Semi-long day at work. Had a long morning errand to deal with my stupid frickin county decal tags for my car. I've been dealing with this now for more than a month. I downloaded the form online, filled it out, sent it in with a check, cut out and taped the address from the 2nd print out to insure the address was correct and even took the letter to the post office. I waited patiently for 1 wek..then a week and a half..then I called...they were like "well, we should be able to process it soon..." week three passes...still no decal. Meanwhile, if you don't have a decal - you can be pulled over for not having one (I have 60 days to display one since I'm new here). SO I finally decided that I should just call one last time - they inform me that they have not recieved it..was prolly lost in the mail. BS. I contact my bank...the funds have not been withdrawn from that check. SO today I decided to just go and take care of it in person. Drive there (1/2 hr drive each way) park, fill out the forms, wait in line......then have the clerk say (while processing it) check or cash? (to pay for the decal)..I was like "you don't take debit cards?" she was like "no, but there is an ATM machine in the office area next door" So before I went to the ATM machine to get the cash to pay for this entire debacle, I explained my frustration in this entire process...and the clerk checked and said, in embarrassment, "well lookie here, you ARE in the system!" sure enough, I was..gave me the damn decal and I left. Fuckers.
Had a pleasant bike ride this eve to Vienna. About 32 miles. One funny thing happened on the ride, I was at the stoplight in Vienna (rt 123) waiting with a fellow biker and a cicada fluttered clumsilly and landed on mt shoulder. I picked it up by the back of it's neck - it started making that bizarre cicada humming motor sound and I looked at it..put it in the palm of my hand...the other biker watched and we both looked at it. Then it immediately flew off...directly into the traffic on rt 123 and immediately got struck by the windsheild of a large Hummer SUV. The other biker looked at me and said "better sooner than later, especially if he never mated"