Friday the 10th

 Well it's the usual shit. We were supposed to get our water shut off on the 7th and 8th but I guess they were able to do what they needed to do OK without the water being off for long, so the buckets of water I have in the bathroom can be used and the buckets stored away now. 

Last night, there was zero activity that I could see at the illegal night club, but a cop car came around and they were looking for a guy among the abandoned/eternally parked cars over on that side. A tow truck came in and one car was towed. OK, great. Then an hour or two later the cops came back and looked for the guy on my end, among the eternally parked trucks. 

At least this place is showing up as the crime hotspot it is. 

Meanwhile yesterday during the day I'd gone to Menlo Park to do some business, had eaten a bento on the train as is tradition (the new electric trains, just like the old diesel ones, were made in Japan). I checked in the very busy little thrift store there in Menlo Park and they'd had an East German made recorder, which was mildly interesting but what am I going to do with a recorder? Later I checked prices and it was going for about what they go for on Etsy and Ebay... so they're good at checking prices. 

I got back here and I was bushed as I was operating on maybe 4 hours of sleep. I managed to stay up until about 10:30 then went to bed, and woke up around 1:45 in the morning when I was able to observe the police doings described above. I went back to bed around 5 or 6, woke up around noon I think, maybe closer to 10, then woke up at a quarter to 3 in the afternoon. 

I realized I had to go to the bank, got up and packed a few things to ship, and got going at a quarter to 4. I dropped off trash and donations, and had a can of coffee and a couple boiled eggs at Nijiya. Then I dropped off the packages at the post office, and went over to the bank and deposited my pay check. 

I then went to Walmart for my "Weekly Wal" and got various things. At one point an employee asked how I was doing, in a friendly way, and I said "Great, just doing my 'weekly Wal'" which he liked to hear. 

I got more things at Nijiya again, and got back here. The idea is to change back over to a daytime schedule and not have to worry about the illegal night club any more.