I packed 16 things last night and then got my practice in. Besides my tone going to shit because the flute moves ever so slightly in my hands, I've not been paying close enough attention to the little marks showing when to take a breath, instead taking sneaky little breaths "whenever" which are not sneaky at all. The breath marks are there for a reason. So I'm working on that.
I'm not sure if I'll be ready to busk with the flute at all this year. I seem to be back where I was with the trumpet, where I really sounded like crap, didn't have much at all in the way of repertoire, and was probably not worth the really crappy tips I got when I busked. The more practice I get in, day in and day out, the faster I'll get through this stage.
I should be more worried about this, but I think my savings goals are realistic and I'm making them. I want to have enough saved that I can do absolutely nothing for a year once I get back to Hawaii, and have savings still, at the end of the year off.
I woke up around 3, had coffee and packed 4 more things to make it 20, and left at the usual time. The cold is keeping the zombies in their hidey holes, so other than the cold the ride was rather pleasant. I counted 4 broken down cars on the way, but the drivers within all seemed to be alert so no need to stop.
After doing my drop-offs I stopped by the falafel place for a side order of pita bread. But it wasn't on the menu under "sides" so the guy gave it to me for free. They're nice people there.
I got back here and put butter and garlic granules in the pita bread pockets, and had that along with a can of fish in "paprika sauce" from Walmart, that was ehh... OK. I was hoping for an oily sauce but it's just a flour-based sauce. I like trying different kinds of canned fish from Walmart though, as they seem to always get new kinds in.
I guess the Earth has a human population of 8 billion now. I remember when I was a kid in the 70s, reading about how the Earth was 4 billion years old and how the human population was 4 billion, so I figured that was just about right.
I guess the goal of this game we're in is to pump up the population just as far as we can go, so we have as spectacular and horrible a crash as possible, and leave the Earth as unlivable for any surviving living things as possible. I think this is why my parents had 5 kids (they tried for 6) in the late 50s to early-mid 60s and every other pair of parents were doing the same.
My four siblings and I have opted out. My Evil Rich(tm) aunt has had one daughter and I have no idea if she had kids but I think not. My boss, from what's now considered a large family himself, has had one daughter who is so far childless. Of his wife's two sons from a previous marriage, one has a daughter who I'm not even sure he fathered. This laying down on the job has the Christofascists extremely angry, of course, hence the attempts to set up the US as a draconian society where women are mere breeders and breed they shall, in parallel with a popular book and TV series that many compare this vision of the US to.
I think the rate of population increase is another billion every decade, so I guess I'll have a fair chance to live to see it become 9 billion, and some chance of seeing it increase to the magic number of 10 billion. During that time, I will undoubtedly see the vanishing of elephants, rhinos, chimpanzees and gorillas and orangutans in the wild, very possibly whales and orcas, tuna, and lots of other species that simply must go because the object of the game is to cover the Earth with as many humans as physically possible.
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