Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The storm that spun

 Well, the latest storm came in from the direction of Hawaii, stopped right over this area and sat there and spun, wringing out a good amount of rain and high winds, all through last night. It's over with now although the tiny remnants of clouds are still rotating a bit. They're calling it a cyclone of some type. 

I got out the shinobue last night and worked with it a bit, struggling through "Twinkle" in the shinobue book, then called that enough and practiced the shakuhachi about an hour. I had trouble with the high notes but kept at it and eventually was getting them kind of OK. 

I can see why the character in the anime "Nitaboh" had a trusty shinobue to play when his shamisen was down for repairs. It's small and easy to carry around, can play a large body of music, and can get plenty loud. 

I got going at about 5:30 with a ton of boxes loaded onto the bike trailer and the smaller stuff in two Whole Foods bags. Post office first and then FedEx, except I stopped in front of the H Mart (I have this theory that someone thinking of nicking my bike might hesitate if it's loaded down with a huge trailer load of boxes) and went in and got a cucumber. I saw the bum, and told them about the Bill Wilson Center and they were like, "Meh" they just asked for "a few dollars or a cigarette". 

I dropped off the stuff at FedEx, got a few boxes around back, checked out EMT training place where I got a lot of Datrex emergency rations and another box or three, and got back here. Unloaded everything and took off again for the medical place where I found a couple of things. 

 


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