WWII shit

 After Ken leaving at 1AM and my making some (meh) shrimp garlic ramen, I listed 10 things and then went to bed, being very tired. 

I woke up at around 2:30, and got out of here at 3:45.  I dropped off two small packages at the post office downtown and then went right to the bank to deposit my check and my numbers agreed with the bank's numbers down to the penny. 

I went over to the SoFa mini-mall thing to use the bathroom, and decided to try what used to be Caffe Frascati. It's some wine mom kind of place now, all pink and the very air full of sugar. I got an almond croissant and an espresso, and that cost me just under $10, over $10 with a dollar tip of course. 

I was hoping the espresso might help my headache, which was bad when I got up. Last night, as a late-night snack I'd had coffee and some dark chocolate. I figured this would tell me if dark chocolate is the reason for my headaches and today this seems to be borne out. 

It was too sweet inside and the ambiance was 2/10 outside, plus there was a very talky bum who'd been talking another guy's ear off and one the guy escaped, Mr. Talky packed up his enormous cart of crap and started off in the direction my bike was, and I was worried he might give my bike a go-over. So I finished quickly and walked up there but the bum was just going on his way. 

I went to Dai Thanh and got stuff, then over to the Amazon place which was more crowded than I've ever seen it, and picked up bubble mailers - I  got a lot of those. 

I picked up a few books on my way to Nijiya, where I got ... more things. Including a "holiday" chicken leg. In Japan, they celebrate American Thankgiving with really really good KFC chicken. It has to be ordered in advance. They have osechi which are fancy bento boxes for all kinds of things, including super big (and expensive) ones for the new year. I swear if I could hack the language I'd be really tempted to retire there. 

Instead of course it's Hawaii, "Japan Lite". I've often wanted to ask, why don't weaboos (people who idealize Japan to an unnatural degree) just move to Hawaii? There, you can you "dial" up or down, as you like, how Asian or Pacific Islander or white American you want to live. But the thing with weaboos is, they seem to think that whites are idolized in Japan, and there may be a little of that, but it's a lot less than they think there is, and in Hawaii being white is not only not special, but it puts you at a disadvantage. 

I got my butt back here with bags hanging off both handlebars, and stopped to take a few circuit boards off of a big screen TV someone had dumped on the other side of the complex. Those only cost me a small cut on one finger and that's why I keep lots of band-aids around. 

Now I'm in for the next couple of days. 

There's constant news on the radio of course ... Putin's pulling pure WWII shit on Ukraine and if he's able to, Europe in general. I wonder, when WWII started, people said, "This is some Great War shit"? Because the Great War, AKA WWI, had only ended about 20 years before.