Gettin' mah smog on

My auto registration came the other day. Typical of California registrations, this year is my year to get my car smog checked.

The California DMV is a marvelous testament to bureaucratic inefficiency. They mail out the notices with lots of advance notice, but they don't actually enter your registration information in their computers for another month.

So, it's like they encourage procrastination.

In matters like this, I hate to wait.

So, I went out to a "Test-Only" smog station, coughed up seventy bucks (roughly), and got my car smogged. Passed with flying colors.

Now I have to cough up another $77 to the DMV to actually register my car for the year. And I can't do that 'till... late March, I expect.

Bastards.

But the worst part is over. My car passed smog. Yay!