Today, 2.0

Welcome to Version No. 2 of today's entry.

The first one, which was all written and ready to go, combined TigerBlog's experience at the Division of Motor Vehicles yesterday with what was supposed to be Chris Sailer's appearance on "The Today Show" this morning. 

Ah, but then TB got a text from the producer, who said that the segment with Sailer, about the growth of women's lacrosse, as well as the resulting safety concerns that come along with having a much more aggressive and athletic game, was being pushed back a week. If you had your device's set to see Princeton's Hall of Fame former women's lacrosse coach, well, change it to next Wednesday.

As they say, that's show biz.

The only issue is where does that leave TigerBlog for today. He had to delete about 400 words about Sailer and 'The Today Show." So now what? 

There was still the part about the DMV. What to go with it? 

And then he got an email about the updated NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup standings. Some days, the stars just align.

Princeton is currently ranked 23rd with only the baseball College World Series left to be played.

Also, did you see how Stanford reached the CWS? The Cardinal defeated Texas in three games in the Super Regional, and the winning run came home in the bottom of the ninth of Game 3 on a routine pop up to right center that both the Texas centerfielder and rightfielder lost in the lights. It was excruciating.

As it turns out, Stanford is in first place in the Cup standings and has clinched the overall title. Texas is in second place, but a win over Stanford in that game would have put the Longhorns ahead of the Cardinal, and nobody could mathematically catch them.

Princeton is the only FCS school in the top 38. It's also the highest-ranked non-Power Five school, again. It was a great athletic year for Princeton, to be sure. 

TigerBlog will have more on that tomorrow and Friday. For the rest of today, here's his adventure to the DMV yesterday:

TigerBlog's number yesterday was F815.

And what is the meaning of this? Does it have something to do with Princeton Athletics? Does it have anything to do with sports in general? 

Nope. 

It was his number at those three dreaded letters: DMV, as in, Division Of Motor Vehicles.

His driver's license was set to expire Sunday. He received a notice in the mail reminding of this fact back in March or so, and of course he did nothing about it. In fact, he forgot all about it until last week, when he was clearing out his backpack and noticed the form he needed to fill out.

TB has a Pennsylvania driver's license. Interesting, he has a Penn driver's license but no Penn apparel, even though he went to school there, but he digresses.

In Pennsylvania, you have to fill out the form, send it back and wait for the picture card to arrive in the mail. In the meantime, you can print out a temporary license, which is valid for 15 days. 

To be compliant, TB did that, and shortly after hitting submit realized that his temporary license and real license now both expired on June 18. And the picture card might not arrive for 15 business days, which meant after the 18th.

And so it was off to the driver's license center yesterday morning. It was an hour well spent. He walked in the door and was asked what he was trying to do. Once he explained, he was handed a small piece of paper with "F815" on it. Wait for your number, he was told. 

Okay. Easy enough. He sat down in one of the chairs and waited. And waited. Different numbers were called, all beginning with either "A" or "E." Where were the "F" people? Finally they started to get their due. 

Once "F815" was called, TB stood up. It was his turn to bask in the glory of having his number called, just as so many others had before he got his chance. He was sent to Window 5, and then Window 1 and finally Window 2 — but he eventually left with his new driver's license. It was at Window 1 that he had his picture taken. The women said to look at the blue dot and "smile if you want to," which of course he did. Then she said he could take another one if he didn't like that one, and he said "it's perfect," to which she said "you haven't seen it yet."

Of course, he couldn't help but wonder why he had to fill out the form online and why the picture card gets mailed if you can just walk up and do it anyway. Why not fill out the form online and upload a photo and then have the license sent in the mail? 

He has four years to worry about that for next time, when he's pretty sure he'll forget to be proactive once again. Somebody remember to remind him.