I just finished getting gold in all thirty-two of the Grand Prix events on Mario Kart Wii. Now I can move my obsessing over to something else.

I finally got my passport. Finally, as in, less than two weeks after I had the thought "I should get a passport". I'm amazed, after some of the horror stories I've heard of it taking months to get an expedited passport. Either things have calmed down at the passport office, or the US government doesn't consider me much of a threat.

Our couch wasn't working quite right, and despite expecting any furniture with moving parts to break sooner or later, you don't expect them to break after two months. I figured I call Mor to see how they'd try to get out of the warranty. After some run around with some confused phone reps ("We'll deliver your new furniture tomorrow", "What new furniture, I want someone to come out and fix our couch", "Oh, then I'll have the repair department call you back to schedule a time"), we finally got someone out that actually seemed to know what the problem was.

Of course, it turns out the part to fix the couch will take twelve weeks to arrive (In this day and age, how is it possible for any part to take twelve weeks to arrive?). Amazingly enough, instead of making us wait, they offered to just swap the couch out for a new one.

Well, today they finally delivered the new one. Despite the amazingly bad delivery experience, involving two lovely gentlemen that literally didn't bother speaking as they delivered the couch, only grunting, we now have a new couch that works.

We had a customer service experience that didn't suck. I'm amazed.

At some future date, I may need to travel overseas for work, so I went to get a passport today.

The process was amazingly painless; I'm just amazed at how surreal it was. I went to the post office to get the passport, and had to go to a dark room at the end of a corridor. At the end of the room was a man sitting in a chair. He was your stereotypical post office employee. If he could have found some way to get my paperwork filed without talking to me, he would have. As it was, I'm pretty sure the only complete sentence he said was the oath and even that came out as one memorized speech.

It was like I walked into some dystopian set for a movie used to emphasize how soulless government jobs are.

So I wake up to this sound of rain this morning. You know how I know it's going to continue for the entire week? Because we washed the car on Sunday.

We should check weather forecasts first, I think.