Tone-deafness

 I got a decent practice in last night and finished it up with long tones. I need to get my tuner out and play to it, to make sure not only that I'm not sharp or flat, but also that I'm not wavering too much in tone. I'm on pages 22-23 now. That "Lullaby" thing is weird, very modernistic. 

It rained while I was asleep, so I missed it. I didn't go anywhere today because of the rain, but apparently it was a nice rinse and watering for the plants.

The stock market report on NPR had those sad sounds so ... stonks sad lol. It's a good thing I'm not involved in that. 

But most people are not involved in that. It seems like a recipe for losing all of your money. My older sister and her husband tried playing the stock market in 1999 or so ... and I was told something like, "After  losing half of our money, we decided that was enough". 

But what really strikes me these days is the tone-deafness I see from the powers-that-be. I get ads when watching YouTube of course, but the ads are for things I'll never buy, like medical scrubs, or things I actively hate, like cars, or things that don't need advertising at all, like Clorox Bleach. I mean, come on, it's Clorox, it's like advertising air. The amount of ads for this last thing are not going to make any difference in whether I keep some of it around, which I do. 

Meanwhile, I haven't left Amazon, more like, they've left me. I'm not intentionally buying a lot less at Whole Foods, but finding I can get the same stuff at Walmart and other interesting things besides (they have some pretty interesting things in the international foods aisles). 

There's this huge disconnect between the documented, advertised, world where we're all ostensibly middle-class, and what I actually buy and how I actually live.