Where the heck has the year gone? I can’t believe it’s really August already.
So, a recap of 2008, so far.
I’m sure there was something novel between January and June, but I can’t think of anything right now. So, we’ll start with June.
As noted in the comments on another post - I should probably be dead. Wrecked my Explorer (hereafter ‘truck’). I was towing a load that was 1) 2000 pounds heavier than my truck, and 2) on a trailer that expected a larger ball hitch than was installed on the truck. It started to fishtail coming down a hill at 30 MPH, and I couldn’t regain control of the vehicle before it spun me around 180 degrees. Front tire caught the shoulder and the truck flipped, not once, but twice.
At the same moment, the ball disengaged from the hitch, and the trailer and its load (a Bobcat Skidsteer) came to a stop at the side of the road. Broke an axle on the trailer. Bobcat escaped without a scratch, still was running.
My truck was totaled. I was spitting out mouthfuls of dirt as it came to a stop with wheels on the ground, and my left shoulder screamed at me when I tried to move the door. Someone who lived nearby heard the racket and told his wife “That didn’t sound good.” They however were not the first on-scene. My dear sweet mother had been in the truck behind me, and had a wonderful show of watching her eldest son attempt to kill himself.
Mmmm.
Yet, I walked away, albeit with a type-III separated shoulder (that’s in the “acromioclavicular joint” where the shoulderblade and collarbone link together with ligaments). They said I shouldn’t need surgery, it’d heal on its own, just take it easy. That’s hard to do when you work how I do, but I didn’t need a lot of convincing.
So, it’s now been a few months since the accident. I’ve got generally the full range of motion back. I don’t have the strength in that shoulder that I used to. I’m not certain I ever will, but I’m going to get all that I can out of it. It’ll just take a lot of time.
Had a court date related to the accident here in July. Single car rollover with no damage to any property except my own. What’s the problem? My liability insurance had expired and I hadn’t renewed it because I didn’t know. It was supposed to automatically withdraw from my checking account, but I’d changed banks and hadn’t updated the information. $400. Oof.
August! 10 year high school reunion was held last weekend. I believe the banquet experience was best summarized by a gentleman at the table behind mine: It’s just like lunch in the cafeteria, except there’s girls sitting at our table now. My experience that night sadly lacked the girls. In fact, it lacked anyone else until I got up and moved to a different table entirely, and then other people sat at the table I’d just vacated.
I suppose that’s pretty much my high school cafeteria experiences as I remember them, too.
I did run into a few people I knew, although I didn’t have a chance to chat things up with as many of them as I would have liked. I really felt like I was the only one still single, looking out over the crowd. Which, as it so happens, is exactly the same as it was back in high school. Apparently my life has not changed in ten years.
Overall I would consider the reunion a ‘good’ experience. Not outstanding, not great, but enjoyable.