Lisa’s (Old) Place

We’ve been fighting with our car insurance company regarding the accident with the Liberty earlier this month.

To recap, the ground is slick. A lady pulls out from the right-hand lane, into our left-hand lane and stops with her left turn signal on. She is not in the turn lane. We have a car length and 1/2 to stop, and so we stop on her back bumper. We slid the whole way. We didn’t have a chance.

The insurance company is saying it’s our fault because we hit from the rear. If we would have been driving differently or safely, we wouldn’t have hit her at all. I know that most rear-end collisions are the fault, generally, of the person behind. But I disagree in this case.

The thing is, she didn’t give us time to stop. It would have been differently if we would have been following her for awhile and she came to an abrupt stop. There is no way that we could have ever anticipated anyone stopping where she did.

The insurance people said she was coming out of the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot on one side of the street, and making a left turn at McDonald’s.

I would personally like to kick her butt. Cruising around for food on slick roads, jutting out in front of people and expecting everyone to be able to stop.

Even when we went to the police station to report the accident, she parked in the “For Police Only” area of the parking lot.

.. to be continued… as soon as we get the final ruling from the insurance company…

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Yesterday, I contracted a small case of what must have been food poisoning. My boss had it, too. He had taken us out for a team lunch at a local chinese buffet. I’m not sure I’ll ever eat chinese food again. It’s laden with sugar and fat anyway.

Today, I went home at noon… made some chicken noodle soup (Bear Creek) and laid down for the rest of the day.

For dinner, we had healthy food, because of this article, which totally disgusted me. We had steamed perch topped with Schwan’s fruit salsa, corn and french bread.

By the way, did you know that a Starbuck’s caramel machiatto has 310 calories? If you go to the Starbuck’s site, you can find out a lower-calorie, lower-fat coffee, some of them way under 200 calories.

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Ok, so it’s 40 degrees and it’s raining, sleeting and thundering. Go figure. Later, it’s supposed to snow.

Winter Storm Warning remains in effect… Snow…heavy at times…will continue this evening. The heaviest snow through 8 PM is expected to be from near Fremont south through Wahoo to Lincoln. Snowfall rates in this band may reach 2 inches per hour…with some thunder-snow possible. Otherwise…snowfall rates will average around a half inch to an inch per hour. Snowfall through 8 PM will generally be around 1 to 3 inches. As winds increase later this evening to 15 to 30 mph…expect blowing and drifting snow to increase across the area with visibilities dropping below a half mile at times.

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It’s Sunday, and I had to get up at 5am so I could be mid-town by 6 to set up for the big annual fundraiser. Two laptops, two printers, a wireless router, 2 keyboards, 2 mice, a USB hub and making sure it all worked… plus moving one of the laptops and corresponding cables… twice.

It reminded me too much of the several months that I had a paper route and had to get up at 4 so I could deliver papers to an apartment complex. When I got home at 7am, I slept for the rest of the day.

That’s how I feel.. like I want to sleep for the rest of the day.

Can someone do my grocery shopping, please?

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