And some more rain

 And wind, making sure it was not practical to go out at all today, much less any kind of busking. 

I got my practice in last night, and the little tunes in the band book are coming out better and more easily. 

I've been thinking about some things a lot lately, and I might as well write them down. Firstly, there are only three other blogs I follow at all. One is "Ran Prieur" whose life has followed the trajectory that's ideal if you've got parents who will kick off and leave you stuff like money and a house. He's just fucked around being a "rebel" by writing a silly "zine" for some years, digging in dumpsters, and hustling donations online so he'd never have to work. His honesty was so refreshing that people ponied up and it was a pretty good racket. Finally he ran out of parents and got the money and house, and has settled into navel-gazing and the occasional vacation. He's not nearly so interesting any more. 

One of the others is "Rabb1t" who lived in a Toyota Rav4 in and around the De Anza College campus. Now, my memory of a Rav4 is something only slightly larger than the old 1980s Suzuki Samurai, but apparently they're sizeable SUVs now. His blog is so depressing I can't look away, basically. I have to admire that he's avoided most of the troubles of homelessness (drugs, other homeless) and has kept puttering along all these years. Maybe I should look into the price of a good used Rav4... 

Lastly there's "Street Musician Daniel" who I actually sent guitar strings and stuff to, and who used to keep a pretty interesting blog of his day-to-day busking in New Orleans. He's since gotten a free house and free everything else, is far-right Trumpist/Zionist/racist politically, and has given up busking for the recreational joys of crack. His blog is hard as hell to find; you have to do a Google search of it, which brings up a post from well over a year ago. Then click on the "masthead" to get his latest. Which he posts at the rate of less than once a month. He thinks The Illuminati or some shit are plotting against him to make people not read his blog, but really it's just that he's made it nearly impossible to find. I need to stop even trying to read that one, frankly. 

I'd include Marvin Naylor, who had a neat blog of his busking over in the UK, but he's gone over to just posting YouTube videos now. Lots of crankiness and dry humour in that one, so it was always a bit of fun to read.