I left the 1926 Apartments on Moshe Aharon Street downtown Haifa; jumped on a 103 bus to the central bus station; ran to gate 6, got on Jerusalem bus; watched and listened to singing, drumming bus driver for two hours; hopped off in Jerusalem at the central bus station; walked down Jaffa street to the shuk (Mahane Yehuda market); waded into hordes of pre-Shabbat shoppers; bought olives (7 nis), a loaf of crusty white bread (15 nis) and a small container of hummus (10 nis); continued down Jaffa street next to the train tracks; used the ATM; walked up Ben Yehuda; elbowed my way on to the 74; piled off at old train station (currently, site of the ice show); walked two blocks to my apartment in Abu Tur. Did all this before transportation and stores close for Shabbat at 2:00 p.m. (Did I say it was Friday?)