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MD MVA - plus ca meme chose...
This 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, the slipper socks done in the Wendy Pampas Mega Chunky came out fine, though it needed a bit over a skein, since the skeins are slightly fewer yards than the Artful Yarns Circus and don't come out a slightly different gauge as well. I tried doing a slipper in Crystal Palace Splash, a "feather" yarn. No go - it's a hard yarn to work with, far more difficult than a pair of slipper socks warrants. It's extremely slippery, even on my least slippery wooden needles, and on double-pointed needles, that means it's constantly slipping off the end. And since it's very plush-feathery, it is pretty much impossible to see the individual stitches in order to pick them up again after they drop off the end. After about 40 rows of that, I said the hell with it. Luckily, it frogs much more easily than you'd think - doesn't get all snarled in itself the was some fluffy/fuzzy yarns do. So, someone will get a plain ol' scarf out of that, done on straight needles. Well, it was less than $5 the ball, so it wasn't an expensive experiment.
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, the slipper socks done in the Wendy Pampas Mega Chunky came out fine, though it needed a bit over a skein, since the skeins are slightly fewer yards than the Artful Yarns Circus and don't come out a slightly different gauge as well. I tried doing a slipper in Crystal Palace Splash, a "feather" yarn. No go - it's a hard yarn to work with, far more difficult than a pair of slipper socks warrants. It's extremely slippery, even on my least slippery wooden needles, and on double-pointed needles, that means it's constantly slipping off the end. And since it's very plush-feathery, it is pretty much impossible to see the individual stitches in order to pick them up again after they drop off the end. After about 40 rows of that, I said the hell with it. Luckily, it frogs much more easily than you'd think - doesn't get all snarled in itself the was some fluffy/fuzzy yarns do. So, someone will get a plain ol' scarf out of that, done on straight needles. Well, it was less than $5 the ball, so it wasn't an expensive experiment.
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?