Lugenpresse

 I woke up around 4, and gradually got the tax forms I needed downloaded and printed out, and filled them in through a combination of following the instructions and cribbing from last year's forms. 

Thanks you Kinokuniya! I'd been there a month or two ago and bought a fine ballpoint pen to do taxes and important papers with, and the one I got there - that was less than $5 - worked excellently. For some reason the print on this year's tax forms is smaller than last year's and it would be awful trying to use the standard cheapo Bics I have around here. 

I did two copies, one marked "copy" in red pen to keep for my own records and one set for the IRS, and wrote out my check for $3005 and change. So I was right, in that I did have enough in the bank to pay my taxes, but I felt I'd not be wise to take any more money out of my bank until after I'd been paid. I was correct as I have about $3080 in there right now. 

I expected the post office to be a madhouse but while it was busy-ish for 9:30 at night, I think, it was not open and I had to use one of the drive-through boxes. There was a guy with a messy car taking lots of time at the one I intended to use and this was actually good because I discovered they have a conventional opening on the other side so I was able to put my envelope in OK. 

Then I went over to H Mart which is open until 10. I had $40 cash on me and was going to treat myself. I got a cucumber, two kinds of sashimi, and a 6-pack of Lagunitas near-beer. 

Around back, I found that one of the workers had put out a milk crate full of stuff, most of it I was not interested in as it was starchy sweet rice cakes in sauce and rice bowls and stuff, but there were three packages of the Korean form of futomaki, with a price of $10 each, and I took those. Two had beef and one had fish cake. 

There was definite zombie activity out there. An ambulance had its siren and lights on as I passed the railroad tracks, and went into a parking lot that's alongside the railroad tracks - a business building where no one will be this late at night, but of course zombies lurk along the tracks. And I saw a few zombies on their zombikes with Mad Max trailers full of their zombelongings, or more likely, someone else's belongings. But they didn't bother me as I was too fast-moving and purposeful, I think. 

I got back here and had a good old sashimi feast with cucumber slices and near-beer.  

I also sorted out and boxed up the result of another food drop, to take to Tom's place. And I took the packages of Korean futomaki and took the fillings and the seaweed wrappings and put those in bowls (a big bowl of the beefy ones and a smaller bowl of the fish cake ones) and put the rice out for the birds. 

Eventually I got around to packing things and I packed all the things I had ready to pack, some of which had gone into overdue status. When I was done I found 9 more things that had sold and have them ready to pack when I wake up. 

Big news right now is the lawsuit by a voting-machine company against Fox News, the main organ of the Fascists.  Fox (Faux) News has admitted defeat, or is afraid of what will come out in a trial, and settled for the usual millions of dollars. Essentially, Faux News was flat-out lying about the voting machines, spreading what Cheeto Benito called "Fake News" and being what he and his cult members called by the Nazi term "Lugenpresse" or "Lying press".

I practiced shakuhachi a bit but not for long. A problem I'm running into is the deep breathing I use in playing is also the deep breathing I use to go to sleep, so I get really sleepy, put the shakuhachi away and go to bed. 

I woke up at almost 5. I packed some more FedEx things and then loaded the bike up with a bunch of food for Tom and my packages and got out of here a bit before 6. 

I went right to Tom's and just started unloading stuff onto the table in front of his place, and the commotion brought him out. We talked for a bit, and he offered me some zucchini he'd just cooked in his rice cooker but I said No thanks, I've just had a big cup of black coffee. 

I went to the post office and dropped off post office things, and then stopped in H Mart as I had two $1 bills in my wallet and about 70c in change so I was going to get a cucumber. Inside the store, I remembered I had about 1/3 of the cucumber from last night left over as I'd saved it for tonight so I got some spicy peanuts instead. 

I dropped off the things at FedEx and found just plain nothing behind H Mart, and didn't really find anything anywhere else, except the electric lighting place had a whole, new, Paris Baguette "Signature Roll Cake" which costs about $20 so I took that. 

I came back here, dropped things off, and set out again with the step stool to the medical place where I found someone was already there. This particular bum said his name was "Ralph" and I held a chummy conversation while we both dug away. My finds were a classic desktop telephone still in the box just like it came from Ma Bell, and a bunch of software CDs. Ralph said he lives in an RV and had electrical power so he was glad to get the microwave that was tossed out, and he got a lot of the little frameworks that adjust to one's head inside a welding helmet. Not things I care about at all. 

With the warming weather, the zombies are certainly out. Some real Mad Max ones out today but none of 'em bothered me. 

My last errand of the day was to take the latest food drop and do something with it. I was going to just haul the 3 boxes of cans over to Tom's but then I thought of something a bit easier. I took the boxes of canned food over to the place by the bridge, across from Intex, where I've often dumped things in the past. I put the boxes on the edge of the asphalt and then cut the boxes all the say open so they open kind of like flowers, putting the cans of food on full display. The most oblivious zombie will see them then. But really, zombies won't touch canned food and my "target audience" are the people who will take the food home and actually cook it and use it.