Tangled in a World Wide Web

According to this page , a good translation of the words "auld lang syne" is " times gone by ." Play the tune. Well, another year is gone and I must say, "Good Riddance!". This has been a year of many disappointments and shortcomings... mostly mine. I suppose I should have known what the year would be like when I went to the doctor 3 times before the middle of February. I had been to the doctor, maybe 3 times in the previous ten years. I should have seen it for the portent that it was. It hasn't been all bad. If you get past the miserable first 5 months that I was sick and the traffic stop that nearly turned into a COPS episode on Easter Sunday; forget the home invasion, the murder of my brand new camera and the vandalism of my car all in May and June and gloss over the joke that my job has become since July; if you can look past all that plus my car being totaled last month , well the rest was just an average year. Above Average I suppose it sounds li...

The Wreck Last month, November 18th, I was driving to work like any other Tuesday. I was yielding to oncoming traffic, as per the sign, at a major intersection, as I do five days a week minimum, when my car was rear-ended. Now, obviously, I am fine but my car was seriously damaged. Don't get me wrong, I have been driving it for nearly a month, albeit with my teeth clenched and my fingers crossed, waiting for the rear end to fall off. Finally today, after nearly a month of telephone tag with the insurance agent, I got an estimate, $3,145.97. Sounds bad. Gets worse. [See Pics Here] According to the nice fellow who gave my car a cursory exam which amounted to the equivalent of "turn your head and cough" and lasted all of three and a half minutes, this is probably enough to total my car. Yea! A Total Loss I spoke with the insurance agent, finally, and it appears his assesment mirrors that of 'Bubba' the body jock. Apparently a ten year old car with over 160,000 mile...