Car

I had an awesome present waiting for me when I got home tonight; the bill for that citation all ye moons ago. I’d previously guessed – jokingly, I thought – that it’d be like $170, rather than what I presumed was a more common $40-$60. Well, turns out it’s $410. Plus $5 payment fee. Plus… Read more

I got a citation today. For an awesome Infringement of the Laws of the Roads of Royal California. Or something. Bah. I turned right onto Wolfe from Homestead, on red, without stopping. I have no excuse; it’s a fair cop – I did indeed not stop. And I realised, as I was sitting there awaiting… Read more

My car insurance is finally sorted… well, supposedly. I’ve been told by both companies involved that it is, when I spoke to people in person, but on the automated system it still claims it’s cancelled. Meh, anyway… I was finally able to go shopping again, properly, and am thus tonight back to eating chicken and… Read more

My car insurance got cancelled last week. Hooray. The reason being that the necessary people apparently never got the copy of my drivers’ license I sent forever ago. They were kind enough to give me all of about four days notice. I sent it off again, and this time confirmed they’d received it, but they… Read more

My car rolled over 1,000 miles on Wednesday. My bike got a nice giant nail in it, again, earlier in the week and I’ve been busy each night and haven’t gotten around to fixing it. I do have a spare tube, but that still has a hole in it from one of the previous encounters… Read more

Today I nipped out from work for a bit in the afternoon to waltz on down to the DMV for my driving test. I wasn’t too worried about it – perhaps too little so, as I didn’t even think to really revise the road rules book until about two hours beforehand. I did, though I… Read more