It's not gonna change

 I was up until maybe 6AM, got in a solid 45 minutes on the octave exercise, which is, well, good exercise. I could tell because my midsection was a little sore from the night before. So I am strengthening something. 

I'd had too much coffee (esp. the bottle of "Key Coffee" I'd bought as a treat) so I had trouble getting to sleep but eventually managed it. I woke up around 2, and decided I'd pack this one thing that I can take to FedEx and then do some shopping at H Mart. Which is exactly what I did. 

I didn't find any packing stuff on my way back, but when I got back here I did some neatening up. Someone had come by last night in one of those big "land yacht" RVs and picked up the junk from my taking apart a Dell server last night. It was nearly worthless stuff, worth less than $5 but I guess to a bum it'll still buy a small crack rock. The night before, the junk had been picked up by couple of zombies with a 1970s pickup truck with one of those ugly in-bed campers and hauling a little trailer stacked with pallets. One of the zombies was standing on this trailer, and the zombie driving was not being all that slow or careful. Why worry about your life when you're already dead? Get that crack money! 

For some reason someone had left this huge teddy bear where the junk had been, so I took this thing and set it out by the road where more people will see it, and hopefully someone picks it up. And I tossed out other things, and made the area neat. Chuey was out washing his van and playing cheerful Mexican music so the parking lot had a nice feel. 

There's tons of talk about mass shootings on NPR, and on Reddit too. Someone pointed out on Reddit that the Sandy Hook shooting was all white kids in an affluent area and that didn't change a thing, so whatever the latest shooting, things are not going to change. The one thing different about Sandy Hook is that the far-right, disproportionately white and affluent, is busily trying to convince the world it didn't happen. Uvalde, Texas can be written off as it being just a bunch of brown kids and mostly brown cops, but Sandy Hook his a nerve. 

And we gun-loving leftists keep pointing out that there are countries that are awash in guns but don't have these problems because they have an intact social safety net and people are not hyper-individualistic as they are here in the US.