to pay me $50 a week. It was trumpet by this time and I was able to do that, although the hourly pay was pretty low. 

I woke up at around 3, and got an email from Tom asking if I could check his place - he's got his homeless van-living bum friend, Roy, watching the place but "Roy said he'd check but then he flaked on me". Roy spends a lot of time smoking marijuana, heavily. 

I took off a bit before 5 and took the packages up to FedEx, then went over to Tom's shop where Roy was messing around out front. He's sure he saw someone move around inside, and saw the light shining from inside get obscured by someone moving. We hung out and shot the shit a while, then I had to go. 

I got back here and dropped off the bike trailer and picked up a bunch of stuff to donate, and headed for Japantown. I had time to put the stuff in the little free library there, as well as check a few others, then circled back around to Nijiya where I got eggs and some fresh-noodle miso ramen and so on. I got some fish because I felt like making some fish ramen, but when I got back here I noticed the fish was ... not fresh. It was dated the 28th and today's the 29th. Oops. I cooked it anyway but it was not great. I'll have to watch the dates more carefully.