Firefox vs Nevada DMV

 

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Since the DMV office is a 30-minute drive, I took the chance and renewed my car registration.

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Sign of the times

 

So ... the Social Security Administration website is down, 10:30 p.m. PST Feb. 17. 

So ... Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is down, 10:35 p.m. PST Feb. 17.

Government cuts at work. Not at work. Whatever.

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Slip me some skin

I missed yet another money-making investment: backing doctors who specialize in skin reduction surgery. The concept's been around for decades but with the dazzling success of GLP-1, there are thousands of people with extra, saggy, skin.

In fact, there used to be a TV reality series about doctors in Texas, I think it was, who did skin reductions for previously obese people. Biggest problem for those patients: health insurance refused to pay for the surgery, which is infinitely expensive, claiming the saggy stuff was not a health risk.

TV's inundated with commercials for weight-loss drugs, which never explain how somebody who lost 45 pounds now looks not just slim but covered in teenage-tight skin. Likewise the people, all genders apparently, who dropped 100 pounds.

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Warp speed

 

Still watching too much television. Hey, you try walking on my knees, sport.

Finished the final season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Excellent, hilarious, brilliant and stupid in the same instant.

Finished the 14th series of Doctor Who. What a slog. The 15th doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, has good moves, but the stories ... oh the stories. Babies in space, for heaven's sake. A mysterious origin for the Doctor's Companion, Ruby, turned out not mysterious at all. Best new enemies: shape-shifting avian humanoids, the Chuldur. Best new buddy: a mysterious bounty hunter named Rogue who sacrifices himself to save Ruby.

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Product marketing, aka selling, reached Peak Pushing over the holidays, what with a half-dozen sprays and solids pitched for smelly bodies. Indicates just how scared some people are in the Time of Trump and Terrorism. They cannot control the madness but they can control how their "privates" smell.

But the funniest ad was for a shower head. The pitchman sincerely declared how wonderful using his shower head makes the bather feel. I hope whomever wrote that ad moves on to movies; the writer's a genius.

Did not miss at all TV ads for Jared jewelry ... but there were plenty of others hawking hideous shiny items.

Will not miss perfume ads, but the images of gorgeous bodies barely clad ... already missing them.

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Home run

 

Dodgers got the pennant. Yea!

I'm a bit conflicted, though. My grandmother and her sisters spread out: 2 in Sparks, NV., 3 in Palo Alto, CA., and 2 more in Anaheim, Ca. The northern contingent rooted for the 49ers and the Giants. The southern contingent rooted for the Dodgers and hated football.

If I accidentally said something nice about the Dodgers, Grammie refused to talk to me. If I said something nice about the Giants, Great-aunt Lottie refused to talk to me.

Their silent treatment prepared me for the real world where other mean-spirited people tried it on me. Hah. Got a lot of stuff done while the Silent Treatment Queens punished me.

Back in the day, I worked with Bob, who played minor league ball in the Dodgers' organization, until he blew out both knees. Then he went into the team's major league operation. One year when the Dodgers made the Series, Bob got free tickets and abruptly took 10 days off. His World Series Championship ring was stunningly ugly but he loved it.

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Something smells

 

Proof I watch way too much TV:

Elelventy-seventy commercials lately for body deodorants, for male and for female. And not just for armpits, as indicated by rhyming replacements for anatomical labels. I sense a sign of the times, with everybody twisted into knots by inflation, hurricanes, wildfires, death threats against FEMA workers, DJT's dubious dancing. And a thousand other conditions. Stinky feet might be the only thing somebody can control in their life.

Ad for Domino’s pizza shows people rushing out to get a special low price, while the words/graphic at left says “online only.” Bursting out of your bath while covered in soap won’t get you the deal, dumb ass. And your phone won't float, either.

Beards are everywhere. I know it is a style that will pass, but jeez I hate beards. What’s the man hiding? My attitude might be genetic: The time my father came home from a month on a fishing boat with full beard and shaggy hair, his mother refused to recognize him or let him in her house. “I don’t take in hobos,” he said she said. He had to go to his brother’s and clean up. Then she welcomed him in with open arms, tears of joy and all that.

Local PBS station is running, for the umpteenth time, “Broadchurch” from 2013. The episode that caught my attention had four “Doctor Who” actors: David Tennant and future TARDIS travelers David Bradley, Arthur Darvill and Jodie Whittaker.

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It's over

 

Whatever the motive, with or without a paymaster, the shooter just handed victory to Donald Trump, once and future president of the United States.

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