Another day, more craziness. I was able to mail things off yesterday because the rain was skating by to the North of me, and today it's raining here but thanks to NWS radar maps, I can time things to travel between bands of rain.
I got a good cornet practice in yesterday and played a bunch of stuff and now my "El Condor Pasa" is solid as well as my "Shalom Aleichem". My new Getzen cornet can really sing. I need to practice some with the Connstellation which is what I'd take with me out busking if I had to right away, and also play the Yamaha trumpet a bit just to verify that it doesn't have the sound either of the cornets do, and prepare to sell it. I want to get over to "Hornucopia" and hopefully find another cornet that's the shepherd's crook style and thus short enough to hide in a bike bag or messenger bag, to be my main horn for busking. And then probably sell the Connstellation because it's old and heavy. It's got a nice big sound though.
I did other little things too like consolidate my concert flute stuff together for the flute lady, who's coming over next weekend to buy the flutes. The concert flutes anyway.
My country right now has a foreign born illegal immigrant with a hard Nazi ideology in control of the purse strings. fElon Musk is some kind of "Special Government Employee" this is the US's Rasputin moment.
My next step in the passport process is to try to get an appointment at one of the local post offices. Nearly impossible it seems. I could try for a walk-in appointment, which might involve a number of times going to one of the post offices before 9AM and probably waiting in a line like people used to do for concert tickets. As of right now it's OK if it takes me a year to get a passport, but that time may shorten depending on how crazy things get here and I'll be SOL if the borders are shut down.
I went out into the rain at about 4:30 and got good and wet, rode the green line light rail to the Winchester station then went into the Safeway near there to get some jerky and stuff, and was quickly reminded why I loathe Safeway. The bathroom was 'way in the back and both bathrooms had, apparently, someone camping in there for the night. Fine, I'll hold it. In fact, like all Safeways seem to be these days, it was a magnet for bums and there were bums all over the place, some screaming and cussing, some just staggering around, etc. I gladly overpaid for my snacks at the little liquor store in the same parking lot.
At least I had a nice new set of bike bags to put my snacks in because I'd put the new set on the bike before leaving the shop. They're nice.
I rode down to the JCC and was there about a half-hour early so, not enough time to study, more like time to spread things out to dry and to eat one of my noisier snacks, a small bag of Funyuns.
Class went well as always, and now I'm glad the audio files helped me at my sticking point on page 34 in the Hebrew work book, because the homework is ... pages 38 and the first few things in page 39?? I thought I was actually far ahead and apparently not. We're working on Hebrew numbers now.
The non-Hebrew part of the class was interesting, the nature of God, the problem of evil existing in the world, etc.
After class it had stopped raining but had gotten really cold. That, I can deal with. I rode back to the train station, got on the train, and I rode to Metro/Airport and over to the casino, where I got these "steak bite" things that are really good, and a Guinness. Surprisingly I didn't get a buzz from the Guinness, which isn't really what I wanted one for, I just craved the taste. It was just something nice to drink with dinner.
Now I'm back in the shop and it's not even midnight yet.
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