It will be pouring outside soon. Rain is threatening with high winds and gray clouds and Bobby's TV showing a news photo, taken from atop the spire of the tall bridge that goes over the river, featuring a wall of foggy mist flashing like a mosquito zapper on an August night in the bayou and about to encroach upon the Mississippi River from over on Howard's side. He must be getting it right now.
Heavy rains.
I must run to the store for a can of cat food. I am down to just enough money for one after having made only a dollar busking last (Thursday) night.
Had I stayed for one more hour, I'm sure it would have been at least a 6 dollar night, but I had smoked some "ambition-be-gone" and just wanted to get back to my cocoon of an apartment.
But not before applying for work through Appen, which I saw mentioned on Reddit after I went to read the outpouring of help that I got on my post about Tor...
Heavy rains.
I must run to the store for a can of cat food. I am down to just enough money for one after having made only a dollar busking last (Thursday) night.
Had I stayed for one more hour, I'm sure it would have been at least a 6 dollar night, but I had smoked some "ambition-be-gone" and just wanted to get back to my cocoon of an apartment.
Dude, you are a busker. Busk. Put in your hours at the Lily Pad. Choose a 2nd location and try an hour or two there for the lunch hour. Make CDs of you playing the Mel Bay exercises, so fat moms from Iowa can buy them for their kids. If you go get a job, yeah, you'll have a job, but it will mean even less guitar time. Instead, get more interested in your guitar. Try to teach yourself some slide - people love slide. Get some custom guitar picks made and give 'em to people who tip. Make it interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm up against this same issue. It's been tempting to consider getting back into hustling "awareness" ribbons, or hustling roses downtown, but I've given Ken an ultimatum that if things don't improve, I'm headed back to Hawaii in the week or two before October 1, 2020, when travel restrictions start. I'd be on shaky ground, vending physical things in Hawaii; there are "undercovers" who will pack me off to jail. But performing (or begging!) are OK because nothing physical changes hands. So over the next bit-over-a-year, I need to work on my shakuhachi skills. Not any other distractions.
I don't know why anyone leaves their wifi unencrypted. It's like, the first option in the set up procedure. I don't think you could have screwed up the dudes wifi but he may have noticed you on his network ( even though your computer appeared not to have connected) and changed his encryption settings. Otherwise, I would change all your shit back to where it worked before and see if you can connect again. Tor is actually kind of a pain in the ass IMO besides entertainers shouldn't be worried about being surveilled anyway, it's all free promotion, right? Ha, hey look at me! Traa-la-la...
ReplyDeleteAlex: I've considered going total hippie on the backside of Kauai, do you think thats still possible? It's that or Slab City for the winter, ha
@Craig: My smartphone does the exact same thing, fails to connect to the network even though the signal is "excellent"
ReplyDeleteI think Wayne is afraid to admit what he doesn't know, customer service tech that he is, and if anything unusual happened his first response would be to shut off the guy next door with the bookshelf full of "Linux Programming" manuals...
I might have to look at coming up with the 150 bucks for year's worth of Cox broadband as a worthy goal in going out to busk...replacing the philosophy of, I don't drink, my friend gives me free bud, another one keeps me in kratom, what do I have to play longer for?
150$ for a year? Thats cheap AF! Here the cheapest broadband service is at least 50$ per month. And bud is still 10 bucks a gram, with a med card, heh.
DeleteC. Nelson - the last thing Kauai needs is another "pilau" (stinky) haole hippie from the mainland, but hey, knock yourself out.
ReplyDeleteSome clarification: @craig: my neighbor gave me the password to his wifi, he didn't leave it unencripted; and wifi IS about 500 a month through Cox here, I had somehow multiplied 12 x 12 instead of $39.95 x 12 in my morning haze....
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'm sure Alex means that the natives are going to view you as a pilau haole, and not that he himself does...maybe Alex fears that there won't be many slots open for pilau haole hippies by the time he is ready to go back there, and you might go and grab the last piece of cardboard under the last available bamboo lean-to; people can be competitive..
I'm not going to Kauai, though. I have no interest in the outer islands. Even though you can buy land on them cheap - we're talking as little as a thousand an acre, and certainly for a few thousand to 10 grand you can buy an acre or two on the Big Island complete with a "non compliant" shack to live in.
ReplyDeleteI'm really hoping to, by the time I'm back there, to be in fairly tight with the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist set, and no lean-to's for me if they can possibly be avoided.
$500/month for wifi sounds like Silicon Valley prices ouch.
Correction #2: $500 a year -$39.95/mo. Plus tax? Probably...commenting on my smartphone as my soon to be new identity made possible by changing phone plans and becoming reborn through a new e-mail address...a chance to give Google the shake
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