update

Mask use in my neighborhood is like 80%. That's on the sidewalks, in the supermarkets is nigh 100%.

California cases haven't gotten better, but several states have now become worse than us.

Hawaii is still relatively low in total and daily cases, but daily cases have gone up 10x since I started paying attention a couple weeks ago.

I kind of wonder if I somehow got an asymptomatic case, or if I'm just that out of shape from age and sitting around a lot.

I finally ordered Sichuan peppers from Amazon. One Chinese, one Japanese -- related but a bit different. Ground, not whole corns. They seem less intense than the "Chinese pepper" I bought in Osaka but it's hard to say... I wonder what happened to that; did I exhaust it, or leave it somewhere? Oh well.

Also got Ito En mugicha from Amazon, the same sort of big liter bags that I bought in Japantown and had discovered in Osaka. Amazon doesn't seem to have an equivalent for hojicha, though. I'm not inclined to risk riding the Gold Line to check the store again.

Almost done re-watching A:tLA:Earth.

Been re-reading a lot of Cherryh. All the Chanur books and most of the core Alliance/Union books.