Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
I have finally done it. I have scheduled my Lasik evaluation and surgery. I have put it off for years for one ridiculous reason or another but come April 10th (Lord willing) I will be done with glasses. There is a mandatory evaluation that takes about 3 hours where they do some sort of topography of my eye (this is beyond my comprehension but the brochure explains it all). Once they have that, they can program the computer that runs the laser and whammo, no more glasses. I will have to keep you up to date.
The Buick tire was repaired just fine (free of charge, thank you Discount Tire) so I am back in the driver's seat again. I was in a fender bender last Tuesday where I rear ended a Lexus on the way to work in the rain. There is a spot where the highway goes from 3 lanes to 2 and since the drivers around here are missing the "merge gene" everyone comes to a stop. It was clearly my fault since I was the rear-ender and she was the rear-endee. I could see no apparent damage but I gave her my insurance info just in case. When we were exchanging info I noticed 4 other cars in another lane that appeared to have suffered a similar fate. I was contacted later that day by my insurance company to get my side of the story. I was short and to the point, "I hit her" and then that was that. I was contacted the next morning by my insurance company to say that I was indeed at fault and that if there was any damage that I would have to pay. This phone call seemed entirely unnecessary to me but I thanked the lady anyway. I am supposed to get an email whenever the status of a claim changes but I have received nothing since that last irrelevant phone call. I just logged into the claim tracking section of my insurance company's website and I see the claim was marked as "closed" 4 days ago so I guess I am off the hook. In talking to the lady that I rear-ended, she mentioned that she "is lucky" when it comes to these kinds of things. I am not sure how to take that. Either she is in a lot of accidents and she usually has no damage or...well I don't know. I guess her luck rubbed off to my car when I ran into her. I'll take what I can get.
The last tournament in the PBA (Professional Bowler's Association) season starts today. I follow the qualifying rounds on the PBA's website. The US Open (this weeks tourney) is "open" to anyone and there are like 500 people signed up to compete over the next few days. The bowlers are broken up into 3 squads and bowl 6 games each day for 3 days at which time the field is narrowed down for the latter rounds. Today is the first round and the person currently in last place shot the following scores...
114 - 113 - 179 - 136 - 128 - 103
...for a 129 average. Now I have not bowled in a few years and not bowled professionally for about 15 years but I think that I could beat those scores. I mean come on! A 103 game!! That is like 2 spares and 8 opens with some bad counts thrown in for good measure. Maybe after the first 5 games he just gave up but he still has 2 more 6 game blocks to get through over the next 2 days. Good luck dude!
Well it is 8:15 and by the sounds of the Legos in the other room it is time to spend a few more minutes with the kiddies before bedtime. Until next time...
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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