This Is Drivel

I got a call at work yesterday from the secretary of State Representative Somebody, who wanted to know if our department licensed tax assessors. We didn’t, but I figured I could find out who did, so I went from office to office looking for somebody who’s been with the department a lot longer than I have and might know. Almost right away I found somebody who said she didn’t know, but she knew how to find out. I followed her back to her desk, thinking she had a three-ring binder packed with notes she’d kept over the years, or was going to dig a carbon copy of an old memo out of her file drawers. But no. She googled it. D’oh!