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.