This thread right here. This: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1bncsmu/am_i_the_only_one_who_saw_this_coming/
Last night I got in, caught up on Ebay messages and accepting offers and so on, drank wine, ate a bit, ate the three poppy seed hamentaschen I'd bought (delicious!) and gradually got my stuffed backpack unpacked and things sorted out and put away. And found useless YouTube stuff to watch, and went to bed around 3-4 AM.
I woke up a bit past noon, with a headache so I drank some water and went back to bed to sleep until about 3. I. Am. Tired. It was a ton of running around yesterday, carrying all that stuff, etc. Good physical training.
Yesterday as we were talking around that table I learned that the rabbi had actually been at the Purim dance, dressed as "Prince" or "a prince" I'm not sure. I wonder if he was the guy in what looked like it was supposed to represent chain mail? Prince Valiant in the newspaper comics was always dressed in chain mail. In any case I'm glad the rabbi was around because he got to see me handing out light sticks and hanging out with the sound guy and generally getting along.
Due to the extremely atomized nature of this place it's not like I got to do a ton of socializing before covid, but covid really made me isolated. But this group, by its nature, does things together. For instance in the reading of the story of Esther, a bunch of different people each read one of the chapters. I might read a chapter next year.
I was able to pack a dozen things and get them up to the post office, and went to 99 Ranch for some tea eggs, 2 for $3 but now for the 2nd time, the lady's given me three, the third one being one that's been soaking in the marinade for a long time and actually has some great flavor. "You're trying to make me fat!" I joked with her.
I ate my tea eggs then went over to H Mart and got some beef rib slices, all cooked, on their own without the rice. That was $3 and what a yummy snack! I ate those out front and then walked over to Sprouts to check out the wine situation. The long and short of that is, I bought 6 bottles and a neato compartmented cloth bag to carry them in. The stuff's only $4 a bottle and both tastes better, and is cheaper, than the already cheap tetra pak wine.
I've been thinking about the open window at the hotel, and the theory I've come up with is, while I was asleep, someone came up and very slowly opened the window so it would not wake me up. Then someone else, maybe a security guard, came up and made the guy go away - that would be the male voices I heard right outside. The window was left open, because whoever had chased the baddie off didn't want to disturb and now they were keeping extra watch. That would explain the traffic noises being so annoying when I woke up.
The window had been opened up enough that with a bit more opening, a guy could climb right in. I've stayed in some really dodgy hotels, some really skeezy places of the type that I'm not sure even exist any more, and never had a problem. But I know from Reddit that there have been cases around here of people breaking into hotel room when they know the person who'd rented the room was in there. If I stay there again, I'm going to put something in the window track so the window can't be opened like that. Or at least screw the little screw thingie in.
I also thought just now that yesterday was actually my best busking day ever, as my previous record had been about $160, and yesterday I made $180. Both days stand out because the $160 was in a single hour, while yesterday I played for two hours.
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