So, last night I swung by our friendly Toyota Dealership and picked up our license plates and registration. I never would have imagined that our first set of plates would be the Californian variety, but go figure. While this mean seem menial and unimportant, it’s actually the most important first step in getting some schnazzy hybrid HOV lane stickers.
These stickers allow single passengers to use the HOV lanes in California.. this is actually a huge deal and will likely shave 10 minutes or so off my daily commute. There’s a number of steps that are required as part of this process, but I was able to head into San Francisco bright and early today in order to get some of the other details squared away. The last part (the application) is now in the mail en route to Sacramento to be processed and issued on January 1. Just last month the state of California announced that they will be issuing another 10,000 stickers (they went through 75k of them in 9 months) to be distributed on January 1. Hopefully my application is one of those 10,000.
In other news, a few weekends back MP and I headed into San Fran to go to the E-surance Icer Air event at AT&T park. They actually installed a huge ski jump in the ballpark for skiiers and snowboarders to do tricks and jumps off of. There were a number of bands that played as well, including Jurassic 5, who we were able to catch. For the $10 admission, it was well worth the event — just to see J5 alone.
I finally got around to posting some pics from the event last night. The ball park is still fairly new and reminded me a lot of Coors Field in Colorado. It’ll be fun to catch a game there, that’s for sure.
