thursday evening, after eating some delicious kobe beef at some elitist restaurant in west la (they lock the doors and you have to knock to get in and if they don’t know you they wont let you in), courtesy of frank, i went home to el segundo to drop off rent, pay some other bills and collect some of my belongings. after i got what i needed i headed down to irvine to joel’s.

so lets discuss the current situation at hand. i was driving my car without registration. and yes im completely retarded, without insurance as well. not because i didn’t want to pay, but because i didn’t have the duckets to do so. the simple catch is, i couldn’t renew my recently expired insurance (last month) without current registration. i couldn’t register my car without paying the taxed transfer fee’s. im not blaming anyone, this is completely my fault, but i was working on getting the money to take care of anything.

so close yet so mother fucking far. i was sooo close to having the cash to take care of EVERYTHING. i was going to be able to take care of all of the money matters this month. i was going to be able to pay for title transfer, registration fees, and insurance renewal. but alas, i only have myself to blame.

yes, i was pulled over by the irvine police, literally a few feet from joel’s house. i explained my situation to the cops and after listening he was almost sympathetic. i told him how close i was to being able to pay everything off, and that my drive had been an emergency cuz i had to pay rent at my legal residence.

he decides to call in my license anyway just to double check if i had any bench warrants. turns out my license is suspended! and on file it lists that i was not notified and he then issued me a citation to officially inform me that my license was currently suspended. due to the fact that my license was suspended he couldn’t let me off the hook and had to impound my car. yay i just got issued a ticket with 2 infractions: no registration, no insurance, and 1 misdemeanor: driving with suspended license.

why was my license suspended?? good question! so today at the dmv, i show up with the issued title transfer form, pink slip, and my citation. joel has been nice enough to be my sugar daddy and cover the transfer fees that im going to pay him shortly, waiting for a lovely check to clear. 1523.00. good news, my car is finally registered until january 2006. after we got my registration and title fixed up, he issued me a one day moving permit, as my car is still underivable because of no insurance. and well i cant get insurance until my license is valid.

i asked the gentlemen at the DMV if he could look up the hold on my license. the guy who helped me was the nicest DMV person i have ever met. he was very nice and courteous and extremely helpful. he looked up the hold on my license and it turns out, im suspended because of the OLD ASS fix it front plate ticket. THAT I PAID FOR!

I took care of it because i knew there was an issue. I had gone into the culver city court offices and took care of all my tickets. done and paid for, however the court clerk did not mention i still had to go into the goddamn CHP and pay them an additional fee with a front plate. she had told me, after i paid the fine, that it was all taken care of. in fact i had my license renewed the same day.

funny thing is, joel is in a similar situation. ticketed for expired tags and no front plate. and like me, he did the same thing, paid the fine, never went into CHP and he’s FINE. theres no hold on his license, but theres is on mine!!

whitey is keeping the yellow man down!

so now i get to call the culver city courts and see wtf is going on. why my license is still all fucked up after i took care of it. and i have to make sure i take care of this because i have to go to court on the 15th in irvine to deal with the misdemeanor charges of driving while suspended and the 2 infractions of no registration and no insurance.

cant get insurance until i fix my license. cant get updated registration until i get my insurance.

all in all. i am a fucking idiot. i guess i got my well deserved ass kick from the city of irvine and los angeles. but i guess its good to know my license is suspended! fucking dicks. this is all my fault but i was sooo close to taking care of all of this! i guess the extra cost was just the tow and impound, 235.00.

anyway, lesson learned, offer to suck the cops dick immediately maybe you’ll luck out.

-j

so if you’re wondering why i haven’t blogged, you guessed it, World of Warcraft.

i have been playing with the old blood fist gang, sam, james, rob, trent, the patryns kids: justin guthrie, justin goad, eric avilla, etc etc, and a handful of circle noir members. in fact were all guilded together under the cn tag. we are playing on the pacific realm pvp server: tichondrius.

the game is actually really good. the have done a stellar job at streamlining all the major aspects of any mmorpg. where most other mmorpgs have failed in one aspect, i think its safe to say that wow has done a stellar job. in everquest there was no real driven economy. items were traded and were a player commodity and generally the best items required mass numbers to overtake massive zones. although im sure everquest has changed in the past 4 years, but the first few the game lacked in many areas. the everquest quest system was complete bullshit and almost non existent. the everquest crafting system was also equally pointless.

wow reminds me of the same game pace of anarchy online. i actually really enjoyed playing ao. it was probably one of my better game experiences. most aspects of the gain were attainable. i enjoyed the cyberpunk futuristic theme of the game, i enjoyed their mission system and their implant system was the best. i also loved the profession line and the ability to bump stats as you chose per level.

i had been playing final fantasy xi for so long. ffxi was a great game. i miss a lot of the game. i miss the cut scenes, the auction house, the people. however, a big part of ffxi was highly painful because i wasn’t playing with a strong core of players. in any mmorpg without a core or a group to play with, the game itself has to pull its weight. eventually when that subsides you pretty much stick with a game for its people. too many of my good friends were investing in wow so i made the change.

anyhow, just wanted to give a quick update to where ive been lurking. i have so many more things to post about that have been on my mind. ill make a much stronger attempt to take the time and do so.

if you’re looking for a new game, i highly recommend wow. i know eq2 is out, some say its good, most i hear don’t like it. anyhow stop by tichondrius and gimme a shout if you need some help, or if you’re on another server, i hope you’re having as much fun as i am!

-j