"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian." Mark Twain

...the primary one, anyway, was mildly disturbing.

I was somewhere, sitting around, working on something, and I discovered a child, or the child discovered me.  She was young, only a few years old, and took to sitting on my right leg while I went about my business.  I got the sense that I knew of her, and that she was a missing child, though from where I did not know.  Eventually, I went in to town, and I don't think I had the child with me.  In fact, I think I was in town much later in time than when I met the missing child.  I saw an older kid, maybe eight or ten, who looked like a grown up version of the little one. I thought it was her, in fact.  Then, I came upon the mother of the missing child, the little one.  When I told her I'd found her, she cried, or was upset, and sent me away, where I found a gravestone.  I don't recall the name or the date, but it was the one I'd found.  She was dead, I assume, or presumed dead, and I never saw her again.

Postage, spark plugs, antenna mount, chicken feed, food, bolts, nuts, screws...

Got a call from his insurance adjuster.  My mother started laughing, and gave me the phone, since she didn't quite understand.  Apparently, I was in left hand lane(you know, the one with oncoming traffic), beginning a left hand turn(which is why, when passing me on the right, his front left impacted my front right corner).

I took a few minutes to laugh at the poor lady on the phone.  Then I explained that, since I was hit from the right, that my truck should have traveled further to the left, and yet I was still on the right hand side of the double yellow lines.  I told her that, while I didn't take AP Physics my senior year, I am pretty certain that an impact from the right hand side imparts an impulse on the stricken vehicle in the opposite direction.  I was fairly confused, then, how the Dodge Neon managed to pull me out of the left hand lane(remarkable, since my wheels were turned left to make this left hand turn of mine) and into the right lane, with my right front rim sitting on the shoulder, with his front right tire popped as the rim was bent by the edge of the drainage ditch, which runs off to the right of a shoulder that's as wide as a single lane on most roads.

In any case, they're paying for his repairs.  And while she said she had to believe his story(I asked why), their company is willing to cover 80% of the repairs to the truck, and 80% of a truck rental cost, since Pennsylvania law forces them to cover between 50% and 100% when their driver is at fault(because he was the trailing vehicle).  Splitting the difference with that range would have been 75%.  If his story were correct, and they really believed him, then 50% should have been their offer.  Makes me wonder if, you know, they don't really believe him, but they have to say they do, because they don't want to lose a customer(one who will probably be paying higher rates in the near future nonetheless).

Now I'm waiting to hear from my insurance adjuster to see if we should take their offer and get the ball rolling.

Edit:  Our adjuster called back, said to take the money and run; apparently I was also swerving a bit, from lane to lane and swerved back to the right into him.

...Book22 is an online sex toy store with a Christian message.

I'm serious! I was trawling the intertoobs, and came across an article on NPR's website, clicked a link there, and, well, see for yourself:


http://www.book22.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=ABOU&Store_Code=Book22

About Book22

It is our company's policy that the products we sell be purchased for married couples only. As explained in the book of Genesis, God created woman from man's flesh and bone to be his companion. In so doing, he illustrated that in marriage man and woman symbolically become one flesh. A common theme throughout the Bible is sexual purity. One example of this can be found in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, "For God wants you to be holy and pure and to keep clear of sexual sin so that each of you will marry in holiness and honor." We want to encourage God's plan for people to remain sexually pure, that is why we offer our products to married couples only.

Book22 is owned and operated by Kevin and Joy Wilson. We are a Christian couple who have been married for over 13 years now. We have prayed every step of the way for guidance on what products to offer on this site. The Special Order page and many of the products we sell came about by couples sharing their hearts and issues with us. We found that we were naive about different people’s sexual hurdles and impairments. Elderly and disabled couples have been open with us on what they would like to see us offer and it has really changed our view of what is “okay” in the marriage bed. We take a lot of pride in running this business and work as unto the Lord each day. If you ever have a product or customer service question feel free to write or call, we are personally involved in all the areas of running Book22 from product purchasing to processing and packaging the orders. We ask for all of the products that we order to be “polybagged” this allows us to offer products without the inappropriate cardboard backing with images of nude or partially nude people on them. Unfortunately, it isn’t always possible to get every item in polybag so occasionally we will apply a sticker or remove packaging that we find inappropriate. Until we can begin to manufacture our own products this is the best we can do with what is available to us. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn more about us, we pray for our customers often and ask that Jesus bless the marriages of His children abundantly.

...got a hold of his insurance company and gave my statement.  Now we wait.

David Rovics

Global corporations and governments have joined forces to launch a united propaganda assault about how we must turn “green” while all the real environmental crises - deforestation, GM crops, chemtrails, genetic splicing, and cancer-causing cellphone tower radiation - are completely ignored.

Taken from rv1501 's recent repost from Prison Planet.  I'd like to add suburban sprawl to that list of real environmental crises.

Keep in mind that I seldom actually watch television, but I caught this commercial for stealthy diaper things while talking to my mother...

And my answer?

Because he's laying in a puddle of his own piss.

...of 3,000.  Another batch of haying down, only one or two big pushes, then some cleanup, and first cutting will be done.

...the insurance companies can wait.  Phone tag between unloading wagons is getting old.  My truck isn't going anywhere anyway...