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One thing about me, I will pay for convenience and to not have to deal with people. I doordash my takeout and instacart my groceries, and I always choose ‘contactless delivery.’ Just leave it at my door and be on your way please.<\/p>\n

I lost my passport in the move. I thought it was in my desk, but I looked through the drawers last weekend and couldn’t find it. I’m not doing any international travel anytime soon, but I’m flying to Phoenix for a music festival in February, and you need either a passport or Real ID to fly domestically. I don’t have a Real ID (I was gonna get it in 2020, but then Covid happened, and I’ve been putting it off ever since).<\/p>\n

I had a copy of the last passport photo I got earlier this year when I renewed, but it was on my computer, so I had it printed at the 1-hour photo center at Walmart. I picked the one on College, bc it was near the post office where I had to go in person<\/em> to apply for another passport. Walmart was nuts. It took me forever to find parking, then forever to find the photo center inside. Then, when I was in line to pay, I was stuck behind this guy who didn’t have enough money and he had to borrow money from his friend. Then when I went to pay, I was waving my phone over the machine, and the cashier was like, ‘Ma’am (!), we don’t take Apple Pay here.’ I had to pay with a physical credit card like an animal.<\/p>\n

When I finally made it to the post office, the clerk asked if I had an appointment. Nowhere on their site said I needed an appointment. She said they do walk-ins starting at 2:30p, but it was only noon. She looked over my paperwork and said I needed my birth certificate. WTF. Don’t ever lose your passport, guys. They make it so hard to get another one. I don’t know where my birth certificate is – the last time I needed it was when I started at my job in LA 13 years ago, and I haven’t needed or seen it since \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n

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I went home and filled out the paperwork online to get a copy of my birth certificate, and it turns out I need a fucking notarized statement. The closest notary is at a Postal Annex downtown. It took me 5 minutes to drive there, but 20 minutes to find street parking, and even then, I still had to walk a few blocks. When I got there, the cashier told me the notary wasn’t in today and I’d have to come back tomorrow. Son of a!<\/p>\n

Once I get my birth certificate, I’ll apply for a Real ID. I can use the certificate as a form of ID in lieu of a passport when applying, and I think the processing time is faster. I just need one or the other before my trip in February \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing about me, I will pay for convenience and to not have to deal with people. I doordash my takeout and instacart my groceries, and I always choose ‘contactless delivery.’ Just leave it at my door and be on your way please. I lost my passport in the move. I thought it was in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361810"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361827,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361810\/revisions\/361827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}