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01/04/2005: "leaving one's past behind"

Jamie and I went and got our Hawaii driver's licenses today. This involved filling out the application, standing in line #1, taking the vision test, standing in line #2, paying a $2 fee to take the written test, taking the written test, standing in line #2 again to pay $18 for a six-year license, standing in line #3 to get a photo and thumbprint taken, and then standing around while the government worker corrected the address on mine. Elapsed time: under 4 hours.

We tendered our Texas driver's licenses. Note that neither of us ever felt compeled to obtain a Washington State license, even though we owned property and lived there for 18 months. No reason to give the fuckwads in Spokane a dime, and I never really felt comfortable in pile of rubble that is Spokane anyway.

A long time ago, I saw the Spokane Chamber of Commerce with a booth at some random trade show. Gawd I hope they show up at one I'm attending in the future, just so I can hang around and berate them for an hour or so.

Nearly everything on Movetospokane.com is a flat-out lie.

Kid-friendly? Not when most of Washington state's registered sex offenders live in Spokane.

Largest WiFi hotzone? Hardly.

And yes, the food really sucks in Spo. I have friends who have escaped the sucking gravity of Spokane, and they're all enormously happy about it. I spoke to a lot of people in Spokane who can't escape, for some reason. Trust me, to move to Spokane is to become entombed. Don't.

Anyway, we've severed the last ties (except for one lone harrasment lawsuit) with the mainland.

Definition of the day: symmetry: (n) The difference between a Hershey's Kiss & a Hershey's Turd.

Bonus links Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues, or if you're in more of a tropical mood, half a guava