Edelweiss

 I was up all night finding things that need to get packed and shipped. I did some practice on the glass flute also, working on the song "Edelweiss". 

I'd kind of planned to go out busking today, however much I suck. But I'm not ready yet to play for an hour or so; my hands are not used to the position (although it's a lot easier than than the concert flute) and while I can pick up a new song on the glass flute much more easily than on the trumpet, I don't have the smoothness yet that comes from 100s of repetitions of a piece. 

I sent out 50 more offers (1250 to go!) and hence, when  I woke up at 4, I saw that the things I have to pack and ship number about 40 now. Call me Emeril, because we're cooking! 

I took off to do some shopping at around 6. After dropping off a bag of trash in a nearby dumpster, I rode straight up to Dai Thanh for some things, then rode back to the secret exercise equipment place and did some exercises, then to 99 Ranch for a 4-pack of "Penang white curry" ramen which is a nice spicy red tropical curry with "coconut milk" which is actually coffee creamer. 

I'd also bought some "black garlic oil" ramen, a 5-pack, at Dai Thanh and back out at the bike, I opened them up and took the spice packets out kept those, putting the packages of noodles, in their larger package, for the bums. It's not the most economical habit, but I like to use ramen seasoning packets but not the noodles. It's not any cheaper to buy the spice packets alone (it can be done, by ordering them online, and the selection is extremely limited) so I do it this way. And the bums will eat the noodles because bums will eat just about anything that is strictly hand-to-mouth with no preparation needed. Birds won't touch the things. 

I parked at H Mart and walked over to Ross, found a nice fleece top for the winter, then got a lb. of macadamia nuts at Sprouts. I had a bit over $10 left so I "invested" that in two packages of olives from Home Goods. 

By this time it had been dark for a while, and just past 8. The equivalent of being out until 11 in the before times yadda yadda. I bounced back to H Mart and they had a package of lobster claws so I got that and a couple of packets of coconut cream powder (to use in Penang white curry instead of that nasty coffee creamer) and that used up the $8 or so of change I was carrying around in the bike bag.