The Most Remarkable Thing Happened...

I had to got to DMV today (Division of Motor Vehicles) to renew my driver's license. Of course I waited until the deadline to do it, partly because I needed to get an eye exam and I never got around to going to my own eye doctor so I thought that I'd let the state test my eyes. I got up there at around 9:30 armed with my iPod, The New Yorker magazine and lots of patience. On previous visits to the DMV office, I've had to wait close to an hour or found out that the 15 pieces of ID were not enough to renew my license or register my car. So I get there, grab number ( they have a number system where you select what you need to get done i.e. license, permit, transfer from another state, etc.) and proceed to sit down along with the other 12 or so people who were already seated. No sooner did my butt hit the bench and my number was called. I had downloaded and filled out the form at home so all I had to do was hand them the form, have a new photo taken (it could not be worse than my old one) and hand over $51. The license if $50 and there is a $1 donation for organ donor stuff. I told tham they could have any parts of me that were woth saving (if there even are any). I was in and out of there in under 5 minutes. I called Dana when I got out and it took 5 mintues of trying to convince her that I was really done.

I took the whole day off of work today. I needed to get the license thing done plus my friend sent one of his pool guys over to help me close my pool. Stan, the pool man, is a riot. He's a real nice friendly guy who goes out of his way to help out. He has wonderful teeth too, both of them. He looks like a Jack-o-lantern in a way and one eye looks north while the other one looks south but he is a nice guy and has always been the man who helps me with the pool. He did just find out that he has some sort of spot on one of his lungs. He's afraid to find out more but I tried to stress how inmportant it is to catch whatever this is early. Hopefully it's nothing. So, long story short(er), my pool is closed for the season. We got a lot of use out of it. The warmest we got it to was 87 this year. Dana even got her butt in there a few times and Grif and I lived in it. Dylan and his friends (and I) had a bunch of great volleyball games in there too. Last, but not least, my car got the best present of all. $800 worth of presents. A catalitic converter, a few belts, some of this and some of that but now it's inspected and good for year and hopefully more as far as parts go.

Dana's got a gig tonight at the Bethel arts Center (where Woodstock was back in 1969). It's a really nice state of the art theater. She is doing a private party for a college and it playing the violin. It's a decent gig. Tomorrow we celebrate with a nice dinner