Every week I spend several hours on hold calling banks and government agencies et cetera.  Even though I have it on speaker while holding, it is still difficult to get involved in any task that is toO deep.  It is difficult to get anything meaningful done, while my thoughts are constantly being interrupted by things like "Check out our website at...", or "Your call is important to us please stay on the line..." Last week I got back from a trip to Arizona, where I took hundreds and hundreds of photos with my Canon EOS. Including a bunch of images of the license plates there, since there are so many different special ones promoting all sorts of random causes or sports teams on the road.  They have license plates for everything from people who survived Pearl Harbor to People who think Abortion is wrong, to people who think you should donate your liver to someone in need when your check out of this world. From all of these pictures I managed to recreate Arizona's license plate font and make it into a true type font. Then yesterday while cleaning my office I noticed I had a pile of random rather intricate drawings "phone doodles" that I have also made while holding, not only that I have even started Alaska's plate font. I think all of this random stuff deserves its own home on the web for me and other people to contribute to and enjoy while holding of course. I also would like people to share on this site, how long they had to hold before they were able to speak with a representative from major companies.  This will act as a valuable consumer resource which will allow you to compare companies that you may be thinking about dealing with by how easy they are to talk to, when you need something.

Remember, above all "your visit is important to us", why not while you are here check out and download the Arizona License Plate font! Now you can get that vanity plate that you have always wanted, that tells other motorists what you actually think of them but the DMV would never approve, or in the event that serving some time is on the horizon for you, you will have a head start on the other inmates. And hey, maybe get paroled earlier.

Arizona License Plate Font

Kind regards,
Puma

Food for thought. Random tidbits in the news that caught my eye.

Joan Higgins, 66, owner of Majors Pet Shop in Sale, England, was fined $1,506, ordered to wear an ankle monitor and given a seven-week curfew as punishment for selling a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy sent into the store by police on a test buy, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

A 2006 law prohibits the sale of live fish to children under the age of 16.

Higgins' son, Mark, 47, was fined $1,300 and ordered to complete 120 hours of community service.

"I think it's a farce. What gets me so cross is that they put my mum on a tag -- she's nearly 70, for goodness sake," Mark Higgins said. "She's a great grandma so she won't be able to baby sit a new born baby. You would think they have better things to do with their time and money."

"The council sent the 14-year-old into us. It is hard to tell how old a lad is these days. He looked much older than 14," he said.