My sleep schedule is all screwed up. At least, after sleeping from about 11AM to 6PM, I was up for a bit, ended up doing things like starting a load of laundry, and got some practice in.
I need to come up with a list of songs to play, like I did for December except my December card was all Christmas songs. So now I'm starting a list of ... non-Christmas songs.
I worked a bit on "Summertime" which is a good, classic song. One I thought of when I got up today was "Paper Moon" which is another good one. I remember when I was 15 or 16, we were having trouble even getting enough food, and my father would show up once in a while, and one time he visited out of the blue, and took me to the local theater to watch "Paper Moon". I don't know why, it was really random and it was nice, too. It's a great movie. I may have even been able to buy a small popcorn which would have been my dinner. There's a *reason* there was so much nostalgia for the 1930s in the 1970s.
This weekend will be rained out, so there's no reason to worry about busking.
I spent some time last night looking up hotels in Hawaii, prompted by some hints I found people giving each other on Reddit. It appears there's one near the airport, one near Ke'ehi Lagoon (yuck!) and one in the Ala Moana area that's probably the one I'll land at. I'm going to try to find a place in the general Waikiki/University/Punahou area, where there are always lots of students and "non-traditional" students like older folks getting that degree they promised themselves, visiting professors etc.
Before Ken came, I wanted to finish taking apart the last 5 of 8 of these instruments from which the actually expensive parts had been taken, so I wanted to strip out the meters, circuit boards, fans, etc., and I actually got all that done, stashing the parts I didn't want like the cases inside the trash enclosure so they'd be out of sight.
I also checked the other trash enclosure, the one with a perpetually-overfilled dumpster in it, and actually picked up 2 smallish tubs and 1 large tub (the smaller tubs with the stuff and the large tub our own) of medical stuff like blood pressure meter parts, stuff I can sell without problems because it's not prescription and doesn't go into the body, so that's at least a cool $100 and probably at least twice that, that I just had to walk across the parking lot for.
Once that was all done and this latest haul spread out on cardboard up in the loft (the stuff had been rained on) to dry, I vacuumed the shop and generally cleaned up around here, and Ken came by so we had our usual bull session about science and things, and I got my check.
I told Ken that with the rain coming in, I will probably either deposit my check on Friday or put it off until next week, because tomorrow's the only dry day in the forecast for the next several days so I have to prioritize getting the packages out. I can stand getting a little bit wet on Friday or just put it off until next week.
Once Ken was gone I cooked some dinner, and took care of the parts. While eating dinner, I watched a bum come around and take a lot of the parts, pretty much all the parts that are metal, and go over and make a mess in the other enclosure where I'd pulled the medical stuff out. He was long gone when I got the bike and trailer out and took 3 trailer-loads of the stuff to the salt place's dumpster which they put out on Wednesday nights but only like every other Wednesday night so I really wanted to get that stuff into there tonight.
Eventually I did some practice, about an hour as usual. Maybe a bit more.
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