Books

 I practiced last night, listed 10 things, drank a bit but not as much as I've been, and went to bed, Woke up at about 2 this afternoon and got going at about 3, with two bags of books. 

I got $10.75 for the ones they wanted at the used book store, then went over to Whole Foods not only to use the loo but to buy some chewable vitamin C tablets like there were tons of in the 70s, about 34903743 different brands of the same thing, a vaguely orange or fruit flavored tablet you can chew up. 

Good old chewable "Acerola" vitamin C tablets are kind of rare now, and expensive it seems. I finally decided on some gummies and got in line to pay for them. I got talking with the lady behind me and we both agreed Whole Foods has downgraded from how nice it was at one time. I said when Amazon bought them that was one downgrade, then described how Amazon first eliminated all my reviews, years' worth, because of "suspicious activity". Then when Prime went up to $180 a year, I wanted to cancel it and found I could not log into my account to do anything, and would not be able to until I spent $800-$1000 dollars on a smart phone, so I reported my debit card as lost so Amazon can't charge me any more, and I don't even use my Prime discount at Whole Foods there any more, although I probably could. 

I was telling her about my discovery that the Walmart on Monterey Highway has the same stuff Whole Foods does but a lot cheaper, when it came my turn to pay for my thing, and I realized I was headed over to Wal's anyway, so I went out without paying. 

I took my load of books over to the little free library/pantry on 7th. There were volunteers with a table set up with information and sort of care kits with things like socks and granola bars and so on in gallon zipper bags. I went right up and put my books on the top shelf, and had a lovely talk with the volunteers about how it's presumed that poor people don't read but how can they if they can't get a library card etc., so I think I made them feel pretty good about putting all those books in there. 

I went over to Lee's and was going to get something small but ended up paying $7.50 for a sort of plate lunch thing of char siu on top of chow mein with vegetables. I got their last soy sauce packet too. Hard to believe a Lee's would be down to their last soy sauce packet but I guess that's how things are now. The guy working there and I had some good laughs. 

I went over to the college to eat at my usual bench. Of course I spilled the requisite amount of noodles and things on the ground because if you can't do that, why eat away from home? Slopping food around is half the fun. And left what noodles I didn't finish for the birds anyway because a bird's gotta eat, especially when it's getting down to freezing overnight. 

I went over to Walmart and got my soda, olives, Febreze, etc. I was going to get chewable vitamin C but thought I'd better not as I had $20 on me and didn't want to use my debit card. I have a tube of "Airborne" to go through first and that will last me until the next pay check. 

I got a ton of bubble mailers at the Amazon place so that's good. Those things are handy. Then I went to Nijiya for things, including some chicken karaage and tomago, which I just ate as I write this. 

I had the bike pretty loaded up when I headed home. At least it wasn't windy. It was grey and wintry looking all day, but other than that kind of nice outside because of the lack of wind. 

I even found 9 books on the way home to start on my next batch.