berkeley

Opted to walk in Oakland. Peaceful and purposeful. Your neighbors care about you.

Checked out the new Kura Sushi on University and Shattuck. This place is like the restaurant of my childhood dreams, ha! I mean in terms of sushi quality, it's fine. But the pure spectacle and experience was pretty silly. You've got a conveyor belt full of sushi dishes for about $4 a plate. You can order a specific dish for your table and it zooms out on a separate conveyor belt above the sushi one. A robot brought us drinks. Then you put the plates into a slot and watch them disappear. 15 plates and you get a gatcha prize 😂. Very entertaining for kids (and this grown-up). Ah I'm so glad to have a place like this in town. I can't believe my kid is growing up in an era of robots serving us drinks.

It was properly windy, flew some kites. I miss the kite festival. Maybe we could crowd source the funds for the permit and portos.

It was a great Hands Off protest yesterday with great energy! It was one of over 1200 protests organized yesterday. If you need a jolt of optimism, come join the next one which is looking like April 19. All ages were out but the majority of the crowd were the good ole Berkeley hippies. I swear the 75+ crowd dominated! It was beautiful, like seeing them in their natural habitat 😂.

I also appreciate that Berkeleyside covered this as their top story. Local news has withered away in most places for the last couple decades, but Berkeleyside has picked up a lot of the slack as a non-profit news org. Throw them a few bucks if you can. These protests across the country should have been front page news today but many big newspapers failed to cover or feature them.

Anyhow, you are not alone. Take care of the person next to you. Enjoy this beautiful day.

Just came from Reddit, I kind of like the BerkeleyCA subreddit though it's not huge. Are there users over here? Would be cool to have an active community of users over here. Here's a pic of our town from my last visit to the Lawrence Hall of Science. The view up there never fails to amaze me. They have a cool future of food exhibit. The whale still abides kids climbing it.

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All of this is true.

bears!