L'chaim!

 I cleaned up and photo'd 20 things last night, all ready to list. I also practiced a bit, working on some new, "more cheerful" material like Jeramiah Was A Bullfrog. 

I'm also working on learning the jazzy version of L'cha Dodi which is .... well ... it seems the lyrics are about the same but there are a lot of different tunes that are called L'cha Dodi. The jazzy version is great and was played by the trumpet player at the last "rock shabbat" and I want to master it. It's nice and klezmerish. 

It's just a matter of listening to it a lot, until I have it accurately "recorded" in my memory. Maybe real musicians call this ear training? 

I packed 10 things and got going to the post office and dropped all but one off. Got two (and this time she just gave me two which is really all I wanted to eat) tea eggs at 99 Ranch and ate those, then went over to H Mart and got some fried fish and a beer and dropped off the last package in FedEx and ate the fish at the bench that's kind of between H Mart and FedEx. 

I found some packing stuff and rode back here and then decided to ride back to Junction Avenue by Fry's and see if there's still police activity there because yesterday there were like 10 cop SUVs there and the helicopter flying around today made me curious. But nothing. I stopped by Tom's to check in and nothing much is new with him. 

Now I was pushed for time and got back here and vacuumed the office and cleaned the bathroom in record time, and started in listing the things I had photo'd and all ready to go. I got the bigger stuff done when Ken came by and by then I had the smaller things in a box and just had to put lids on the boxes I had open. 

I got my check and we talked about things, and the book I'd bought on Ebay hadn't shown up. Good thing I only spent $4 of Ken's money. I said I'll just order the book new from a real book store and it will come to the house with my name on it.  

So after Ken and I had had our bull session and solved the problems of the world, he left and I went to a good Judaica store online and ordered the book new so it will come to the house with my name on it. All it is, is a book on reading Hebrew, that's used in the adult reading Hebrew class held at the temple. It's kind of aimed at kids and has lots of colorful pictures. And it's fun to take the picture of the plagues of Egypt and have the guy with boils saying "Ah've got borls!".