Dodging the rain

 I had time to practice last night but not time to list Ebay things... finally I've got my priorities right. 

I woke up around 9, and started packing things as well as having coffee and nuts and so on. I had six things that could go by FedEx, and those are what I packed. After getting them all packed I decided to take a break for Korean "Ace" crackers with  butter on them and another cup of coffee, and after that, saw that the little weather thing on my computer said "Rain coming" so I got the hell out of here. 

The thing is, though, that it was dark and kept looking like it was going to rain, but never did. I was able to drop off the packages, get a couple things in the iTaiwan store, find shipping stuff on my way back, and when I got back I still hadn't been rained on. 

I did some cleaning up around the parking lot, and got out my tools and took some parts off of a furnace that had been left out by the HVAC place. And it still hadn't rained. 

I got back in here and made out the little form etc and everything into an envelope for my February pledge to the temple, and rode for Japantown. On the way there, I stopped at the big park that's on Hedding and tried out the chin-up bars I'd noticed there the last time I was by. For the longest time I thought there weren't any, but I'd finally spotted them and noted how to find them again, using a couple of trees as landmarks. So I stopped by there and did some chin-ups. There were some little kids playing around and their mom, I guess, on her phone walking up and down and I just made sure to face away from the kids so it would not look like I was creepy, and did my chin-up thing and hopped on my bike and rode off. I think that place will become my go-to for chin-ups because I go by there a lot. 

I dropped my pledge off at the temple and went to Nijiya. I had this grotty old $20 bill I'd gotten from them, actually, that I wanted to spend and I got some eggs, a bento, and some salmon sashimi and that worked out just right. 

It was kind of neat out riding around in this almost-going-to-rain weather, and enjoyed the ride home. The actual rain didn't start until 7PM or so.