If you’re looking for distractions in Oakland, I think the best place you could go is the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. After eating a delicious breakfast at Horseshoe in Temescal (which by the way was nearly half full, a big improvement over my last visit), my girlfriend and I walked down the block to the depot. It’s always a bit chaotic and there, but it was much better organized than I’ve ever seen it before.
Forget about finding something specific at the depot, but if you like looking through a lot of random objects to find some gems, this is the place for you. Here’s some of what distracted me yesterday morning:

There's a lot of random bulk stuff at the depot, orgnanized into these bins. You never know what you'll find in them.

Then, once in a while, the depot will have an absurd amount of one thing. Last time, it was glass test tubes. This time it was tie silk.
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