Cold. Wet. Cold. 37F at midnight, so probably at least that this morning. Yuck. And rain throughout the day if we’re unlucky.
There was a soldier whose blog I read way back in the day, when the powers that be had no idea about blogging or the web. He used to try to keep up OPSEC and would say that he “went somewhere and did some things…” and that’s pretty much what I did yesterday. Sounds a lot more interesting if you put it that way, than saying “I took the kids to the orthodontist, then school, then did some online stuff before I took a bunch of stuff to my auctioneer. Oh, and I sold a thing to a guy from Craigslist.” But that’s what I did all day.
Went to Goodwill too. Picked up a really nice Sony amplifier (wooden sides tipped me off, usually Sony isn’t very collectible) that could be worth as much as $600. Picked up ONE Bowers & Wilkins shelf speaker, that has seen better days, but should still be worth $200-300 and maybe much more. The pair is over $1500 in good condition. I looked through the whole place twice hoping to find the match. Crazy stuff shows up at the outlet. Clearly it’s time for me to start listing stuff again.
Gotta fund the BOL somehow.
Dinner last night was frozen tilapia filets, broiled with ginger, garlic, lime and butter. Garnished with thin lime slices, pickled sushi ginger slices, and super thin sliced red onion. Drizzled with melted butter. Pasta for a side dish. Nothing on the table except the onion and lime was less than a year old. Kids and wife loved it. Who knew?
Pasta was from a bucket I’d sealed and put up some time ago. Opening the bucket broke the rim though. It’s been outside in the shade, but still seems to have gotten brittle as if it was in the sun. I couldn’t pry up the lid by hand, so I used a bucket tool. The lid was trashed in the process. I think I’m gonna have to recommend having more lids than buckets if you think you will be re-using buckets. And you can never have enough buckets.
So stack the things you need to stack the other things!
nick