Week in Review

Week started off we seeing both my girls on television.

Twin 1’s Skid Row activities was part of Sunday's episode of CNN’s United Shades of America.

Twin 2 had multiple shots in the opening graphics.

It was a fair, balanced, focused interview in that it was all about what’s happening on Skid Row, very little about Twin 1’s backstory. Which didn’t allow her to give her enabling hypocritic of a grandmother (my mom) undeserved credit for who she (Twin 1) has become, and also did not allow for Twin 1 to undeservedly badmouth me.

On Tuesday, I finally leveled up.

Leveling up is a slow painstaking process. I had to catch and evolve a lot of pokémon to gain the 750,000 points to level up from 32 to 33. Inasmuch as the move from 33 to 34 requires 1,000,000 points, I won’t be moving up for a while ─ a looooooong while. But I have learned to battle, and battle well. No extra points for that, just the satisfaction of winning and occasionally gaining a new pokémon.

I forget which day of the week it was, but there was yet another officers involved murder, another new protest ─ while the other protests are still ongoing.

It’s so tiresome.

This shooting was by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department, filed under the category of Bike Riding While Black, which is a new one ─ added to the list of Shopping While Black, Driving While Black ─ both as driver and passenger, Jogging While Black, Walking While Black, Sitting on the Couch Eating Ice Cream in Your Own Apartment While Black, Sleeping in Your Own Bed While Black, while a snot-nosed kid walking around with an AR-15 is being branded a hero for “protecting his community” when he wasn’t even from that “community”.

It’s a lot to swallow.

And, by the way, there’s a video floating around showing this "hero" beating, sucker punching, “landing haymakers on a teen girl from behind”.

We lost two long-time residents this week. One to cancer, the other a complete mystery as the resident was in good health, so far as friends and relative knew. In fact, several residents had just spoken to her the day before. She was talking about plans to babysit her grandchildren the next day, but was found deceased in the bathroom the next morning.

She wasn’t that old, nowhere near my age, and had a beautiful singing voice.

Because her death was so unexpected, I understand an autopsy is to be performed. Maybe someone will let me know what the cause turns out to be.

Mary Sees has me on speed dial. Since having placed that online order, she texts and emails me every day ─ offering me deals on See’s candies.

Tuesday’s email included the good news the store is among those establishments allowed to reopen.

Nice, but, with this being a holiday weekend and my having seen folks loading up on supplies, at the market, that looked to be planning for big holiday events, I won’t be surprised if a Covid surge doesn’t reappear next week, causing doors to close once again ─ while I’m still waiting for the Pain Cave to reopen.

At any rate, doors open ─ walk right in, or online orders only, I don’t need the temptation of being texted and emailed every day, so I set Mary Sees to spam.

The mall has also been allowed to reopen, let people in, when I ─ planning to do that 5K last weekend at that location, didn’t know the mall was closed, wasn’t allowing folks in.

Thinking about it later, I wasn’t sure if the mall, because it was too hot to walk outside and I needed their A/C, was the right place to do a 5K because of spending that much time around people.

Still needing to qualify in the OC Fair Virtual 5K, and the forecast for the next few days to be hotter than heck, I’m still not sure, but I’ll drive over to the mall, scope it out AND, if it looks like too many people, I’ll table that 5K until the weather permits.

That's it. All checked in from my side of the world, over and out.