January 14, 2004, 06:22 AM - I finally own my car!

I finally got around to getting my car smog checked and going to the DMV to register my car. I've already been pulled over once before for having an expired registration, so this will keep the cops off me for a while.

I had to wait two hours at the DMV, though. I've never quite understood the term "bureaucratic hell" until now; you'd think they'd just give out numbers and call them in increasing order, but nope. They have this byzantine system of letter/number tickets where seemingly random tickets are assigned to the next window available, with the only discernable pattern being that if ticket x/y is called now, the ticket x/y+1 will be called at some unpredictable point in the future.

Ugh.

January 05, 2004, 05:47 AM - I'm 21!

As of almost four hours ago. I am also drunk, from the second celebration of my birthday, the first being two days ago, and the third being this week Friday.

Yarrr.