Tussin

 Last night I pulled things that had sold out of the warehouse area, then called it a night. I'm starting in on The Collected Stories of William Faulkner. 

Last night my coughing was bothering me so much, I dug around and found a bottle of "Diabetic Tussin" which I'd bought at the CVS years ago and which turns out to really help. It turned a constant itch to cough into much less coughing, that's more "productive" which is the whole point of coughing. 

I didn't get much sleep last night for whatever reason. I got up feeling, as is the norm these days, like crap. In addition to the cold, I'm adjusting to the low-carb diet and that takes a week or two. I weigh out 3 oz. of nuts (macadamia, pecan, and Brazil) and only feel like eating half of them with my coffee. 

I took off at the usual time with 11 small packages, dropped all but one off at the post office, and the last one went to FedEx to be sent on the customer's account by next day air. 

I went into H Mart for another look around for ginseng that's not in a big fancy box costing $100, and found a little fancy box of 10 tubes of "Korean Red Ginseng Tonic"  for $8. Perfect. So I got that and tried one right away - it's a syrup with what tastes like a good amount of ginseng which explains the syrup as ginseng is pretty strong and bitter tasting on its own. 

Next I went over to Lowe's for paper towels and to look at hooks for my "genius invention" flute holder. I'm actually pretty sure I can find the pieces of wood I'll need around here, because some pretty nice pieces of trim get tossed out around here. Or I can say fuck it and find some trim there at Lowe's but the hooks will cost me $30 or more. That's how it goes, I guess. 

I got the paper towels and found that the older lady who used to check people's things for them wasn't there, so since I just had one thing, I tried the self checkout and worked fine. Typically I'm only going there for a few things at most so maybe I'll get used to the things. 

I stopped by the medical scrap dumpster and didn't see anything I wanted other than some foam pieces that had been used to pack something big into a box. I was in the process of pulling those out when an SUV with a barking dog in it pulled up. It was a guy in there this time though.  I said "I'm just pulling this foam out, I'll be done in a minute" and the guy actually drove off. I rode home, carefully as it's hard to ride while carrying the things, and got back in here and buttoned up for the night. 

Ken called and first asked if the internet was working here again and I said it was, I'd sent him an email. "I haven't checked my email yet". How does the guy get by in the modern world, checking his emails only once a week or so? Maybe people are doing things by text now? Anyway he said he's catching a cold or something so he's not sure when he'll be over, tomorrow night or the one after. I said I have some ginseng stuff he could try, and he said he has stuff.  I said he could just drop the check in the mail slot, no need to make it much of a visit, and whenever he wants to come by is good.