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.

I’m still alive!

Quite literally this time.

Congratulations Epic!

Gears of War is looking very cool so far.

Neverwinter Nights 2 modding

Been busy picking apart NWN2 this weekend. Here’s some info I posted on the message boards:

• Correct Normal Map directions for NWN2 maps
• Hooking up new tilesets

Beware the Extremists, There’s Always a Reason For Why They Are the Way They Are

“I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life,” wrote Ted Haggard, 50, who was fired Saturday as head of the 14,000-member church.

*sigh* How can you get it so incredibly backwards? The problem, dear Ted Haggard, is not that you think you have a sexual problem. The problem is that you and your followers don’t realize that you don’t have a problem. But instead of accepting the inevitable conclusion of this episode, that maybe it’s just good old human nature and not a choice as you so often claim, you cling to millenia-old scriptures that were written in a time when people were ignorant, thought that the world is a disc, women had no rights and homophobia still reigned supreme.

The other problem, of course, is that you’re a hypocritical asshole who wasn’t man enough to stand up to his nature and channelled his “demons” into public campaigns of intollerance instead. But that is almost incidental – not being able to cope with the first issue and looking for an outlet paved the road to where we are now.

In other news: people protesting the message of tollerance. Gotta love the irony of that. I’m assuming that the play in question is The Laramie Project. Victoria was assistant director on that play a few years ago, now I’m glad I know about it.

Today’s Weird Search Result

I have no idea why somebody would search for this. And end up on my page. Fun to see, though…