I listed 20 things last night and then told myself fuck it, I won't have any plans for Saturday. I'll just sleep and go as it feels like.
I took the last of the Diabetic Tussin which did seem to loosen things up but as I saw mentioned online on WebMD or someplace, it does interfere with going to sleep. I had lousy sleep, really, in 3 sessions with 3 weird dreams.
I finally woke up at 7 in the evening. I'd kind of had a plan to do some shopping, by going up to perhaps Dai Thanh then hitting 99 Ranch and H Mart on the way back. But I'd already slept past the time Dai Tahnh closes, at 7. The last time I was there, they were out of French Market coffee in the orange can, which I drink tons of. H mart had it the last time I was by, though.
It's bloody hot. It was over 84 degrees in here when I woke up, and once it cooled down below that outside I opened the door.
I left here about 7:45 and rode up to 99 Ranch. It was night-or rapidly becoming so, so the more "interesting" zombies were out. There was one zomb' with a light blue girls' bike fiddling with it by the side of the road on Hostetter, and as I turned into the 99 Ranch parking lot, saw another zombie with a working kids' BMX bike and wearing an interesting get-up that involved having lots of torn plastic bags tied to himself. It gave the effect of being a big bird. I wonder if, in areas where people can't afford bike lights or the batteries for them, this is a "be seen" technique used by cyclists, who are probably also riding anything they can get.
I went in and got a can of French Market coffee. Dai Thanh market had been out of the stuff the last time I was there so I decided I'd just get it where I could. I also got some cash back to put into savings which was my reason for going up there first, as H Mart doesn't do cash back.
Done there, I rode over to H Mart and got a few things, then went back in and got some garlic and jalapeno peppers and also looked at the various yogurts. I was thinking that if I got some yugurt without sugar added, "live" cultures, etc it might do me good. But they were all like candy! Or like drinking a "full fat" Coke. So much for that idea.
Outside, at the bike racks, I found both of the aforementioned zombies, the birdy one helping the other with the pale blue girls' bike. I said, helpfully, "What's wrong with the bike?" but they ignored me. Fair enough. I unlocked the bike, put the lights on, and got out of there.
I rode back here and traffic was surprisingly plentiful given the late hour. I turned in at Zanker and crossed over to ride home going the wrong way (using the bike lane) like I always do, and after turning, noticed a zombie pushing a bike, dressed all dark due to fashion sense or more likely filth. My turn had made me avoid the damned thing. They're just everywhere...
I got back here, put things away, and relaxed with the door open due to the heat. I thought I heard a little sound outside, but looked and didn't see anything. Then I heard a sound again and looked and there was a zombie out there. I shut the door and buttoned up, and observed the zombie.
This zomb' was, like the others, kind of interesting. No shirt, backpack, and what I thought were tattoos but were actually filth. It had a shopping cart and held a broom. It checked out some stuff left out, a couple of Apple laptop lids and an empty hard drive sled, and smelled them carefully before putting them into the cart. Moreover, it actually seemed to *taste* the things.
It wandered around in the parking lot a good long time because it's not like a zombie has anywhere to be. The funniest part, even funnier than watching this thing *taste* a drive sled, was it staring through the fence around the other trash enclosure that has a dumpster and some junk in there, like a little kid staring into a store window displaying the best Xmas present ever. It fished around through the cracks with the handle of the broom a bit, looked around aimlessly, and eventually wandered off.
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