A machine-like existence

 I did a ton of things last night, plenty of work, but in the end was too tired to practice. I woke up in time to pack some things, 8 or a dozen or something. 

I got the things to the post office and FedEx, parked the bike at H Mart and walked over to Ross. I wanted to find a sort of light jacket. I like the "Marmot" one I've got but the lining really is falling apart. Now that I think about it, if I'm going to stay here a couple more years than anticipated, I might go down to the outlet stores in Gilroy and see what I can find there, because I believe there's a Pearl Izumi store and no doubt ones like Patagonia and North Face. 

I ended up getting two T-shirts and a woven shirt for when the weather warms up. It's still cold now. 

I went over to Lowe's and got a wooden plaque, the kind used to put up house numbers on, to hopefully fix the situation with the TP holder in the bathroom. One side is just about falling off of the wall, and what's needed is to drill fresh holes in the drywall and my plan is to mount the holder on the plaque which is then fastened with new holes. 

I got back here and cooked up a package of the Kosher ramen I got at Walmart and mackerel, but instead of frying the fish, I thawed it and filleted it so it was just fish chunks going into the soup. The soup was great and the place won't smell like fried mackerel for 2 days. 

It seems like if I'm Living My Life Right(tm) I'm throwing away a bag of trash a day, coming home with at least a dollar in change, and doing my part to use up lots of paper towels and cleaning chemicals like Windex and rubbing alcohol. Inputs and outputs, hey it's my old friend from elementary math, the Function Machine! 

Another function is to spend money, so seeing that the registration for the Passover seder is open now, I signed up. It's $70 for non-members and I could round it up to help pay for other members so I rounded it up to $100. The thing is that no one's turned away for lack of money, but I've got the money and am happy to pay my share and what I guess is half of another person's. I'll bring some wine too and some decent stuff, not the cheap plonk I've been buying.