How did we get to the last day of February so soon?
2 did a pinch-hit for me at the writing contest awards event last night. I'm thinking that it may have been just a little shy of exciting.
I've spent the entire afternoon on the couch in continued recovery-mode.
The insurance company has agreed to settle with me for full retail on the Buick. I should get something in the mid $17's to help with a replacement. I figure that I'll have to spend a little more to get a slightly newer model with fewer miles. And eight cylinders to give it a little more get-up-and-go.
My Top Ten auto accidents, all time:
1. This one. Buick Lucerne 2009, with an old guy failing to yield.
2. December 1971. Datsun 240Z. Ottumwa, Iowa. Driveable afterwards. Right quarter panel and headlight assembly. My fault.
3. Summer 1972. Dover AFB, Delaware. Same car. A guy runs a stop sign. Not driveable. The whole passenger side sheet metal shot.
4. Summer 2002. My first Monte Carlo. I rear-ended a truck at the Elmore-Kimberly intersection near the office. The hood had to be replaced.
5. Summer 2008. Margret. The repair shop managed to dent-up her rear passenger side light assembly. Driveable, but a month to repair.
6. Does 1's totalling of the Escort in the TC's a few years back count?
7. How about 4's excitement with the Saturn?
8. Shared excitement with the original Hoopdrm? Multiple drivers, I think.
9. A couple of IC things with the Focus with 3 and 4.
10. Then there was the time I ran one of my high school cars dry of oil...
This was the first time in my life that I was transported to a hospital by ambulance. Or placed on a board with a neck brace by an EMT. Once is enough.
I'm headed to bed early and hope to get a full entry here tomorrow morning from SB's. (RevKev, I mean, like, I am giving up regular Coke, my all-time favorite drink, for the entire year. If I were to give up SB's, my body would go into emergency shut-down!)
Thanks for reading.
BCOT
Philosophy, History and Commentary from Lt. PC
8 comments:
no argument here. I've got my own addiction to Peet's Coffee going. In fact, I'm going downstairs now to set the pot to automatically brew in the morning. We all need our vices. Hang in there speedracer.
Martha said:
Since you have a little more time for reading, here's a column about small town BB....even in Nevada:
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/40469232.html
The state tournament finals are at a casino: The Orleans, which has a very nice facility that is also used for concerts etc
on an unrelated topic...i've got the nba on abc on while i grade. i'm not really watching; it's more for background noise. i remember afternoons in the past when i would have been glued to the game for every second. i just heard that johnny 'red' kerr died. thought i would have heard it on the blog before i heard it from hubie brown! how long has it been that he's been off the air? i felt some sentimental attchment to him i guess since i spent so much time listening to him!
I don't recall any excitement with any of my cars...
4, you and 4 tend to hit stationary objects, thus just damage and no excitement.
Oops, you and 3, Sorry
State basketball 1959 I crashed a brand new ford on the way back from DesMoines with 3 Walsh classmates. Window through the window from an oncoming truck. No injuries. A coupla of months later mother and rosie rolled the brand new replacement on the last hill going into Ottumwa on old 63.
Tahoe Phil
I was not on your list. Because there was nothing to report.
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