Task 20: The Ol' Government Website Searching Task

It was inevitable. Of course you would ask us to search government websites. The title of the task scared me, but the task itself was not as horrible as first imagined.

First of all, I had lots of fun looking up houses on the Assessor's page. I looked up my parent's house and the info is sadly not up to date. It gives a date when presumably the people who lived there before us bought the house. My grandparent's house was up to date, as was my in-laws'. Information on my apartment building was sadly lacking. It gave a mailing address of somewhere in Indiana. I'm not sure that makes sense.

On the Colorado State website I saw that you could add emergency contact info to your driver's license record online. Speaking of doing things online, I noticed on the Mesa County website that you can get a marriage license online. Hmm. I think I remember filling that out in the motor vehicle part of the down town courthouse on a computer set aside for just that purpose. I suppose if you do the application online, you still have to go down to the courthouse (or the place in the mall) to do the rest. I recall the lady at the courthouse checking our ID's to make sure we weren't lying about our identities. Hmm. As a side note, if you're ever going to get married, get your license at the courthouse rather than in the mall--it's much more romantic.

After browsing the state and county websites, the social security website caught my eye. I found directions to the local office that would've been quite handy when I was getting my card updated this summer.

NEAR AIRPORT - GOING NORTH ON HORIZON DRIVE - TURN RIGHT AT HORIZON CT - THERE IS A TRAFFIC LIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF HORIZON DR AND HORIZON CT - THE OFFICE IS LOCATED ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF A THREE STORY RED BRICK BUILDING

I especially like that it gives a literal description of the building. Trevor and I initially went into the wrong building because no one told us that it was red--we eventually found the right place. And then the security officer directed us to the social security office (because he figured people who are holding hands walking into that building can only have one order of business). That was a good day for going to the social security office and the DMV. We were expecting to be waiting in line for hours at both places, but it was really quick--suspiciously quick. Hmm. Okay, I'll stop annoying everyone with my stories of newlywedom.