"Weekly" Update

Today was a straight forward day in the pizza business but there was a notable accident at the entrance of my apartment complex just as I was finishing my shift. A 4x4 pickup t-boned a mini-van that was crossing over Sharon Rd West, the street that is the hub of our lives. This time there was an ambulance, fire truck and 3 police cars. This is not the first accident at the intersection of our apartment complex since Rachel and I have been living here. There was a previous smash up right in late spring as I was pulling in with cars going into ditches and lots of glass scattered around. Rachel was out walking/jogging when that one happened and lots of people came outside to check out the crash.

I have driven at least 20,000 miles so far this year and I've manage to "hit" a mailbox or three in pitch darkness (one maybe during the day, not admitting anything), bent a tire from hydroplaning into a curb at 10 mph during an ultra rain storm, had the trasmission break under warranty which resulted in driving a mini-van for a month which may have resulted in a mailbox incident. Minor "Collision" with another car that turned without signalling and didn't realize the cars had actually touched because of my quick response of hitting the brakes. Didn't set my parking brake one time and my car rolled into a nearby suv in the parking lot of my apartment complex which was more damaging than all the other incidents for the year put together and I wasn't even in my car. I think that's not bad for 5/6 of a year, not that great either. Fingers crossed my insurance rate doesn't go up too much.

My 3 big purchases this year were my 2008 Chevy Cobalt, 30" Gateway Monitor (2560x1600) and another Alienware computer to replace the one I'm using now. I figure this one has 4-6,000 hours of use and I had to do a little computer surgery on it. There is something wrong with one of the memory sticks or the motherboard related to the memory sticks. I haven't taken the time to put each memory stick in all 4 memory slots and check if the computer still boots and I think I will wait until my new computer arrives before I start tinkering with the only working internet enabled computer in the apartment. The new computer is going to be about 10x as good as the one I have now which is probably 500x as good as the one Ben has making the new one 5000x as good as Ben's. Once I figure out what quirkiness there is with my computer and fix it I might be selling it for $500 or best offer. Intel 2 Duo Core 6400 @ 2.13 Ghz, 1 gig of 800 MHz sdram, dual NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics processors, 250G HD and your standard optical drive with dvd burner.

Talked to the grandparents tonight and found out they haven't been reading anyone's blog because they are not "plugged in." I think its very sad that they aren't more techno-hip with wifi and a nice Mac-Air or something they could have with them all the time to say hi and see everyone's photos and have online chats any time they got bored.