Waiting around

  Did a fair bit of waiting around today. Mostly in the doctor's office where my wife spent 4 minutes seeing him almost 2 hours after her actual appointment time that we were there in time for. Then we went to the DMV and is was actually quite pleasant. We had booked an appointment before and we got everything done (my license renewal and an ID card for my wife) in less than 30 minutes. Kind of funny though all the poor saps sitting around waiting to be seen since they hadn't booked an appointment.

  Seems strange that I've not been to the DMV for a decade, basically two license renewals done without actually going anywhere near an office. The downside is that my nice full head of hair picture on my license will be replaced with my more receding and slightly gray hair I have now. It also says I'm a little bit lighter than I actually am although I'm proud to be within 10 pounds of my weight from 13.5 years ago when I first filled in my US drivers license application.

  As usual you get all sorts of strange people in the DMV. From the guy who had just taken the written test and complained about having to know what to do when he had kids in the car when he didn't have any kids to the other guy that had to come in a retake his test since he got a DUI (idiot). I can see how DMV workers get annoyed with the amount of idiocy they must deal with every day although 2 of the 3 people we talked to were actually nice and chatty.

  Yet again people had a hard time believing the picture on my wife's green card is actually her. It is from 11 years ago and she is so different now than then. No to mention her passport which she also had with her as an alternate form of ID which still looks a bit different as well. In the end though they accepted it and took a copy. Luckily we won't have to use those for too long, we are going to do the US citizenship application thing after the trip for my birthday next month.

  Been a busy day all around, fair bit for work going on along with the doctor and DMV. Just need to wrap up one thing for work and I should be done for the day after being up early as usual (well 6am, not as early normal but still early) and getting most of my work done before people turn up in the office.

  One final note, only 30 days left of my thirties. From then on I'll be in my forties, gulp.