In case you haven't seen my face lately...

Recently, I was involved in a little motorcycle accident. I was not paying attention and looking off to the left when traffic in front of me was stopping. Then by the time I looked forward and saw all of this, it was too late and I ran into the back of a Jeep Liberty. I pretty much just ran into the back of the Jeep then fell over to the left; no flipping over or anything crazy. Right after it happened, I just got up and was kind of in a daze. The guy I hit came out and was worried about me, but I’m a pretty tough guy and so we just moved the bike off the road. By that time, another man, who is a paramedic, pulled over when he saw what had happened. At this time, my chin is just dripping all kinds of blood and my forehead was not looking too good, so the paramedic did a nice bandage job on my face. They all thought that I should go to ER right away, but I said that I would be able to drive myself, so the guy I hit, drove me home and I drove myself to ER. Oh, in case you all were wondering, I was not wearing my helmet; it was too nice a day for that!

Unfortunately, the bike was totaled, but that's what insurance is for. As for me, I suffered only a laceration on my chin, banged up forehead, bruised left knee, scrapes on both knees and hands, and just recently found out that I did break a small part of my left shoulder blade. Nothing too much too worry about when you are on some nice painkillers.

Before ................................................................ .....After

Raccoons: Part 2

I know this post is later than what I wanted to post it, but I was waiting on the auto shop to see what the extent of the damage is and it just got even more. Right now, they are going to replace the radiator, A/C condensor, and some body work. Come yesterday, they were going to replace the head gasket, but it looks like the engine might have some more problems, so they decided to go ahead and replace the WHOLE engine!

I still can't understand how a little raccoon did all of this. A cool part about the engine being put in my car, it has only 8000 miles! I also get to drive around for another 1.5 weeks in a cool '06 Grand Prix, so overall, it isn't a bad deal. Well, except for the fact that I will proably have to pay higher insurance premiums in the future and pay a couple hundred bucks for the deductable and my car could be a total loss.
Fricken animals in the road...

Raccoons....

I don't know if I have this attraction or my vehicles have it or not, but for some reason when I drive, animals get this thing were they just want to wander in front of my moving vehicle. I don't know, maybe they are suicidal I just keep ending up at the wrong place at the wrong time when a animal wants to have an assisted suicide by wandering around on a road waiting for a fast moving vehicle to squeeze the life out of their body.

I don't know.

All I know is that somehow a fricken raccoon has caused over $3000 of damage to my car. How you may ask, well as I was leaving Springfield and heading west on Route 4, on Sunday night, a raccoon ran out in front of my car and I didn't even have time to think about stopping before he got whacked. I really did not put much thought into what just occurred because well, I really don't care about some animal running out in front of my car and it was a small animal. A few miles down the road, I look down at my gauges and noticed that my engine was really overheating, and that's when I realized that the raccoon has just produced an angry response from me and jacked up my car. So, I decided that I need to take the next exit and stop my car as soon as possible, but just right before the exit, my car just shuts off and that's when I realized that I now have a major problem on my hand. That is also about the time that I had evil thoughts toward that raccoon and would like to cause further harm to it but cannot since, well, it is already dead.

So, there I am, parked on the side of the road, on an exit ramp, waiting for my car to cool down and inspecting the damage. At the same time, making some phone calls to find the closest car shop and secure a ride home after I drop off my car. And this is just the beginning. Stay tuned, more to come tomorrow.

Animals are Evil

More to come tomorrow on why I think animals are out trying to get me.