A Balmy 37 Degrees Out

 First night of something like real sleep, I woke up a lot but at least no weird dreams. My computer said it's 37 out at 4 in the afternoon, then corrected it to 53. Well, at least I won't have to worry about frostbite. 

I had a cup of tea and some aspirin, and loaded up the first load which was post office and FedEx stuff, and since I had $7 on me, had two chicken thighs at the chicken place. On the way back I checked the EMT training place and got a few good mailing boxes anyway. 

I got back here and unloaded, and loaded up the 2nd load, which was just 3 large FedEx boxes. I also bagged up the smart phone, cable, and charger, in case I found the bum - I'd promised to be by last Saturday or so and I wasn't. 

Traffic was insane, it seems everyone's been called into the office these days and it was cold and windy, not a lot of fun out there. People use their horns now, too. I made the run to FedEx OK, dropped off the boxes, then went around looking for the bum. I checked around H Mart, the stores around the corner from there, Starbucks, and even went into Panda Express to have a look at the people sitting in there, thinking if I were a bum I'd be near the back trying not to stand out. 

Nowhere to be seen, I thought. Wait, what about by the McDonald's? Sure enough there they were. I got the phone out and said, "Here's the phone I was talking about" and we talked a bit. I got their name, and they claim to be 15 years old. And yet there they are, outdoors, huddled against the outside of the McDonald's, smoking cigarettes like a fiend. I got their name too which I'm not going to divulge here. 

I picked up more packing stuff and a thing or two to list, small things, and got back in here. I put things away and got things pretty neat for when Ken was supposed to come by, at 7:30 he said, which turned out to mean 8:30. 

I got my check and we hung out and drank tea, and talked about all sorts of things. He took off at a quarter to 10. 

I cooked up some "Curry Mee" without the noodles but with veggies instead, and with salmon. It came out pretty well. I crushed up the noodles and put 'em out for the birds.  

Then I got to work sorting out the boxes and boxes of stuff I've listed but not put away, plus dug out the things that have sold - only 4 of them but about $800 worth and not even big things. 

I still have to put some things away that will take some light re-organizing, plus I'd like to do some things like laundry and a haircut, so I think I'll take tomorrow as an "in" day. The sold things don't have to go out until Friday and I have enough stuff here to cook good meals; no need to go out. I can go to the bank on Friday and then go out and do more shopping in Saturday, then rain comes in again.