Sunday, October 2, 2022

Headache-y Sunday

 Last night I futzed around and got 20+ things together to list, and also cleared some space to move some not-for-sale things out of the listed-on-Ebay area of the warehouse. So that's good. 

By the time I'd planned to practice, my headache was bothering me and I decided the best plan might be to go to bed. I'd wake up right as rain and everything would be great. 

Instead I woke up around 11:30 with a strong smell of lighter fluid in the air. And my headache wasn't gone. I looked at the video camera feed and it was just Chuy next door using a lot of fluid to get his barbecue going. I went back to sleep until 2:30 and lay in bed for a while. 

I turned on the radio and there was some thing about the history of YouTube. That was kind of interesting, but unless you're a Kool Kid with a $1000-a-month connect plan and an iPhone with a solid gold case, you can forget about becoming a YouTuber. I concluded this long ago. With it taking an hour or two to upload one minute of video, and YouTube itself extremely capricious with regard to who gets paid, it's really only an arena for rich kids or paradoxically, those who are so poor their time is near-worthless but somehow have obtained fast internet access. 

I wonder how many people making below the median income in the US, about $30k a year, are actually able to even *watch* YouTube? Posting things on it, fugeddabouttit! 

And getting paid ... YouTube, like Reddit, leans very much to the political Right. If you're not at least Nazi-adjacent, you're not going to make a penny on that venue. That's a feature of music that can help non-Nazis survive, that it's largely apolitical. Wagner was a racist but that was apart from his music, which gave us a lot of the language of modern classical music, from cartoon sound tracks to movie music. It's also a curse that music is largely apolitical, in that so much Leftist music has been used by corporations, by definition fascist, for their advertising. 

But at least I can go out and play music and it's not seen as a political stance. Those can get you killed these days and things haven't even gone that far yet. 

I headed out for downtown at about 5. I stopped at the new "Late Night Bitez" thing on 10th and Hedding and there was one food truck there. I got two tacos that were pretty good, but they cost about $7 and I tipped a buck - which the guy was happy to get - so it was about $8. 

I went over to Nijiya and got some gum and snacks and got $40 back. Then after dropping off things in the little free libraries and picking up a few books, it was down to Wal-Mart for toilet paper and paper towels. They didn't have 4-packs of TP so I had to get the huge package, and it all cost a few cents over $18, but some quick calculations showed it was like buying 3 packs of TP at what's a good price these days and getting the paper towels for free. 

It was a nice peaceful ride and since I also dropped off donations and dropped my monthly pledge off at the temple, it was nice getting a few errands done. 

It's getting dark at 7PM now so I had the bike lights on by the time I got back here. My headache was gone and besides wasting too much time reading stuff on the internet, I did Sunday things. I put the backlog of things I've listed away, re-arranged some things on shelves to make room, and got out all the stuff that's sold. I also started a load of laundry.

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