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Kokubunji, 2021.04.29

In what is surely a sign of a stable economy, my seven year old SARB watch from Seiko is now selling for twice its original retail price - used.

Meanwhile, The Boy's computer's GPU is now either unattainable at any price or worth twice what he paid just before Christmas. That's five months.

rand()m quote

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great people are almost always bad people.

—Lord Acton, 1834-1902