[AGL] report from the front lines

[Michael Eisenstadt]

So yesterday I got my junker car waived by the Dept. of Public Safety 
Motor Vehicles.
This takes place at the tail end of an enormous DPS complex on Dennison 
between Waller Creek
and Airport Blvd. Then down Airport Blvd to the Travis County buildings 
to get the renewal.
What the county did was to separate the chairs and make the overflow 
wait outside. Most of
others were Mexican. Apparently white folks nowadays get reregistered on 
the Internet.
Then off to the HEB on E. 41st street. No outside lines. No busyier than 
usual. Many shelves
bare, other shelves not. All the cans of tuna fish were gone but there 
were some sardines
and kippers. All cans of tomatoes gone. Canned tomato juice available. I 
bought 2 somewhat
pricy cans of sardines and passed on the smoked kippers. All the parsley 
was gone but plenty
of cilantro. Is that not weird? You can't sustain life by eating 
parsley. All the white potatoes
were gone except 4 little fingerling potatoes. Vast heaps of yams/sweet 
potatoes. Dairy
products/eggs fully stocked. Extrapolate!