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Passed by the Financial district yesterday. Didn't see the worst of the protests around the immigration court, only crowds holding the line against a group of cops.

Also saw three blocks away by city hall park was a pair of white guys with "pureblood" tattoos rapping on a stage in front of a half-to-dozen 50/60 year olds about how bad woke is. Extremely divorced dad energy.

Nobody else really gave a shit about them and despite what people might think about geography, from three blocks away none of the protestors could see them anyway. Weekend at the Financial district is either seaport or tourism around the old buildings plus doing this in the afternoon was ehhhhh

Edit: okay it has something to do with something called "freedom chariot." Everything had the boomer feel to what I could find, from blatant AI use to there being some attempt to promote it (assuming some of the few people there were pundits trying to boost it). The fact that I had to work to even ID it tells you all you need to know so even if this is astroturf, it's not very expensive ones.

So yeah, Michelle just told me that her Switch 2 being delivered from Nintendo received a UPS notification that the shipment could not be delivered because of weather or unforeseeable delays. It's 84 and sunny outside and Rutgers is closed for the semester so traffic is lighter than ever, so when she saw the UPS truck come up shortly after that message came up, she rushed down, opened the door, and watched two young guys slowly pull over and reluctantly hand her her package. Later on, we found the tape tampered with so they knew what it was and were probably thinking of stealing it.

This is New Brunswick and porch thieves aren't exactly uncommon here, but losing your job for a game like this is honestly a waste, especially when it's UPS which is one of the last good union jobs out here.

For the record, we didn't rat them out. The contents were intact and sealed and figured if anything, they were probably going to replace the box or "lose" the package altogether if we didn't blatantly show we were waiting for it to come in.

Actually, they kind of lucked out because Michelle only noticed the tape tampering after canceling a call with customer support, but still: not worth it, especially now that there's more of them available than originally thought.

Just came back from Best Buy getting the second one. Just saw a bald guy that looked like an extra from Roadhouse go to his car holding one as he went to his Murica'd up truck. Bipartisanship in action.

I found out that Michelle actually got the placeholder for FOUR Switch 2 orders so she canceled her Target one. We're only waiting for the Gamestop one now, which can obviously wait and we decided will probably be a gift for my brother come October. If the availability of these consoles is that high then I can't see much justification in reselling our good fortune anyway especially since eBay will take a chunk of the take as will PayPal, so... Guess we'll wait and see.

Michelle has been getting good response from her doctor on her health; she gained like 8 pounds but the doctor said she looked healthy so I think it's a sign that she's gained muscle and tbf it's hard not to when you spend your weekend going several miles hauling several pounds of glass and using a telephoto.

She does have some bruises from some of it though, as she slipped and fell when I tried to lift her up into an observation post. Just her elbow but it's still very obviously there. Sigh.

She is also very happy with the results otherwise. She said photography has been a great excuse for her to keep active and has been posting happily on Flickr. Glad I could bring something positive into her life.

Speaking of which, I guess I should divulge a few more travel shots, ( so here's some travelogue stuff with photos. )

I've got a few more trips after that too as it is June and all, but not sure if they're worth mentioning yet. Just stuff to keep us busy and moving, like visiting giant malls and whatnot, though we did find another nice overlook not far from Sandy Hook where we could get an amazing view of NYC during sunset. I'm leaning towards another trip to NYC since Michelle wanted a set of blocks from there that we can't find elsewhere and it gives us another excuse to get insane numbers on our Oura scores. Really depends on how hot the weather plans to kill us though. Maybe a trip through another old trail I remember along Secaucus?

All in due time. Just glad most UPS delivery people DGAF what B&H means around here.


In the meantime, stay safe everyone!