9 February 2019 – Saturday

499 down, 231 to go.

Week #71 completed and only 21 scaramuccis to go: 231 days. Kitchen started out unpleasant with Aaron and Moody bitching again about how they ignorantly perceived me as the cause of his (Aaron’s) getting kicked out of the storeroom. Jody heard him making threats or plots and threatened him back.

The new storeroom helper, DJ, started telling me about a fantasy plot idea that he has been working on in excruciating detail, like combat by combat move. I told him once to tell it at a higher level, but he seemed incapable of summarizing at all. Anyway, he finally caught on that I had lost interest and finished up. I loaned him by PHB.

Watched the end of a Mr. Rogers documentary on NET, “Won’t you be my Neighbor?” I wish I had watched the whole thing. I was reading “The Federalist #3” (John Jay) and started “Heart of Darkness”. Those were good too, I guess. But I want to read more about Fred Rogers at some point. A piece of the documentary said he was for gay rights or at least toleration and he seems like an actual good person. I love the quote that he repeated of his mother’s: “Look for the helpers when something scary happens. There are always people helping”. I would like to be more like that. The person helping other people; not just when things are scary, but always. Scary and stressful times would be a good place to start, though.