Saturday night.

 This is an excellent article: https://newrepublic.com/article/191421/trump-emigration-wave-brain-drain in part of it, it's mentioned that by ceasing funding for things, we could end up in a condition the preppers call WROL or Without Rule Of Law. 

Yesterday I photo'd a dozen expensive to somewhat expensive things for Ebay, sent an email to the rabbi saying I've got a cold and don't want to spread it so I won't be at the service or the Sunday class, then packed things to go out because I still wanted to do errands. 

I dropped the things off at the post office, deposited my latest pay check at the bank, got my new books of checks, and stopped in at Whole Foods for a couple of things and I was hoping, one of those little bottles of Siggi's kefir or if not that, a Brown Cow yogurt. They only had big bottles of the kefir and they don't seem to have Brown Cow yogurt at all, so I didn't have anything. 

I rode over to the music store to buy the Bach 3C mouthpiece and asked about used ones. The guy and I looked through the used mouthpieces they had, and then he suggested looking in the "returns" and they had one that's like new and I got it for half price. So, something around $35 instead of the $60+ it would be, new. 

I rode back over to Whole Foods and had some chicken, broccoli, and a pint bottle of Guinness. After that was to get things that need to be kept somewhat cold like cream for coffee, a cucumber, etc. 

Then I stopped at Nijiya and got some smoked salmon, seaweed-flavored peanuts, and fried peas. I was considering getting a 4-pack of beer but then settled on something cheaper, a big bottle of sake. For some reason I guess I thought this would make me feel better or go to sleep earlier or something. 

The end result was just my feeling lousier when I woke up. The sake didn't even taste very good, the stuff's made in Hollister for goodness' sake. There was still some in the bottle when I got up, so I poured it down the sink before  I got any funny ideas about drinking any more of the stuff. 

And somehow I've gotten an appointment to get a passport, in mid-April at one of the libraries. That should give me time to get all my papers in order, and I'll even bring my old passport, which according to someone on Reddit, works as proof of citizenship if for some reason the birth certificate doesn't. 

I should probably see about getting a replacement social security card, since mine got lost years ago and I don't think I even have the little stub that it came with that had my number on it also. Maybe even dig up my Army papers. In any case I have until mid-late April to get it all together.