I woke up at noon or a bit before, turned on the radio, and a nice thing: The Israel Decolonization Force has killed Sinwar. He ded. It's verified.
This opens things up to regime change in Gush Katif, the so-called "Gaza". The best regime change would be the Arabs there Raus! And Jews live on their own, Jewish, land there as it is part of Israel. But we may not get that. But Ham-ass can be replaced by a less insane regime, with a very good, and snoopy, intelligence network so Israel will know if the Arabs are planning a game of pinochle with tea and baklava much less another terrorist attack.
Ken came by last night, I got my check and all's good. I've been pretty spendy this past week, and my savings for this pay check will be about $12. At least it's something.
I packed 10 small things that had sold, took off a bit before 4, dropped off trash, dropped off a donation, dropped off the packages at the post office, and deposited my pay check at the bank. Then over to Whole Foods for some ... whole foods haha. Good old greasy baked chicken and some cauliflower and a can of seltzer.
Then I went over to Walmart, but first I looked around in Big-5 and they had the same sleeping bag I have, for sale for $25 instead of the $40 or so I usually pay. So I told them I'd get it, but I need to go to Walmart first. I got stuff at Walmart, then came back to Big-5 and the poor gal, who's about 4'10" and maybe 89 lbs dripping wet, was being told to do a whole lots of things. She and I tried to get the sleeping bag into its carrying bag, than a bigger gal and I tried, and finally I just had them give me a big Big5 bag and I got it stuffed into that.
So the bike was really loaded on the way back but I didn't let that stop me from buying some salmon sashimi at Nijiya on my way home.
I got back here and double checked my record keeping regarding my bank account, and it's just about dead on, maybe 15c difference. No problem. I put things away and futzed around in general, and then went to the site and registered for the upcoming Introduction To Judaism class. That was $180.
The way I look at this whole thing is, if I were to complete my college degree it would cost me many, many thousands of dollars and put me into debt for the rest of my life. And it would not add anything to my earning power. But if I go through this conversion class, and do the things, and am accepted in the end as a Jew, then this "degree" confers the ability to go to Israel to retire.
I'll not have to worry about becoming homeless and eaten by feral dogs or feral tweakers. I'll have access to medical care. The level of danger I'll be in (car accident, being mugged, hate crimes, etc.) will be something like 1/10th what it is here.
Plus I'll "Learn Secret Language Overnight". Back in the 80s when I was in the army, I ordered the catalog from "Information Unlimited" of Amherst, New Hampshire. This was a place that sold all kinds of plans and kits, for things like ultrasonic zapping guns and the FM bug I built, and laser stuff, and all kinds of crazy shit. So I get this catalog and my buddy and I are drooping over it, and there were these sort of "mini plans" you could order for just $5 each and I remember one about how to change your car from a 6V system to a "modern" 12V system, no more bothering with "those old Kettering systems" and another one that was "Learn Secret Language Overnight". My friend and I laughed ourselves sore over that one, imagining a guy reading the little plan in bed before clicking off the light and going to sleep, then waking up and he can only speak this language no one knows.
Hebrew's not like that, but the idea of knowing another language is pretty great.
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