my new identity

Everything was expiring on my birthday. My driver's license, vehicle tags - and my ten year old passport. To renew each, all required each others use for identity.

My renewed driver's license now has a 'hologram star' for Homeland Security. And, for the passport renewal, a required government exacting photo. So much so, that I had to call a photo studio. And while there, I was fitted with a neck collar - just so they could apply that needed make-up for their "no smiling, no sheen" requirement (though the studio apparently forgot the hairbrush part).  But for now, I'm good to go for another decade.