What an afternoon/evening. 'Rump supporters tried to pull a War of 1812 on the White House and the police and Secret Service only shot one, where they should have been mowed down like the mad dogs they are. Three more died of FatAssItis, so that's good for a chuckle.
Dinner was some pork miso soup with some of the fresh wakame I'd bought at H Mart and it was really good except the wakame is salted and it ended up really salty so I'll have to rinse it first.
Ken came by and wrote out my check and we had the usual BS session. I told him that as a Republican and Trump voter of course he wants democracy destroyed but myself, I want to see us become like a Western European democracy, where you have some aspects of capitalism but a good social safety net. It would not become a "hammock" because, in my life, the economy has always been touch-and-go and I've had long periods with no work and I always found something to do. We talked about how China leapt forward because they adopted some of the aspects of capitalism. Then we drifted into talking about how nationalist they're becoming now and I told him about how I'd been following YouTubers laowhy86 and SerpentZA for years now and they'd had to get out of China because of how nationalist it got there, with one of them having to smuggle himself and his family out.
The DC police etc. eventually rounded the chuds up and headed them out, but the radio and internet are abuzz, as they should be on the topics of: They are terrorists not just out on a prank. The stark double-standard regarding Left or non-white protestors and these actual, white, terrorists. And the one nutzo gal that was shot was a terrorist and nothing of value was lost. Plus tons of talk about the 25th Amendment and I hope they use it pronto.
I was really grey out there and looked like it might rain. I have one large, as in quite large, thing to pack and a few small ones so I decided not to do deliveries today, but made an appointment for my bank for noon. That gave me time to have my natto and nuts and tea and so on, catch up on some Internet stuff, and head out of here at a quarter after 11.
It was grey and gloomy and a bit cold. Thinking about it, it was kind of like a foggy winter day on Balboa or Lido Island down in Orange County. I went over to the bank and got my deposit done, and went over to the Amazon Hub to pick up some little reclosable bags I'd ordered. I also got some bubble mailers for mailing. But, getting over there was interesting because there was tons of fire and emergency equipment and the whole block, blocked off. And smoke. I had to go over to 4th and then to San Fernando and get in that way, with all signal lights off and cops managing traffic.
The smoke smelled like when I was a kid and the old guys used to burn their trash on the beach. In good old now wealthy and snooty Hawaii Kai, along Portlock Road, they'd make a big pile of whatever kind of junk they wanted to get rid of and burn it on the beach. Of course I thought this was great. It turns out the building where several businesses were, like Cinebar (a bar with movies and now I regret never going in) and Chacho's (Mexican-ish food?) had burned down to just the brick shell. I found some video on Reddit and it's amazing the San Jose Fire Department was able to keep it contained. By the time I came along it was just about over.
Of course two of the check-in terminals in the Amazon Hub were off and the one that was working, had no backlight on the keyboard part of the screen but being pretty largely a touch typist I was able to log in OK.
Next stop was Nijiya for sake, some pork to weigh into portions and put in the freezer, various groceries like that. It was now half after 12 and it was nice - no line at all.
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