I Am Not Dead Yet, I Can Dance and I Can Sing…

If I’ve been quiet for the last couple of weeks it’s because I have been pretty busy picking up after events that you normally don’t write about on your blog. Potentially fatal car accidents, for example.

Two weeks ago, on my way to the airport to visit friends in Seattle, my car got off the road in Sonoma, ran down a ditch and got totaled. Needless to say, I was in it. That’s really about as much as I can write about the accident – I don’t remember much of it, anyway. I don’t know if the car flipped or not (it looks like it did), I don’t know how I got off the road in the first place (the surface was wet from the previous night, but it’s hard to accept that that was the sole cause). I don’t even know how long I was unconscious inside the car until I got out, managed to call the CHP and got taken to the hospital. But I do know that was alone in the car and nobody else was involved in the accident. So far, so good.

The next six hours were spent in the hospital, laying on my back and not moving, while various doctors performed various scans, put staples in my head to stitch the laceration I had endured and generally made sure that nothing else was terribly wrong with my body. Luckily, there wasn’t – I’m fine, and a nasty concussion and said gash in the head are all that I took from what could have been a much more serious accident. So far, even better. Remember to wear your seatbelts people, they save lifes!

So the car is totaled, but luckily that’s covered by insurance. I took my time looking for a new car and considered several options. I finally settled on a 2007 VW Rabbit (that’s a Golf for all European readers, VW has decided to rebrand the car again for the US market). It’s certainly not as racy as the old car, but drives nicely, and VW increased the engine power for the 2007 models.

Two weeks later everything is (almost) back to normal. Victoria has been a great help and support through all of this. Above are some images from this episode – they say pictures say more than a 1000 words and stuff, I hear. Sorry for the watermarks, but I don’t want this picture to show up on any other webpages that happily celebrate car crashes. This hasn’t been all that funny, and I’m posting this for readers of my page, not anonymous amusement. I’m certainly glad that this is an interesting episode I get to tell people about, not a life-changing event.