I was in a car accident the other day.

I was on a three lane highway going about 65 in the far left lane. The guy in the middle decided to merge into my lane and didn't check before doing so.

Nobody got hurt, the other guy didn't even stop, but my car is still in the shop getting fixed.
I didn't have the chance to get a plate until he was about fifty feet down the road and by then he was just to far away to see. It blew out two tires on one side so I had to get it towed and now it's a waiting game to see how much actual damage was done. So far it's the front bumper and engine guards, both drivers side wheels a tie rod and that's before he got it on the lift.

I'm glad I have full coverage.

Gas is going down!

I almost caused an accident today when driving by a station. $2.39 for regular! I was listening to NPR the other day and they commented that OPEC is having a summit, or probably has by now as this was more than a few days ago, to discuss what they refer to as harmful price fluctuations, and they are calling for restriction of barrels per day output because they are alarmed at the price drop and want to artificially raise prices. You gotta love capitalism.


Chuck Norris Factoid # 112: Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

I'm sending this out for Christmas this year. It's my favorite Christmas card and it's pretty old, I'm not even sure they still print it. However, it's not like I need a lot of them, so I'll probably find a printer who can do it cheap or see if someone sells card kits for home printing.

I almost forgot. On the inside the caption reads:
"Merry Christmas!
Hope you get everything you wish for too."

-Ace

BLACK LIONS!

Here's a pic of the Navy half of my old platoon.

Although some of us joined the platoon a little earlier or later than the main group, almost every one of us was part of the "Black Lions" platoon back when we were training and mobilizing.

They already had a motto when I arrived, "Black Lions, Rawer!", but I thought it was pretty stupid. When I was mobilizing and training, the platoon motto was "Black Lions, B!@#$!!!". The important thing to understand here is that when a platoon is in formation and whoever is out in front calls you to attention you snap to and belt out your platoon motto as loud as possible. The funniest thing about it would be when all four platoons in the company were mustering in formation and the brass was out. One by one our platoons would be called to attention at which time each platoon would sound off with their motto. We were the third platoon, and the first two platoons had pretty generic mottos, so when it came to us we would grin ear to ear and really belt it out. I tried to get the change to carry over when I joined up with these guy's and found out they were all Black Lions, but I think they were too afraid of offending the chain of command.

At any rate, that's my post for the day.