6/18/2023 blog

Just two items today

First, I got temporarily cut off from Internet and TV service for reasons I don’t really understand. The cutoff lasted about a week. The weird thing is that while I like listening to pop music on YouTube, I had listened to the songs so much that I could still remember them in my head.

Second, my next-door neighbor got a bit irritated with me for using an outdoor chair on what is admittedly his porch; he said it was “intrusive.” I moved my chair closer to my apartment, and we joked I would have a better view of the sky and landscape now. But it made me think about property rights and privacy. Do you really own property outside your indoor home? I am sensitive about this because I was tortured by police for what store owners called trespassing even though I was a paying customer and not touching anyone.