Cool days ahead

I think I can just about kiss this Autumn goodbye and welcome to colder days of winter even though we still have a number of days of Autumn left. After my caregiver left this morning I picked up around the apartment a little bit cleaned up the kitchen area as well as a little bit out of the refrigerator. Things are beginning to mess up a little bit I should work harder to try to keep the clean on the property but it's essentially beginning to disappear. Anyway, I had to keep my focus today I wanted to use the partial sunshine and promise of dry weather jump a bus and go down to the bank and get some cash out for kid letters. I only have or had two $10 bills left and that would not be enough for kid day. I also wanted to get a backup roll of quarters. This is really A Strange Day kind of for bus riding because twice I was passed up by buses that should have stopped and didn't. Luckily I was on Redwood Road and the headways on that road are 15 minute and that makes waiting even in the cooler weather as it is now less of a challenge than when you're dealing with half an hour headways or even 20 minute headways feels like it takes forever in colder weather. I kept my cool however excuse the pun and patiently waited for the next bus to come down and it did eventually and I was probably blessed for that actually. I found this really interesting mall that I had wondered about over the years that never had really checked it out. Today I did it's a definitely Hispanic operation and it's a very small narrow Mall but it's two stories with a number of restaurants that I didn't even know that existed. I stopped at this place and got lunch two tamales- who would have thought? - - rice and beans and some hot sauce. I really felt like a outsider my Spanish was not good enough to keep up with what I needed to inside this property. Couple of folks took something on me and interpreted for me to get me through the ordering and the bagging up the rest of my meal that I took with me home to eat over the weekend. And it was pretty cheap too. The tamales were $2.50 a piece and I forget what the rice of beans were but it was it was not a bad meal and it felt like I found a hidden treasure on Redwood Road amazing.

By the time I got home I was cold. My hands were cold and my nose was cold. I didn't necessarily feel bodily cold but I was tired the kind of tired that one gets when they're exposed to chilly weather. I put my styrofoam boxed food in the refrigerator and found the heater and turned it on. I turned on NPR and listen to the rest of Science Friday which led me up to Marketplace. I found the k u e r app on the computer and listened to NPR while I was warming up in front of the heater for my ride outside in these first two cool days of the winter..