Daily Archives: July 16, 2004

Cold Coffee Shower

Ah, the eternal fun and games of the Secy of State’s office… I headed over there this afternoon to do the yearly Ritual of Plate Renewal. And yes, I know about renewing by mail or via the web – I needed to be there in person for a new drivers license anyway, so I figured I’d take care of the plate at the same time.

Anyway, it seems that they’re having a system-wide computer glitch that had slowed everything to a crawl. At 3:30 I was the 120th person in line, and by 4:15 they’d taken care of less than 50 of the people in front of me.
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