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Comments by: YACCS

 
NOT QUITE WHAT I'D PLANNED
Okay, so this isn't quite the update I planned, but the fact that I can make it at all is a good thing. Last Friday (11-15-02) I was in a car accident that totalled my car (I've talked to the insurance company. "Total loss" is their statement about the car.). Since I'm sure you're all curious, details:
I was heading to my parents' house, because my mother and I had an appointment to get our hair cut. The quickest way for me to get to my parents' house is to take part of the highway. The section where I had my accident has a concrete barrier about 4 1/2 feet high, seperating the north and south bound lanes. The weather that Friday was kinda wet and rainy. So I'm on the highway and start going through a turn to the left. The speed limit for the turn is 50mph. I'm coming out of the turn, doing 50, and all of a sudden I start veering to the left. I try and compensate for that and start veering to the right. Try and compensate for that, and the next thing I know I've lost control of the car. The front driver's side strikes the center barrier and sends me into a spin. I get turned around and the rear driver's side strikes the concrete barrier on the far right side of the lane. I finally come to a stop, facing north in the south bound lane. Luckily, I came to a stop far enough away from the end of the turn that anybody coming around it had enough time to see my car and avoid hitting it. Also lucky that there was nobody in front of me, behind me, or next to me when I lost control. Also a good thing that I was wearing my seat belt and that my air bags went off. (There's something they never tell you about air bags. They stink like hell when they go off. They also start smoking a bit.) The worst injury I got was that I banged my right knee into either the bottom of the dashboard or the steering wheel, I'm not sure which. But at the time, my right shoulder/neck area was bothering me. Since I didn't want to take any chances that something serious might be wrong, (it didn't feel like anything serious was wrong, but better safe than sorry) I told the EMS crew that was there that yeah, let's go to the hospital to get me checked out, just to be sure. Since I told them that my shoulder was bugging me, they didn't want to take any chances. So I get put in the collar, I get strapped to a backboard, I get my head taped down to the board too. The most disturbing part of being in the collar and having my head taped down was that I couldn't look around to see what was going on or who was talking to me. All I could do was look straight up at the ceiling. Got to the hospital, had x-rays taken of my knee and shoulder. Fortunately, nothing serious was done.
So my car's a total loss, but I'm not. Give praise to the great gods of the airbag, and the seat belt. Worship them by ALWAYS wearing yours.

posted by Obee at 10:47 PM

 
WEEKEND RESULTS
Well, my fencing brain didn't come with me. In the "E" and Under, I ended up 22 outta 37. In the Open, 26 outta 30. On the plus side, I figured out why my results have been so crappy of late. I'm getting mentally lethargic. I'm just getting tired of it. I need a brain break from it. I still like it, but the fun has gone out for now. Things aren't working for me, it's frustrating me, and just making things a bit worse. So for the next couple of weeks I'm not going to be doing any fencing. Let myself recharge and come back fresh and ready to go. Oh yeah, and during the course of the day, one of my body cords broke, and also the wiring on my favorite foil. Fortunately, those are both relatively easy fixes.

I have a GOOD update for next time!

(Still haven't decided what by Shakespeare I'm reading next. I need opinions people!!)

posted by Obee at 1:16 AM

 
A BUNCH OF STUFF
Time for some updates that I've been neglecting in the past week. Let's see......
1) Tourny results from last weekend...... Ended up 24th out of 32, 33 (something like that). Don't know for sure. The place that held the tournament doesn't post official results online. Suffice to say, did not do as well as I hoped I would. Mentally I just wasn't with it when fencing. I think my fencing brain stayed here in Cleveland while I was elsewhere.
2) Got another tournament this weekend. Hopefully my fencing brain will be coming with me this time. Fencing 2 events this time. One is a regular "Open" foil event, for anybody who wants to fence. (These are most events I fence in.) The other is an "E" and under event. This is for those who have their "E" rating or are unranked. (I've discussed ratings at some point. August or September I think. Maybe it was earlier, I don't remember for sure. But it's out there.) As long as I'm on top of my game, I've got the chance to earn a rating. Depending on how many people are entered, an "E" at least, if not a "D".
3) Need to decide which play by Shakespeare to read. Recently read The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Just reading them for the heck of it. As the song in Kiss Me Kate says, "Brush up your Shakespeare. Start quoting him now." Need to figure out what to go for next. Probably one of the comedies. Any suggestions?
4) BIG ***HUG*** to RH. Got a surprise call from her last night, here at work. TOTALLY made my night. Thanks again!!
5) One of my new links is for the CBLDF, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. It's an organization that protects the First Amendment rights of comic book creators and retailers. I'll be getting up on my soapbox and ranting about the issue soon, but here is a good starting point for everybody.
6) Have a good weekend everybody. I'll post Saturday's results either Sunday or Monday, depending on how boring it is at work.

posted by Obee at 6:47 PM

 
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Taking a bit of a trip this weekend. Heading down to Cincinnati for a fencing tournament. Leaving Friday evening, getting back sometime Saturday night. Had a lesson this evening and worked on a couple of things that, should I think about them and actually use them, should help me to do well. I hope so. According to my coach, it should be a fairly high-level tournament, at least a "B" level tournament, if not "A" level. I hope I do reasonably well. I'd hate for us (me, coach, one other fencer) to have driven 8 hours (round trip) for us totally suck.

Of course, by going, I do miss out on one thing I wanted to do this weekend. I miss out on going to Howl at the Moon. Friday is the birthday for one of the girls here at work. She's been here (I should say back, she used to work here before, I didn't know her at the time) for about a month. I've had a couple of conversations with her. Nice girl. So I'm talking to her earlier in the week, and she mentions that she's heading to HatM to celebrate her birthday, and that couple people from work might also go. Then she says "Do you want to come along?" It's a little out of the blue, but it's cool. I tell her I'd love to, if I can, if I don't head down to Cincy this weekend. But I'm going down, so no Howling for me. Kind of a bummer. I love going there. It's a great place to people watch. Especially to watch drunk and semi-drunk people make fools of themselves. :)

posted by Obee at 12:58 AM