…well there might have been some missteps like nearly tanking the global economy but certainly anyone who gets paid five [?] million bucks every time some random billionaire wants to kiss his copious ass deserves to be cut a little slack, right? Anyway nobody ever said the transition from demockery to klepto-technologarchy was going to be seamless, after all…and through all that [well during, really] the Malaise fallout,

exacerbated by repeated impactful interruptions to finish the insurance-mandated electrical work, continued. There were nevertheless some bright moments…not only on First

and around the home

not to mention that long-postponed breakfast at Lucca, wired on unaccustomed morning coffee

for the walk home after. I’ll opt for water next time.

Through the aftermath I never did get in a proper bikeride,

only a couple of brief hits over to West Third between

that long postponed massage at Yan’s Day Spa,

and dinner at the Union with Bryan where

the Eagle wore spectacles, the better to resolve those two flags…

Slowly coming back, taking Sumi around

every morning

and myself to Kaiser for PT

before a last – not lost – weekend spent

preparing for the long-delayed return to Wall Spring.

Sunday;

Monday;

After five weeks in Benicia I’m truly really sick of all those indistinguishable Muskvagens* – three or four to a block, literally – downtown, a constant in-the-face reminder of the Assholes Without Borders who have taken the fate of our nation and world into their self-serving greedy little hands. Time to go somewhere less Elon’d…except even there we rely on – and pay for – his space junk for internet. Well AI will solve it all, of course!

*In less ubiquitous times I was quite taken with the M3 in particular, but lacking the leisure and resources for purely recreational driving couldn’t figure out how to effectively use one in a way that would amortize the production cost to the environment.  Or use one at all, really; we have rather specialized automotive needs. Anyway by now there are lots of other apparently way better and less expensive EVs available…mostly coming out of China, from which Tesla is protected by those 124% tariffs implemented by Elon’s Fe-lon.