After 11:00 AM, I got in the Citroën C5 Aircross and drove to the nearby car service industrial park to get the vehicle washed. (Students never know the word vehicle!)
I went to the place in the photo below. Luckily, I took a photo of the place below to locate it. It wasn’t easy to find.
Today, I went after 11:00. I was told the guy there didn’t get there before 11:00. He wasn’t there the first time, so I decided to go to the Hot Maxx outlet in the Hui Shan Wanda Mall.
I parked across from the Mall in the parking garage that is below the public square that can be seen from the elevator lobby of my wife’s office building. It beats parking under the Mall because fewer people, that be Chinese drivers, use it. It is worth the five minutes extra walking
At the Maxx, I bought drinks and mouth wash and chips. The chips would later placate my son who is annoyed at me for yesterday’s Minecraft Movie debacle. (See previous entry with Minecraft in the title.)
Walking in the Mall, I’ll walk pass locals, and hear them exclaim “Laowai “ from behind me. Sometimes, it is disconcerting like those teenage baboons that ruined the movie for me. Today, my dander was provoked after a pair of girls did that.
But I carried on to the car and returned to the car wash place. I had to wait a bit, but not for long.
As I waited, I read Finnegan’s Wake, Mark Carney’s Values, and Peter Heathers’s Empire and Barbarians. I was listening to the lastest Z-man podcast and he mentioned James Joyce. I was interested to know that Z-man has read Ulysses twice and thinks Finnegan’s Wake is unreadable. He recommended highly James Joyce’s short story The Dead. Mark Carney’s book is a slog. It seems the book is padded and made boring to make Carney seem smart and knowledgeable and well read. Heck, he mentions Frederick Hayek. He even seems to know of the problems that lead to Trump’s election and the rise of populism. But he uses verbal diarrhea words like inclusive and social to name a few. And he stuffs in references to Climte Change and Covid that are off putting to those who know that that iid all bull shit. I’ll have to finish the book and think of what he didn’t mention…I’m still too early into Heather’s book to have much to say about it.
Carwash done, I went back to Ivy Park Casa Kaulins where I took these photos.
Watch this video please!
Look at the pad below for clues about what my upcoming videos will have me say:
I am merely repeating what people, wiser than me, have said. I hope what is said is a slap in the face for me, a admonition for me and the people watching the videos.
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