Sunday, July 9, 2023

The ideology of the motorcar

 Must reading: https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

I've started, as I ride around doing my errands, looking at the landscape and imagining the space monopolized by cars to be garden plots and bike trails and modest housing instead and it's amazing. Cars take up at least 2/3rds of the sheer space around here and it's probably closer to 3/4s. California is big but imagine getting 3X-4X the prime farming and gardening and *living* land given to we the people. 

That's essentially what happened to "Silicon Valley" which used to be some of the best farmland in the world and is now largely paved over. 

My headache was creeping in again as I got close to bed time, and practicing only made it worse so I took two aspirin and went to bed. Fortunately when I got up I was not gasping with pain, and while a small headache was there, I was able to make it almost completely go away with aspirin, Diet 7-Up, coffee, and finally some bacon and eggs. 

I was able to get over to Nijiya for some things before they closed, and wandered around the Obon area. The food stalls were all closed and the last few dances were being done. At one point there was an announcement that they'd set a new record for the number of people participating, although it "felt" smaller because they had a smaller street area closed off. 

At least I watched some of the dancing, and I don't think I'll worry about my level of skill next year, because I'd have been fine. 

I walked around a bit and ended up noticing that Gombei was still serving their Obon special, tonkotsu curry for $10 so I got one of those. It was really good! I ate it sitting there in front of Gombei at the bench there, joking around with the people, eating, and just relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere. 

I'm going to try a month trial, taking a little "No Salt" which is potassium chloride, every day. The stuff's easy to buy by the can at Safeway and I have a good amount here. If taking a little each day coincides with my not having "my" headache, then I might be onto something. 


 


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