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28May/102

My Poor Car

I bring sad news about my car. Today I was in my first (and hopefully only) car accident!

No humans were injured. The other person's car, an SUV, had relatively minor damage to it's rear bumper. My beautiful, well-loved 1996 Honda Accord - on which we just spent $1000+ replacing the timing belt, pump, etc. - faired much worse:

I am glad no one was hurt, but at the same time I feel so sad that my wonderful little car was so damaged. No word yet from the auto body shop on how much the repairs might cost. So far my insurance and agent (Brent with Travelers) have been outstanding in handling this situation; within a couple hours I was driving away from the body shop in a (free to me) rental car.

The wife is angling to use this as an excuse to do a little vehicle shuffling. She has her eye on the GMC Acadia - any thoughts on that car?

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10Aug/090

Forehead Bump

Before our trip to Maine last week Libby got a pretty bad bump on her head. She ran full speed (which seems faster each day) into a metal cart at Lowes:

Poor thing - the bump swelled to the size of a large gerkin in seconds. Libby took it well, though, and stopped crying within a few minutes. Shannon and I didn't fare as well - we rushed home and called the nurses line to make sure we were caring for her correctly.

Pictures from Providence/Maine/etc will be posted Tuesday night.

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4Dec/082

Another BSOD

For the second time in 4 weeks my Windows laptop treated me to a beautiful Blue Screen of Death:

This brand new laptop crashed so hard that I couldn't even access, let alone repair, it's hard disk (mostly due to the very shitty Sanctuary device control software). A deadly one-two punch by an incompetent operating system and an overly protective device manager.

Want icing on this cake? Tech support says the whole problem is due to a Windows update that they distributed themselves. Argh!

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13Aug/071

Freakin’ Scary Hairy Jumping Spider

On our trip to a family friend's house I noticed a rather interesting looking spider on their stainless steel grill. I started taking pictures and noticed that the spider seemed to be doing a little twist whenever I moved the camera closer.

Curious, I zoomed in and noticed that this little guy was really turning to LOOK RIGHT AT ME! Gagh... the only thing scarier than a spider is a smart spider!

Freakin' huge jumping spider

Being the manly man that I think I am I kept taking pictures. This was a big mistake.

Approximately 10 seconds after snapping the above picture this gigantic, hairy, soon-to-be-airborne spider launches itself at me with all eight legs sprawled like the face suckers from Aliens.

Needless to say I did the only thing a real man would: I squealed like a little girl, dropped the camera, and stumbled into the picnic table behind me. Good times, good times.

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19Jul/070

I Lost my Cellphone

I lost my cell phone… boo-hoo… My beautiful silver RAZR cellphone has been missing for the past three days and I fear that it may be gone forever. Not having a cell phone was easy for a day, but now I'm itching to have that lovely little piece of technology back in my pocket where it belongs.

Susan, Shannon, and I have searched the house and cars completely yet it is nowhere to be found! It's sad to lose such a nice phone. To be honest I am more worried about Verizon, who are probably salivating over how much money I'm going to pay them to get a working phone line again.

I'm still checking my messages which has led me to a strange quandary: is it sadder that I lost my cell phone, or that no one has left me a message over the past three days.