Stealing Internet At Safeway

Last night I had to sleep in a new spot. My normal spot was taken. It's a lovely spot. No sidewalk. A vacant lot and a fence. Apartments & townhouses on either side of the lot so there are lots of parked cars and nobody notices a new one. For the last week I've been able to sleep between a station wagon and a van that don't seem to get driven so they don't get started and wake me up and there are very few people walking by. Last night though, a little red truck had managed to squeeze into my spot. I was very sad but pulled up a few car lengths and waited to see if it was a good place for me. I sat and watched a lovely woman practicing her modern dance routine through the window of one of these fantastic glass apartment towers. All jerky and sinuous, kind of karate kid and the crane. The guy that goes around with the shopping cart collecting recycling in the middle of the night rolled by down the center of the road but I managed not to get noticed by him. A few minutes later though I sat up and found myself looking right at a nice asian man getting into his car two spaces down. Busted. I was very tired so I considered ignoring it and sleeping there anyway, but if he decides to get suspicious or mentions it to anyone then it's only a matter of time before they run me out of there. I left. Drove around the neighbourhood for a bit until I came to a not awful and not ideal place that wasn't very far away. Just at the end of the sidewalk and no homes or apartments for a few hundred feet in either direction. Also just behind a large moving van so the view both in and out was limited. I was so tired anyway that I just got in my sleeping bag and slept almost through the whole night. Cold but not the coldest I've been since I arrived. I decided to put my blanket inside the sleeping bag a few nights ago and that has made a huge difference. Until you try to sleep your way through it, it's amazing how much cold air can get in through the zipper. And how cold your feet can get way down there away from the heat producing areas. It feels like it goes right through you. It always makes me think of the homeless guys that sleep out on the grates downtown. No blankets or anything, just in the middle of the grate, in the middle of the sidewalk. That flow of air that would make such a huge difference. And being so tired that you just don't care where you are anymore, just to be able to sleep. Anyway, the blanket is a fantastic draft stopper. Much more so from the inside than the outside.

Here's a quote from Hitler - "And if you do not stake your life, you will never win life for yourself."