Oh my goodness. Quite seriously, it really it’s not one thing, it is the other, huh? Today we had to drop off the truck (The Girl’s truck) for brakes & alignment, then it was off to Palm Desert (Code Name: Hell) to pick up the moving van we were so graciously allowed to use by a friend of a friend, and off even deeper into Palm Desert to pick up some furniture that The Girl’s grandparents are giving us. Sounds good so far, right?

For the most part, yeah! I mean, free sh!t, right? Right! But man, is it hot out there. I mean, It’s hot where we are (or were?), but it’s HOT hot out there. I was sweating up a storm in the moving van rearranging & tying things down.

But that’s not the WTF I was talking about, so let’s get to that.

Trouble started on the way home. We hit the freeway, and an exit or two later, trouble hit us. Literally. See, the box truck has this horrendous blind-like spot on the right. I say blind-like, because I could see most everything on that side, but I couldn’t really tell where things were relative to the end of the vehicle, so lane changes that direction were difficult at best. So to make it easier, I had The Girl ride behind me caravan style, so that she could clear the lane.

Anyway. An exit or two after we get on, I take a peek in my left side mirror, and what do I see? A dark green Nissan Maxima careening across the freeway. Nice. I don’t see The Girl, so I go a step further and check my right mirror, and she’s slowing down to pull of the freeway. Oh. Crap.

I pulled off and ran back to the two vehicles, now pulled over, and I called CHP to come and write a report. The Guy had the nerve – get this – to tell me & The Girl that he thinks he dozed off. The Girl, however, said that she saw that she saw him come up fast, then try & pass on the right, then backed off because he couldn’t make it, then came up her ass and was attempting a pass to the left when he clipped her in my 4Runner.



Addendum
So we have the ticket referencing the incident report, but the CHP officer said that it won’t be filed for about 10 days. Awesome. Another Awesome® thing? The guy said he had insurance, but the only card in the car was from August of LAST YEAR. Awesome. What’s even more awesome is that in that time, our address is going to change & we’re going to be 700 miles away.

The 4Runner has some damage to the rear bumper, but that’s about it that I can tell thus far. Well, there’s also the left rear wheelwell trim, which was also displaced, and the fact that the bumper scraped the paint off the body where it was mounted, exposing bare metal (rust!).



But on the Bright Side
Did I mention I’m moving the hell outta here? Funk yeah!



Workout Developments
There’s no LA Fitness where I’m headed. No 24 Hour fitness, either. No gym of that caliber that I can find, either. So we’ve decided we are going to build a home gym setup, centered around a sort of all-in-one smith machine. We’ve actually seen the unit we want a few times in the last couple of months, and due to some bad timing (yeah, can you believe it?) the other night, we ended up shopping for it instead of going to the gym.

And there we were, staring at the sticker that said “$650 off,” thinking that yes, we were going to be picking this up tonight.

Sadly, no. See, they were out of them. The next store over was out of them. All the stores in the vicinity were out of them. ALL OF SO CAL was out of them. But, there was a light at the end of the tunnel… With some help from one of the employees there (Thanks, Christian!) who made some phone calls for me, we found a store that’s along the way to our eventual destination that does have them.

The catch? I can’t reserve it for longer than 24 hours at a time. So every morning, I have to call and reserve it again. Hey, it’s better than nothing at all, right? I think I will have quite a good relationship with the employees there by the time I arrive on July 5th in the mid-afternoon. Hey, friends are hard to come by anymore.

Peace.

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