I ended up last night, realizing that if I did an all-nighter it would solve a lot of problems.
I packed packages, some for the post office and one for FedEx, and left here around 10:00 I think. I dropped off the post office ones downtown, then went to the bank and put my paycheck in. I'm going to need to start looking at my statements because I seemed to be about $60 short. Either I'm going out and spending money and not writing it down, or there's something making charges to my account and I need to find out what that is.
I rode over to the FedEx that's down the street from Whole Foods and dropped off the FedEx package, and had a cheerful little talk about how two of the FedEx drop-off places by the university are closed now - more business for this one, though.
I went to Whole Foods and it was that odd time when the breakfast stuff has been taken away but the lunch stuff isn't out yet. I picked out a butter croissant for $3 and since the cans and bottles of coffee have gotten so much more expensive, went to the little coffee bar and got a cup of coffee there, spending almost as much anyway, really.
The coffee took so long to cool that I put the lid back on and went back in ... there were some lunch things out now and a guy was raving over how good the chicken nuggets are, how this is the best because they're fresh and so on. So I got some of those, which ended up costing me $5. The guy ended up ahead of me at the checkout too, and he'd worked there "I did the pokey" and injured one of his eyes somehow, and after months of not seeing out of one eye he can go back to work and will get a cornea transplant fairly soon. And he raved about the chicken nuggets again - his girlfriend loves them!
The chicken nuggets were awful.
Once I'd choked those down and finished my coffee I went back inside and got some fabric softener because I really do need that to do laundry and even if it's a couple dollars more, a bottle of their fancy-schmancy stuff will still last me months.
I left there and rode by Philz coffee to see if Gabriel the violinist was around, as it was getting to be "his" time, the lunch hour. But he was not, and a lady selling jewelry from a little stand hadn't even heard of him.
Next was bubble mailers from the Amazon place, and then waiting for the light at that corner, observing the "zombie show" at the 7-11 on the opposite corner and finding myself traveling the same way as a very obese fellow with a little pony tail. I say this only because later tonight, there'd be a bit on the TV news about open drug use on that very corner and there was a shot of the wide guy being hustled into a police car for an outstanding warrant.
I found an interesting book at one of the little free libraries, "Friends And Lovers" I thought that ought to be interesting but in my state of fatigue had my Lawrences mixed up, as in fact this book is not by T.E. Lawrence but D.H. Lawrence. It still might be interesting.
I went to the Nichi Bei store next to get a folding fan. The one I bought at the Obon practice isn't really sturdy enough for use in Obon dancing. I'd observed what people were using and knew what kind I wanted and they had them there. The one I got is made in Japan not China, and is sturdy as hell. It was also a bit over $20 so it had better be.
I got some things at Nijiya and then came back here. I tried not to fall asleep and looked at the jury duty card I was sent again, I have to check *after* 5 each day not before, so I waited until after 5, checked, and they don't need me yet. I have to keep checking in though.
At least when I got back I listed 15 things I had pretty much ready to photo and go. And some things I listed sold right away to the tune of a couple hundred dollars so that's good.
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