I HAD A GOOD LONG BREAKFAST WITH TWO FORMER ‘EDITION’ GUYS YESTERDAY MORNING in Lakewood. One guy brought some old copies of the paper. Mostly we talked about now and Trump. They each drove over. I haven’t driven in six years or so. If I did, I’d see more of you. I never drive in NYC. I never do here because I just don’t. Two of us tried to convince Eric Broder he should write stuff like he used to. I had blueberry pancakes and some scrambled eggs. To extend the get-together I had a piece of cherry pie. It was non-stop good talk. We’ll do it again.

The photo is from the wonderfully busy living room where I’m staying. 

 

I SPENT TWELVE HOURS ON THE TRAIN. I hardly slept worried that I’d miss my 3:40 a.m. arrival in Cleveland. I’d worried that way every time I’d taken the train from New York. Many many times. There were so many Amish on the train.  My friend picked me up as he always does. We went to a 24-hour place and had breakfast. He droppped me off at a younger guy’s place where I was staying. He forgot to leave the door unlocked. In the dark cold I had to tap loudly on bedroom windows. 30 minutes of that before the woman he lives with came and opened the door. 

That’s a photo out the train window somewhere just outside New York.

 

IT’S 11:00 IN THE MORNING AND I’M AT THE LIBRARY. I was going to blow it off because I’m taking a train to Cleveland later today. But you can’t blow things off. Not things that do something for you. I went downtown and held the sign this morning. That does something for me even on a gray day like today. 

I have two books and two magazines in my backpack. I get into Cleveland way early. 

 

I CAME OVER TO THE LIBRARY at noon when it opens on Monday. My glasses were wet with raindrops when I got here. The rain kept me from holding my sign early this morning though I went down to the spot I hold it in case it wasn’t raining there. It was and I got right back on the train. That changes my mornings. I got my coffee at 7-Eleven an hour earlier. I made my daily oatmeal an hour earlier too. My plate of blueberries too. I looked at my computer. No Facebook which I miss, and I don’t. I looked at the New York Times which I get online. I waited a while and ordered book gift certificates for family members. I read a text that said a Wyoming granddaughter went with a friend and that friend’s mom to hear Billie Eilish who I sense from my YouTube obsession is a huge deal. Kids have their own world. Like we did.

 So, if I quit Facebook because the owner sucked up to Trump despite the millions Zuckerberg and his wife have given to good causes, I have to stop going to Whole Foods too. Bezos gave a million to Trump too. I’ll live. 

 I QUIT FACEBOOK TWO DAYS AGO. It bothered me that the owner was giving Trump a million dollars. I loved Facebook. And I’ll miss my friends there. Tell any of your friends to email me their email address and I’ll put them on this site. I plan to be more active. gunlockeb@yahoo.com. Thanks. 

Washington DC steels itself for Trump’s ‘takeover’: ‘We’re in for a bumpy ride’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/dec/14/washington-dc-trump

 

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