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whitereflection) wrote2003-02-10 09:56 am
whitereflection) wrote2003-02-10 09:56 am
It's going around...
Like some sort of infectious plague. F'ing hell. >p
Was leaving the grocery store parking lot on the way in to work this morning. I was waiting for the woman ahead of me to turn left, and finally there was this brief clearing. I thought she was going for it, I honestly thought she started to go. And I was gonna duck out right quick behind her so I didn't have to wait longer. But she didn't go, and I bonked into her. Just a minor, under-five mph tap, but it was enough to put a small dent into her back bumper (like someone poked it with a finger) because the license plate holder on my front bumper sticks out. What's especially great about it, is the vehicle, a minivan, was just bought two weeks ago--she didn't even have the plates yet, just dealer tags. Oh, I feel just f'ing brilliant and great now, yeah.
I dunno, maybe I just imagined she was starting to accelerate. Maybe she did and stopped, deciding the gap wasn't good enough. But I assumed she was going, and was too busy looking left and right, and should have double checked *forward*. Dammit. And here I'd always been so proud of never hitting anyone. Even with it being so minor, I bet my rates will go up. I wonder if I'll be lucky and that dent will just pop back out, or if they'll have to replace her bumper totally (it's a black, unpainted rubber/plastic type, couldn't tell if it was cracked at all). Anyway, had to tell my ins., had to tell James. God, I feel damned dumb--this is about as bad as hitting a parked car. No damage on Puchiko (the Saturn), though, not even to the bumper or that license plate holder.
Bah.
Anyway, Crystal's doing better. Dunno what made her so sick Thursday night/Friday, but she was improving Saturday am, and was normal by Sunday. Maybe she ate a bug that upset her stomach or something. But Friday night Missy had the worst hairball mess of her life all over Anj's suede-leather/sheepskin coat. Goddamned cat. ><;; So I'm paying to have Anj's coat cleaned, which isn't super cheap, but isn't terrible and is the least I could do.
Spent the weekend doing the OSX upgrade, which went fine. I've got all the software I need, and am getting everything put in its proper place. Taking longer than I thought, tho. In the transfer, the inbox from my home email got lost (when I burned my mail folder to CD, a glitch had labelled my trash folder on my hard drive as 'inbox' and my inbox as 'trash'--so I burned the 'inbox' and didn't save 'trash', therefore ended up with my old trash and not my inbox msgs. >_< ), and I forgot to save my iTunes prefs, so I don't have my playlists. I can rebuild that from the info on my iPod though--but the inbox msgs are just gone. Feh. Most the rest of it all is working ok, though, and I like X already, much. Very much. *nods*
Saw Treasure Planet Saturday night with Anj and James, and it's surprisingly enjoyable. Some *GORGEOUS* scenery and backgrounds, neat character designs and creature designs. I think I might want the artbook. A decently well-executed movie--and I'm rather impressed at how they did the facial expressions, especially for the main character, Jim.
Gotta go work on my lobby case display--think I'll take my iPod and play music too loud so I can pretend there's no one else around. A mood like this needs to be wallowed in (ie. a "goddamn, I can fsck up but *good*!" sort of mood). Idiot idiot idiot. I'd be dangerous if I ever learned to pay attention.
Was leaving the grocery store parking lot on the way in to work this morning. I was waiting for the woman ahead of me to turn left, and finally there was this brief clearing. I thought she was going for it, I honestly thought she started to go. And I was gonna duck out right quick behind her so I didn't have to wait longer. But she didn't go, and I bonked into her. Just a minor, under-five mph tap, but it was enough to put a small dent into her back bumper (like someone poked it with a finger) because the license plate holder on my front bumper sticks out. What's especially great about it, is the vehicle, a minivan, was just bought two weeks ago--she didn't even have the plates yet, just dealer tags. Oh, I feel just f'ing brilliant and great now, yeah.
I dunno, maybe I just imagined she was starting to accelerate. Maybe she did and stopped, deciding the gap wasn't good enough. But I assumed she was going, and was too busy looking left and right, and should have double checked *forward*. Dammit. And here I'd always been so proud of never hitting anyone. Even with it being so minor, I bet my rates will go up. I wonder if I'll be lucky and that dent will just pop back out, or if they'll have to replace her bumper totally (it's a black, unpainted rubber/plastic type, couldn't tell if it was cracked at all). Anyway, had to tell my ins., had to tell James. God, I feel damned dumb--this is about as bad as hitting a parked car. No damage on Puchiko (the Saturn), though, not even to the bumper or that license plate holder.
Bah.
Anyway, Crystal's doing better. Dunno what made her so sick Thursday night/Friday, but she was improving Saturday am, and was normal by Sunday. Maybe she ate a bug that upset her stomach or something. But Friday night Missy had the worst hairball mess of her life all over Anj's suede-leather/sheepskin coat. Goddamned cat. ><;; So I'm paying to have Anj's coat cleaned, which isn't super cheap, but isn't terrible and is the least I could do.
Spent the weekend doing the OSX upgrade, which went fine. I've got all the software I need, and am getting everything put in its proper place. Taking longer than I thought, tho. In the transfer, the inbox from my home email got lost (when I burned my mail folder to CD, a glitch had labelled my trash folder on my hard drive as 'inbox' and my inbox as 'trash'--so I burned the 'inbox' and didn't save 'trash', therefore ended up with my old trash and not my inbox msgs. >_< ), and I forgot to save my iTunes prefs, so I don't have my playlists. I can rebuild that from the info on my iPod though--but the inbox msgs are just gone. Feh. Most the rest of it all is working ok, though, and I like X already, much. Very much. *nods*
Saw Treasure Planet Saturday night with Anj and James, and it's surprisingly enjoyable. Some *GORGEOUS* scenery and backgrounds, neat character designs and creature designs. I think I might want the artbook. A decently well-executed movie--and I'm rather impressed at how they did the facial expressions, especially for the main character, Jim.
Gotta go work on my lobby case display--think I'll take my iPod and play music too loud so I can pretend there's no one else around. A mood like this needs to be wallowed in (ie. a "goddamn, I can fsck up but *good*!" sort of mood). Idiot idiot idiot. I'd be dangerous if I ever learned to pay attention.