playing hookey from work...

Well, not really. I think it's only called playing hookey if you're doing something fun...

I had to take a day off work to go down to the DMV. And it's really kind of annoying...

You see, I had bought my liscense plate renewal on-line... I figured how convienent... I don't have to miss work and everything is legal... well, it never came. It's supposed to come in 7 to 10 days... I was generous and waited 3 weeks.

With my job, that's not cool... On some deliveries, especially to government agencies and such... that renewal sticker has to be current and in your window. So I went down and talked to the people, complete with my reciept of payment, got scowled at by the lady because she had to get up and talk to a supervisor, and walking 15 feet is evidently not in her job description, and eventually got my new sticker. I've found that the best defense against surly people, and I run into quite a few in my job, is to give your biggest smile and say, "Thank you so much, have a great day!" For some reason, that really hacks them off, while you can continue your day knowing that you've done absolutly nothing wrong...

I'm afraid that it was a rather dank and depressing day outside. But Pocket Buddha and I tried our best. Finally did some grocery shopping... The Indian market had some nice sales on, then got home and found that my last 2 sweet potatoes were bad. 1 has started sprouting and the other just rotted. I put the sprouter in the window, I'll grow the vines on the fence this spring...

Anyway, that's my day. No real point to this post, except that I wanted to check in with everybody... The guys on TV say there may be freezing rain tonight.