One of my yearly birthday rituals is procrastinating renewing my license plates until my actual birthday or the day after. I am punished by being forced to wait in line for an hour or more just to pay a fee. I am waiting right now, writing this post on my blackberry for something to do. It is the worst thing in the world. Maybe if they handed out complimentary cans of cold beer it wouldn’t be so bad. But they don’t, and it is.