N Marietta Loop - update

Car is totaled. I am looking at getting another PT - so far two choices - white and black. I think I want another stick.

The console was changed and the headroom seems less. I have insurance company rental up to Thursday.

which one of my darling granddaughters might say this?

Brenda's six-year-old daughter was explaining to the other kids what "extinct" meant:

Well,

she said in all seriousness

it means that the dinosaurs are all dead and have been dead so long they don't stink anymore. That's why they call them exstinked.

- Doc's Daily Chuckle

Benedict - a wild and crazy guy

He certainly knows how to throw red meat to the press - religious and secular. But will he be Catholic enough for Anglo-Catholics?

oh Tom does Oregon have that much sun?

a sunny future for USBank

N Marietta Loop

• I was going from Kennesaw to the KofC meeting at Holy Family. As I entered the intersection with Wallace, a Ford cargo van - the longest wheel base - made a u-turn. I had one of those. The turning radius is about 4 lanes. This guy tried to do it in three. As he was blocking the two driving lanes, I struck the rear passenger side behind the tire -- if he were six more feet further, I would have missed him.
  
  Because it had been raining, the pavement - asphalt - was wet and slick.
  
  The airbags did not deploy.
  
• I have now gone to both doctors. My GP checked me out mostly ok. Just talking to him has calmed my nerves. But I continue to have flashbacks when I enter intersections. Or when I have to deal with an aggressive driver - which in GA is often.
  
  The ortho man found I had no broken bones in my right hand but my index finger is quite swollen. We will see in a few weeks if my neck calms down and my right hand and arm quit hurting. Oh yes and the spot in my not quite lower back.
  
  I shouldn't whine as my son-in-law has much worse problems.
  
• My car was at first glance estimated as needing $4.5k in repairs. At which point their computer and the insurance company told them to dig deeper. The estimate is now $6.5k. I fear they will total it out. In which case I need to come up with about $5k to get a new car. It would have been easier to handle that before the market crash. I suppose I will hear the bad news later this week.
  
• And in travel news, the Kat is in Bangkok.

retirement

Every day is a Saturday, unless it is Sunday.

I still wear a watch because I do not want to be late going nowhere to do nothing.

When asked what am I doing now that I am retired - I answer, little as I can and mostly what I please. - Herr Kemper _ruminations on Retirement_

I don't think I can relate to this. I don't want to retire to become a vegetable, I want to shift the focus of my life to things more enjoyable, but no less work. I would like to teach. I would like to work with people in places and situations where associations can be voluntary. I would like to have time to pray more regularly.

fly the friendly skies

To pass the time while our plane was being de-iced, the flight attendants played a trivia game with the passengers. They asked us to guess the total number of years the three of them had worked for the airlines. After an attendant collected our estimates, we heard the announcement:

The correct answer is 26 years. For the two people who came closest with 28 years, we have prizes. And for the passenger in seat 12F who guessed 85 years, would you please step off the plane once we are airborne.

- Ed q.gcfl