Was in a car accident on the way home-- fairly minor, but I and the other driver disagree on what happened. I saw no-one in the lane I pulled out in (which was just before a turn lane); what I *did* see was a large silver SUV that was suddenly next to me in the middle lane, whipping towards in front of me. I clipped him on his rear left tire, he ( Read more... )

 Found out this morning that my older brother Bill wrecked his Harley last night.  He's in the hospital in Panama City with a shattered knee, damaged hip, tons of abrasions/lacerations/bruises and a cracked bone above the knee.  They did surgery immediately upon his arrival and saved the leg, but his knee's toast; he'll be in there for the long ( Read more... )

So: it's 6:53 a.m. on a Sunday, and I"m up and awake.  Why?

'Cause I had planned on either going hiking or to the local SCA demo, and was going to get up at 7 anyway.  However, Mother Nature in the form of Something Really Painfully Unpleasant woke me up at 5:20 this morning and sent me scurrying to the bathroom, where I stayed for the next hour and ( Read more... )

WOW, massively sucky day at work.  Yes.  I'd rather not relive the details, but let's just say I totally lost it in my supervisor's office at last; they asked me to do too much, and I hit a wall.

But, y'know, maybe this was a good thing; I honestly and truly shocked my supervisor (not my Big-Boss but my Sub-Boss; Big-Boss is on vacation right now) ( Read more... )

GRAAGH.  Phone bill.  Must.... set.... on..... fire!  No, must pay.  **sigh ( Read more... )

Passed along via ickaimp .  I'm not even going to say anything about this, just... I think it speaks for itself.

WTF?

I think I need a vacation from getting ready for my vacation... meh.  Today was... mostly okay, with some glaring exceptions.  Oh well.  One week 'til I'm off; I can handle that, I really can.  A week's only seven days long ( Read more... )

I just had the weirdest thing happen/nearly happen:  a guy tried to get himself hit by my car.

That's not a euphemism or clever way of saying 'OMG I almost hit a guy'; he looked at my car, and then deliberately stepped out from the median about 3 feet in front of it while I was moving.  I was watching him; he was moving kind of funny, jerky and ( Read more... )

...actually, I have a cold in my entire HEAD.  A very drippy cold.  It's been sneaking up on me over the last week or so, and today it decided to pounce.  I don't feel all that bad internally-- no fever, no nausea, no chills-- but as for external symptoms, oh yeah; sniffle, sniffle, dripdripdrip eeeew.  Yuck.

No biggie, though.  Here I sit with a ( Read more... )