Getting up earlier

 I drank less wine yesterday, basically a half bottle watered a bit to make it 500ml, and twice during the day I felt I had to take a small swallow, but all but a very small amount was saving until bed time, and I slept fairly well. 

I think I woke up at 9, but got up actually around 10:30. I gave myself a hair cut and then photographed 15 things to list on Ebay. Then I packed 5 things to take to the post office and took off around 3:30. I dropped off the packages at the post office and went to the bank to deposit my pay check, then went to Whole Foods. I had chicken wings and a near-beer but actually only drank half of the near-beer because although it was one of the best of them, it felt too sweet to me. I'd have been better off just getting seltzer so I know what to do next time. 

I returned the door striker plate I'd bought at Ace Hardware, and the kid helping me was super nice. An old lady came in asking where the entrance is to "the apartment building" and the kid said he'd walk her there, and he did. It was where I'd locked my bike so she effectively had two escorts. 

Then I went to Upshift Cycles to see about ordering a new pannier set for my bike. The set I have is *really* worn and on one side where the bottom end is tied down, the cord is broken off. They had one right there so I bought it. And I ordered a spare bracket for a Burley trailer which they'll have in about a week. 

Since I now had this bag/pannier set to carry, I turned around and went to the Amazon place for some bubble mailers, then rode to Nijiya for some beef, veggies, eggs, and some salmon sashimi. 

Then I just rode back here and put things away, then I put the trailer on the bike and put some stuff Ken had brought over and took it to an empty dumpster and dumped it, then went to this pile of stuff that's been there, with occasional new things added, behind Galli Produce. I took that stuff, in two loads, to the empty dumpster and dumped it. Then I put the bike and trailer away, and using a large bag, did some parking lot cleanup and ... into the dumpster. 

I found a big black trash bag full of, it seems, bottles and cans. It was hidden in the bushes behind the dumpster enclosure. The problem is, the bushes are so bushy there that bums like to hide stuff in there. So after dragging the trash bag around to the front where hopefully someone will take it away, and got out my clippers and trimmed the oleander back so it's a clear path back there and a much poorer place to hide things. 

Then I cut up the oleander I'd trimmed into smaller pieces and put it into a large black bag of my own, and put that into a different dumpster. My "work" was done here.