the word of the day is "AAAAAAAAAA(h)!!!"

[thanate]

...any day that starts with getting hit by a bicyclist is bound to turn out badly. I was innocently driving to work, and turned left off the main road onto the smaller road that makes a T intersection and is immediately crossed by the bike path, which has stop signs that nobody (except my father) ever follows. And there was a cyclist coming up from the right, so I was keeping an eye on him to make sure he didn't do something dumb like try to get across the road in front of me as I turned, and the cyclist I didn't see coming from the left ignored his stop sign and ran into the back of my car. Have I mentioned I hate people recently? (I pulled into someone's driveway and went back to where the other guy had gotten off his bike and was making sure the idiot was ok; he claimed that he was, and I decided it was better to go away than give him a lecture on following traffic laws at the top of my lungs. Bah. They put the stop sign there for a reason, moron.)

Um... doll hallowe'en party pictures may some day exist. Waif took the costume contest by storm (there were perhaps three or four other really good costumes there) and won a prize for "most original" which we don't have yet.

Meanwhile, the following link seemed worthy of attention: http://www.bookcrossing.com/

It is not yet seven thirty, and it feels very much like bedtime. Possibly I will read a book, though.

(oh, and quote for the day, from the end of a discussion on what the soil stain in our block is, and whether we can convince someone else it's a grave:
Stephen: I don't think there's anything else it could be. [than a grave]
me: nothing?
Stephen: It could be nothing.)

Comments

[weebaby.livejournal.com]

I'm a BookCrosser. One of my books has reported back from Russia! (Or is is the Ukraine?)

My Pet Peeve

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

Too many cyclists in this area have entitlement issues. You should see the ones in Old Towne Alexandria. Hello? Do you think the stop signs are NOT meant for you as well? Idiots! When I worked in Old Towne, I can't even count the number of times that dumbass cyclists ran stop signs and damn near ran me down as I was legally crossing the street. And THEN they had the audacity to act as if I was at fault! (Yeah - I gave a tongue lashing to more than one idiot cyclist about rules of the road).

Least you think I hate cyclists, I do not. I cycle from time to time, and my brother is a hard core cyclist. If WE can be bothered to follow the rules of the road, so can every other idiot on the road.