Albert's car = not built like a tank

Albert = built like a tank.

My minor accident a few years back was over $8 grand. It adds up pretty freaken quick. Glad to hear you're all right.

Thanks you all for your concerns!

Yep unscathed. Got checked over by EMT.

Air bags did not go off otherwise I'm thinking write off. Well car still needs some estimates and still need to talk to my insurance adjuster. I'm thinking write off because the car isn't worth as much as the repairs that would have to go into it. I might be surprised however.

See how it goes.

Happy you're alive Al. Hey, how often do you get to go car shopping in your life?

WOW! Albert, I'm so glad you're okay. ... you're okay, right? No cuts or scrapes or bruises or anything? Did the airbags go off?

Damn, that's scary. You're really lucky your quick-witted ways allowed you to steer preemptively into a safer position, and that the weather wasn't any worse outside.

It's fully understandable that you haven't 'gotten it through your head' that you're alive and survived. It's pretty surreal for the first little while. You'll find that it becomes clearer in time. ... or at least that's usually how it goes.

Again, I'm super glad to hear you're doing alright, that you've survived unscathed, and that you are, indeed, still alive. Sucks about your car, but hey, that's what it's for, right? making sure that YOU get to your intended destination. There are always more cars out there.

Well I got in a car accident today. I should actually be more happy that I'm actually alive, how the accident happened was pretty dicey and it could of been a full uncontrolled head on collision. It was just a side swipe which was unavoidable since it was on a narrow 2 lane road. Winter tires saved me form something major since I came to a complete stop and as I saw the car barreling at me uncontrollably was able to drive at an angle. Still caught the side of my car which pretty much pushed me into the ditch.

I just don't want to inconvenience people but now my dad has to drive me around for a while and I have to rent a car which isn't so bad since my insurance is paying.

Like I said I should be a hell of a lot happier that I'm uninjured and fine. Sure my car might still be written off but I'm alive! Damn it why can't I get that thru my head?!

um... in a semi-peripherally related to the Lovecraft reference way... I present you with Neil Gaiman's wife doing a hilariously bizarre music vid (slightly nsfw)



Such a gem! ;)

I just spent the last 2 hours outside shoveling out cars on the street after the snowplow came through. There were more people out on the street shoveling and moving cars than I've ever seen outside at any one time. I find it interesting that it takes circumstances, in this case weather, at its worst to motivate us as a society to get up off our couch and interact with the people living around us. I find that community develops when it is pushed out of its comfort level. I think comfort is a good thing, but comfort never creates greatness, or I wonder if I could go as far as goodness. I wonder if we as a society have become too comfortable. Too comfortable for... community? For ambition? Too comfortable to care? To make a proper meal? To create something instead of looking for someone else to supply it? While comfort is good, I think it isn't always best. I think moments of comfort are a beautiful thing. I think the detriment comes in this perpetual state of comfort we are in. Are our lives perfect? No, but they have this numbing sense of comfort laced through it. How many of us have truely gone hungry? The idea of being without something is totally foreign to me. I've got a credit card. I'll just pay for it later, whatever it may be... Remember when you could only get mandarin oranges at Christmas? Remember how good they were when they were special? I keep seeing that our lives, the comforts in our lives come from the exploitation of others. Others our lives never bring us into contact with. "Made in China", is literally on almost everything we own, but is an abstract concept. When I think about it, it is also a luxury that I can barely comprehend. I'm just too damn comfortable to do anything about it, it seems.

I think we've sacrificed quality for comfort.

just some musing and thoughts that started making me uncomfotable I feel I need to throw out into the void in hopes of allowing me to return to my previous levels of comfort. Discard or expand upon as you see fit.

I'm pretty sure David Bowie invented the the FUSHIGI. Video evidence:

"An Elaborate Fraud":

This makes me unnaturaly angry. It’s hard for me to be dispassionate about people who abuse the trust people give physicians; I get even more riled up when someone violates the rules of ethical science. I think it’s likely that children have not been given the MMR because of Andrew Wakefield’s fraud. I think it’s likely children have gotten sick because of Andrew Wakefield’s fraud.

I think it’s likely children have died. I hope in some way, he feels it.