[insert some Yoda quote about learning here]

Ya learn something new every day.

I didn't realize that when you choose the "entry is backdated" option, the entry shows up on your calendar but not on your friends page. I feel stupid now. Remember how I whined that I wrote two big ol' entries and how I felt all unloved cuz I didn't get a single comment on either of them? Yeah, I had backdated them. What a dumbass. They're a couple months old now, I guess there's no sense in linking to them.

Almost done with the payroll from hell. In an hour or so I shall be free to return to my slacking ways. Yay! (No, I'm not REALLY slacking at the moment - I can't do anything else until my slow-ass report finishes spooling)

Possibly no more mountain trips for me this year. The weather's been so "nice" down here (less than 100 degrees, and stormy!) that my Dad might close up this weekend. He thought I was going with him; I had said "maybe" which turned into a no. But I thought there'd be at least one or two more trips. Awwww. I feel bad now. I do want to go one last time. Maybe it will heat up again... gah! What am I saying! No wishing for it to be hotter.

ETA: Yay, R loves me! The two old posts be here and here. They're from the mountain trip I took in July. I even apologized for the spam. Silly Wendy!

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I had some errands to run after work. I pulled into "my" gas station. I had just put the gas cap on the ground when I heard the most horrible sound - if not the most horrible sound, it's right up there in the top five: the horrible crashing of metal into metal. Is there anyone who's been in a car accident who doesn't at least get chills when they hear it?

Right where I had turned in a whole 10 seconds or so before, this poor little car got squashed in between two pickups. I didn't see it, I just heard it. I am really NOT good in emergency situations. By the time I thought to get my ass over there to check things out, one of the pickup truck guys was already on his cellphone. I heard shouts of "Are you okay?" and everyone was able to get out of their vehicles, thank God.

This probably makes me a horrible person, but I felt really bad for that middle car. Not the lady in the car, but the car itself. I wanted to cry. I'm sure it was totaled. It was all accordioned up. The truck in the front had minor damage, the truck in the back had more serious damage, but that car in the middle was just... ick.

I don't know if I would have been in that accident had I been 10 seconds behind. I didn't see it, I don't know whose fault it was. But I'm going to thank my guardian angel anyway.

I'm about due to have an accident, too. I've passed the average time span between accidents for this area, according to some survey or another. I drove extra cautiously going home, that horrible sound ringing in my ears. It still is. I hate that sound. May it force me to be a better driver!