Of course at 10 at night, it's 62 outside and 81 in here because there's some weird law that says it must be 15-20 degrees warmer in here ....
I stayed up all last night and packed things, and took them to the post office, FedEx, and UPS in the morning. I stopped by Tom's place to eat a couple of chicken skewers I bought at a lunch truck across the street, and I ate and watched as Tom negotiated buying some steel gates from a guy with a truck - with Tom having no cash on hand, of course.
I'd left here at 8AM, and I noticed the traffic wasn't as bad as when I'd left before at something like 7:30. The drop-offs all went fine, and I came back by Tom's place to see how the deal went. He had the gates, which he intended to cut up to make window bars for some windows he'd installed, and the guy would come back for the money tomorrow.
On my way back here I got two fried bean burritos and ate those, and shortly after that, did some octaves practice on the flute head joint and went to bed.
I woke up a bit after 5, then went back to sleep again until 10PM. I guess I needed the sleep.
I was about to write a rave review of "It Can't Happen Here" on Amazon, when I got an error message saying there's been "unusual review activity" on my account and not only can I not leave any more reviews but the ones I've left have been removed. I wrote an email to the support address they supplied, so I'll see how it goes. Frankly, leaving reviews is work the buyer puts in for free for the benefit of Amazon (and secondarily, other prospective buyers) and if I can buy there but not leave reviews, then that's fine with me. A bit less work.
You said something offensive to one of the woke staffers at Amazon in one of your reviews; and you have been cancelled, so as to squelch your thoughts from proliferating. If there were books, the liking of which would make one suspect, then they would themselves have already been cancelled, so that ideas brought up in them won't proliferate. So, that leaves some "personal" aside or some other subjective element in your point of view that triggered some blue haired girl working remotely for Amazon; and now, you have been cancelled. They don't want your opinion. It probably won't be long before you won't be able to use PayPal or even ebay. You must have really stepped in it; didn't compare the villain in a novel to Trump, maybe....used the words "woman," or "man," perhaps. Pity.
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