Cold Sunday

 I was actually up in time for class, which started at 10. This was not the Intro To Judaism Tuesday night class but a Sunday class run by my rabbi, and this one was about Tu B'Shvat, often called "the birthday of the trees". There are a couple of activities but they're far away etc., so I'm not going to do 'em. 

We talked a lot about trees and plants and fruits and as always it was fun. It turns out there's a big carob tree next to the temple and after class was out I gathered a handful of fresh pods. There were carob trees around town and I knew of some by the old Poor House Bistro, and the Canada geese liked to hang around and eat the pods. But they've been taking them out since they're not native. 

I went to Recycle Books but didn't find anything I wanted, then went to Whole Foods for chicken wings and a Guinness. The usual "Save The Children" or similar scam, scammers weren't set up and it might have been a good day for busking, other than the really cold wind. 

I went over to Target for things, and got things in Cost Plus Imports too, including some Ty-Phoo tea which Ken likes. I now have some expensive, but less expensive from there, "Nuri" sardines to try. 

I went by the Amazon place for bubble mailers, and Nijiya for things. Then I got back here and put things away and packed all the things I could ship, including two flat things to go into one of the drive-through boxes at the post office. That was ... interesting because the one with the larger slot was stuffed full, including with regular letters which should not have even gone in there. I contemplated pulling them out and putting them in one of the boxes with a thinner opening, which my packages fit into just fine and had tons of room. But I decided not to, maybe someone will check it later tonight. 

I found a good bit of packing stuff on the way back, so all in all it was  productive day. It's only in the last week that I've realized I can ship out the big load of shipping that normally goes out on Monday, on Sunday and that even includes small things which if they're small enough can go into a drive-through box at the post office or if a bit bigger, can go FedEx Economy, which is a tiny bit more than the post office and is just FedEx handing the packages off to the post office anyway.