I stayed up, watching YouTube videos about various people climbing Mt. Everest, and practicing on the shakuhachi. I'm getting stronger, and I practiced the last line in Nori No Miyama a lot because it always kicks my butt. A lot of it is, just as Rinban told us, being nervous or "conscious" of the note that's "difficult" and it seems to amount to tensing up. The solution: More practice!
I was up until past 9AM and called the building owner's office, and the lady coming to pick up the checks (Ken wrote two, for some reason, amounting to about 4 grand) was "on her way".
About half an hour later there was a knock on the door and I handed the checks off to the lady, and once that was done, settled down for a bit and went to bed - it was 10AM.
For some reason I woke up a bit before 3. I thought about how much easier my week goes when I go to the bank on Thursday, and got up and did my standard Thursday routine of going to the bank and then Whole Foods. I had no big plans and mulled over various low-reward things to go, and finally settled on gong to Walmart because I can always find something to buy in there.
I rode down to Wal's and sure enough, found things. I wanted to find cream of tartar to take as a potassium supplement and a tiny bit of it was about $6 at Whole Foods and a 78g bottle was about $2 at Walmart.
I rode back, stopped at the Amazon place for bubble mailers, then went to Nijiya for a thing or two, then headed for home.
When I got onto 10th street, I found myself behind a weird zombie I felt a strange vibe about, so to let the zombie get well ahead of it and thus myself not on what's left of its mind, I stopped at a dumpster that generally has vegetables in it. And it did, green beans past their prime and such junk, but I pulled out - with quite a bit of effort - an interesting black box which turned out to have about 10lbs of those "Asian sugar peas" some of which were going back but most of which are fine. They're spendy in the store, so I put all of 'em into a Whole Foods cloth bag and carried 'em off. I'll sort them, then figure out how much I want to give to Tom (at least half) and how much for me.
I got back here at 7:30 which is just like 10:30 in the before times.
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