4-7:30 at time and a half. could have taken an extra 10 for my break - an extra $3.50 which would have almost paid for a banh mi. forgot to put a clean shirt in my bag. walked out wearing just my hoodie unzipped. don't care what others thought.
i'll see if BMCC is open today. if so, will pick up 3 banh mi for the day and go from there - probably to denny's for wifi then recharge at the metro.
recharged until about 10:30, found shady spot slept in car until the sun prompted a move about 2-ish. thought i'd left the laptop on and needed to recharge. turned out i was still at 80% - and it takes roughly about a minute per percent to recharge. it was hot, so i left when i hit 90%, couldn't find shade at the park, but there are stretches of shady spots on santa anita right next to the parking lot. slept until about 5:45, which turned out since the restrooms closed early today at 6pm instead of 6:30. grabbed a face towel, stuffed it in a plastic bag and towelled myself off a bit.
finally succumbed and went and got another polar pop, although this time i went with a sugar free option, which will probably kill me just as quickly but in a different way, and ate my last banh mi at the park.
holidays are just an inconvenience for people living outside. it's less obvious because the quarantine - the places that close for holidays like the libraries are already closed. but it's almost cool enough that i can go back to the uncovered denny's lot and do a few more chess puzzles before one last recharge and call it a night. still not sure where i plan to sleep tonight. actually, a completely closed fedex lot makes more sense than anywhere else. i could try the home depot lot which i've heard about for years now. basically any industrial lot should work, but then predators will know that too.
Lost track of time doing chess puzzles. recharging again one last time at 8:30. just a half hour should get me back up over 75% and i still have my backup laptop & battery. still have to decide where to park tonight. from here, fedex might be closest, actually.
i am now at the fedex lot, and it seems like everyone in elmonte is setting off fireworks. we're not talking firecrackers and bottle rockets. we're talking francis scott key. i can smell it. most of the display is to the south, but also no less than a half mile north of me. so the sounds and smell of gunpowder are pretty much 360 right now. earlier, some poor dog was running around the parking lot with no idea of what was going on. the sound of sirens only adds to the moment. hopefully this isn't prophetic in any way. part of me wants to sit back, watch and enjoy, but another part of me wants to pray that this is just fireworks; some of the explosions to the north are coming less than two seconds. this has been going on for almost an hour now, and there's no sign of letting up. i couldn't go to sleep now even if i wanted to.
i can see now that some of them have been launched directly on the other side of the wall on the edge of the lot maybe 100 yards away. but they're done now. somebody made a lot of money selling fireworks this year.
the enemies to the north have reloaded and have reopened fire. inside the car with the windows closed, it sounds like rain on the roof of the car, except it's occasionally punctuated with a loud bang.
No comments:
Post a Comment