{"id":6,"date":"2005-03-09T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bauzon.ph\/wordpress\/?p=6"},"modified":"2005-09-30T16:59:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T11:29:32","slug":"how-to-waste-4-hours-of-planet-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/how-to-waste-4-hours-of-planet-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to waste 4 hours of planet time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This being my birthday month (*<a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/TIHY2N20S4EK\" target=\"_top\" title=\"Nah, you really don't have to\">wink, nudge<\/a>*), I had to take a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lto.gov.ph\" target=\"_top\" title=\"...or DMV to you Statesiders\">LTO<\/a> to renew my license this morning. Since it only took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/calvin\" target=\"_top\" title=\"Calvin\">my brother<\/a> less than an hour (yup, drug test and all) to renew last year, I had high hopes that if I leave at 9, I&#8217;ll be able to get my new card in an hour, run to the grocery, and then get home early enough to cook lunch for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnold-arre.com\" target=\"_top\" title=\"Arnykins\">dear hubby<\/a>. In fact I proudly told him not to come along so he can work while his wife &#8220;took care of everything&#8221;.<br \/>\nSadly, my well-orchestrated plan was not to be. (First of all, I <i>woke up<\/i> at 9 so I was already running a bit late to start with.) I left at 9:30, got to LTO by 9:45, finished the drug and medical test by 10, filed the license renewal form by 10:30, then waited. And waited. And waited. By 11:30, they hadn&#8217;t even called me to the cashier yet so I called Arn and told him that the chances that I can get home before lunch is rather, well, bleak. I finally got called to Window 6 at 11:59, only to be told that my license will be ready after lunch. (And it was, I got it at 1pm, on the dot. My card was just unfortunate enough to be in the pile that had to be set aside due to lunch break.)<br \/>\nLesson: wake up early. It turns out that Calvin was there by 8, no wonder he finished early.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bodysmall\"> Just for posterity, you may want to read the blog entry I wrote after renewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/grey\/archives\/00000058.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yeah, I'm a bloggah oldtimah!\">3 years ago<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This being my birthday month (*wink, nudge*), I had to take a trip to the LTO to renew my license this morning. Since it only took my brother less than an hour (yup, drug test and all) to renew last year, I had high hopes that if I leave at 9, I&#8217;ll be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"views":2011,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}