Yesterday was hell. At least I got some practice in. Now I think I should have been grinding away on Nori No Miyama from the day after the last shakuhachi club meeting, because it's all I can do to get in maybe an hour a day, after everything else is done and I'm tired and ready to go to bed.
I woke up at 4 in the afternoon. I was really tired out. I called Ken to ask him if the landlord was coming over tonight or Friday, and Ken said today, at 6PM. Great.
I "sanitized" the place, putting my half-washed clothing upstairs along with some other incriminating things, and wanted to get at least the one large thing I had to ship, out of here. So I hurried, cutting my finger, and got that packed and was out the door a bit after 5.
The drop off went fine, and then I went to Five Guys and got a burger. The guy at the register is this guy with an amazing voice, and I told him so. "I want to hear you on the radio a year from now" etc. Seriously, that guy's got a gold mine right there in his throat, and I'd love to read someday about how this great singer was working in a burger shop where people kept telling him about his voice...
I ate outdoors and then swung by the EMT training place (nothing) then the tire place (got one big box) and was back at the shop a few minutes after 6. Ken was there, but we had to cool our heels for half and hour, maybe 45 minutes, until the landlord's representative came by - She was actually very nice, and we had a fine time showing her around and explaining what we do, and then a big of a fun brag-fest where Ken talked about his rocket days and I brought up how I'd built the prototypes for those credit-card terminals we all use.
Fun, fun. Ken got a big sheaf of papers that's some kind of weird additional thing to the lease, and Ken's worried about that. We were able to clarify a lot of important things, though so I guess it's what business types call a "very productive" meeting.
It was supposed to rain tomorrow night but now I don't see any rain in the forecast, just cold. That's nice. I got my "enhanced" Shakuhachi Yuu today too, as Ken had brought it along with my other mail. I don't notice a big difference in playing from the one I already have, but I'm tired as hell, I need to do a serious A/B test, plus I suspect even more now that the plain one I have has had some things done on it by Monty.
In any case I'm not taking the fancy one to the shakuhachi club meeting tomorrow night. I'd gotten it because I thought I might be jetting to Hawaii in two months' time rather than two years', but Dave, the guy on Oahu, is pretty hopeless and all through his own doing and won't accept help. At least I have an interesting pen pal. Two, really, as all this stuff with Dave has me talking more with Pat on the big island too.
Ken and I talked a bit after the landlord's representative lady left, pretty largely about the future of this place. The way I see it, if I'm leaving in 2 years that gives Ken 2 years on his own to sell all of this stuff off. He says he loves his day job so he's not going to leave there. I mentioned a guy I know down in Los Angeles who might be able to buy all this stuff here in one swoop - a million dollars.
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