Gunky

 I did plenty of shakuhachi practice last night. I can see now that I need to practice a lot, and not just being "lazy" just blowing 100 or 150 Ro while watching some movie and calling it a night. 

I can get two, 24-inch, lengths of that PEX tubing per long piece, plus a shorter one a foot long. I used the shorter one to practice with, because I want to make a hole, preferably a slot, in the end to make it into a cleaning rod like you get for a concert flute. 

That stuff is tough! I was not able to make a slot but it's pretty easy to make a hole, and I could use increasingly large drill bits to make a large enough hole to get the end of a bit of cloth etc. into. I made two holes and tried to join them with an X-Acto knife and that's just not happening. But one large hole, I could try that. I even got some cloths to include with these things because the plan is not to just make one for me, but to give them to the other members of the shakuhachi club. 

Last night at least I could clean the shakuhachi Rinban gave me, by soaking a paper towel in Windex and just pushing it through, and there was indeed, some disgusting junk in there. 

The illegal night club started up, albeit with a very small crowd, and said crowd had just gone into the place when in swooped two police cars with lights and sirens. The cops ended up staying around until something like 4 in the morning. 

Meanwhile I took apart the big commercial type microwave oven after testing it so I have some parts to sell. I was nervous about the cops but finally just put the parts out for the scroungers, practiced, and went to bed. 

I woke up at 4 in the afternoon so I must have needed all the 8 hours of sleep. I was going to pack some things to take to FedEx which under their "ground saver" or whateverthefuck they call it plan, costs only a tiny bit more than the USPS and will get them to USPS first thing in the morning. But I am unable to do things in any way than The Way It's Always Been Done and after labeling the first one USPS which means I can't mail it until tomorrow, I gave up. 

Instead I rode down to Walmart for some things. There was some white (of course) guy out front waving what looked like petitions and yelling about voting No on Measure A and on 50, both things I'm determined to vote Yes on, and said so. That really pissed the guy off which was great. It's always fun to piss off Nazis. 

I stopped at Nijiya for a few things and got back in here. I don't even have any interesting zombie incidents to relate; sure I had to dodge a few but nothing really interesting.