After Ken had left felt very tired and this was the time I'd allocated for practice. Get the listings done, get packing done, foist the FedEx packages off on Ken, all went well. But now it was practice time and I was so tired, I was in bed just before midnight.
I woke up at 9:30 or so. This is the perfect schedule, early enough to live like a normal person and late enough to fit with Ken's night-owl schedule. Ken doesn't stay here later than midnight these days, so even if he'd stayed until then, as soon as he was gone I'd just get the bedding out and go right to sleep.
I just need to get it settled when practice is supposed to happen.
I packed another 5-6 things and got out the door a bit after 1. Then it was onto the light rail with the usual freakazoids and off at St. James, to the post office to drop the packages off, when I walked over to the bank. I walked through San Pedro Square and it was super dead. There was some good-looking "tool" type guy in a suit with another guy, same, being filmed and interviewed, and that was the only thing going on there. So much for busking there in the middle of the day.
After the bank I hopped on a bus to Whole Foods, and same, it wasn't very busy at all. I'm still not sure if there's a "lunch rush".
I got some beef/mushroom meatloaf stuff and broccoli and a near-beer I barely drank any of, and chowed down. Gee, miles of walking and cold autumnal weather makes a person hungry, who knew?
I got on a bus again to Scott street, where I first checked out Patel Brothers, which is a really neat Indian market. I only got a couple of things there but I'd gladly go back.
Then I went into Target across the street and got the same model Omron blood pressure meter the people on Reddit on r/hypertension seem to favor. I'm pretty sure the one Ken provided me here is an Omron and about 20 years old, I'm not sure if it's accurate or not. Omron makes such good stuff I'd be inclined to say it's accurate but I just don't know. Also the cuff on the older one might be too big. So I'd decided to buy a new one to eliminate those factors. I also got a couple of thumb drives - I plan to scan tons of papers and with some of them, I'll keep the originals but with a lot of things I'll just put the scans on the thumb drives to take with me when I go home.
That all done, I hopped on a bus back to the bike shop to get my bike. They'd put on a new chain, new derailleur, new gears on the rear wheel, and I think that was about it. It was a bit under $140 so no biggie. Whoever had test-rode is had put the seat up by an inch or two so after heading out the door I came right back in and the gal there lowered the seat to where it had been.
It was really nice riding back, gliding along, instead of all the walking I've been doing. I stopped by Nijiya for a couple of things, mainly a couple of little packages of boiled scallops to make scallop curry tonight.
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