Yom HaShoah

 I was reading in Reddit in r/Hawaii last night and someone posted on there something like, "32% of illegal immigrants have murdered more than one person" and this was upvoted. I can't find it now so maybe it was removed but it got upvotes. 

This is what a lot of people don't understand, that Hawaii is really redneck as hell. Only unlike other redneck areas, if you're white you're in the underclass unless you're one of the rich ones - kind of like being black here on the mainland. 

By leaving Hawaii I left a place where, although I'd grown up there, I was not welcome but merely tolerated. Here on the mainland I've gone up a level, from merely tolerated to being "mainstream", kind of like being a generic Asian in Hawaii. 

The difference here on the mainland is that the old workplace rule applies to all of society, "You're not here to make friends, you're here to work". The ideal life, here, is to work all your life and then hopefully die quickly once the last bit of possible work has been wrung out of you. 

I was able to not only get 20 things photo-ready to list on Ebay last night but also I got a bit over an hour's practice done on my new cornet. I'm practicing now so in April, when the class is done and the weather's no longer so cold and I can go out busking again, I'll hopefully sound decent. 

Also if things go to shit here, and I have to put my stuff into a storage unit and sleep where I can, maybe at Tom's, maybe somewhere else, I'll hopefully sound decent because busking is the best skill for making survival money I have. 

I did push ups and neck exercises today and the push-ups would still not be counted as such by a drill sergeant but they were better than last time. Now I understand at the gut level what people are talking about when they relate how, after an injury, they find their strength or ability to do certain things takes a huge hit and it's really work to get their capability back. 

I was able to finish the load of laundry I had soaking, pack 11 things including one big thing, get the things to FedEx and the post office, do a study session at a coffee shop, find packing stuff on the way back, then do a practice session on the cornet which went really well, then cook dinner.