Gas-like Odor....
Awesome. What a perfect way to start my Monday. I walk into my office building in Jersey City to the fire alarms going off. An announcement goes off over the building-wide intercom “Due to a gas-like odor, we are closing the external vents of the building….there is no need to be alarmed.” Meanwhile, I’m thinking to myself “yeah, that’s what they told the people in the WTC. I honestly doubt this is anything other than a gas-main leak, but it's disturbing none the less.
This morning, I arrived at the DMV in lower Manhattan at 8:20, waited out in the rain for 10 minutes and was finally permitted to enter. I was quickly able to get up to the window, but was greated with grim news. The beautiful 2002 Acura RSX Type-S that I just puchased, will have a nice little 8.25% sales tax on it. That, along with the nice DMV fees, I shelled out almost a grand to the DMV that I wasn’t expecting. Ugh. There is one good thing about the whole DMV experience, and that’s the fact that I know have two license plates for my car. Sweet!!
The original plan was for Laura and I to head to Jersey to grab the RSX and then head to my parents house. We were going to go after we got off of work, but seeing as how there is this funky gas smell going around and the Path trains are all shut down, I think that we’re just going to be from work a little early and get the car somewhere around noon-time. I don’t have a whole lot going on at work today, so it’s not really that big of a deal, but at the same time, I did bother to show up at the office, so that kind of sucks that I’m not going to even stay for the whole day. Ugh. Such a bad worker I am.
I’ve been looking around on the internet, checking out some other RSX’s and seeing what people have done to them. It’s crazy how much money people will spend on their cars. I figure that eventually I’ll do something to the car, but I doubt it’ll be anything that’ll cost me $1000’s of dollars. Probably be more like a CarPC or something like that. We’ll see. I’m going to be home for a few months, so maybe my father and I could work on it together. Hmmm…or as a birthday present
Anyway, I gotta see what the plan is, so I have to go and talk to Laura.