So what do you talk about once you get back here to the Midwest.....? Why the weather of course..... Because of IT, you don't really have much else in your life....
So after a nice day on Thursday where it was sunny and below freezing, then the bottom fell out for Friday... But back to Thursday....
One of the beauties of having too many real estate properties, is property taxes, and just like out in Arizona, I had to run back to Kansas and go to the county court house to pay the delinquent taxes... I thought they were due on Friday and I wouldn't have enough time to mail a check......
So after driving to the local county office, I learned that I was a week early... Its next Friday........? dah... How did I mess that up? I'm always late, but not this year.... LOL.. And yes I paid them while I was there... I'm not going to wait until next week... Be my luck I would forget them or something....
And then it was over to the DMV to turn in the Camry License Tag..... Oh Joy.. I love the DMV.... But get this, I walked in and took a number and there was no one waiting.... Not a single soul.. There were ladies behind windows that weren't doing anything.... but cleaning their nails...
Of course I didn't have the registration, just the plate.. Uh, its back in Arizona, but I didn't say that.... But for only a green dollar bill, she poked a couple of buttons and printed out one... Kansas doesn't miss trick.. You forgot it, so it will cost ya!
So after filling out a lot of information, and signing in three places, they will mail me a check ...... In six weeks........................................!
Lets see, that was the night that it started to rain and then snow... so Friday was a hang around the house kind of day...
So moving ahead to Saturday, I spent the day with my younger son Ben and his wife and the grandkids... After all, that's why I came back here isn't it...
We went to dinner at the 54th street bar and grill... A local chain here in KC.. Kansas was playing New Mexico on the TV so the place was packed with game watchers.. The bar was very busy....
The game was slow for the first half, and almost tied at half time, until a run in the second half made the score way too much to not near enough.... With New Mexico on the short end of the stick... But Kansas lost the first game this week to one of the Florida teams, so perhaps they were making it up to themselves...
Still below freezing outside, and the ice hasn't gone anywhere on the new Jeep.. But the roads have evaporated dry... Couldn't have been from the sun, since we haven't seen that... Where does the ice go, when its below freezing....?
Retired Rod
A DIFFICULT PHONE CALL FOR KELLY AND I TODAY
12 hours ago
I guess you were pretty happy to be early with the property tax rather than delinquent, and also have a stressful encounter with the DMV out of the way. You're on a roll, buddy! Better buy a mega millions lottery ticket. Just kidding, that's an easy way to trash a dollar bill, although I do it 3 or 4 times a year.
ReplyDeletewe have 2 vehicles due this month. here we also have to have inspections and emissions...heaven help you if you fail one of them have to have repairs made and back to dmv....
ReplyDeleteShould I tell you it's going to be in the 70's here for the next couple of days?? Okay - I won't tell you that. Nobody at the DMV - did you feel like you had entered the Twilight Zone? Good to get all that stuff out of the way.
ReplyDeleteI was expecting another DMV horror story but I don't think $1 qualifies as a complete horror. Also, nice you're not going to be a delinquent too.
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