I managed to get 10 things together ready to photograph and list tomorrow, pack things that had sold, and got out of here around 2 in the afternoon.
I made a side trip to Sunnyvale to sell a thing, so my next pay check can be deposited without taking anything out of it. That went well, and I went to Pizza My Heart for a slice and some ice water to swallow a pill with.
Then got on the bus back to Whole Foods, got on the bike and rode to the light rail station. The green train was there in minutes and was pretty much empty so the ride to Winchester Station went fine. I rode down to Lark and then took Lark to University, which turned out to be a bad decision because University runs alongside Vasona Park and is narrow and not really great to ride a bike on in the dark.
Then it got weirder. I got onto Blossom Hill and up and down some hills and then came upon the cross street I thought was a mile or more behind me, Santa Cruz. I did find the Whole Foods though, where I had two slices of pizza, some black coffee with cream in it, and got a bottle of black coffee for later. This Whole Foods was not a friendly place to study, in that the only seating area was outside in the cold next to some idling trucks. That may be a wealthy area but I'd have to be paid a lot to live there.
After eating I found Cherry Blossom road easily and the place where the class was. I sat down and went through Lesson 1 in the Hebrew book, and other students started to trickle in. Needless to say the class was very good.
My back pain wasn't too bad at all, and I kept up with my pills, and when the class was over I suited up for some real cold and took off for the ride home. Here was the 2nd bad decision. I rode to "2nd Santa Cruz" which turned out to be Bascom. I passed Lark and considered taking it to "1st Santa Cruz" which is Winchester, but decided Nah, I know I'm on Bascom, I'll just ride home.
And what a long ride it was! I ended up getting lost on Park and found myself over by Santa Clara University. Once I knew where I was, I homed in on Temple Emanu-El and stopped there for a rest, some stretching, and to take a pill with the rest of the black coffee. It was a very long ride, taking me honestly 2 hours to get home from the class.
So next time I'll take the green light rail to Winchester Station, to Lark, to 2nd Santa Cruz, to the place, and reverse that going home.
I'm just glad it wasn't raining! Up until a day ago the forecast was that it would rain. This is why I'm going to stop fucking around and go ahead and get that Brompton bike, because it's so easy to fold it up and put it into the trunk of a cab, or into a hotel room. On a rainy day I could ride it to the light rail station and from there to Winchester station, then call a cab to go to the Whole Foods on Blossom Hill then ride in from there.
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