Ken came by last night and I got my check and we hung out and talked, the usual routine. He'd also brought the box with the glass flute and two books etc., but for some reason was very coy about whether he had it or not - he probably wasn't sure himself.
He'd also brought a load of stuff to sell so I got a generous pile of ... stuff .... but in all fairness this is a pretty good batch. He even had a bicycle which I'm sure he meant to be a spare for me. I wasn't interested though and eventually told him about Good Karma Bikes and he was happy when he heard about them, as he likes to donate things just like I do.
Eventually we settled down to talk and I opened up the flute package and got the books out and the flute, and blew some notes. I could tell it's a winner by how much the high notes irritated Ken.
At half past midnight it was time for Ken to go, and I worked on putting the stuff away so it's not filling up the office and then ate something and got to work listing the 15 things I had ready to go.
Eventually I was able to try the flute out and it looks like it's going to be a real winner. The books are kind of simplistic and turn out to be the very same format as pennywhistle music but that's a plus because it means there's a sea of stuff out there for me. A lot of it is free online too.
I did a pretty decent "Silent Night" - a beautiful song - and Danny Boy, and could put filigrees and ornaments on too, so yay for the 6-hole flute!
I've sure spent $120 in worse ways.
I decided I'll go to the bank tomorrow, as I was having fun with my flute, and I'd sleep as much as I like and let things work themselves out. I also finished a load of laundry I'd started a day or two ago so that was done, and although I only hung it up at 2AM or so, it's dry now because the loft is like a big dryer this time of year.
Ken's first thing to say about the flute was, "What if you break it?" I looked in the paperwork and it turns out that if I do so, I can send the pieces back, in the box with proof I'd bought it from them (and not second hand or something) and they'll replace the thing for $10 and shipping.
I woke up around 4:30 which gave me time to pack three more things that had sold. So I had six things to mail, and one additional one that had stuck to the box I'd carried packages in yesterday. White bubble mailer + white tub = a pretty good job of hiding out. So at least that one had to go!
While riding I thought a bit and remembered I had a Home Goods and a Ross right there across from H Mart. And I had enough money on me (I thought $8, I actually had $13) to buy a towel or tablecloth or something to use as a photography background.
So on my way back from the post office I locked the bike at H Mart and walked over, looked in both places, and settled on a towel from Home Goods. And I even had enough left over to get a nice piece of fish that became tonight's fish soup.
I headed back from there and found a few things to pick up and checked the medical dumpster - there were no clothes and no hostile zombie, and there was at least one big piece of packing foam so I went back here to drop things off and went back with the trailer and got that piece of foam, an even bigger one, and a smaller one too. And on my way out with the trailer I'd loaded up all the stuff I'd left by the trash enclosure that the bums didn't want, and put it in the HVAC's place's dumpster.
Then I got in, took a couple of things apart and got together 10 things that I think are pretty high value. I've also been going through the "items eligible to send offers" on Ebay to drum up some sales.
Our sales are awful right now and I can't figure out what's going on. If we're headed into another 2008 then I know exactly what's going on; we're heading into another 2008. But there are a lot of other things I can at least try doing. Ken *can* keep going at a loss like this for another year and after that I don't care. But I'd rather leave here with things going well.
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