GRRR!

So the tax discs on both the Nissan and the Mercedes are due at the end of May. Yesterday I go and try to pay at the car office on base like I have the last 2 years. After sitting around for 30 minutes or more they tell me to go pay at my local post office. Of course once I get home I don't have time to get to find all the documents I need AND get to the post office, so I put the second part off until today.

I leave work early today so I can get to the post office on time. My first mistake was to assume when she said "my local post office" she meant any post office. So I put my Crocs on and walk to the co-op and they have a sign on the window saying they can't handle Car tax. Next I figure, I'll go to the one on Cold Bath Road to avoid going into the center of town on a weekday. They can't handle it either, so I end up going to the post office downtown anyway. There I make my second mistake. I assumed I can pay with a credit card. Of course I can't though! Only ATM (with that stupid freakin' chip in it) or Check or Cash. So while the lady is already ringing up the tax disc for one year on the Nissan, I go and withdraw as much money as I can from the ATM. I am able to get enough to pay for the Nissan but am £20 short to pay for the Mercedes. I have a second ATM card with Community Bank but of course that is COMPLETELY useless anywhere except on Base.

Anyway, long story short, I need to try to go back and pay for the Mercedes tomorrow, except that the MOT for the Mercedes expires tomorrow so I am not sure if I can still do the tax disc with an MOT that is expiring the same day. I need to just get the stupid car MOT-ed but I suck at driving standard transmission cars. So if they don't let me pay for the disc tomorrow, I need to bug someone to help me get the car to a garage. I would go to Evan but his dumbass has to be in a class right now. I guess I'll have to bug Sean, see if I can get the car MOT-ed by Saturday and then pay for the tax disc also by Saturday since the post office will be closed on Monday for some silly little bank holiday.

What a pain...

new headphones

Last week my headphones finally died. For about a month they had been acting funny. One or the other ear would stop working. Finally last Thursday though the right ear stopped altogether and the only way I could get it to work is if I held the cord connecting it and the left one at a funny angle. I couldn't take it so I just threw them away.

残念 because I really liked those headphones. They were ちょっと uncomfortable if you wore them for long periods of time, but they were pretty nice sounding and the way they folded up was convenient.

While I was at Lakenheath, (after getting Taco Bell of course) I bought a new pair. They are the little earbud type everyone else uses. The cord is a bit thick but they sound really good. The only problem is you have to shove them in your ear just right to make them sound good. If they are off by even a little bit, they start losing the bass frequencies. Of course they move around a lot while walking or running and you end up messing with them a lot if you want them to sound good. Its quite a pain in the ass to be honest.

Oh well, I bought them, I better use them for a while.

At least they are green!

Alconbury / Lakenheath

I went to Alconbury and Lakenheath yesterday with Sean and this chick named Dawn that he is going out with.

First we went down the M1 instead of the A1 and we ended up way to the west of Alconbury, which is right next to Cambridge. It took us a while to figure out where we were and then get back to the right place.

Of course all of that could have been prevented if his GPS (and his iPod) hadn't been stolen a few weeks ago.

Once we got there, I bought various uniform stuff I was missing from my Class A Jacket. They had Metallica's Death Magnetic on sale for 7 dollars so I went ahead and picked it up. I have been curious to hear it for a long while now, and its actually pretty good.

Once we were finished, we headed down to Lakenheath, which is a little bit further south. The main reason we went was to get Taco Bell, since (I think) that is the only one on the whole Island. Also while we were there, Sean was able to buy a replacement for his GPS.

We had left at 9:30-ish in the morning and by the time we got home, it was already after 7pm. Long Day.