Selenium

 Last night I listed 15 things and got some practice done, lots of long tones. Every time I seriously practice, I gain some insight. It's very clear that it will take years to sound good, but also that every practice session counts. As I've mentioned, if that guy from Palo Alto started at age 60, and now gets a really good sound at age 67, it means that if I work hard, maybe in 7 years I'll also get a really good sound. 

Last night was quite the odyssey also, even if it was just from my desk here, in front of this screen, typing on this keyboard. First, I was really set on buying a Cotopaxi bag to travel with. Sure they're funky looking, but I found it hard to shake the fixation on having a unique looking bag. (Even though if I want my bag to stand out I can always put some bright tape stripes on the straps.) 

Well, REI making it clear they don't want me as a member sort of nixed that. Since I can just walk into the Fjallraven store they've got my business as it stands now. (And granted, REI offers a ton of different things I'll never use like equipment rentals, "adventures", used equipment sales, and rebates I don't care about.)

The other thing is looking for discussions of Brazil nuts on r/keto. It turns out they have a *lot* of selenium in them. Enough so that eating more than 1-2 a day isn't all that healthy. I was eating an ounce a day. One of the discussions even led to an episode of House, M.D. where a CIA agent has been imprisoned or something in Brazil and apparently ate a lot of Brazil nuts, resulting in selenium poisoning. 

They *are* tasty and what they're really good for is chasing pills. If you're swallowing pills and they don't want to go all the way down, there's nothing better than a chewed up Brazil nut for making sure everything goes down.

So now I don't have to worry about buying Brazil nuts again as I'm sure I have enough for the next year. I'm glad I read r/keto and like to look things up because I could have gone for quite a while eating an ounce of the things a day and gotten rather ill. 

I rushed off to the post office to ship a lot of things, stopped at H Mart to lock up the bike and use their loo, then walked over to Home Goods etc. Ross didn't have any new clothes but  I got some more olives from Home Goods. 

Back at H Mart, I got a few things like TP and they had a package of lobster claws on sale so I got those. On my way back I just picked up packing stuff from the computer repair place's dumpster and nothing from the medical dumpster. I got back here and did a lot of putting things away and re-arranging things and eventually settled down and made an excellent lobster claw curry with some shrimp in it too. Yum!