Well, the Gestapo can go into churches, schools, etc. to round up illegals and "illegals" and a lot of people who are brown are very nervous, some saying they're not leaving their houses, as per Reddit.
What no one seems to remember is this was done before, Operation Wetback in the 1950s, the requirement for "Real ID" in places like Arizona during the 2008 crash, and even the internment of Japanese residents/citizens resulting in a huge hit to vegetable farming, which is where that whole "Victory Garden" thing came from. People were encouraged to grow their own fresh veggies because the people who grew a lot of them were now in camps.
Some on Reddit are saying the powers-that-be will realize this, and instead of deportations, we'll have imprisonment and work camps. Immigrants who got peon wages picking vegetables will now get US prison slave wages of 10c an hour or or something.
This will also provide a profit motive to scoop up brown people to work in the work camps.
That's enough news.
Yesterday I got a folder that can hold the loose leaf sheets for the Hebrew part of the class and the class syllabus sheets, and my two Hebrew books because studying here at the shop just isn't happening. And as I pointed out to Ken, I'm halfway through the class time-wise but have only done 1/3 of the class sessions. The Hebrew is going to get harder and there will be people who wash out. One of them will be me if I don't get a lot more serious about study.
Enter coffee shops. I did a study session at Paris Baguette yesterday, and will study at some other shop today. Yes, it will mean spending $10 or so on coffee and a croissant or something to not be a freeloader, but I'm that serious about the class and about learning Hebrew.
So, after packing a few things and finding a lot of things to donate, I took off a bit after 3. I dumped trash, went to Nijiya for a salmon belly bento, donated the things in the little free library there, found a few books there and the others, dropped off the packages at the post office, deposited my check at the bank (only maybe 15c different between their math and mine, that's a win) and went to the Amazon place for bubble mailers.
Now to find a coffee shop. Philz's was really busy in fact there were students everywhere and two old guys with a guitar and a mandolin I think, playing whiny old-guy music and a few bucks in the guitar case.
I went over to Nirvana Soul and got a "small" coffee and a garlic roll thing, which was kind of awful, but I was able to do a good study session upstairs. I also befriended Kathleen The Violinist, who was hanging out there before her rehearsal session at the California theater next door.
At each new coffee shop I'm buying $12-$15 in coffee and junk, so their first impression of me is of someone who spends money. But over time I think it'll just be the coffee.
Study session done, I got a couple more bubble mailers at the Amazon place, got a few things at Nijiya, and got back here.
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