I worked 12.5 hours last week thursday. Mostly by choice, because something needed to be done. But thats really another story. Having worked so much thursday I left work early on Friday. I stopped by wal-mart to pick up some toys for my pool (mechanical fishy!). I then proceeded to the DMV because my vehicle tags were expired. I had tried to renew them online, and they never mailed me the tags, so I was stopping to find out why. I was also wanted to pickup a new license with my new address - the website denied me the ability to do that. I went to the first DMV office and the line was out the door - so I drove down the street towards home and stopped by the next office, the line wasn't bad so I stopped in.
Only waited about 15-20 minutes. After describing my problems to the nice lady behind the counter, she looked up my name in the computer and found that my license had been suspended. A year and a half ago. So, not only was I driving with expired tags (even thou I had paid for the renewal), I was driving on an suspended license. Great. They did get everything straightened out, got me my new license with my current address and new stickers. The whole ordeal started when I first got my arizona driver's license and they misspelled my name, thus creating a new instance of me in their database separate from the one created when I registered my car. They fixed my name on my driver's license record, but because it didn't get linked with my vehicle everything went haywire. That also explains why I didn't get the new stickers or any notices of my license being suspended - they were sending it to my old apartment address tied with my vehicle account. Or something like that.
See, I'm not the only one who has problems with the DMV screwing me over... also, this talk of a "mechanical fishy" scares me.
Well, this mechanical fishy can be found for about $10. They had two varities, one was a nemo look-a-like (which took one battery) or the one I got which is just a "rainbow" fish (if i recall) and it takes two batteries. I figured that one would swim faster having twice the battery power, hence my decision. Anyway, the fishy's tail flips back and forth propelling him thru the water. He was a little heavy and sank to the bottom, so I opened him up and put some styrofoam peanuts inside (the inside fills with water except the battery compartment). That worked very well except I need to redistribute them so his nose isn't sticking out of the water and tail sinking in. Really not to scary, other than having a battery operated device submerged in water.
Rainbow fish...like Marcus Pfister? That would be really neat. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, he's a children's author who writes picture books called Rainbow fish...) And I doubt that those two batteries have enough power to electrocute you. But what happens when it hits the side of the pool?
Hits the side, swims along the side for a while until the pool curves. I'll have to take a picture.