Monday, monday...

 There are some great Monday songs and I should try them out busking, but I'm always too busy on a Monday. 

I held up surprisingly well, though, busking for two hours after not having been out there for something like a year, and my practice being so spotty. When I'm free of working for Ken, I'll be free to busk on Mondays all I want. In Israel the weekend is late Friday afternoon to Sunday morning so Monday busking will definitely be a thing. 

I woke up to it raining pretty heavily, went back to sleep and next thing I knew it was past noon. I guess I made up for the lost sleep the night before last. 

Two things: Firstly, I keep having second thoughts, that maybe once I am officially Jewish I should just move back to Hawaii and join the temple there. I may be a second-class citizen there but at least I know where everything is, I know how to hustle up money and how to fish and forage, and while "family" and "friends" I have back there are useless, I'd be a member of the Jewish community there such as it is, and I have enough tales of going to Sacred Falls and digging for glass stuff at the old Hale'iwa/Waialua hospital grounds and all kinds of old-time stuff like that, to convince people I'm pretty "local" for being that hated thing, a "haole". 

I'd be in part of the US Postal system, making selling on Ebay easy, and I'd be able to "work the system" pretty well for an affordable "senior" place to live. 

But this all eerily reminds me of what were probably the thoughts of so many German and Polish and Lithuanian Jews who felt they ought to stick it out in the country they'd been in for so many generations, where they spoke the language and served in its military and were so integrated. Things could not possibly get that bad, could they? 

The truth is that Hawaii's cuisine is just about based on pork, the US Postal system may become only a memory, the shells that are worth so much money from Hawaii can be found all over the Pacific and it's only a matter of time before people figure that out. Hawaii is absolutely overrun with Christians. Access to medical care has gotten much worse over the decades since I left. It would not be a win, at all. 

Everyone's "pulling in their horns" as it were. Countries from Portugal to Italy to the UK to the US (of course) to, well, everywhere, are making it harder to immigrate to them. It's yet another echo of the 1930s. Israel is not about to be shut off from Reform Jews any time soon as there are too many of us to ignore. Plus Reform has become pretty indistinguishable from Conservative in the last several decades.

This: https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2025-playbook-2000600994 is why I need to make all haste to get out of here. Not because I'm a consumer of porn, mind you, but because porn is whatever they decide it is. Advice page on your civil rights? Porn. Advice on how to sneak through the border out of the Reich? Porn. Advice on good nutrition? Believe it or not, porn. 

Wowwww..... just reading r/movingtohawaii and the asset limit for Hawaii's medicaid is $2k. For California it's $130k. I guess I'd have Medicare after a while or maybe once I got back there if I went, but wow just wow. I'd have to make my income completely on the underground economy. That's not a big problem, just another inconvenience and yet another reason that moving to a little island at the edge of the Reich is *not* escaping the realities of living in the Reich.