Foggy Friday the 13th! Except no bad luck as far as I could tell. I packed things, cleaned up, sent off packages at the post office, and got over to the bank to deposit my check and my math and their math agreed to the penny.
I went over to Whole Foods and picked out some fish and mushrooms (keeping my diet very "keto" these days) and the lines were L-O-N-G in fact the longest I'd seen there since the covid days.
So I made the mistake of joking around about it with a guy behind me, a Black working-class seeming guy, and we ended up talking about music and he got into this thing about Elvis Presley and he was on a roll. You see, ol' Elvis couldn't sing for shit until he sacrificed a chicken (I think??) and God gave him the ability to sing. I tried to mention that he simply started young and spent a LOT of time singing, and learned from gospel and blues singers.
But my buddy was on a tear, and by the time we got to the checkout and I was able to put my still-kinda-warm fish on the belt, the guy was going on about how the only real Chinese, Mexican, etc people are black, and how certain people are devils and I'm pretty sure he was talking about the dreaded "white devils". The nice gal who was checking was Chinese and didn't seem to appreciate this data-dump, and I kind of rolled my eyes to her a bit and said this guy's "on a real wingding" which fortunately the guy didn't seem to notice, and next thing I know one of the guys working there has come over, and then the security guy, and I paid for my food and got my cash back and got outta there.
I ate upstairs to avoid the guy coming after me for "calling security on him" which I hadn't, really, it was the checker's decision. Upstairs was busy too so I just ate my fish and watched the traffic go by on The Alameda below me.
I went back in after eating for a couple of things and to get more cash back so that I've taken pretty exactly 1/2 my pay check and had it in my pocket to spent however I will. This is standard procedure when I'm being thrifty, and if I'm busking also then I might only spend $100 out of the paycheck or none at all, although it's good to do one withdrawal every week anyway, to remember my PIN.
It was cold and a little windy, but no booth-botherers and if I were busking it looked like it could be a really nice night. Plenty of people going in and out and a big line for bouquets, which the workers were making up on the spot, which was kind of nice.
I rode over to the Amazon place and got a ton of bubble mailers which was also nice. Then I rode down to Walmart. First thing I wanted to get some of the little button batteries to put in the little keychain flashlight I had, which was pretty nice - a dumpster find from the EMT training place. Big-5 didn't have them, and Walmart turned out to, but it would cost me $20 to put new batteries in the thing.
So I just paid for my things and went back into Big-5 where I picked up a nice little flashlight for $5.50 that will work great, and I was nervous about using a flashlight that was attached to my keys, anyway. Great way to end up in a dumpster, throwing everything out of it in a frenzy like I'm a crazed tweaker, because I'd dropped my flashlight with my keys in it.
I went to Nijiya on the way back and after getting things I took the small flashlight off of my key chain and left it on the table there for someone to find. The one I just got isn't small enough to go on a keychain, but it's small enough to be handy.
Once I got back near here the traffic got a bit less crazy and I got back in here and "buttoned up" for the night.
Practice last night (really, early this morning) went pretty well, and the Rubank exercises are getting easier.
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