The VOA said that they'd pay for me to go to driving school. They said this back in the summer, just that it would take a little bit to do the paperwork. I went all the way to Salem NJ as they had the earliest date available and got my permit. I found the driving school with the earliest available dates, which would've gotten me behind the wheel in October. My license expired while I was in prison as I didn't have any family that was willing to make sure it got renewed. Time passed. I called regularly to find out what the delay was and I was spun. Typical of a bureaucracy. My permit then expired as they are only good in NJ for 90 days, so I went and got it renewed, still expecting to get some road time as I'm out of practice and then to take the road test. 20 weeks later, the Thursday before Christmas, I'm told that no, they aren't going to pay for me to get some driving education. Son of a bitch! I'm out 20 weeks and $55 in fees and travel expenses. Oh, and another thing about rules for the sake of rules: at this shelter they have three separate housing units. One, Home for the Brave, exclusively for veterans, has a refrigerator and so they can have food in their lockers and dayroom but the others cannot. They sometimes search out lockers CO (correctional officer as the prison police are called) style and take any foodstuffs they find. This is legal under contract law as that is a part of the contract we sign to stay there, but it doesn't make it good or right. Are we more messy and prone to attract vermin because we never successfully signed up to serve in the armed forces? I don't think so. They are supposed to turn the lights out at 11:30pm and turn them back on at 6am. They never miss a turn on time, but the lights sometimes stay on until after1am. How is one supposed to get enough quality sleep in those conditions? They are as merciless in that as they are if should something happen to your all important referral, a piece of paper that needs frequent renewing so that you can stay there. Should you not get it, you are out on your bum and your belongings are packed up. You then have 48hrs to retrieve them or they are tossed, no option to mail them anywhere. For me that'd be a disaster as I've no friends or family in state even willing to talk to me at present let alone take me in or help me with my stuff.

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I really wish Malibu Musk was still on the market. It was my favorite scent for women's perfume and really drove me wild.

One thing that gave me validation in a big way was a phone call with my doctor talking about my thyroid disease. I have an unspecified hypo-thyroid disorder which is diagnosed by measuring my blood's TSH level. The standard range is 0.27 - 4.20 u[IU]/mL and mine is 8.72u[IU]/mL more than double. They are upping my meds by 25 mcg to correct. Apparently one of the side effects is fatigue, which I had been attributing to my poor sleep and being out of shape. No, it's biological. I can stop being so hard on myself. I wasn't being lazy. I sometimes feel completely exhausted for no real reason when all I did was some writing in the library with a mile's hike in both directions.

Top ten ways megadeath may happen.
10: Me. Though I bet you are wondering how I could do that, not that I have any intention of doing so. Read my reincarnator's Handbook to find out.
9: A real alien invasion. They'd likely blast us from orbit rather than sending in ground troops. I suspect a false flag staged attack might take place in south east Europe this decade and billions will think it the real deal. Holograms, explosives and maybe some smoke and mirrors will be used.
8: Contagion: Civic awareness has been greatly increased since the kung flu, and now the germ conscious have masks and sanitizers, though often insufficient and misused. A disease with a very long incubation time with high virulence and mortality rate would still slip through our countermeasures and be devastating.
7: Nuclear Weapons: A threat we've lived with since the 1940's. A larger exchange is unlikely, but some tactical nukes might be lit off at some point in the near future.
6: Meteor strike: Very unlikely. There's nothing in near Earth orbit that's going to hit us anytime soon with destruction, but extra solar rocks and surprises from the Oort cloud are not out of the question.
5: Gamma Ray burst: A nearby star going supernova, especially if it's equatorial spin faces us, would irradiate the surface. Whoever was on the planet facing that star at the time would have a very bad day.
4: Gray ooze: Countless trillions of microscopic robots massively reproduce endlessly devouring who cities, or more.
3: Solar X-flare: Like the Harrington Event, a large amount of solar puke will create a huge amount of magnetic flux, a geomagnetic storm, destroying electronics and possibly taking down electric grids world wide. Most people would die from total collapse of the food supply chain.
2: seismic activity: The Yellowstone caldera could erupt and so could the San Andreas fault shift, possibly one triggering the other. A bad day for America.
1: Clowns.: They are sneaky and clearly up to something.

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