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Friday, May 12th, 2023 06:35 pmWarm weather doldrums. I should sweep up the linden's caterpillar-like seedlings before it rains and turns them to mush, but there's no rain forecast until maybe Monday. Instead I went out to the yuppie mommy coffe shop which now has one or two outdoor tables. Father and small son were sitting at one with tea and what looked like yoplait yoghurts, small person-sized. They went indoors to get a spoon, leaving their drinks and yoghurt on the table. Up comes yuppie mommy and *her* mommy and settle themselves at the table. Stark insensibility. Father and son come back and politely move their stuff to the uncomfortable Cape Cod chairs. Do Mommy mère et grandmère express any concern at all? They do not. Back when I was sitting the Magnificent Helen and her sister, I often wondered at the people her parents knew- academics and professionals all- and how one could begin to have a conversation with any of them. They simply didn't register as people to me, which I thought a failing on my part. Now I'm not so sure.
However, went down to the BoM to get small bills and found my account again swollen to unexpected sums. Some federal tax credit came in at well over what I'm used to; I wonder what happened to convince the Feds of my sudden poverty? But anyway I took out a wad of cash and distributed largesse to my regs: and the musician turns out to be Persian and ran through the names of the various stringed instruments for me, from his own two-string dutar up to six-stringed guitars. Then came home and bought a standing fan online because we're into that season and my bedroom fan will not stay together. Found a place that sells Holmes fans and hope it's as excellent as the one that died. Hope also that it's as easy to assemble because the Lasko fan I got last year was a bitch, however genki it may be in the breeze department. Lasko fans come with remotes and programs and displays and I don't want any of those. Equally I want a fan that makes white noise: none of your 'whisper quiets' for me. I sleep on the street side of my house.
However, went down to the BoM to get small bills and found my account again swollen to unexpected sums. Some federal tax credit came in at well over what I'm used to; I wonder what happened to convince the Feds of my sudden poverty? But anyway I took out a wad of cash and distributed largesse to my regs: and the musician turns out to be Persian and ran through the names of the various stringed instruments for me, from his own two-string dutar up to six-stringed guitars. Then came home and bought a standing fan online because we're into that season and my bedroom fan will not stay together. Found a place that sells Holmes fans and hope it's as excellent as the one that died. Hope also that it's as easy to assemble because the Lasko fan I got last year was a bitch, however genki it may be in the breeze department. Lasko fans come with remotes and programs and displays and I don't want any of those. Equally I want a fan that makes white noise: none of your 'whisper quiets' for me. I sleep on the street side of my house.
