Trip to Mega Mart

 I fiddled around with some things last night, practiced before bed but not enough because the deep breathing involved makes me sleepy, and got to bed. 

I got up with just enough time to shave and clean up a bit and get going for the bank. Surprise surprise my account balance matched my calculations to the penny. 

I rode over to Whole Foods and saw on the sign by the SAP Center that I had 15 minutes before the next #22 bus came so I got a "chocolate" croissant and a bottle of coffee and was halfway through each when the bus came. 

I rode to Sunnyvale, and ended up talking with a lady in a CWA jacket (Communication Workers of America) and she'd done everything right - put in 50 years with the phone company, however the name of it changed, and that's the right way to do things. We talked about the flute and the shakuhachi a bit, and I told her the "Irish traditional" flute doesn't have keys to bother with either, and since she'd played sax and clarinet also, she'd know about open holes. All in all it was fun talking with her and it made the ride go by sooner. 

I got off one stop too early for where I was going but it was an easy walk. I looked around in Dick's (hehe) Sporting Goods, then in the Ross which turns out to be really blah as Ross's go, then walked over to REI. 

REI's a one-time $30 lifetime membership, and I spent quite a while looking around in there at luggage and bags and well, just about everything else. There's a ton of stuff in there I've been considering getting, but from 4-5 other places, each one an arduous ride away. Plus I'm pretty sure I want to buy a pair of "Olukai" slippers there. They're enough cheaper for the same thing than Dick's that it would pay for the membership right there. 

They have a full-on bike shop in there too. So I want to take some time to think about it but since I'm so against online shopping, it looks like I'll be getting things for the trip home, there. 

On the way back I stopped at "Mega Mart" which sounds like Mega-Lo Mart from King Of The Hill but it's actually a Korean market. I looked around and ended up spending $50 on various things, even a couple routine things like a can of coffee and some TP. So I had two big bags in hand when I got back on the bus. 

By this time it was getting kind of cold so it was with relief that I got off across the street from Whole Foods, hung the bags on the handlebars of my bike and rode home. I picked up a few books on the way back too, just from the one little free library I checked. 

I got back here at 9, the equivalent of midnight in the before times.