Sight on my bikeride in the other morning:

The other week as I walk to go get my bikeshare bike in the morning, I see this (college age) (Asian-American) guy on this little contraption that's a wheel with a top on it and an indented space in that for two feet, and it's automated and he's just going along the sidewalk, studying out of some notes he's holding out in front of him as he's heading off to wherever he's heading.

After I get my bike and doubleback across the neighborhood and start going in on my way to school, then, I suddenly see him on the sidewalk just before I cross the highway, and am surprised he made it so far in such a short time, since I didn't think his little wheel contraption thing was actually moving that fast.

I also wonder if he's an engineering student, off to the school nearby and studying on his way as he uses his eccentric contraption.

On the aftermath of Trump's election:

Everyone is shellshocked like in the days after 9/11.

But, the complacency of wealthy students is just simply gone.  They had been floating in a bubble of wealth, and now something finally shook them out of it.

My mother on the Trump election:

"People came in from the swamp to vote for him.  And now, the swamp people have spoken."

Trump supporter bullying in my city...

The other week I was going to go see a midnight movie with a friend, but it ended up being sold out when she hopped online to check on tickets like 11pm, so she cancelled, and I just stayed at the (new) bar where I was for a 2nd beer and then I went to go get a slice of pizza, and then after wolfing down the pizza I decided to go to the one trashy late night club I like...

So, in order to go there, I was heading from the (fratty) area of the city over towards a main street in the (gay) area to walk down it and go to the club, and I was on this one east-west street that's a decently major artery but was unusually deserted.

On the south side of the street, there was construction and a temporary walkway extending out into the street with concrete barriers between you and any traffic, and as I was walking through that, like 4 or 5 (middle-aged and late middle-aged) (bearded) (flanneled) (white) guys were coming the other way.

I had my head down and passed them, and as I passed by one, he must have turned after me and called out, "Hey, did you vote Trump?".

I pretended like I didn't hear and just kept walking.

In all honesty, I think it was an overture to get in a fight and beat the shit out of me, at like 12:30am out in a so-called decent neighborhood of the city.

I have been in that neighborhood a ton, and have never seen anything like it.

I also wonder for some reason if they were homeless; they seemed a bit more unkempt than normal, and I had passed by some younger homeless guys in a convenience store parking lot like a block before, and they might have been going there to rendezvous with them.

A post-Trump sight in the Detroit area:

As I go past a school, I see a hijabed woman walking across an otherwise empty yard, holding the hand of her toddler, and I think, "I wonder what they might have to face now."

New supermarket giveaway.

Like last month, this new upscale supermarket opened up in the (black) neighborhood to the east of the neighborhood where my new apartment is at.

And, they sent fliers around, where you could pop in and get a free pork slider and a free blueberry muffin during this one week, and since they also have a winebar in the store that I'd have to go to as a new bar in the city, I thought I'd multitask and go get some free food and then have a drink at the new bar in the store.

Anyhow, I finally get there, and the place is *packed* with mostly (African-American) shoppers, and I scope out where the deli is, but as I head over there, just when I'm getting there, a (larger) (early 50s) (black) woman in a dark purple coat scoots into line in front of me.

And, as the deliworker comes up, she pulls out the same coupon I have.

"I recognize that!", I was like to her.

"Ha ha haaaa!" she said, her face just aglow, and she shot out her right fist to give me a fistbump.

Then, she explained that she had been there the previous week, too, to get the gelatto deal with the giveaway coupon that they put out that week.

"And it was good," she was like.

After she left and I finally got my pork slider and I wolfed it down, I went to the bakery part of the store, and it just wasn't clear where you had to stand at the long, long counter, to get the free muffin.

And then I spied that same woman's purple coat, and the (black) countergirl was handing her a paper bag with presumably a free muffin inside of it.

So, I walked over there and was like, "I couldn't figure out where to stand for the longest time, and then I saw you again!  I should've just been looking for your coat from the start."

"Ha ha haaa," she was like.  

Then, she went to walk away, and as a farewell, was like, "Enjoy!".

Problems at my new apartment:

1) The inside doorknob of the front closet falls off sometimes, and I can't figure out how to screw it back on.

2) The caulking is coming away a bit at the base of the sink, since I lean on it sometimes to brush my teeth, and that must pull it down just enough to separate off some of the caulking.

. . .

That said, I finally am getting memorized which color-coded keys work the front and backdoors, and I know which switches turn on lights vs. the fans in my living room, dining room, and bedroom.