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Expidite the expidited

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I am headed to the passport office this AM to get a new passport. I didn't have time to do the expidited renewal after getting back from Japan. So I made an special expiditing appointment with the passport folks in Atlanta. I am glad I only have to drive into Atlanta, not fly up to NY or Washington DC. It seems I have had to do some expiditing everytime I have renewed my passport. Passports are good for 10 years. When you get a new passport it is a time to ponder where you will be and what the passport will look like in 10 years. The pic belows shows the wear on my now cancelled passport. it was a 50 page book (the extra pages version) and 46 pages are fully used. Many countries require 3 empty pages to enter their country. So, I got full use of the larger size passport. If you need more pages, you send the passport in and they will "sew-in" more pages. The thickest passport I ever saw was at the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan border. A truck driver I saw had a Uzbekistan passpo...
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On Dec 8, 2018 I had one of the most vivid dreams I have ever had. I woke up and wrote down as much as could as the details raced away. The first sentence: "It was about reality and the economy and how nothing was real". Recently, I have been chatting with a friend in Venezuela about the realities of the current economy. It is almost unbelievable. Free gasoline, but he categorizes people as different types of animals. You don't see this shit in the news. It is all propaganda. It has always been propaganda. To me, the following video talks about the link of tangible belief and the mathematics. Certainly, we are very very close to an understanding of the "Theory of Everything". It was good viewing for me, clearly shot in SoCal.
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