Day 6
We wake up really early and spend a few hours waiting for a ride to the DMV. Isabel's mom takes us. Three hours later, I emerge with an IOU for a California Driver's License and an IOU for vehicle registration (once the car passes a smog test). We drop the car back off at my father-in-law's shop so he can get things taken care of on it.Day 7
The car fails the smog test. We drop by the local dollar store and pick up some knickknacks, including two cans of "Hello Boss" brand coffee. Pre-made cans of coffee beverage. Not just cans of instant or ground beans. They taste about as good as you'd expect from two-for-$.99 canned coffee.
Day 8-9
The California Smog Board deems our car to be street legal. We cleaned it up so the inside at least looks decent. It's got a dull grey to it that makes you think that maybe - just maybe - the car used to be another color. The inside is solid black. Isabel got a little hula dancer doll for the dashboard. This thing is in desperate need of color anyhow.
We head out to Fry's - yet another chain that's avoided Florida - and pick up a new keyboard, a wireless NIC and wireless router (slightly dented. 30 bucks. Not bad. I think we'll be going back there eventually), and a Fruits Basket DVD. The DVD is the first really frivolous purchase we've had since we got out here. No, the coffee doesn't count. If you come across dirt cheap coffee with strange (Vietnamese?) writing on it, I mean, wouldn't you drink it?
And this takes us back to about the beginning of March, which is when we left off, I think.
