9/11

 It's 9/11. 

After such a busy day yesterday I took a couple of things apart, and also got things out of the warehouse area that have to be shipped out. That was a fair amount of work as it was about 35 things. 

I did a little practice last night on the Hall flute and sounded terrible. I felt very discouraged. I told myself that it makes since since I've not put in hours and hours on the thing yet. I just found something semi-interesting on YouTube to watch and played it a bit and after having put it down for several minutes picked it up and played and it sounded wonderful. I was also very tired so I went right to bed after that. 

The Hall flute requires a different embouchure than a concert flute or, needless to say, a shakuhachi. The edge of the blow hole needs to be right on the edge of the lip, apparently. This needs to be made unconscious by tons of practice. 

I woke up in time to pack 17 small things and took them to the post office, then went into H Mart for a cooked fish and some bean sprouts, then checked my membership card and I had something like 1007 points and you get $10 for every 1000 points so I got my $10 gift card and then since you have to spend it all when you use it, got some gum too, and it ended up being $9.88 or something like that so I got a little change back and the stuff was free. 

I stopped then at Lowe's for some PVC pipe pieces to try making my new light setup. And then just rode back here. 

Where, after having my fish and bean sprouts, I packed another 20 things. These were almost all medium to the lower end of large, so that was my evening, as far as working goes.