Last night I got a good load of books ready to take to the used book store, futzed around with other things, and got a really good amount of shakuhachi practice in. I worked out a cute little tune from episodes 1-2 of Victory At Sea, which I was watching. That's pretty cool.
I woke up at noon or so, got up around noon-thirty, made a cup of coffee and cleaned up a bit (washed hair and shaved, yay me!) and got out of here just a bit after 1 with many pounds of books hanging off of each handlebar of the bike. I stopped for a couple of tacos from Tacos Chencho firs thing, easy when they're set up right at the end of the building. Those were good!
The wind's from the South so it was hard going. I dropped off my pledge money at the temple, got rid of some trash, and eventually got to the used book store. While looking at neat things like "R. Crumb's America" they evaluated my books and offered me $19 cash or over $30 trade credit. "Eh, I've got trade credit I'm already not using, I'll take the cash".
I went over to TAP Plastics and got a few things for the many projects I have going on around here.
A rule of the used book store is you have to take the books they don't want back with you so I saved the books I want to put on Ebay and took the others to the little free library/pantry on 7th and then got some day-old croissants from Lee's. This time they were two to a bag and not the really big ones.
I went to the Amazon place and got a lot of bubble mailers, then over to Nijiya for more shopping.
I got back here, put things away, sipped some of the cup of coffee I'd made, and packed two small things and loaded all the packages up and offloaded them at the post office and FedEx. Then I went to H Mart and got watery beer, green onions, beef, some spicy peanuts, and some weird potato ramen. After loading the bike up, I went back in for an on-sale 6 pack of "Cass" beer.
I rode over to Tom's and he had a friend there, Colin, who used to work for the paranoid guy who had a sort of small newspaper/Pennysaver distribution company. Colin lived in back. I offered beers all around and Colin wasn't having it but Tom sure was. The plan was to go to Burger King but eventually Tom said he's watching his figure or something and Colin took off to go on his own and Tom and I drank Cass beer and talked and laughed it up.
Tom, it turned out, has been really "Jones'ing" for a beer, and I'd thought, What the hell, it's going to rain the next few days, might as well hang out and have a good time. I expected the Cass beer to be awful but Tom said it was good and it tasted OK to me.
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