By Prokofy Neva, Virtualtor

So, Day 2 of following my friend Pearl Grey's wonderful advice. I got the Xeroxing done; now it was time to come back to the New York Public Library and struggle to get the printing done. Everything is a struggle these days, made harder by the constant demand to provide 2FA on your phone (and the Internet isn't working on your phone when it should be or the guest wireless isn't working where you are). You can't just log on with your library card, assuming you recall the PIN (I looked it up; it didn't work and had to be reset anyway). You have to log into Chrome, which means remembering your Google password, then in my case your Yahoo email, ditto, and it forces you into 2FAs all along the way, some of which don't work. I really am ready to have my irises scanned and be done with all this.

So the goal was to print out the final document — and we could chunk again and stop here but my God, the USPS is right a block away — and mail the application to Medicaid to try to get reinstated. (Thinking I was ahead of the game, since it was announced as ending in May, I tried to start the application process in February, and for my trouble got INSTANTLY kicked off, do not pass "go", and no doctor would then make an appointment with me as it now ended my insurance at the end of February. I had to start a new expensive one with the same company, with no dental. So this entailed canceling and re-scheduling appointments and hoping others might stick with still a $0 payment (two did; then the medicines suddenly had a co-pay and I jammed again).

But we're here not to be discouraged at the endless two-factor authentications that go on all day in life, whether literally on the Internet or figuratively with friends and family making demands and reproaches…

Finally I got the document printed — again having to pay for 2 extra pages needlessly because I didn't set it up right — and after the 60 cents was proferred, and I selected two more books, it was time to wrap up the application in its thick envelop with its long application form and supporting documents, worrying because one of them was cut off but I wasn't going to go back again and just hope for the best, the information was all there. 

DROP to the post office "bulky items" slot and JUST ONE THING is DONE!

It's a nice spring day already, I took some photos to maybe make a collage. No, that doesn't count as Just One Thing. Just the mail drop!