Peaceful weekends?

 The gate between the halves of the parking lot, dividing our building from the problem building where the illegal night club and who knows what else is going on, remains closed. The result is a few confused pimps and ho's and the odd john, driving in, in the case of the ho's not wanting to walk around the end of the fence because mud and high heels don't go well together, and leaving. 

Plus, last night and the night before, there have been one or more police cars stationing themselves at the Rogers Avenue entrance, and on Friday night they did the standard roust 'em out routine. 

I can't think of what's changed. Persistence on my part, plus I'd started to mention that although the two buildings look alike, they're owned by two different entities. Our landlord is a good one, the other building being owned by an absentee landlord who allows all kinds of things to go on. Plus the unit on the Rogers Avenue end is hinky as hell as I've mentioned. 

So I've not had to call to complain once the gate has been closed, but the police are on top of things anyway. So they seem to be on a "clean up Rogers Avenue" regime, since a while back they'd mentioned they were cleaning out an illegal casino up the street. 

I packed a ton of things last night and got more together to pack.  

Oh yeah, and Our Most Zionist President(tm) did another one of his annoying false-flag things yesterday. Which means more of his wheedling voice on the radio. Funniest part was where they were rushing him to safety (after they'd rushed Fat Face out of there first) and he fell down because walking is hard. 

Anything to distract from the Epstein files, anything. That and the 2nd holocaust the small hats are doing with glee. 

Up until far too recently I really wondered why everyone over here, on the other side of the planet, was talking about "Israel" all the time. Finally "the penny dropped" as the Brits say. Everyone's talking about "Israel" all the time because the Zionists have an overwhelming influence on our lives. Everything from whether we have universal health care like they do (obviously we don't) to whether our fighting-age people will be sent off to die for the Zios, etc. 

Another thing that happened last night was The Squilla Incident. I'd seen frozen mantis shrimp/squilla in H Mart forever, and last night they had a package that was only about $12 (it's by weight) and decided to go for it. 

Big mistake. I tried shelling them raw, and that was a no-go. Plus there's a big dirty vein in them. So I boiled the tails and tried, again no go. There's hardly any meat in there and it's all pretty firmly attached to the shell. 

I ended up throwing them away and cooking something else for dinner. 

I think the people buying squilla are buying them for bait, or maybe some insane nostalgia thing.