Last week I mentioned I got pulled over by a cop while riding my scooter in the middle of the night, and he gave me a ticket.  The reason for the ticket–which I didn’t want to mention then–was my driver’s license had been suspended for non-payment of child support.  I’ll start by saying this is a dumb law because if you take away somebody’s license, it becomes harder for them to have a job to earn money to pay the child support they lost the license for not paying.  On a personal bright side, I got my license reinstated yesterday.  I have been paying my child support, there was just a hiccup in payments when I went from a contractor to a full employee at my job.

 

Then there’s me getting pulled over in the first place.  I am curious to know what the cop would have done if I had had a valid license in the first place.  It was midnight, the cop and I were about the only ones out on the road I was on, and my scooter just won’t go any faster than it was going on the hill I was pulled over on.  There’s no “minimum” speed limit posted.  What was he gonna do?  Sigh.

 

Meanwhile, he has left me with a concern.  He took my physical license away.  Although I am reinstated, the state is mailing me my new license.  If I don’t get that before my Indiana trip in two weeks, how do I get past security at the airport?  I have a “paper” license, but that does not have a photo on it.  If I don’t get the license by this coming Tuesday, I will be calling the airport to find out what I should do.  I can’t imagine my situation is unique.  I am certain there are often travelers who physically lose their license–with or without cops involved–shortly before travel and then have to wait for a new one to be sent to them.  Maybe not daily, but, knowing people, I am sure it happens a few times a month at least.

 

Meanwhile, I had last Saturday off of work.  This turned out to be a Triple Fail:  RenFest date # 1 had something come up.  RenFest date # 2 had to work.  Lastly, the girl I have wanted to go out with at 7-11 for a long time said she might go to a Karaoke thing with me, but never even called to say she couldn’t make it.  Sigh.

 

On the bright side, one of my EverQuest friends is in town, more or less.  Technically, she’s up north in another town, but she and her family will be coming down to the Springs tomorrow along with a female friend of theirs from Aurora.  It’ll be kind of a blind date, although I have briefly chatted with my friend’s friend via Yahoo once.   We’ll be going out to eat and to the zoo and, if I can talk them into it, a few other places.  As usual, I have high hopes and low expectations.

 

Meanwhile, Sony has done a couple of things in EverQuest which makes people like me rejoice.  First, they expanded the size of “fellowships.”  A fellowship is a permanent group you can create in the game.  It offers some odd little benefits which, until yesterday, were just odd little benefits.  Yesterday, they added a new benefit, neither odd nor little:  Characters in a fellowship can receive melee kill xp from others in fellowship, whether or not they are grouped with them or even if they’re offline!  For example, when my main characters–even just one of them–goes out and kills mobs and gains experience from that killing, everyone in the fellowship gains experience as well, even if they are not in the game.  In this way, I can slowly level up my many alts.  They don’t get a lot of experience from this–it’s not the same as being in group–but it’s still good.

 

That’s probably more than enough for now.  I have had some other good things happen in EverQuest–Boom and Dan are both now Tier 3-flagged for the HoT, my current baby trio hit a small but important milestone, I am close to having good gear for all of my alts–but nothing worth going into a lot of detail on.  I will have a happy little verse tomorrow.  See you then.