Second Saturday

We've been in Washington 10 days and I'm still on EST. Everyone in the house is out like a light, except me. But, that's really okay - it seem to be the only time there's absolute quiet in the house. Yesterday was a crazy day. The DMV here is split into two completely separate departments: licensing and registration. And when I say "split" I mean not even in the same building. I had to make two trips. Over the phone they said since we were military we only needed our current driver's license and our military ID. The kicker? My Alaska driver's license didn't have a photo since it was renewed when I was in Virginia, so the couldn't count that as a form of ID.

We go home. JG finds my SSN card and we program the gps back to the "dmv." Only the gps remembers the first dmv address for the registration instead of the one for licensing. After that minor irritation I'm told that the SSN isn't enough to get a 'real' license. I had to get one that said "ID not verified" because I needed a third form of identification. I was (okay, AM) so annoyed still.

The kids were with us for the second trip to Spokane. We knocked out getting ink for the printer at Best Buy and picking up the last Star Wars Saga Edition game book at Barnes and Noble. We came to the reality that we couldn't get the house put any more 'together' until we found a solution for the computers so we spent more at Best Buy than we planned then added a trip to Staples.

We have three computers. The laptop that we got right before JG deployed last year; the home desktop that used to be in the master bedroom; and the previous home desktop that used to reside in the entertainment center. New house, new plan: Zachary got our computer desk in his bedroom with the older desk top. We needed a new desk for our desktop and a monitor since Zachary had ours since his computer used to use the television as the screen.

The original plan to turn the smaller room in the basement into a library and sitting room changed when we bought a desk that wasn't going to fit in the living room/dining room. So now, the new LCD TV/Monitor will go downstairs on the desk with the desktop and will eventually have a game system hooked up to it.

The basement is a good 10-15 degrees cooler than the upstairs and it's unfinished. So, we went to Home Depot and purchased carpet, a pad, an exacto knife and gorilla strips. Setting up the office is our big project for the day. I want to get started, but my attempt to get JG out of bed with me failed.

So now, I'm on the lookout for a velveteen type of thick fabric on sale to drape about a foot inside the walls of that room to help contain heat. I'm sure by the time the family is up and ready it will be free comic book day at one of the shops downtown. Big day ahead!