Monday, January 20, 2025

MLK day

 A national day of mourning. Also our first, wait not our first, that happened when the election was stolen from Gore, but possibly our biggest, step into fascism. 

I packed 4 large/large-ish things yesterday and got them to FedEx, hung out with Tom a bit and told him about these chairs the guys next door had thrown out - something like 40 or 50 of them. Tom has a working bicycle now and rode with me over here, decided the chairs were Meh, and I went in and used the photos I'd taken earlier and posted them for free on Craig's List. 

Now it's 2PM the next day and there are still a bunch of chairs haha. 

Ken called me at 1PM saying he's coming over with another guy to look at resistors. In the intervening hour I was able to find all but one thing that has to be shipped. Ken did show up a bit after 2, and the guy never showed up or even answered messages from Ken. 

So Ken and I talked, he decided to take three of the chairs that were office chairs, and I got my pay check to deposit on Thursday or Friday. I was kind of surprised to see that even though I'm getting over back trouble (I still can't do a proper military push-up) I was able to lift the chairs better than Ken was. 

Ken would have happily stayed around shooting the bull for hours, but I said I had to make a FedEx run, so he went off (he said he usually shows up at his job at 4 in the afternoon, so today he'd be a bit early) and I got to work packing 4 things for FedEx then decided to take one little thing and at least sneak it into one of the drive-through mail boxes at the post office and if I'm going to do that, might as well do the other 4-5 small things. 

So I rode up to FedEx and dropped the boxes off, then went up to 99 Ranch for some shopping, and at the post office was able to sneak the small things into the drive-through box with a slightly bigger opening. Then I went to H Mart to use the loo and looked around but didn't buy anything. 

Then I walked over to Ross and found a pair of sweat pants and a T-shirt, and got a few things in Sprouts. I got back here at 7:30 and the chairs are all gone. The guys next door took this holiday seriously and didn't show up at all, and they should be happy to see all those chairs gone. 

I did the one thing that's the most rebellious, the most subversive, thing I have the power to do: I practiced. My tone is rough but that's OK because I'm practicing now, for April. The weather will have warmed up then and my class ends at the end of April.


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