ᕦ(ò_óˇ) Day 12 of exercising everyday before the saloon opens

Tried to wake up at 7:30AM today so I could work for 1-2 hours on delphi.market. Didn't work, I just got and swiped the alarm off. Then I slept until 10AM, lol.

WIthout my streak, I probably would not have gotten out of bed early enough. I tried to go for a run today again, but it still didn't feel right. Just went for a 30min walk then and bought an iced coffee (sugar addiction probably) to drink it in a park before going home.

An elderly man sat down on the other end of the bench and after a few minutes, he wanted to show me something. At first I thought he is begging for money and the text on his phone is just the translation in German. Kind of sad that this was my expectation. But it wasn't. It was a photo of a restaurant sign for handwritten stuff. I don't remember exactly but it was something about women no longer cooking for men and the restaurant now filling this niche of serving men food.

I tried to smile since I didn't understand it properly. My mind was more occupied with guessing what this is about than just reading the text, lol. For some reason, I find it hard to read stuff when people are waiting for me to read it. But he then explained it to me (it's the sign of a restaurant from a friend) and went on a rant about woman today vs back in his days. He mentioned that women nowadays want to be handled like queens and men have no say anymore. I answered that I think not all women are like that and men are also responsible if they let women behave like that. He said I am right but he is too old now.

We then talked some more after I was initially worried about where this conversation might be going. We talked about his old days in the Soviet Union and how everything was great before Gorbatschow took over. Also talked about inflation, the vaccine and other stuff but I am too lazy go into detail here. I mentioned that I am working in the bitcoin space and I hope that bitcoin is going to fix a lot of stuff since most problems arise from governments having too much power and people having too much faith in authority. He agreed but he didn't seem interested in bitcoin so I didn't go deeper.

I was surprised when he was the first to stand up and end the conversation. He wanted to go to a Greece to fix the necklace of his daughter (we also talked about how nationalities weren't important in the Soviet Union before Gorbatschow). We exchanged names and I tried to thank him for the conversation in Russian by saying "пожалуйста". I wasn't sure if that's the right word so I asked him. Turned out that is actually "you're welcome". "спасибо" is "thank you" :)