Well, here we are. After busking last night, eating dinner, coming up with 15 things to list, etc., I stayed up watching all these videos about this weird guy called Daniel Larson and this other guy who I forget the name of who came up with a combination of Pikachu and Sonic The Hedgehog and calls it "Sonichu" and is a bigtime weirdo too.
Before I knew it, it was 7AM. Time for bed!
I woke up around noon then dozed off a bit more with tons of strange dreams. This is the schedule I've tried to get away from, going to bed when most people are going to work, waking up about the time first-shift workers are going home, not getting very good sleep, and being in a rush to get things done like trips to the post office.
I felt really weird when I woke up but had coffee and food, did exercises, normal-type stuff. And busk I must, because I'd made my mind up to.
So I took off for downtown, stopping at Nijiya for a can of coffee and a little box of Meiji chocolates, as they were getting close to closing at 6. They were very busy and the guy accidentally gave me two bags which is kind of funny.
I rode downtown and over to Whole Foods to (a) see if anyone else was busking/performing/begging there in which case I'd go somewhere else, and (b) to spend up the about $23 in $1's I wanted to get rid of.
Except ... on my ride downtown an "interesting" thing happened. I rode on 3rd I think it was, whichever one City Hall is on. And I felt so faint, I actually stopped the bike on the sidewalk diagonally across from City Hall, got off it, and and got down on hands and knees on the sidewalk. If you faint, what can really fuck you up is falling when you're not conscious because you can't catch yourself. So I was on the sidewalk in a sort of a ball next to my bike for a few minutes then felt like I was OK, actually sweated a bit, but OK.
I got up just as a bum came along asking me if I wanted to buy a purse he had - whether he'd nicked it out of a store or stolen it from some lady he'd mugged I had no interest and told him No, Thanks. He was going along the street trying to sell it because who wants a purse when you can have a rock of crack?
I felt OK and rode, not too quickly, to Whole Foods. I locked the bike up - no one was there and it was pretty calm customer-wise. I went in and got a lot of things, using up the $1's and among the things, getting an alcohol-free coffee/latte beer of some type, and some water to rinse my mouth out after having the coffee stuff. Amazingly, I was thirsty enough to have no problem finishing the thing.
I set up to play a bit before 7, and played until 8. I may have missed a huge surge of customers as whoever was on cart duty gathered up a ton of them from the parking lot. But, considering my light-headed spell I felt pretty good being out there at all.
I played away, and except that it was pretty cold it went pretty well. I didn't get a lot of tips but a lot of people seemed to appreciate my playing and I got $42.50, stopping just a bit under the full hour mark as it was cold out there. And Whole Foods was closing. I thought they closed at 9 tonight but they closed at 8. So I timed it just right.
I got back, ate, pulled a lot of things out of the warehouse that I need to pack and ship, did the final bits on getting things ready to list, and watched too much YouTube.
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