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Thursday, October 7 2021
I made the mistake of getting lunch today at the Golden Wok, Red Hook's Chinese restaurant. I was the only customer when I walked in there at 1:00pm wearing an N95 mask. There was a sign saying they were no longer open on Tuesdays due to a labor shortage. In the past I've had okay food from there, but today I mistakenly ordered the broccoli with garlic sauce, and it really was just broccoli with an oily sticky-sweet sauce. It was so inherently gross that I wasn't able to eat all of the rice and sauce. I dumped that part out near the trashcans (under the maples near the picnic tables across the street from Bubbie's) for the birds and the ants.
After work, I made my customary stop at the Home Depot, this time to get 3/4 inch PVC electrical conduit and fittings suitable for wiring up the 240 volt outlet that will allow me to charge the Chevy Bolt at the cabin. I also bought a couple concrete footings that might prove useful as the foundation for the end support posts of the stationary dock. I'd bought some additional hardware for that part of the dock from two online vendors, and was delighted to see that all that stuff had already arrived when I got home. (Postal service has been terribly degraded of late, but even in these conditions, there are parcels that somehow beat expectations.)
I ate some cannabis and had a relaxing evening of watching YouTube clips by myself in the house, as Gretchen had flown to Arkansas for our niece's bat mitzvah. Tonight I watched a lot of insane car-crash video as filmed by dashboard cameras. I realized that one rational reason for this being such compelling content is that it is "training data" (in the artificial intelligence sense) for my brain. Car crash footage inherently consists of recordings of rare events, the kind I might never see in a whole lifetime. So it stands to reason that I would be comepelled to watch it out of a desire to know how best to handle dangerous situations on the highway (whether they be weather-related, the result of road rage, or situations where people are likely to drive into parts of the road they cannot see.


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