I futzed around taking some stuff apart, putting the stuff Ken had away, at least to places I'd not trip over it, and did my haircut. I even practiced (a little).
I didn't go to bed until a bit past 10AM, so I told myself I'd not worry about the bank, as long as I was up in time to go to the shakuhachi club meeting. I got up at 5, so that was perfect. Then I got an email, Rinban Sakamoto's injured his shoulder and can barely move it, and Paul Endo, the choir director who's joined the club, is out of town. So no meeting this month.
I hurriedly packed the 5 things I'd gotten out of the warehouse last night, and headed out a bit after 6. It was hot out there! It must not actually be like summer because I don't need to have a fan blowing on me at all times, but it felt summery.
After dropping the packages off at the post office and FedEx, I had time to stop by the iTaiwan store that's where the falafel place used to be. Almost everything in there is (a) full of sugar and carbs or (b) some kind of weird tea with ingredients listed in their scientific names. I picked out a couple bottles of what I thought were black coffee just so I wasn't wasting their time and the two gals in there and I talked a bit. It was pretty nice but there's not much in there I need day to day. Besides, when I got the bottles home and read the label closely, they're some kind of black tea and coffee mix.
I found some packing stuff on my way home and didn't stop by Tom's as he's got a collection of cars there so he's adamant about hosting a collection of bums and I don't want to be anywhere near bums.
World War III continues its slow, gradual, wind-up I guess. The fifth column here in the US has managed to freeze all sorts of things like aid to Israel, to Ukraine, and even things like military officer promotions. I think we're in something like the times in the 1930s if Charles Lindbergh hadn't become discredited or withdrawn or whatever happened to him, and we'd entered WWII with a much stronger fifth column.
Some good news I've heard on the radio is about Rachael Maddow's new book "Prequel" - there was an interview with here on NPR about it: https://books.google.com/books/about/Prequel.html?id=9IrCEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
Maddow points out that Lindbergh looked like a shoo-in for President, "Father" Coughlin was hugely popular on the radio, militias, many directly funded by the Axis, were thriving, etc. And yet, none of the Axis' far-right future for the US came to pass.
I opened two letters Ken had brought over last night. One was from the IRS saying I'm due a refund of $790 or so, which means it refers to the actual $850 or so I just got, or there's *another* one on the way. As long as I don't owe them money I'm happy, and if I do, I get it taken care of right away.
The other one was from Blue Cross saying I won't have (medi-cal) insurance from them after January 1st so ... no health insurance? I guess this means it's time for lots of shots! Not only the flu and covid shots, but I should get shots for RSV, the 2-dose shingles shot, and I'd like to get a hepatitis B shot. So I'll have to do all of those before the end of the year.
I did the final touch-ups on the stain on the standard Shakuhachi Yuu, now I just have to give it a couple of days to fully dry, then I can have a try at putting red paint on the interior. It doesn't look great but it does look a lot less like a hunk of plastic.
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