Octaves

137th day sober.  I listed Ebay stuff last night and practiced before bed. I'd watched a few things on YouTube about increasing range, and they all seem to involve "lip slurs" and so, last night, I did a lot of stuff like that and especially fooled around with doing octave slurs, starting from C below the staff and working up to G in the staff, in each case going an octave up. It went well. 

Right-wing loon Larry Elder got shown the door last night with a huge majority against the recall. Now, the Republicans might well have gotten somewhere if they'd pushed a fellow named Faulkner who's been mayor of San Diego and seems to be awfully competent and non-loony especially as Republicans go. I almost voted for him as Newsom's replacement, myself. But that's not what the Republican Party is about - it's the Trump Party and that's only because George Lincoln Rockwell isn't around any more to lead it. So of course they were behind the right-wing loon and at least now it's possible for the rational majority to throw said loon out on his ass. 

And where did I get this definitive news? The radio. The internet is just about useless for things like this. Things that happened a week ago, sure. But anything important, you're going to hear on the radio. That's another thing I miss about Hawaii is that they have really good public and college radio stations. 

I got out the door with only 4 packages, took them to the post office, then went to the new chicken place on my way back. As is standard in American business practice, the supposed "meal deal" that comes with a small side along with a biscuit and the chicken, isn't. The advertising looks like the small side is included in the price, but all it's set up to do, is fool you into ordering the small side at full price. And if you're in a hurry like the average lemming is, you don't have time to think, fork over the extra money and move on. That's the reason a "meal deal" at Carl's Junior is something like $15, and if you just order the sandwich it's about $5. 

I took the chicken right back here, riding along Rogers which was a mistake because a zombie hovering around one of the zombie/crackhead nests made of bushes, trash, and Mad Max cars, said Hi to me. Some zombies are sort of intelligent in that they try to say Hi in the hopes that the person they're saying Hi to, will stop and talk or some damn stupid thing. Then the zombie eats their brains. I suspect the only ones who fall for that are other zombies or crackheads - haha the zombie only gets zombie or crackhead brains, joke's on them. 

I actually had plenty of time to eat, do a haircut, and a thorough bath.