Berkeley Buskers? At 7:00 AM?

• A charming older white guy with a walrus mustache outside the BART station was playing wicked amplified blues. He had some kind of folded coffee can percussion instrument strapped around his neck so he sounded a bit like an old record, in a good way. Seven assorted homeless dudes sat around him in a semi circle, fully awake and grooving.
• Hot Damn! Sign me up!!
• Listening to Cranford.
• Do you have your safety goggles? Everyone should have safety goggles.
• Eying: a Dremel of my own.
• The AP reports a 71 year old man fending off a 20 year old mugger with an ice scraper. The stupid young punk then ran to his girlfriend's house. The punk and the girlfriend were fighting when the police arrived.