Ken came over last night and I got my check, and I told him my theory, that our sales are down because with two of the "neon" (bulbs) out in the overhead lighting, our photos are coming out too dark. The gloomy lighting was bugging Ken anyway so we futzed around or more like he did, with me handing him up bulbs, and managed to get it down to only one out, and one of the new ones being a bluish-white one that it's almost like 1-1/2 of the others.
After thanking Ken (rather profusely) for the help with the light situation we were talking and it came to me - I told him I just realized now that probably a factor is what I call the "back to school feeding frenzy". I'd noted that it was going on when I saw how quickly sweat pants had sold out at the local Ross. It makes sense! People are spending on getting their kiddos ready for the school year, so of course spending with us is down. But the brighter photos will sure help, I said.
After Ken left I got 15 things ready to list but then decided I'd had enough by about 5AM, then settled in to practicing, while watching a 2-hour movie called "The Impossible" about a family's ordeal in the 2004 "Boxing Day" tsunami in Thailand.
I did lots of long tones and I mean, I'm up to being about to do 10 in a row and even a bit more. So I did tons of those, trying to get the best, clearest tone I could.
When I look at incredible players like Shakuhachi0 on YouTube, I can tell that kid - and yes he is a kid - has put in some serious time. He probably has a top-flight shakuhachi too but that can't make up for lack of practice.
I finally went to sleep in the mid-morning, telling myself I'll sleep all I like and stay in, to avoid the heat I told myself.
I got up at 4 or 5, I think closer to 5, and it was hot all right. No sense in rushing off to the post office for two things, and I was too late for the bank.
I'm able to cool it down to 81 or 82 degrees in here if I don't do any cooking and don't exert myself. I've started more and more to check the weather in Honolulu and while "town" is known to get hot, it's a lot more livable than here. It doesn't get as hot, and it cools off at night. Most importantly, with no winter that gets below freezing to cope with, buildings are much better ventilated and tend to be about the same temperature as it is outside. Here, it's 15 or 20 degrees warmer inside here, so that as I type it's 65 degrees outside, and it's 82 inside. This is why mainlanders talk about 65 as being uncomfortably warm - it is for them because it means it's around 85 degrees inside their buildings.
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