I know that I said I wasn’t complaining about my registration/licensing woes anymore, but this is more for my own records than anything else. 

I can’t remember the exact date that I paid the 2000E for the Rieju (I’ve gotten back 300E because they couldn’t register it since), but it was somewhere in the first week of December.  Right now, I’m being told that I won’t be able to get plates until January 8th or 9th, which means I won’t be able to pick it up until the 9th or the 10th.  My birthday is the 11th.  “Happy birthday, John!  Here’s the bike you bought five weeks ago!”  I don’t know what to do anymore.  A full month?  A full month?  To register a brand new vehicle?  I could have closed on a house, secured a mortgage and moved in by now.  The people in our security office (which liaised with the Bureau of Transportation on our behalf) forgot to include two of the copies of my title (you need three, apparently… and a special, hand-written letter from the Secretary General of the UN, it seems…) to register a new vehicle.  In case I’m not clear about my emotional state: I’m going through the roof over here. 

Switching gears, I’m moving all of my personal property into my apartment sometime in the next two weeks.  I don’t even care.  I just want my bike at this point.  Either of them.  If I had my choice between having to wait until March for either my personal property or my BMW, I’d take waiting for the personal property.  There’s a million miles of road out there that aren’t being explored.  Right at this second!  To add insult to injury I got a certified letter today from the logistics company saying that it’s been a month since my bike arrived, and I haven’t picked it up yet.  If I don’t pick it up soon, they’re going to send it back to the states.  Ashton.  It’s not funny anymore.  Please stop this cruel prank.

On a lighter note, I successfully created my first real Flickr Mashup.  Big success.  Now, I just need to figure out how to integrate it into Wordpress’ idiot-proof software suite.  It’s so idiot-proof that it’s practically airtight.  I need a phd to figure out all these php and stylesheet functions.