Well, what a weekend. In Friday I got things mailed out and went to the service. But before that, I'd eaten and had a Guinness at Whole Foods and since there was nowhere else to sit, ended up sitting with some people and talking with a guy who made a smarter career choice than I have: he's been a waiter all his life. Nice guy, works at present at "Nachtmarkt", a German place in Campbell.
Then I had a little time so I went to the used book store and got a copy of "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth. I've still got my (free) copy of Portnoy's Complaint, barely started on, but "Columbus" is his first book and made quite a splash so I wanted to read that one first.
I went to the service and due to all the talking with that guy, which actually means shouting at each other so we could hear each other, my singing wasn't super great but as always it was a good time.
I got back here and had my yummy dinner and wine, and in the end stayed up too late. I should be in bed with the covers up to my nose at 1AM not still up, thinking that I still have time. Because when that illegal brothel opens at 2AM there's quite a bit of noise with all the johns driving in. If I'm asleep it won't wake me up, but it made it hard to fall asleep so I ended up having, besides the bottle of wine, a couple of the small "airplane" bottles and finally tossed back an almost-full little bottle of vanilla extract. That did the trick, though, apparently.
I think one thing that made me stay up too late was that I gave myself a haircut.
I woke up at 8 and then again at 9, and took off at a quarter after. I figured I had time to, so I went to Nijiya for a can of coffee and a musubi and ate and drank in front, then rode back to Hedding and over the hill and over to the temple. I'd be late for the class but not too late I hoped. And I wasn't because I was still there before the rabbi (and he's usually really on time for things).
We talked a ton about Passover and it was fun.
The whole weekend was pretty good because around noon on Saturday I got a phone call from a guy who's the chairman of the board or something of the temple, and we had a nice talk. Nice guy! I've gotten emails, a membership certificate, I'm pretty sure an email from this guy, and he called me too.
After the class I had some - very dry it turned out - chicken and broccoli and a beer, and ended up sitting with a bunch of people who got together to buy and sell and trade cloisonne pins. Some of them are huge and are like $200. It was nice to see people getting together for a hobby and I got to talk to some of them, about how some of the really old cloisonne is radioactive, and how I sold a pin of the Blue Angels flying in formation to Jay Leno, who had showed up at Cook's Corner, a motorcyclist hangout I used to go to.
Then, this is important, I went to Starbucks and got a good study session in.
So now I'm back at the shop, put out some transformers that are never gonna sell for the scavengers to recycle, and have a big thing to take apart.
And I guess our idiot president has something big to take apart too - our country.
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