Dunbar's number

 I didn't list anything last night, nor did I dig things out of the warehouse. I *did* put almost all of the already listed things away, so there's that. 

I practiced some more, long tones, and went to bed. 

I woke up around 3:30 or 4, had my chicory coffee and nuts, and packed the two things that had to go out today. Not just get packed today, but be delivered and checked in, today. Ebay is really on top of things like this and I found out long ago I can't simply pack things and sit on them for a day or two. Ebay can tell I'm doing that. 

I had room for one more large-ish thing that  I could carry without needing the trailer so I packed that too, and took off. Since they were all just FedEx things, I dropped them off at FedEx. It was seriously hot today but by the time I'd gone out it was down to 83 degrees and there was plenty of wind. 

I decided I had enough time to go to Dai Thanh Market so I rode up there and picked out some things, and waited a long time in line because everyone else had decided to go there too, and it was almost closing. Not a biggie, though. 

I rode back and realized I ought to pick up some macadamia nuts at H Mart so I got those and then came back here. 

I cleaned up the parking lot a bit and tossed the stuff in the HVAC place's dumpster, washed my hair (especially in warm weather it's nice to do so out front if I remember to do it when I come in) and was done being outside for the day. 

My pal Dave in Honolulu keeps going on and on about the "new world order" etc and I told him how it's all either nonsense or nothing to worry about, and asked him if he has any other hobbies than ranting about this stuff. The truth is, he hasn't. 

So of course I had to shoot an email to Pat on the big island to ask him how his lumber and car situation is going and to kvetch a bit about Dave, and say How come Dave can't be more like Eran, a guy who's just the nicest guy in the world and who I've checked up on and is still being a super nice guy, holding tech activities for kids and hobbyists. 

Dave, by contrast, has "burned his bridges" with just about everyone he's known, it appears. 

Once I was back here I started thinking about the concept of Dunbar's number. This is the number of other humans a human can keep some kind of a relationship with. It's based on the human brain size and is commonly accepted as being around 150, although some say that through most of our history human "bands" would have been about half to a third this number. 

In any case if more people know you, and know you're a decent person, the more willing they are to help you, as you've probably been helping them in various ways all along, if you falter in some way.