The avant is registered, and.. my friends must have LOTS of free time!

The Avant is registered, and I am up at 1:15am posting this. Been working on my house loan application all night. This has been a very productive week for me. I have utterly demolished my massive stack of bills and TO-DOs that have been sitting on my desk at home. You see, I just bought a new car, and being that I am utterly in love with cars I can't help but spend all my time working on it, buying stuff for it, researching options for mods for it, dreaming about what to do with it (i.e. what track days to go to, what suspension to install, which brakes to buy, etc, eccetera, essetera.).

But, I feel like I am neglecting the REALLY important stuff (i.e. my future, a house, my savings, my 401k, my health insurance, my bills, selling my buddies truck he loaned me for 9 months, you get the drift) to daydream about my 4 Rings porn (that would be my Audi S4 Avant to you car noobs).

So, tomorow I will send in my loan application (which should be easy, but only if you have filed all your bills for the past 6 months instead of just piling them up in a nice tidy "to be dealt with later" stack), this week I will list my buddies truck, get the last 2 bits of bill crud done, then fill out some more paperwork to transfer an old 401k into a different plan, and finally call my real estate agent to start the process of finding a house.

I have mixed emotions about house shopping. One on the one hand I am excited to finally be in my own place again, with a garage, and room enough for all my belongings, but I am also dreading the dogged determination that one is required to have to REALLY find the right house for the right price and to make it happen. ugggghhhh....

Anyway, sorry for the life interlude. Oh one more thing. If you go and check out Le Supar Goobar's blog and you will see that he clearly has too much free time on his hands. just loko at those posts. informative, thoughtful, thought provoking, well written, and clearly something you actually WANT to read and in the case of his music post go and listen to each and every one of the youtube's he posts up. I wish I had that kind of time, I am thinking its time someone was given more house chores or something!

Ok, for real, back to the car. To make a long story short, one must get an out of state car smogged upon first entrance into CA without fail, no matter what the DMV website misleads you to believe. I just re-read it, and if I follow the links a different way I can see now that you DO need a smog. Well one thing I learned is that my 2006 Audi uses the CAN system for the OBD port, and that means the smog machine wont read through the OBD port, which is a pain in the ass, because it is DAMN hard to find any place else to clamp a reader to so you can grab the RPMs of the motor.

Long story short = I have the plate I want 4RINGS4 coming in 90 days, and my fees were just shy of $2k. Brutal, Oregon is looking more attractive, no?

On another car related note. I am bringing my car into Eurocode tuning (yes the place that dicked me around, will post about that later) on Monday, and have ordered the following parts;

• ECS Slotted Zinc Plated OEM 1 piece Rotors front and rear
• Porterfield R4S brake pads, front and rear
• Stainless lines
• JHM SHort Shifter
• AWE Exhaust (sitting in my living room looking sexy)
• Caliper rebuild / Seal kits for all 4 corners
• New Spring Retention Clips for front calipers
• 20 new shiny Lug Bolts