Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Well the video never materialized yesterday but I have a few things to tell you about nonetheless. For starters, I just got back from getting a much needed hair cut. I always go way too long between haircuts. The computer at Great Clips keeps track of my haircut history and the looks on the faces of the stylist are kind of funny when the look at the "last cut" date and then at my hair. Then they seem somewhat relieved in that I am still faithful to them for my hair cutting needs. Like I was sneaking around behind their back and getting trims from other discount hair cut places. Typically the lady will talk to me during my cut and tell me that I should come back more often than every 4 months or so. I lie and promise that I will and they lie and say that they believe me (after all, the computer tells them I am a 2-3 hair cut / year dude). Anyway $16 (with tip) later and I can see my forehead again. We will see if anyone notices at work tomorrow.
2 weeks ago yesterday, we were hit with a bad hail storm (as opposed to a good hail storm). The hail was literally golf ball sized...
It all happened around 6 in the morning and while the wife was trying to get the kids up and into the bathroom located in the center of our house, I was trying to drag the son out to the back porch to see the show. I mean, how many times do you get to watch hail this size coming down? Anyway, the kids were freaking out something fierce but once I got them calmed down and focusing on the awesome display in the yard they thought it was pretty cool. The above picture is the son's hand (he is 9). Once it was over, the daughter put on her shoes and got a bowl from the kitchen and filled it up with hail pieces. 2 weeks later and that bowl is still in the freezer as she will not let us throw it away for some reason.
One thing that was not safe inside the house was the car and the van. I inspected them and there were plenty (about 50 or so) small dents all over both vehicles. I didn't think anything about it and was not even going to turn the damage into my insurance as I really do not mind driving a multi-dented car around. But last weekend the wife pointed out that the windshield was cracked in the Buick on the passenger side so I filed a claim (online, gotta love GEICO). The insurance folks were all real nice and set us up with an appointment at a GEICO approved repair shop. This past Friday was the appointment and the wife called me after the appointment to tell me that the damage totaled more than $3,600.00! We have a $500 deductible so this means that GEICO is cutting me a check for $3100. I figure in $200 max to fix the windshield and that leaves me with a net profit of $2,900.00. Not bad for doing nothing and since the car only blue books at $5,500.00 there is no way I am spending more than 1/2 the worth of the car to fix dents. Nothing is wrong with the paint so we are going to drive it as is. Also, I figure that since golf balls travel farther with little dimples in them, maybe the dents will increase my gas mileage.
Tomorrow morning we have an appointment to get an estimate on the van, wish us luck!
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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