Brief Update

I’m writing this in a Panera Bread (free Wi-Fi), as I still won’t have Internet for a week.
Not too much going on; the house is actually starting to look like a person lives there rather than a bunch of boxes.
I bought a microwave, which I already hate because it has all of these arcane methods for achieving the simplest tasks (setting the clock, even with the instructions, was like deciphering hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone).
Still, I have my kitchen pretty set up the way I want it. The living room needs work (and more furniture), and every other room just generally seems to need more stuff.
While I’m here I’m also trying to download some TV shows I missed. Looks like the connection is a little too slow for me to download more than one without sitting here forever.
Beyond not wanting to loiter, I have more stuff to do with my afternoon.
This morning I had to hit the DMV to get a new copy of my registration so that I can get my parking sticker from the HOA and have my car not get towed. I also had to get a Leesburg sticker, as apparently now that I’ve moved a half a mile I have to pay property tax on my car to Leesburg in addition to the tax I have to pay Loudoun County.
The DMV was remarkably painless, though based on her performance I would guess that the person who helped me hadn’t been working there long.
When she gave me my new registration card, she’d apparently grabbed someone else’s from the printer as well. As I gave it back to her she looked at me like I was retarded, saying, “That’s your new one. That’s what you wanted.” I said, “No, this one is my new one. The one I’m handing you belongs to someone else.” When that idea registered in her mind, she said, accusingly, “Where did you get this?” I was going to say, “Well, while you were standing there looking at me, I leaped over the counter, grabbed this from the printer, and came back here faster than you could see, just so that I could give it to you and baffle you.”
Of course I didn’t’, and the other DMV drone who needed it came over and took it from her.
While I was there I figured I might as well get a new license rather than just carry around the card with my new address that I’d gotten in the mail after I’d changed my address at the DMV Web site. If my brain had been working, I would have gone to the DMV after I got my haircut today, and I would have worn a different shirt, as I’m not crazy about the one I was wearing. Of course, I felt better about my shirt when I saw the dork with the orange pullover getting his picture taken.
After the DMV and City Hall trips, I got my hair cut and then went grocery shopping. I ended up stuck in line behind a family that bought $578 worth of groceries. That’s $513 more than I spent, and I actually spend quite a bit more than usual, as I was doing some stocking up.
And now here I am stretching out eating a scone so that I can justify sitting here and using up bandwidth.
(About 15 minutes to go on the download.)
And that brings you pretty much up to date.