I think that about did it.

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If anyone has a fork, feel free to check.

I hit everything, even having to go back for the ice, but this time I did that rather than just shrugging it off.  Ice, simply put, allows me to drink the amount of fluid my body seems to demand.  Only so much coffee and soda can be tolerated.  Then I need regular water or water with just a touch of that mix.  Either that or I choke.

DMV, short line, pleasant worker, quick and painless.  I suggested that I didn't mind being forced to get my birth certificate, as I have been wanting a passport.  For being pleasant while some have probably been quite snarly and nasty, I was rewarded with a bit of good dope.  It seems I can get my passport locally.  Now I know where, and sort of how.  I will have to arrange it, but... that usually work out, well enough, in the end.  On to the bank, then all but grocery shopping as I suggested.  Good thing too, my friend needed a gallon of milk.  But to dinner first.  Actually breakfast.  For me for sure.  I have pushed my day so long that... no, yeah, he did have breakfast... eggs, perhaps over easy or sunnyside, toast, hashbrowns.  Anyway...

Everything.  Done.  Plus I filled the tank, and I think did another thing or two.  Oh, and remembered to check the mail on the way home.  I'm sore.  My left arm hurts, like I was bone-punched, or had the nerve nicked just right.  The rest of me is in pretty good shape, just shot to hell and back.  Dead tired but I won't be sleeping until I can come down.  But that is exactly as it should be.  I am well pleased with the last few days, and the push through today.  I actually had almost two months before I had to do this, but I couldn't find an expiration date.  Still, glad to have it done.  Especially since the hard license won't come in for three weeks.  Last time there was some sort of glitch and I had to call in and then wait another three weeks... if that was more timely even so than this time.  I best put a reminder in my calendar to check on that.  Damned sloppy with such an important requirement for legal driving, insurance claims, and all the rest.

I'm not even too grumpy.  Even being as overheated as I am.  I have been burning up all day, but it got into, or even past, 60 F today!  Gah!  That is just so unseasonably hot.  I'm simply not ready for that.  I can't swear that I will be working tonight, when I wake.  I may have to take it easy for a day or two.  Well, not a heavy night of work.  I might finish the dishes, and maybe push the laundry through.  I might even see if the new parts fit for the drain, and work on that.  But not too much past that.  Rest.  Burning the candle at both ends has a price.  Tomorrow night might also be a rest night.  I don't want to lose my gains though.  So, soon enough, I will get back on full track.  It's really shaping up in here, and I like it.  Good night.

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Oh, one last thing.  I was having a conversation with a woman today, about taxation and such.  She wasn't happy that unemployed people were cashing very large "tax rebates", while she was having to struggle through on top of working.  Fair enough.  Then the conversation went to corporate taxes.  I suggested they cut all corporate taxation.  No, she insisted, they MUST pay.  So, I asked her who paid corporate taxes.  Corporations!  No, they don't, I said.  You pay corporate taxes.  Huh?  Well, corporations do not print money, they sell products or provide services, for a fee.  If corporate taxes are at 39% of profits, that means for every dollar you spend, 39 cents go to pay taxes.  Oh, well.  Further, companies use your money, in the form of taxes, in order to buy access to more of your tax money through cronyism.  Words weren't exact, but I think she finally understood some things she apparently never considered.  Yes, she is paying corporate taxes, which give corporations access to government benefits she is paying for.

It's wasted, I know this.  It's not fair how twisted the indoctrination has worked on people.  Many believe the exact opposite of what is and choose not to reconsider when having the light brightly shone on the topic, making it easy to see.  It is too complicated.  She will vote, as will many, based on what they know, much of it terribly incorrect.  Trusting people in spite of not trusting them, seemingly.  Which is why I probably won't vote again, not with a ballot.  With my feet, with my wallet, with my will, yes.  But there is no reason to vote with so many who know, and wish to know, and openly ignore, the truth.  No slight on her.  A typical voter.  Just remember, a real democracy is mob rule, and that is what it is being reduced.  Thankfully, enough people still bear arms, and the right people, to deal with the more unruly parts of the mob.  For now.