Nuts!

 I ... did stuff last night. Like, photo'd 20 things to list on Ebay and listed half of them, cooked up a soup using some "seasoned" mackerel I'd bought at Nijiya and wasn't sure how to use, and so on. I didn't practice though because (a) the guys next door were doing their early-morning get-together and I didn't want to make flute sounds showing that someone lives in here, and (b) I was tired. 

I went to bed and woke up in the late afternoon, around 3. I considered just staying in and reading a book, but when I went to wash my hands/face I saw how low the level of diluted Simple Green I had in the sprayer was, looked for the bottle of concentrate, and it was gone because I'd used it up. I'd take a trip downtown to the Ace Hardware and get more. 

I also had another problem. I've been, as part of my latest iteration of the keto diet, been eating a lot of nuts and seeds. I found out, thankfully fairly early on, that Brazil nuts have so much selenium in them that the safe amount is something like one a day. But I still had macadamia nuts, pecans, pumpkin seeds, and sesame seeds. So I've been eating a lot of those. 

The trouble there is that, lately, when I piss there's a burning sensation. I'd done some quick and dirty (literally) testing to see if I was excreting stones, and I don't appear to be. This really came on when I did two things; changed out my chewable vitamin C tablets for hard swallowable ones, and started in with the sesame seeds. 

Going to the doctor could clean me out, financially, so I started my day with 1.5 liters of coffee and ice water with some lemon juice in it. And a sugar-free Lipovitan. 

I headed out at 5, dropped off a bag of trash, and stopped at the little free library/pantry in Japantown to drop off the hard vitamin C pills, some xylitol toothpaste I don't like (no fluoride) and the snow peas I'd originally planned to give to Tom. 

Then I rode over to Whole Foods, locked the bike, and walked over to Ace for my Simple Green. Then had some carnitas and asparagus with cold water at Whole Foods, and after eating went back in for butter, some plain yogurt, and two bottles of pills that might help my hurts-to-pee problem: Cranberry extract and d-mannose. Those two bottles of pills were about $35 each, they really know when they've got you. 

Whole Foods has a new "performer", an older Black guy with no feet, a cross around his neck, and definite views on blackness. "Don't put your bike here!" he exhorted as I'd pulled up. "There's a black guy here who might steal it!". I said I was more worried about the white crust punks. 

Since I was going back and forth to my bike a lot, I talked with him a bit. I told him he ought to make an eye-catching sign that says "Ask me how I cured my athlete's foot" and put it down near his feet. He wasn't irritated by this, just failed to see the joke, which is a pretty good one. I also said he might consider sitting by the Whole Foods sign because the way people come in, he's facing them - the bikes, which he was amongst, and the pumpkins stacked up are distractions.

Finally as I unlocked the bike to leave,  I said he might try over by the Old Spaghetti Factory because it's become a pedestrian-only area there and there are tons of people walking around. I explained how there used to be street musicians and "people asking for money" - I didn't want to say beggars - and that was the go-to place. That I was a street musician myself and I study the "flow" of how people move around. And that I'm leaving in a year so I don't mind telling people about the good places because I'll be gone. "Where to?" he asked. "Hawaii. It's a lot cheaper than here", and rode off. 

I had time to go to Nijiya for some broccoli, ginger, and a can of coffee. 

The "end times" wind was strong coming back, making it a slog, and I had to dodge plenty of zombs. (On my way back almost here, on 10th, a pickup truck dropped off a zomb/zombess pair with a pit bull, so I crossed the street since I didn't want to be a chew toy for any of 'em. But zombs were just everywhere.) Dust clouds too for some reason. I thought, "Hm, in 5 years it might be radioactive dust clouds, rabid zombies with machetes they've fabricated from Tesla body panels, and having to hunker down from say 2-5PM because that's when tornadoes scour the land". 

I got back in and buttoned up for the night. Took some of the d-mannose and cranberry extract. It's nix on the nuts, except I'll allow myself 1 oz of macadamia nuts a day. The rest, well, treats for birds. 

I should mention the good things though. I am losing weight and making progress in my exercises. I don't have "the headache" any more and haven't taken any aspirin in a couple of weeks. I'm spending less on food because I'm cooking at home so much. Even when I got hot bar food at Whole Foods or some restaurant thing I'm spending less because I have to choose low carb stuff. 

I listed the other 10 things I'd photo'd last night, and found things I have to pack and ship, no small job when it's 36 things and some of them did not want to be found. In fact there are two that may not be found. That's just how things are around here. It takes time to get a thing ready to list, time to list it, and often the most time to find it when it's time to send it out.  

Such was my Saturday...