Finally a practice

 OK so yesterday/last night I, after dealing with the scam phone call, decided I needed to get out, get some vigorous bike riding in, and some nice food. So I did my vigorous ride over to Nijiya where I spent almost $50 on a good meal - unagi bento plus salmon and tuna sashimi, a big carton of "Kinokuniya" cold black coffee, and even my favorite seaweed flavored peanuts. And a couple of expensive but good Japanese cucumbers. 

Then I got back to work on taking the components I wanted out of modules, and ended up with a couple boxes of aluminum and circuit boards and wire for the scroungers. The illegal night club set up but no where near the usual crowd, and the cops drove through but didn't stick around. 

By 6 in the morning or so my mind turned to practice, and I got a decent practice in. I'm still happy I treated myself to a brand new flute. It's really the way to go. There are tons of clanky old flutes out there, great if you want to learn to do flute repairs, but if you're a beginner, get a new Yamaha student flute and then you know if there are problems, they're you and not the flute. 

I say flute may be "life or death" and not only can competent playing give me a reliable source of money but also, I'm really not sure a life without being able to do something, is worth living. 

I surprised myself by waking up at 2:30 in the afternoon, earlier than I thought I might wake up. I packed two large things and took them to FedEx, got some fried chicken in H Mart and ate that sitting on the curb on the side of the building by the bike racks in time-honored tradition, then went back in for two interestingly-flavored types of potato chips. 

I gathered packing stuff (might as well get it now as the rain will ruin it tomorrow) and found a couple little things we'll get at least $200-$300 for so that's nice. 

I got back here and tried the potato chips which didn't taste a thing like what they were supposed to taste like, but the "Salty butter" ones, while being neither particularly salty nor tasting like butter, remind me a lot of "One Ton" won ton pi chips they sell back home.