Sunday

 Sunday and at 11AM it's 51 degrees out so it's sunny but not all that warm. But tomorrow it's going to rain again so I have to do things today. 

I'm not out busking with my new cornet because, in the same way Leroy is doing things with his new Selmer sax, I feel it's too nice to take out onto the street and since the Connstellation is so heavy, the plan is to sell that, sell the Yamaha trumpet, and once I've got the cash saved up, go to Hornucopia in San Carlos and find a nice short cornet with a shepherd's crook, used, that can be my busking horn. 

Interestingly, at the music store on Friday, the ditzy guy let me hold a Bach model 37 "Stradivarius" trumpet which is considered the standard professional horn. "Wow, it's heavy" was my reaction. He then went into a little lecture about how Bach-Selmer had their brass sheet supplier lower the quality or something and they didn't check up on it, the result being these heavy horns. 

Well, heavy horns are not for me. But maybe this is why, among those who pay close attention to such things, the trumpets etc made during this period are considered not as good or "inconsistent". Meanwhile a Yamaha Xeno is going to play like every other Yamaha Xeno of that model. 

I packed two things to send FedEx and as I was taking off for there, noticed good old "Renee", a homeless "lady" who was a constant troublemaker who lived in the parking lot here and fought with everyone, even her own son and daughter. "Renee" was picking up trash in the parking lot, which was her old ploy to make herself seem like someone people would want around. It didn't work. 

I rode a couple of circuits of the parking lot here, making sure to give her a look like I'd give to an especially annoying pest animal I'm about to "retire" with a pellet gun. Then took off to take the packages to FedEx and on the way back rode around the larger area a bit to look for "Renee's" RV. She's always had this distinctive RV with the roof painted dark green. I didn't see it but I saw her walking toward an RV that's been parked on the public street in front of the complex here for a week or three. 

Then I took off for downtown. I had a bento at Nijiya and Japantown was buzzing. Hence I saw with some other people at one of the tables in front and had a nice talk about Hawaii, Japan, etc. Then I rode over to the Amazon place where  I got a ton of bubble mailers, and then down to the small Walmart for some things. 

The Walmart had been really busy it seemed because tons of stuff was wiped out. No paper towels, but I was able to get some other useful things and I even found a silver dime (along with a regular dime and a 50 centavos piece) in the Coinstar. And I actually only spent $26 or so. 

I don't think it ever warmed up above the 50s outside. Sunny but wintry.