I woke up at 7:30, got out of bed an hour later than that, futzed around with things and finally got out of here around 1PM or so.
I rode to Nijiya first and got a musubi with dried bonito flakes in the middle. Also, I inadvertently figured out how the packaging works, where if you do it right, you remove the plastic wrapping and it comes off in such a way that the seaweed, kept separate from the rice, stays wrapped around it with the plastic between them merely removed, so the seaweed is nice and crispy. It was yummo. I just wanted something small to eat and it was perfect.
Then I went to the book store and handed over the batch of books I'd built up. Some years ago I might expect $20 or so for these. I got $8.50.
I rode over to Whole Foods and locked the bike up and used their loo and walked over to the light rail station and rode the Green line to the Convention Center and from there got on a #523 bus to the stop, nearly at the end of that route, by Marukai Market. It was pretty neat, taking less than half an hour. Every time I've ridden my bike out there it's always been a long and tiring ride and I've thought, "Why am I doing this?".
What's funny is, on my way to Marukai Market, I sat near a bunch of high school age (I'd guess) girls who were talking about, well, girl stuff/teenage stuff. An old Asian guy sitting in the very back started asking them if they "knew Lockheed" and of course they didn't, and he was astonished at this, "They went to the moon" then asked them if they were "American" and one gal said she was born here and another said she was not but is a citizen, and this old duffer was fairly sputtering over how any American should know about Lockheed.
The guy eventually clammed up and the girls went back to their girl-talk and got off at Valley Fair. If the guy was trying to go *to* Lockheed, he needed to be not on this bus, but on the light rail that goes out to Mountain View, and stops at Lockheed-Martin in Sunnyvale. Long ago I knew a guy who had just retired from there, who called it the rocket factory or as he said it, "The rockit fact'ry".
The first thing I did when I got to Marukai Market was get one of those packages of sushi with a lot of different fish on it, and went outside and ate that. Then I went back in and got cooking gas, coffee filters, and a sugar-free Lipovitan.
I walked back out to the bus stop across the street from the one I'd gotten off at and got on another #523 back to the Convention Center and from there the short hop back to Diridon Station. So, it was pretty easy and quick.
There was a hockey game on (our team lost) and lots of people around. I went into Whole Foods for a few things and as I was getting the bike unlocked and squared away, I saw that there were a lot of people going in and out, it was maybe 4:45 or so, and there were no buskers or beggars or anyone "working" the crowd.
It was really warm today considering what time of year it was, and very grey all day. There's tons of green grass and things flowering, and even moss making an appearance.
I rode over to the little free pantry by the Peace & Justice Center and put the leftover books in there. Then I went over to the Amazon place and picked up a lot of bubble mailers which is good. Then went by Nijiya again for a couple more things, and got back here.
It's funny that at the Amazon place, they've given up on having a kiosk for people to sign in at, and people just go to the desk, ringing a little bell if no one's at the desk. Also I guess they're worried about electricity costs as the place is really dark inside. There's light near the desk and the lockers, and the rest of the lights are out. It's not all the way dark, but unusually dark for a business.
Also I saw military jets flying around today which was pretty cool. They're hard to spot, being so small in relation to the amount of noise they make. But I finally spotted some, a pair of them going around and then a single one.
So all in all it was a nice day of errand-running.
My theory that it was chocolate that was making me have headaches is still holding up. It's not that obvious, in that it wasn't a sure-fire thing where if I ate chocolate I'd get a headache an hour later. But it seemed like the more chocolate, the more headaches and I'd been eating a fair amount of it. Then I stop eating it completely and the headaches, so far, have also stopped completely.
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