RIP Tony Bennett

 Last night I watched yet another Robert Lustig video, cooked dinner (beef and veggie soup) and then decided I was tired and went to bed. 

I woke up at about 1:30. I just had to turn on the radio and learn that Tony Bennett had died. It had to happen sometime; he was getting pretty old. But he was an infantryman in WWII and "saw things no person should ever see" like in house-to-house fighting and liberating at least one concentration camp. You could never tell a guy like that the Holocaust wasn't real, or Hitler was the good guy, or any of the right-wing nonsense going around these days, without the guy probably decking you. 

Hell of a singer, too. 

I packed a bunch of things and took off the usual time, hit the post office and FedEx, and stopped at the computer repair's dumpster on the way back. Mostly I was after shipping supplies and I found a lot of neat stuff, but wasn't sure if it was really worth anything. 

I got back here and offloaded my goodies, and took a large box I'd collected for just that reason and put one of those big black garbage bags inside as a liner. For some reason someone had dumped a box of rotting fruit and I'd swear some rotting meat or fish, in the spot in front of the trash enclosure that food is left off, but this was far past use as anything but fertilizer so I wasn't sure of the logic here. I was sure it stunk, though. I went over there with this lined box, dumped it in, and took it over next to Bayshore where it will at least stink over there instead of right here. 

So I'd done my bit for neatness and non-stinkyness. 

After eating something, I went through my computer repair store cast-offs. It turns out to be honestly a few hundred dollars' worth of stuff. In fact some little bits I just picked up for the bags they were in turned out to be quite valuable.