I woke up around 3, had my coffee etc., packed All The Things(tm) kind of surprising myself because I didn't think I had the time but ... I did.
I got ready to go and there's a pink envelope from the electric company. They mean business when they get out the pink envelopes. They need $300-odd by the 10th. Great.
I got going and dropped off the FedEx package at FedEx and tried to raise Ken on the phone. He answered, neat.
I told him about the notice, and it being in a pink envelope so they really mean business. Ken needs to update some payment stuff on Ebay and he said he'd do it but he's not; after some thinking I realized he's been holding off because generally when you update financial information on something, that something will withdraw some money to make sure the new information is good. And Ken's not been paid, so he's been holding off for that reason. I told Ken I understood why he's held off on that, to avoid spending money, and now there's this. $363 I think. I said it's not due until the 10th and I know he'll be over on the 8th, Wednesday, but I wanted to give him more lead time to think about it.
He says he's "going to see what he can scrape together" and I said Look, if it's between paying me or paying the electric company, I can wait. I can't do any work when the electricity's off.
Oh, and there's still the $500-odd we owe the landlord for that NNN thing.
And one might wonder why I drink! At least I'm only drinking beer, and I think I've discovered something. Expensive beer like Guinness and Lagunitas seems to be a lot easier on me than cheap beer like PBR or Bud. I guess if I were eating bread, I'd feel a difference between eating Wonder Bread or eating Dr. Oetker's Health Bread imported from Germany, too. I know I feel this difference in chocolate, with the exception of Guittard pure cocoa powder, milled not far from here, I'm only eating European chocolate and not the low-end kind either. Ritter Sports and Cadbury stuff for the European market is very different from stuff made for the American market.
But getting back to finances, I know our present lease runs out at the end of August. I don't think we can get kicked out before then. And I don't think things can collapse that quickly although all bets are off if something happens with Ken's health.
What I'm getting at is, it might be a good plan for me to assume I'm leaving September of *this* year rather than the next. That means sell off a lot of things and prepare to hop on a plane. If things get super crazy here I can split for a hotel and I've got Tom for moral support. He flies all the time on Alaskan and that's the airline I'll take.
I hung up the phone with Ken and ran the smaller packages up to the post office, got some things in 99 Ranch, some more things in H Mart, dropped off fruit I'd found at Tom's (he wasn't answering the door) and got back today.
Today's freebees: 11 packages of dried squid, apples and bananas for Tom, some weird white chocolate "enrobed" Oreos I'll donate, and some interesting motorized blinds I might slap onto Craig's List. Also a bunch of make-up stuff, Estee Lauder and so on, and now I've got a whole Lulu Lemon goodie bag of make-up, little bags, all kinds of goodies, to give to Ken to give to Suzie.
And now I'm being entertained by some guys with a forklift, then another forklift they used to un-stick the first forklift which they'd gotten stuck, running around like The Three Stooges trying to get some big wooden boxes off of a truck and apparently deliver them to the site of the illegal night club. Gambling machines maybe?
Update: The Three Stooges fucked around for a while and then ... drove off with the boxes? So now I have no idea what's going on. The thing is, when I rode in I happened to ride in from Rogers Avenue so I went past the place, noticed the truck there which had just come in when I'd left, and got a look into #1663, which looked bare except for some big wooden boxes.
Dinner was a big bowl of guacamole courtesy of the 4 small avocados that were also free. I used pork rinds for chips, and washed it down with a nice refreshing Jeju Pellong Ale, which is pretty good.
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