I took a lot of things downtown to the post office yesterday, did a bunch of shopping, etc yadda yadda, put my check in the bank, yadda yadda ...
Got back here and was taking a big old plotter apart when Ken came by at 10:30PM to pick up his jacket so that was good. He could see I'm working.
Finally I was done and ate something and drank wine and went to bed.
I looked at downloading the passport form today and once I dug in there, thanks to the help of r/passports, I found that it has to be filled in online and then printed out and I supposedly need Acrobat Reader although I think my browser can handle PDF's OK so we'll see. According to the site, filling out the form comes with a "burden" of 30-90 minutes so I'm not doing that today.
When I was talking about this with Ken, I said I've basically got a couple of years to get a passport but I'd really like to get it done on the first try. That I'm a veteran, that I've had a passport before, should count in my favor.
If this old laptop can't handle the .pdf, well, I've got my newer one to break out and try. I think it may have Adobe Reader on it. I know it's got MS Office if I feel like playing around with that.
It's funny, yesterday on my way to the downtown post office, as I was pulling up to the bike rack, I heard a VTA train honk its horn and looked up to see some sketchy guy on a scooter had crossed right in front of the train. The guy boogied off somewhere, and the train driver was yelling, I kind of looked up and sort of nodded to say something like, "I commiserate" and went in.
Inside the post office, I saw the scooter guy. "That driver was really mad!" I said to him, and it turned out to be the guy I bought my "new" laptop from. Now, this guy does look sketchy - his face seems to have a permanent mean-mug. He's probably the kind of guy the laptop place needs, as that particular little strip of stores is really "ghetto". And I just ignore the mean-mug and treat him as normal, because some people can't help how their face looks. I told him I haven't sat down with the laptop and set it up yet, and that the power supply he gave me is kind of "eh". He said I can stop by for another one, and I said if the power supply with my old laptop works, then I'll be fine. I'll have to check the voltages. I bid him a cheerful "Stay safe!"
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