Monthly Archives: May 2016

Beautiful day in Seattle today. On the ferry watching the couples taking selfies with their sticks and parents looking out at the houses passing by while holding on to their young ones, making sure they don’t climb over the railing and fall into the sound. Those that have their own boats follow the ferry from behind, like baby ducks following their mother. 

I do wonder how many of them remember what today is for. For without those who died, all of us on this ferry and everywhere else might not be able to go into the city to catch a game, go shopping, or in my case, goto work. 

I should post this on Facebook or some other social site. But I’m still being antisocial so I’ll post it here. Thank you to all of those in the armed forces giving up yourselves to protect those of us back home. I appreciate all that you have done. 

Feeling somewhat off balance today. Is it because I shaved? Or is it the donuts from the new shop? Hopefully I can make it to Ugly Mug and a cup of jasmine tea will calm and relax my nerves.

I probably should post something about what happened yesterday with the old Asian lady at work. I don’t think she spoke much English, but she refused to let me help her find what she was looking for. I didn’t think too much about it when I saw her with someone else cause that happens enough times with customers in that they remember something that they need afterwards. But the look she gave me when she was ready to be rung up, then I knew that she didn’t like black people. I wasn’t offered or anything by it though,; I just got Heidi to take over and ring her up. In a way it was kinda funny because the lady was so cute/comical about the whole thing. She wasn’t rude, but she wasn’t that subtle about the situation. It just brought me back to my childhood in Korea where I had to deal with situations like that at a younger age. Living in the Bay Area an in large cities for so long, we are so used to seeing subtle racism that its shocking when the racism is so blatant and in your face like that. Reminds me of when April and I went to the mall in Medford and the stares we got because we were a interracial couple.  But, even my parents have one or two lingering racial things that make me cringe. And I have my own discrimitory thoughts about things that I fight myself over.

*sigh* I’ll just have to wait until the aliens attack the earth for all of my thoughts to go away so I can focus on taking the Earth back for Humans. 

The struggle is real, but I have faith in the coffee at Cafe Allegro. 

Young kid whining because there isn’t any WiFi on the ferry. 

Truly into a new generation change. 

This bad week/month/year/decade/century continues. But positivity thinking, at least its Mariners fans and not Seahawks fans.