I got in here, safe from the wind, and messed around with things, got some practice in, the usual yadda yadda. The first line of Shinran Sama sounds good, maybe I should try playing the rest...
I woke up at about 3 after having a crazy dream involving the Royal Family. Don't worry, royals, you're just peachy in it. Nice folks.
I packed 5 FedEx things to go out. Amazingly the wind is giving it a rest. But looking at the weather report, which I live by, it's 100% going to rain tomorrow so I'm probably not going out to go to the bank or anything. Or maybe I will, drip and dry. I'll not know until then, I guess. I suppose I could put on my rain togs and walk out to the light rail and do it that way.
"Do it the hard way... " - Chet Baker.
I packed 5 FedEx things and made the run up there. It was cold but not really windy, and I could see the clouds starting to stack up. Beautiful sky, really. I went over to H Mart and left the bike with its load by the bike racks and went in and got a carton of sake and some small cucumbers. I went back out and looked for the bum. He was sitting down by the end of the front of H Mart.
I asked him some things, Does he know about the various services in this town? Showers and day centers and food banks? Does he have a smart phone? (No.) Does he know how to use one? (Yes.) I told him I've got a smart phone that's not the latest and greatest but is a pretty good phone, and I'll give it to him with a charger and everything. Not sure when I'll be by there next, probably Friday at soonest, but I'll find him and give him the phone and charger etc all together in a package.
If anything then he'll have a means to find out what's around, maybe communicate with friends, etc. He said he's been out on the street about a year. He either needs to get himself under the care of a state-assigned guardian or he needs to learn how to work the system.
So here I am, within a week, complaining about the guy and now I'm giving him a phone and will probably give him some other stuff too. I come across clothes all the time for instance and of course I don't pick up stuff that's not my size, but I can sure keep my eyes out for stuff his size. It just isn't hard to do.
I guess I ought to get a package of rolling tobacco and papers for him too. If he's gonna smoke, he can save a ton of money by smoking rollies.
At least he said the spicy potato chips and dip went down well.
I picked up a lot of small-medium sized boxes and OTC medicines from the EMT training place and some other good boxes at other places so I had a good load on the trailer when I got to the "Liquid Chicken" truck. It was on the other side of Bayshore and the traffic was so heavy I had to go up to where the 880 freeway crosses, cross with the light, then ride all the way back. I gave 'em about $6.50 in change I'd accumulated and in exchange got a bowl of fries on the bottom, a cut-up chicken tender on top, and then on top of that shredded cabbage, tons of pickles, and salad dressing.
I got back here and tucked in, and have enough fries left over to make "beefy fries" tomorrow.
Ken came over, I got my check, we talked quite a while, and for tomorrow the snow level may be as low as 500 feet. So defo a stay-in day. I told Ken that I might not even deposit the check this week at all, as getting packages mailed out is higher priority. He said, "You appear to not be strapped for cash" and I said I've learned over my life to always have savings because disaster is always right around the corner.
The truth is, we're in full-on winter until either March 20 or Easter depending on which you prefer. Ken told me about big trees down in a lot of places and it's certainly cold out there.
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