This week has been long and its only Wednesday. On Monday, I went to the Pasadena DMV. I was trying to register my car and get a California driver's license. I was doing this because, in California, you have to get a new license within 10 days of moving to the state and new registration within 20 days.

So, apparently you have to take a written driver's test every time you get a new license in California. I passed it, which was nice, but they punched a hole in my Indiana license and gave me a piece of paper as a temporary license until I get my real license in the mail. As for my registration, although you don't have to get a car checked for smog for the first 6 years after the car is built when you buy it in state, you do have to do a smog check when you bring a car in from out of state. I believe that smog checks take a relatively small amount of time, and I can mail in my documents to get the registration now that I've already been to the DMV.

Once I got to work that day, I found the east parking lot completely full. There wasn't a single free space in it. Instead, I parked about a quarter mile away at the entrance to the nearby national park. The walk took almost half an hour.

Finally arriving at my office, I found that the laptop that I'd been using since I got there (an old Compaq n600c) had begun to suffer disk failure. Luckily, Knoppix and a flash drive saved the work that I had been unable to back up on the previous day.

On Tuesday, I finally bought a bicycle. It is a pretty nice bike. The thing that sealed the deal, though, was the shifter on it. It has a very high quality shifter that I can only describe as being...ratchet-like. Basically, you press one of two buttons to shift up- or down-gear. If you press harder, you go through more gears and it falls back to the current gear plateau when you release. I rode it to and from work that same night to make sure that I could. It seems like the way there will be a lot easier than the way back since it is mainly downhill. I was pretty exhausted by the end, but I made it.

Today, I went to the Pasadena Apple store because my iPod had been acting up. It wasn't recognizing that it was being plugged in to computers, so I couldn't put more music on. After waiting 25 minutes past when my appointment was, they took a look at it and gave me a replacement.

Tomorrow, I will ride my bike to work for the first time. I didn't ride it today since I had the appointment at the Apple store and wasn't sure I could ride back home and drive to Pasadena in time.



Oh yeah, one other thing. Go buy and play LEGO Star Wars. It is amazing.

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