It's raining.  No sleet, just fairly heavy rain. So the more it gets out of the way before the temp drops below freezing (which I guess it just has), the better. But I'm looking at the car emergency kits I bought everybody for Christmas (space blanket, etc.) and the Yaktrax I got for my mom, and thinking geez, I shoulda given Thanksgiving presents ( Read more... )

Bureaucracies are addicted to their paper, clearly.

So, we bought this van, and I think I mentioned filling out the "Electronic Sales Agreement," which was on paper.

We went today to get the tag. Turns out they won't actually give us one, we have to buy a 30-day paper tag (for $10) because we don't have the title yet. But, but... the title is ( Read more... )