Well we've made it to MLK Day. There's a lot of stuff on the radio and on Reddit about him - he studied every philosopher under the sun and was much more of an intellectual than even I thought. And of course when he started to realize the real problems were class based rather than race based, the ruling class had to get rid of him. Preach all you want about the plight of blacks but when you start saying stuff that makes sense to millions of working-class whites, lookout.
I didn't go to bed until 3AM or so and woke up at 11. I drank less last night and did no weird sleepwalking antics. I pretty much slept the night through except for two weird dreams. In one, I was selling my youngest sister a Geiger counter for $500 but I had to set up a paypal for her to pay me. In another, my dad was doing handy work on two little houses a house or two apart so it was hard to tell which one he'd be at. I'd lent him my bike and he'd left it out over night with the result that someone had stolen the rear(!) tire, the better one, plus my dad had ridden it through red paint so there was that.
How completely random. Maybe it's because I sang a rather lot last night; lots of They Might Be Giants which is a very random band.
I finally got going around 2:30 or 3, was going to go downtown to Lee's and get a couple of egg rolls and eat those, then pick up a book I'd bought on Amazon; "The Conquest Of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. The lunch truck was out at the front of the complex though so I got a $2 special breakfast sandwich thing and ate that there, leaving most of the crust for the birds.
I checked the little free libraries and the Japantown one had all the books stuffed in spine-inward. So I re-arranged them all so a person can read from the spines what's there and not have to touch them at all if they don't want to. There weren't any books I wanted at either one.
I'm working out how to avoid "Hamsterdam" which is what I call the area right around City Hall, for instance 4th, 5th, 6th streets and there are always several nasty looking bums around. I've been riding through that area far too much and what happens is, if the local creeps get used to seeing one, they get more curious and willing to attack. So I went around, over to 2nd which can be hinky too, and over to the Amazon place.
There were a fair number of bums out today. Anyone normal is not hanging around outside so the bums have the streets pretty much all to their own, ans the guys with bike trailers still have to make their rounds, scrounging and stealing, because crack dealers don't take IOUs.
I got my book and 12-15 bubble mailers and it was super quick and easy. I just don't know why the keyboard part of the check-in terminals are unlit. Maybe 99% of people checking in are just using the bar or QR code on their smartphone.
On the way back I stopped at Nijiya and got sake, a beer but a smaller can than I usually get, other odds and ends. The blonde guy who's into politics was there and said he'd been reading a lot about the insurrection and thought a lot of things about it were very "weird". I said I found it frightening, disgusting, and very depressing. I said that bunch are "an existential threat to anyone who's not just the right kind of white people" and I hope he got the message because I'm pretty sure he's half-Japanese. At least we get these little talks. An American company would have reprimanded him or even fired him for political talk and I'd have been told to cut it out, too.
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