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Let's talk about Nevada.  This is supposed to be the Wild West.  It is the Wild West.  We have saloons (a couple), you can mostly do whatever you want.  We have legalized gambling and prostitution, pretty relaxed gun control laws.  But I can't talk on the phone while I drive?  It's not that I even want to talk on the phone while I drive, but there are other things I'd like to be able to do.  Before you get all "text bans save lives," I think the jury's still out on that.  I haven't so far been able to find reliable and conclusive data to support that.  BUT.  I haven't looked very hard.  It's just that things aren't always so black and white, statistics can be manipulated, yadda yadda yadda.  Anywho, I understand the intent and the sentiment, but I'm not convinced it's effective.  When you're talking on the phone and driving, it's not the fact that you have a phone in your hand that impairs your ability to drive.  It's that you're engaged in a conversation with someone else.  It's not illegal to drive with something else in your hand, and it's not illegal to have a conversation while you drive, whether it's with someone in the car or on the phone with an approved hands-free device.  This just doesn't equate to me and I like to complain about it.  So yeah, we're all probably better off if no one is allowed to text while they're driving.  But I'd like to be able to look at a map or play a song without getting a ticket.  Time to move to Montana.

Holy lord, the roof of my mouth is so burned.  I was making my own BRC (beans/rice/cheese) burritos and I guess I just wasn't keeping very aware of the temperature.  I feel like all the skin in my mouth is going to slough off.  That's weird to say.  I had some chocolate milk and it made me feel a little better.

Can you keep it down?  I'm trying to do drugs.