Nightlight

Across the street from the Casa Aloha is a Latin discoteque (it actually used to have a sign that read COOCHIE-COOCHIE SALSATEQUE but that's gone now.) Anyhoo, I have to admit, I like it being over there, cause there are some nights, when I wake up at 3 in the morning and feel like I'm the only person on the planet. Then I look out my window at the friendly neon lights, and the cars in the parking lot - and realize, if I wanted, I could just go across the street and there'd be people dancing in there.

Of course there's also the monthly shooting.

and the inevitable sirens.
and the L.A.P.D. chopper at two hundred feet making circles above my casa.

Up 'till recently, I'd considered this a minor nuisance -or amusement, depending on my mood. I guess maybe the one last night hit on some raw-overwoked nerves and I gots to wondering. There are plenty of enemies Fjord has made over the last 5 months. What if these shootings are not random (or premeditated) acts of gang/personal aggression, but actually attempts on my life?!!?

You would think that sooner or later the detectives would give me a knock and say "Mr. Tsunami, we believe there's been a concentrated effort to assassinate you." But of course, the cops would have been bought off before their operation was even put into action.

So today I went out and spent a small fortune on bulletproof windows, and kevlar wallpaper. An armored Casa Aloha is a happy Casa Aloha.