Sunday, July 2, 2023

Another really hot day

 I got 20 things ready to list last night, but before I knew it, it was 5AM and I called it a night. Then the deep-breathing shakuhachi sleep monster got me and I only practiced a bit before going to bed. At least I was able to play Ro dai kan relaxedly with a pretty pure tone. And the other day I discovered how to do that little "chip" at the beginning of a note that sounds cool and is often heard in shakuhachi music. I learn something new every time I pick the thing up. 

I set up a fan to blow on me as I slept and got really good sleep. The amount of "sleep per hour" was much better. It cooled all the way down to 80 inside here over night.... 

The warm weather has the zombies super active, and they're out in numbers. Just before I took off for the day, once went by, dressed as it for winter, on a bike with no tire on the rear wheel. Zombies aren't very good at bike mechanics and seem to just ride the things until they're unrideable and then what's left of the bike is scrap metal. 

I left here at maybe a quarter to 6, to go up to Dai Thanh for some "palmier" cookies and also ended up getting some vegetarian "chicharonnes" which are OK, and a package of Persian cucumbers because they're super cheap and fresh there and they're hard to resist. Also, peanut butter mochi were only $2 for a box of 6 so I had to get some of those. 

I stopped at H Mart on my way back for a big bottle of diet 7-Up so I'd have that to offer when Ken's over and a Perrier so when I stopped at Tom's on the way back to share the mochi, I'd have the Perrier to drink while had had a beer or three. 

I stopped at Tom's and he wasn't there. He'd been there when I rode past on my way to the market but I guess he was out, maybe walking somewhere because his truck was there. As I was leaving, two guys in a truck with some junk in the back actually pulled into Tom's driveway, then pulled right out and took off down Rogers Avenue - that was weird. 

It was good to get back here. There's been staggering zombies, shuffling zombies, yelling zombies, gibbering zombies, and one zombie trying to get some kind of weird mini-chopper with a "Whizzer" engine in it to run, sprawled out in the bike lane with the thing. And even as I write here, a strange, small, skinny Zombess has just staggered through the parking lot, peering into the cars - no doubt to see if there's anything worth breaking in for or sending other zombies around for - and finally wandering out in the direction of Old Bayshore. 

A while later, I saw this same Zombess again, with a zombie walking a bike and their zombie dog, a pit bull of course. Just wanderin' around ... 

When I was out riding yesterday I passed a ton of "smoke shops" and saw Kratom advertised, but one thing I'm kind of curious about is Tianeptine which is a legit drug in the rest of the world, but in the US you have to go to a smoke shop to get it. I mean, if it's OK in Europe it's probably better checked-out than a drug is in the US:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine 

Anyway, under names like ZaZa Red, you can just walk in and buy the stuff, as a "nutritional supplement" which makes it easier to obtain than Kratom and no dealing with pissy coffee shop/kratom bar hipsters. It's just that I realized yesterday I'd spent more than I usually allow myself to spend, to meet my savings goals which is why my spending was very thrifty today, about $15. 

Of course back in Hawaii there are legit kava bars, the only one of which I know of on the mainland here being in Santa Cruz. Nice stuff, when you can get the real stuff. The last batch I got, from "Kumar's Island Market" had obviously been stored without being kept cool and didn't do a thing. And I'm not about to go out to Santa Cruz any time soon - it takes up a day, being 3 hours each way to get between here and there. 

But with  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine it's looking like I could get the equivalent of many cups of kava, for the price of maybe two. It's worth thinking about. 



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