RIP Jessica Aber

 Former US attorney general for Virginia. Appointed by Biden, fired by Krasnov, and now dead at 43. All that remains is to determine if the cause of death was falling out a window or polonium tea. 

The "wine method" kind of worked last night and kind of didn't. The reason it worked the night before so well was that I was really tired. I went to sleep fine, but woke up at 5 when the idiots were all getting back into their cars and being noisy. Then I woke up again around 7 with a headache, and went back to bed and slept until noon. I'd basically gone back to sleep to get the sleep I didn't get because the wine had screwed it up. 

I think the main thing is to have a hard rule to go to bed at 1, which means I'll be fast asleep at 2, and should sleep OK until 9.  If I can establish that, I can be up for things more easily, get my work done in the day, and get my practice done in the day too - I was up for some practice last night but didn't because there's a guy in an older dark SUV who I think just sleeps around here but he was parked pretty close by and I'm not supposed to be in here, and my trumpet playing at 10PM would give me away. 

I left for downtown, first (after dropping off trash and donations) to Upshift where I tried on, again, a reflective vest I was looking it. I knew it fits well with a jacket and sweater underneath, I wanted to see how it would fit with just a t-shirt underneath and it fits fine that way too. So I bought it, and took off my old yellow jacket and wore the vest with just my t-shirt. It was hot out. 

I went to Whole Foods to get some things, and had some fish curry and a beer. Then I went to Good Karma Bikes and donated my yellow vest, which was straight out of the laundry except for today's wearing it to downtown. 

I went down to Walmart and got a lot of things, which were paid for with my change, which after Coinstar took their 13% or so, got me $65. I got a bunch of bubble mailers from the Amazon place, and a 5-pack of "Shio" ramen from Nijiya and got back here. The thing with the ramen is, if I'm living my life right I just use the seasoning packets and cook it with vegetables instead of noodles. So when I got back here I took the packets out and packaged up the rest and put it out for the bums.