Monday:  Today was the final day for changing officially from 7084 Camino Degrazia, No. 240, to 601 Arcadia Place, No. 421.  The Department of Motor Vehicles for California says you have two weeks when moving to officially change residences… and it can, with extreme difficulty, be  done on-line… or by standing in a long, long line at any DMV office without an appointment, or by standing in a not-quite-so-long line after an appointment has been made on-line.  The reason changing on-line is extremely difficult is that to begin the process of on-line registration one must choose a user name,  a password, select 5 (not one or two of five, but 5) secret questions and answers… and the process is more difficult than it sounds.  How many 81-year-old persons remember the name of their second grade teacher?… so Margaret and I made an appointment and presented ourselves at 1:30 on this last day of the two weeks required time for officially changing our address.  We were on-time, but there was a line, well, actually three lines.  I’m not sure at all what the other two very long lines were, but the appointment line was significantly long.  At 2 p.m. we had worked ourselves to the front of the line, learned simply that the papers we had completed were done correctly, placed the papers into a box that had on the outside of it, “Change of Address.”  We were given cards with a place to write our correct new address and were told to carry the new address cards with our drivers certificates… and to present them whenever we are asked to prove that we are indeed legal drivers. The DMV in Chula Vista (which serves National City and Chula Vista) is indeed the looniest place in the universe. 

So… we went to the mall on “H” street in Chula Vista to buy a table cloth.  Clerks at three department stores in the mall said they had stopped carrying table cloths, and said maybe the stores in Mission Valley still did such a thing, the look we got from each clerk suggested that no one buys table cloths anymore.  One of the clerks suggested that the “super Walmart” in National City might still keep them in stock.  We stopped there and on the way back to our apartment, and we found not only table cloths but they came in three colors and many sizes, and we bought a blue one and place mats that are also blue.  The search for table cloths was actually an exercise that proved again what we already knew about ourselves… Much of what we do is out of fashion.  We concluded that people don’t use table clothes anymore, but that doesn't mean we are required not to use them. At the Chula Vista Mall on H Street, I found a whole row of passion flowers still blooming in late September.  Passion flowers are not out of fashion.  I got pictures.  Life is good.