Western Bacon Cheeseburger

Yesterday I packed things to ship, took them to the post office and FedEx, then stopped in at The Baguette for a pastry and a coffee, and read more of "White Masai". The author's caught malaria, so I'm eager to see how that goes. 

But because of computers now, I'm reduced to being the kind of kid who hated reading in class and. would. halt. each. word. as. he. figured. it. out. reading in a husky voice. Good old times at Koko Head Elementary School. I might as well have been done of the dummies who lived for "shambattle" and serving as a JPO (Junior Police Officer) when school got out, just so I could yell at people. 

So I have to spend $10 on coffee and a donut to get any reading done. 

Done with that, I collected some boxes and decided to skip the storage unit. I've retrieved just about everything good out of there now. 

I got back here and listed the 20 things I had cued up, and waited for Ken to show up. He eventually called me and said he was running late, and did I want anything from Carl's Jr.? I said I wanted a Western Bacon Cheeseburger if they still have those, and if not, "something really stacked". 

He got here and we ate our burgers and I fixed him a tea. I put some Kewpie mayo on mine and just about inhaled it. This cold weather has me craving a lot more calories. 

I got my check (dated for Friday) and we talked about stuff; the usual. Ken had brought a couple of microwave ovens and some computer towers for me to take apart, and we talked about the storage situation. We'll be all moved out of the remaining storage unit at the old, nearby, place this weekend. As for the new place, Ken says he might get an auction company to sell off what he's got in there. I told him to bring any tubs of stuff here, because I'm finding a lot of neat treasures in the tubs of small things, and those won't bring much at auction. There are BIG oscilloscopes and racks and two huge lab ovens etc., that will do better. 

By the time he left, at almost 1 in the morning, I was still burping from the burger and by the time I'd recovered from that and might practice with the new clarinet, I was just about falling asleep at my desk and went to bed, around 3AM. 

In a day or two I intend to order a Fobes Debut mouthpiece and a Rovner ligature from the Fobes site, and for some reason the people on r/clarinet are really in love with the Rubank book. I've already got the first, red, book in the Standard Of Excellence series though. As I said to the gal at the music store, I actually worked through all three books (red, blue, green) in the series on trumpet. I still sounded like crap, but I worked through 'em!