I practiced "some" last night, an hour by the clock but "resting as much as you play" like many teachers advise but I dunno, I could have used a 2nd hour.
I woke up in time to have my chicory coffee and put labels on the 4 large things I'd packed last night.
As I loaded up the bike and took off, one of the guys next door, I'm pretty sure, called me a monkey in Spanish. Probably something like a trained monkey running around working on a Sunday. He didn't call it out to me but said to his friend so I could hear, the assumption being that I'd not know what he's saying. Well, I did, and I have no counter-argument as there I was, riding off with a bike trailer stacked with boxes, on a Sunday. Meanwhile they're having a cookout.
On my way to FedEx I stopped by the veggie dumpster and pulled out a large bag of green onions. I took that along and went up to FedEx and dropped the boxes off, then got some good "shopping" from the veggie dumpster behind H Mart.
This is the stuff I kept for myself. I picked up some small melons, a few bags of lychee nuts, a small watermelon, some bell peppers, and a bunch of "burro bananas" for Tom and put all that in a big Styrofoam box they had a few of lying around.
I rode over to Tom's and dropped off the big box of fruit and veggies plus I had lots of other stuff for him like a bottle of truffle oil, seasonings, etc. So it was quite a haul.
Tom was there as was his wife, and she and I ended up talking a fair amount. She told me BART is awful, and I said when/if I do jury duty I might just spend the money and take Amtrak, and we talked about retiring. I said 10 years ago I'd never have thought I'd want to retire back to Hawaii, the old place. But now that I'm so close to it, I very much want to get back home. She said she at least wants to spend a few months of the year back in Iceland.
It was kind of cool and windy also, I was glad to ride back here once we'd talked out what we were going to talk out.
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