Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Release Me California

Dear Arnold,
Once again I must remind you that I’ve moved to Washington. I’m not paying to have Silver Surfer registered another year in the Peoples Republic of California. I’ve signed two documents already stating as such. I thought this issue was closed back in October.

Unfortunately I received yet another nasty letter from one of [...]

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

California Uber Alles - DMV Edition

Just before I left the Peoples Republic of California, I received a notice to renew my license plate tags. Since I was heading to the Evergreen State, I placed that paperwork in the circular file. Upon arriving to the Seattle Metro area, I promptly got my Washington drivers license, plates and updated my auto insurance.
I [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Grand Jury Duty

I’ve already been called for regular jury duty twice since moving to California. Now I’ve been summoned to appear at the Federal courts for jury duty. This isn’t the 3 day jury trail. They want me for an entire month. The month of August. The month I’ll be up in Seattle.
I would have been happy [...]

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Channel Islands - Santa Cruz

Yesterday we visited the Channel Islands National Park. This National Park just outside of Ventura, California does not have an entrance fee like most parks. However, you will need to hire an outfitter to take you to the island which is 20 miles off the coast. We went to the island of Santa Cruz with [...]

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Ventura and Santa Barbara

Just returned from a quick trip to just north of Los Angeles. Met up with former San Diego bloggers Joe and Leah and had a good chat about web stuff.
Afterwards we went to Ventura, which was quite nice. National Geographic Adventure had a story about Ventura last year which sold me on visiting [...]