i'm a little more comfortable on zoom now than i used to be, though i kind of don't use it to its full potential, i'm sure. i was up there with some old webheads friends, and one was showing off how he had a little punk character with glassy eyes, instead of his own image, and he could make it move, so it appeared to be alive. and he could name it whatever he wanted.

another guy addressed the musicians' issue - namely that because of the lag, two people can't play at the same time, or accompany each other, etc. he said there was software, rather expensive, that would take care of that. musicians and producers get it and use it. for the rest of us, maybe too pricey.

my biggest problem so far has been remembering that my zoom account remembers my firefox IP but not chrome. so, when i am in chrome, it will tell me to "wait for the host" and i get mad, because i am the host. but if i just calm down, i remember to get back on firefox and then it will work. it's frustrating to be unable to get up on zoom when you really want to, or need to.

when minneapolis is on fire my big reaction is, there but for the grace of god go i. i almost moved there and lived there. i hope it calms down. i don't like a state of war. i see protestors going after the white house and the trump towers. i almost feel like saying, you live by the gun, you die by the gun. you kill a hundred thousand, somebody's going to come after you. not me. i'm a non-violent protestor.

i am enormously grateful that i don't have a job, a store to board up, an economy to perpetuate. i feel like when you're on social security you just wait for your check and that's all society really needs you to do. in my case it needs me to launch my teenagers as productive adults, and i'm working on it with fair success, but i don't have to go running around on monday mornings, and that's a huge relief. i just don't want to face real people with what is basically a bad attitude about police murderers, the justice system etc. the police are doing the best they can, i'll grant them that. they are in a difficult position. and we need police. try living without them sometime.

enough said. i'm going to ostrich.