slacking off blah blah blah blah blah blah, part II

man, yesterday totally threw me off schedule. getting to work at 230 just messed me up for the rest of the day (i stayed late finishing work until 11) and it didn't help that the time setting on my phone changed to Hong Kong time so my alarm didnt wake me up. more on that in a sec. somehow i woke up at 830, threw on clothes, brushed my teeth, grabbed the title to my car and ran out the door.

***slightly off topic interjection: NOFX's Thank God It's Monday is a totally sweet song. sorry. it's just playing right now, and i don't think a lot of people have heard it. do it. go heard it sometime. or download it. but don't get sued. go buy a pepsi and see if you win.

so anyway, i get to work, grab a stack of papers i had prepared the day before, and ran...um...i guess it'd be like two blocks down the street. there aren't any cross streets, so i don't think it counts as a block. what if i just said it's a half mile. i don't know why the design center is that far from the executive/marketing/sales office, but it is. and of course once i get there the CHEESE is in a really bad mood, and there i stand with a stack of paper in my hand that equates to about $200,000 he's supposed to authorize to spend on tooling. not the best position to be in. so i figured i'd wait to give him the big stuff til he was in a better mood. and my phone rings. my damn alarm is finally going off. again, not the best position to be in. damn you LG G4010. not that i should expect much out of something i get for free.

then i start helping one of the new guys in my department with some costing issues he has and i totally forget about my big SpongeBob, Blues Clues, Hello Kitty, Dora the Explorer, and Fairly OddParents meeting. totally forgot for 15 minutes. and it sucks walking in to that meeting late, cuz there's always that one chair at the table that nobody wants, and it 's the only left, and it sucks to sit because it doesn't just kinda recline, it completely reclines...like 270 degrees reclining. and if you lean back too far, the damn thing just falls back. it totally blows. the only good thing about it is that it's leather. but it has only one arm rest. and that's so damn annoying it's rediculous which is way worse than being just ridiculous. oh, and i got lectured by the vice president of worldwide planning about how to do my job, and i just sat there and smiled and said ok when inside i was screaming a lot of expletives and calling her really bad names.

lunch today consisted of not one, not two, but three Cup Noodles. don't be confused. it's not Cup O' Noodles. it's just Cup Noodles. it took me 24 years and 1 week to figure that out. huh. things ya learn...

so i left work at 230 to go to the dmv to register my car. and i was getting kinda nervous. let me fill ya in a little background first. my car was signed over to me in the middle of last september and it entered california on september 25. these are key points. the title to my car says that once it's signed over to someone they have 20 days to transfer it to their name in the system (meaning go to the DMV and wait in line forever just to have someone do a change of address), otherwise it's $100 fine. same for transferring the tag. another $100. and california says you only have 20 days from when you establish residency (listed ways to be a resident included paying rent or accepting employment) to register your out of state car or it's $100 fine. throw all that on top of the $300 just to register the car. i was getting ready to pay more in two days than my car is even worth.

all praise be to arnold schwarzenegger, the greatest actor ever to become governor of california (even greater than Ronald Reagan). before the old bastard governor Gray Davis left office, he had raised car registration fees to this godforsaken level. arnold, as his first action in office, lowered the registration fee back to the original level. and it took me until the lovely department of motor vehicles government employee to say "that'll be $108" for me to remember that my governor talks funnier than yours. damn, that was the happiest i've ever been to pay a hundred and eight bucks. no late fees. no penalties. no record of the red light that i ran in october that was taken by camera at an intersection at night which totally freaked me out when all the stoplight poles on all four corners started flashing white lights and taking a picture of my car. i even had a nice long well developed story all planned out with ficticious dates and everything, but i didnt even hafta bring it up. which just goes to show you, sometimes things work themselves out. but if they don't, make sure you have a good backup plan.
- posted by yeah...about that... @ 7:39 PM