I barely slept last night, although I kept telling myself the brothel is quiet tonight and I should be able to sleep just fine. I was up before my alarm was due to go off at 8AM.
I figured I had time to pack one more thing to add to the few things I'd packed last night, get them to the downtown post office just a bit past when they open at 8:30, then go over to the temple for my meeting with the rabbi. I was right; it worked out just right.
The meeting went well and I have my four essay questions written down. Each essay is to be one page. So for the next four meetings, I'll have one essay done and ready to turn in. Or I can email them then discuss in the meeting, or something.
I showed off my new passport card, noting that (a) the photo of me is awful but it'll get me out of the country and that's all that counts. And(b) that the passport card affirms citizenship, but my California ID affirms I'm legal to drive a car or ride a motorcycle so I'll get the Real ID version of that soon.
We talked about this and that. One lady who was a Temple member made aliyah to Israel a while back, maybe a year now, and she's thriving. She's in Jerusalem. I observed that "money is the universal lubricant, but knowing how to do things with little or no money is good too" (the lady is rather wealthy).
Honestly, no amount of wealth could make a person happy in Israel or anywhere else, if their attitude isn't right, and the rabbi says hers certain is and he says mine is too. All in all it was a great meeting.
After the meeting I went to Whole Foods and looked for something "keto" for breakfast. I had a piece of fish with their very bland version of Indian spices, and Indian spinach that's normally with paneer, an Indian white cheese, but this stuff's with tofu. And a fizzy water.
The "Save The Children" botherers were just setting up and it was 10:30 when I left. I made myself drink a can of Doutor cold canned coffee at Nijiya because I was really feeling the lack of sleep.
The deal is this: I have about a week left of blood pressure pills. I can either try to get more of the pills, or I can straighten out my diet and lose some weight and *then* see if I still need to be on pills, by checking and logging my blood pressure. So I need to go back to a pretty strict keto diet.