Barely a ripple

 Up at about 3:30 because the mailman shoved a big catalog in and it made a racket. 

There's barely a ripple on Reddit about the big police standoff in Japantown and no information other than "barricaded suspect" so I guess I might ask around next time I'm over there. 

Being depressed is no fun. I got Ebay things together last night but didn't list, and only packed one that needed to be done by midnight tonight - it took me a while to find the darned thing. 

Then I "wasted" time on Andy Bumatai's Hamajang Gang on youtube today, oh well, good times and good memories. The guy's only getting maybe 50 viewers, tops, and that's across like 3 platforms somehow and I only saw one person put about $9 in the hat. Andy probably doesn't know how to not be working, though. 

At least I did my usual bit of voice exercises on the theory that like any muscle, the voice takes time to develop and again, it's working. I've found a YouTube channel called Ukulele Zen that's got a pretty nice guy teaching songs which is plays and sings and he's got tons more experience in both than I have, but I daresay I think there's more potential in my pipes than in his. 

I should think more about how lucky I am to be here with regards to voice training because I can yell all I want with no trouble, where even back in Hawaii I'll have to sneak into the UH practice rooms to do voice exercises. 

I watched more YouTube than I should and packed some Ebay things, and got hungry after my scrambled eggs with shishito peppers ran out on me, so I cooked up some gai lan I'd gotten at Nijiya Market and it was really good. I'm beginning to sense a pattern here: The veggies I'm buying from Nijiya seem to taste a lot better than ones from H-Mart or Whole Foods. And while conventional broccoli is kind of spendy these days, gai lan's still cheap. 

I packed more things and then tried out the "impossible burger" or whatever it's called. The package says "Beyond Burger'. It turns out to be very OK. It takes 4 minutes on each side to cook, and leaves a lot of oil/grease in the pan. It's OK enough with some condiments and has a burger-y texture, but overall it's just meh. At best it reminds me of the cheap lunch truck hamburgers I sometimes ate in college that were probably half "textured vegetable protein". There's a funny smell in here from cooking it now too.  

I think I'll eat the 2nd one tomorrow, but I'll kibble it and thus be able to cook it quickly. One thing's for certain and that is that eating beef is out, for me.