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to the DMV!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2023.03.19

Today I managed to renew my driver's license on my own. Something I'm not sure I could have done a year ago due to the language barrier. As it was I even waded through two hours of "instruction" on my way. I was in that building for more than three hours, all told. But it's done!

One thing that caught my imagination. By Japanese law, bicycles are considered light vehicles. My mind wandered to "light vehicles". Wouldn't that be nice...

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row