I got 15 things listed on Ebay last night and got my practice in. I'm aiming for an hour a day but I think gradually it needs to become more than that. Like most students progress.
If I'm to get any Christmas busking in, I need to find some simple carols I can play and get out there.
I went to bed in the morning and woke up around 4, then went back to sleep until 6 for more of those good old weird dreams.
The parking lot family had the kids out and around, and their dog. I think they're tying the dog up to the guy wire of a utility pole at the far side of the parking lot from them and the dog gets bored and barks. It's a young dog in the prime of its life and pretty active, and they probably get tired of the dog in whatever cramped living space they're in.
Other than that it's pretty quiet and calm around here. What a change from when we first moved in, and there were 2-3 groups of bums living in the parking lot here, with their yelling and fighting and so on.
I think a lot about how day to day life will be when I move back to Hawaii. I lived so differently, when I was a young adult out on my own, working and going to college. I owned hardly anything. If someone broke into my place, what were they going to take? My radio? I owned hardly anything more when I moved to the mainland in 1986 to just work.
It's very different now and what changed things for me was my career on Ebay. I learned to accumulate things. Living with "preppers" in Gilroy and there only being work about half the year there, taught me to keep personal stores, of food, toiletries, etc.
So I imagine myself living in a rented room, but there being canned food stashed away under the bed, etc. Not to the extent I have here though. I probably won't be cooking much, at least during the period, perhaps months or a year, during which I'm adjusting to retired life.
At least in the old days, one could pay the "activity fee" at the university and that meant you could do things like use the practice rooms in the music building and use the libraries and just in general be around the campus. I could also "audit" classes, especially in flute.
Plus I mustn't forget, the Buddhist Study Center is in this little bunch of buildings across from the main entrance to UH, that I used to go by almost daily it seemed, and they hold shakuhachi sessions twice a week.
Oh, well, a nice boring day. I took two pieces of equipment apart and listed 15 things on Ebay so I'm getting back to my old standard of listing 50 things a week.
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