Where I've been the last couple of weeks: depressed

Well, you'll notice that I haven't been saying much lately. There's a reason for that. Two weeks ago tomorrow is a date which will live in infamy. It's the date that I drove down to work one morning, zoned out into space, missed that a light was red, and slammed right into a car driven by a couple of old people at 30 miles an hour or so. Completely totalled the car, and the old folks had to go to the hospital in an ambulance. Didn't look like anything more serious than airbag injuries but that was bad enough. I was in pain that got worse through the day, and the next morning I went down to the emergency room. It turned out I had a "non-dislocated sternum fracture" and it hurt like the dickens; they gave me Vicodin for it.

( Elaborations and parental visit )

Storm Stuff

Yesterday there was a fairly big storm in the area. It downed a bunch of limbs from the trees around my parents' house, including one that knocked down some power lines. Power was out Sunday, which caused a slight change in their plans to observe the 4th down at the homeplace. Instead, they came up to my brother and sister-in-law's place in Springfield, we watched a movie and had dinner.

In the "children say the darnedest things" department: As my brother's family was going to church yesterday, they heard a long, loud, continuous roll of thunder; it seemed to go on for a good couple of minutes. Aeris, my toddler niece, asked what that was, and my brother (her father) told her that it was just God helping celebrate Independence Day.

Then there were a bunch of bright flashes of lightning, and Aeris said, "And that's God taking my picture!"