Wintry out there

 I rounded up 15 things to list and got rid of one plastic tub that several of them were in, and checked the weather report - it looks like the whole weekend might be rainy. 

This kind of pissed me off, so besides starting a load of laundry, I also gave myself a haircut and trimmed and shaved and so son. I didn't practice because I wanted to get up at a decent time. 

I woke up around 2, and by 3:30 had scrubbed down the rest of my body which really needed doing and had fresh underclothes at least. 

It was up to 59 degrees so I thought I'd be OK without bringing my hat and without both thin sweatshirts but just one. 

I took trash to my "favorite" trash can, then took packages to the post office. then went to the bank where my estimate and what I really have in there is only $3 off so I fat-fingered something or there's a charge because I get paper statements sent to me, and that charge applies if my account goes below a certain amount. All good though. 

Then over to FedEx to drop off one package, and finally Whole Foods where I got some buffet food and a bottle of fizzy water and ate at one of the benches downstairs. It had looked wintry when I set out, and now it really felt wintry. Cold and windy and grey. I also got some Ruiboos tea to try as I'd heard about it on r/casualUK and some "better than bouillon" because I guess I can't get Bovril, another institution on that sub.

I went over to the Amazon place and got a lot of bubble mailers, then over to Nijiya for a bunch of things. Blondie said, "I've been reading more of that book" (Pau Hana) "And I never realized how big a deal sugar was in Hawaii". I told him about watching the cane fields burn as a kid, and the obligatory sugar mill tour in high school because if you were a good student you might get a job there, and the railroad all around the island to transport sugar, and going into a small abandoned field as a kid and finding a nice juicy stalk to chew, when we lived on the windward side. 

I got a lot of veggies and a half dozen eggs and the funniest thing there was, a 5-pack of Sapporo Ichiban miso ramen, just for the damned little packets. I looked at various bottles and things of soup stock and they all worked out to at least as much per serving so, for now, buying all those noodles just for the accompanying spice packets will do. 

I was surprised my Nijiya purchases were only about $30. It's amazing how much less one spends when one doesn't drink alcohol (and, staying away from coffee). 

I really *was* cold and wintry coming back, and I got back here, unloaded, then hitched up the trailer and got some boxes and trash and stuff I'd thrown into the trash enclosure and took that around to the FedEx dumpster and tossed it in, then came back for a big box and the step stool and went over to the medical place but only found a couple of boxes good for shipping long things like sticks of IC's. The guy came out of the door there and said "Don't make a mess!" and I said, "I always leave the place cleaner than I find it" and he went right back in. No doubt there are cameras out there so he could see I'm telling the truth. 

I found another box good for putting junk parts in, and got back in here. Then I went to work on the ramen packs, taking out the flavoring packets and taping them back up and then putting them all in a larger bag and put them out for the bums. We've been "food bombed "again - Second Harvest I think it is, will leave these random boxes of canned goods, peanut butter, and 1-lb bags of rice by the trash enclosure so the ramen noodles went there too.