Shakuhachi club meeting

 After dealing with Ken and the bunch of stuff he brought in, I listed 10 things on Ebay and got my usual practice in. 

I got up in time to clean up and have my tea and aspirin and leave here at 4. After putting my check in the bank I went to Whole Foods and had some pork, beans, and mushrooms and a fizzy water and then walked over to Target where I got a number of things, then to Cost Plus Imports mainly for tea but I got a couple of other things too. 

I walked back and looked at the time and realized I had to get going, to go to the shakuhachi club meeting which starts at 7. It was something like 20 after 6. 

I rode over to Japantown and since I'd forgotten to bring some gum to chew to clean my mouth before playing, I got some gum in Nijiya and started chewing as I went over to the temple. It was starting to rain so I locked the bike up around the side of the building where it seemed a bit sheltered from the rain. 

The meeting went pretty well. I played Nori No Miyama a bunch of times, then Rinban wanted us to work on Golden Chain which has notes you're supposed to bend downward a half-step so we struggled through the first two lines of that one. Then he was ready to work on something else but wanted suggestions so I suggested Shinran Sama which we were able play fairly well. "Ready for a concert" Rinban said which was far from the truth. 

I'd say we sounded a lot less awful than the last time but that  there were fewer of us, there being just Rinban, myself, one of the ladies, and Keven the saxophone-background guy. I put a bug in his ear about buying my trumpet too. Old Kevin got himself a Shakuhachi Yuu and even had a fancy cover for it "from Amazon" but during the playing had just played the PVC one he'd started with. 

It had stopped raining when I went out, and I rode home then unloaded things and went back out with the trailer and step stool to check out the medical place, but only found a couple boxes for shipping and a bunch of bags of corn chips to put out for the bums.