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The status page now shows all green and the license mailed - about three weeks from application to in the mail.

Well, shoot, got my calendar mixed up. i applied on the 11th. Not sure why my iPhone notes say the 13th. Still, 11th to the 15th, reasonably quick, if the license is really already on the way.

Renewal submitted on Friday the 13th, December. There is a tradition in that. My first license arrived on a Friday the 13th.

Today, 12/15, the status page has gone away, which the web site says happens after the license has been renewed.

My guess, somebody took a look at my record, how I come to a full and complete stop at each and every stop sign, respect speed limits, signal for every turn, carefully preserve every mattress label, and figured it would just demoralize an investigator to look much further.

Boring I may be, but after my original license expires next month it sounds like I'll still let a handgun be the constant companion of my walks.

Running up to six weeks before expiration - I never got a reminder, if they indeed send them out - has renewed my appreciation of the wonderful American right to keep and bear arms. I do not unlawfully carry, but I minimize my time in places where I can't, and where I can, I always, faithfully, without fail, carry.

So much for gun control being an answer to crime, or any issues with loaded weapons carried respectfully. When I touch a gun, it's a promise to myself to be safe as much as it's a vow to defend my family, should that terrible need arise.

Cocked, locked, one in the tube, a grin on my mug and a song in my heart. It's the way to live.

Y'all have a wonderful Christmas.

Here's hoping for smooth sailing.

My original application got derailed when attachments got lost at DPS. The application wasn't flagged as needing anything because everything had gotten sent. When the required documentation got separated from the application, it wouldn't move forward and also didn't show as needing anything.

My license expires near the end of January and I've been snoozing. I thought DPS sent out reminders, but I never saw one.

Anyway, online renewal process done today, 12/11/9, hoping for a nice letter from DPS before the old license hits its shelf life.

If it does, I won't carry except under MPA. That will make me mope around a bit, but I'll abide the law.