Metering

 I listed 11 things last night then just sort of crumped out. I've been following a "As long as it's 5-6%, I can drink ad libitum" policy and .... it's not a good one. If I put 100ml of soju in my cups of diet 7-Up, well, it adds up fast. So I had maybe 400ml of Ozeki "Sumo" sake at 15% to go to bed on which is probably less than I've been drinking by a significant amount. 

So no more beer, no more makgeolli. No more soju because that stuff's rank on its own. I'll taper down on sake because with sake I know where I stand. Instead of 100ml hiding in soda, I've got a little 80ml beaker and can drink it *beside* the soda.

I woke up at 2PM and it was like 59 degrees in here. It was supposed to rain last night but the expected storm, according to the radio, slid off to the South and missed us. But it's still cold. 

I packed some things and had some from yesterday, so 16 total. I took those up to the post office and dropped them off, then  went to Pho Thien Huong for a nice bowl of Pho. It was really good! They've changed it from large and small sizes and different prices to, all the types of Pho are $13. It was as large as the large size at Pho Bel Air and had more meat.With tip it was about $15, for a bowl of Pho that would probably be close to $20 at Pho Bel Air. 

I went to H Mart and did some shopping, the 2-liter bottles of "Sumo" sake are a dollar cheaper here than at Nijiya, and I bought one but no makgeolli or beer or anything else. 

I went by Tom's just to say hi, and we ended up going in his truck to the shady liquor store on Oakland Road where he got a 12-pack of Budweiser and a couple of TV dinners for later. 

Tom then swerved into an area behind Fastenal, which he said is a "dumpster area" and we ended up next to a place throwing out windows in frames and all sorts of stuff like that. I let him play with his windows (he picked up 4) while I checked out another dumpster where I got a lot of heavy duty zipper bags. 

We went back to his place and had a few beers and shot the bull about all kinds of things. One of Tom's hangers-on, a guy named Colin who's probably smart enough but has something wrong where he cant' talk very well, was around and asking a bunch of inane questions about how to insulate the van he's living in, that he's got parked in front of Tom's. 

But other than that, it was a pleasant visit. We talked about various adventures with people we knew in common, and how crazy it is in the Santa Cruz mountains. And music and a bunch of things. 

I finally got back here at about 9:30 which is like being out until half past midnight in the before times.