Is talking about how they treated the corona virus problem in China. It's amazing - they tested everyone suspected, gave everyone they were testing CAT scans (wut? That costs thou$and$ in the USA and most can't afford it) and were serious about isolating people. They didn't let up until they had zero new cases. Contact tracing, red/green/yellow status tracking, etc. The guy's saying, "It's intrusive, but it's effective" and it is - China's had a tiny amount of cases compared to the US. It just shows how much more effective good old Communism is whether it's handling space exploration or a pandemic (or a World War which the Russians did the lion's share of fighting).
Up at 1, I had some alcohol last night, 100ml combined with a cup of "Sleeptytime" tea.
Last night I ordered a thing I've heard of for a long time, a "Kelly Kettle" which is a very interesting thing; it's a stainless steel teakettle, that sits on a base and has the water in a jacket around a hole in the center. It sits on a sort of cup base with a hole or two in it, and what you do is take anything burn-able like pine cones or sticks etc., burn it in the base, and the hole up the center of the kettle acts as a chimney, and it heats water very quickly. Campers swear by it. I've also been fascinated by various little stoves and built a few, and personally I like the idea of using junk mail to boil water, plus if I have to go into a real shelter in place, I might not be able to get butane for my regular stove I cook on, but I could cook on this. I could be stealthy enough by cooking upstairs in the loft.
I checked a couple of days ago on a link I found on Reddit to check on the status of one's $1200 check, and the gov't site said mine would be mailed may 1, which means I'll actually get it a week or two later, between the time in the mail and the time for Ken to get it to me.
I rode over to Nijiya to get some things from there, and it was the usual line outside, then line inside, then checking out took forever. Somehow their card system was fucking up and it took many steps and the cashier had to do it, which only has me determined to hoard more cash. Shopping is not trivial now.
I got back, ate the sashimi on rice thing I'd gotten as a treat, then packed the 7 things I had to ship within 24 hours, and had just enough time for that. I also took a large number of the long "large" flat-rate boxes we had here, back to the post office because we'll never use 'em.
I stopped by H mart to feel out the vibes, thinking maybe the security guard guy could watch my bike again while I shop, but there was a scumsucker hovering around the area, probably someone would leave a bike unlocked or something, so I just rode back, found one large box by Sanmina, and got back here.
I dropped off the box and the trailer because I was going to ride back up to H Mart without the trailer and be able to lock the bike up. Except just as I got to the beginning of Junction Avenue, my rear tire started leaking, badly. I tried pumping it up and thought more riding might make the Slime inside plug the leaks, but then realized I'd forgotten to take the bungee cords out of the pannier and put the lock in. So I rode back here to do that, and halfway up the parking lot the tire went really flat and I had to walk the bike, holding the rear end up.
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