Wet January 2

 I was up pretty much all night. One of the many things I did was watch the French series, "The Effrondement" which is a series of little stories about the doom times. It was OK, but mainly because the internet is so slow, I had to watch each episode in little snippets so it was sort of watching an old "serial" where you had 2-3 minutes of Tom Mix doing something or other, then another snippet... it was fairly good, though. Not as stupendously good as people were talking about, but a fine thing to do on a New Year's Day. 

I woke up a bit past 2, had some coffee etc., and realized rain is coming so I grabbed the things that I'd already packed and not been able to send out on Friday due to rain, and took those to the post office and FedEx. 

I found an almost ripe pineapple in the electric lighting place's dumpster, so I swung by Tom's place and gave it to him and got caught up on things. It's funny too because I took off and as I rode away, saw that pest James driving to Tom's. 

I got back here, put the trailer away (didn't find any packing stuff) and took off again to do some shopping. I rode up to 99 Ranch and after I'd shopped there and had a couple of tea eggs and a can of coffee, it was starting to rain but just sprinkling. 

I rode to H Mart and locked the bike there, and now it was more like actual rain. I walked over to Ross where I bought a couple of T-shirts, then to Sprouts where I got my macadamia nuts and a cucumber, and when I came out it was pouring. 

I hung out in HomeGoods for a while, and bought 20 little chocolate bars for $4, a good deal as they're Cadburys I'm pretty sure from England. I looked around there some more, then looked around in the phone stores, while the rain lessened a bit. 

Then I went into Habit Burger and got some tempura green beans, and while eating those I noticed a young, skinny Asian kid kind of hanging around, like he was looking at the menus longingly. And he seemed to be asking some people at a table ... something. I had $5 left so I got up and said something like, "Hey dude. Are you hungry? I've got some money you can have...." it turned out he was waiting with his family and the father actually thanked me for being so considerate. So that was kind of cool even if it was a faux pas. 

Now the rain has tapered off quite a bit, and I walked back to H Mart, got my bike and rode home very slowly so I don't have a grimy, mud-splattered bike to clean up later.