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MD MVA - plus ca meme chose...
Jul. 19th, 2005 04:51 pmThis afternoon's adventure was: getting our Maryland drivers' licenses. The correct agency here is the MVA, Motor Vehicle Administration, which handles both vehicle registration and titling, and drivers' licenses, whereas in Texas it's the DPS, Department of Public Safety, which does drivers' licenses, and the county clerks' offices who do vehicle registration, and the Department of Transportation which handles titling. Whee. (And in Massachusetts, where I first ever got a driver's license, it's the Registry of Motor Vehicles, but then, MA is a Commonwealth rather than a state, so of course it's different. I shudder to think what system Louisiana has!) They have a large room with 30 or so booths and lots of blinky lights running 3 different numbering systems at once. So catching your number as it goes by, on the blinkie system, and seeing which booth number it tells you to go to, is a challenge. OTOH, you walk out of there with your new license, all signed and sealed, about 2 minutes after you pay the clerk, which is a lot faster than it was the most recent time I renewed my TX license.
Next challenge will be getting the vehicle plates changed. Especially the handicapped part - it was hard enough getting my doctor to do all that stuff for the Texas people; getting them to do it again for Maryland will be a real challenge.
It's hot here - almost the same temp and humidity as Austin. And people are going "I told you it's hot in Baltimore in the summer!" Well yes, I knew that. I also knew that it doesn't get this hot until the middle of July, which it now is, instead of in May. And it will only stay this hot for a few weeks; the average temperature goes down by 3 degrees in August from July, and then September drops more precipitously. Our apartment has excellent air conditioning.
I got the armchair free! It can be reached, sat in, and even reclined!! This should vastly improve the crick I've gotten in my neck from doing everything in the same office chair that I use for this computer - reading, crocheting and knitting, tossing the cat off my lap. Now I can do those things from the armchair!
( Speaking of knitting, )
I am drinking some white jasmine tea from, of all places, Target. It's not great, but it's not awful either. What will they think of next?
Next challenge will be getting the vehicle plates changed. Especially the handicapped part - it was hard enough getting my doctor to do all that stuff for the Texas people; getting them to do it again for Maryland will be a real challenge.
It's hot here - almost the same temp and humidity as Austin. And people are going "I told you it's hot in Baltimore in the summer!" Well yes, I knew that. I also knew that it doesn't get this hot until the middle of July, which it now is, instead of in May. And it will only stay this hot for a few weeks; the average temperature goes down by 3 degrees in August from July, and then September drops more precipitously. Our apartment has excellent air conditioning.
I got the armchair free! It can be reached, sat in, and even reclined!! This should vastly improve the crick I've gotten in my neck from doing everything in the same office chair that I use for this computer - reading, crocheting and knitting, tossing the cat off my lap. Now I can do those things from the armchair!
( Speaking of knitting, )
I am drinking some white jasmine tea from, of all places, Target. It's not great, but it's not awful either. What will they think of next?
