The Aerie
When I got home from work today I passed out for a nap. As a result I'm now up at 1:45 a.m. blogging. That will teach me to nap!
Nobody was hurt when my spouse was in a collision that possibly has totalled our minivan.
She was crossing the intersection with the green light when a very nasty Somali fellow ran the red light, striking the minivan in the driver's side rear wheel. It remains to be seen if the damage is terminal.
The other driver immediately demonstrated his nastiness by leaping from his car and shouting at my wife, who was by herself, having just dropped off our kids at school. "Why did you do that? Are you crazy!?" he shouted at her, among other things.
Fortunately there was a witness, a very kind woman who saw the whole thing and could attest that my wife had entered the intersection on the green light. She stayed with my wife for over an hour while I made my way from work back to my car and over to where my wife was waiting.
So the crippled minivan was towed, I drove my wife home. The Somali fellow was gone by the time I arrived: in addition to striking our car from behind his car was also still drivable. But somehow this was supposed to be our fault. Some people's first defense is to attack I guess.
Aside from that what else has been going on? I have neglected my blogging for no good reason except that there always seems to be something else that needs doing. And suffice to say that I got nothing done at work today, what with leaving at 11:00 and returning at 2:00 and all the nonsense in between.
We went to see Ellis on Saturday at the Cedar Cultural Center. Terrific show as always. She was followed by Cheryl Wheeler, who a folk singer who was so damned funny it was torture. Explaining why she wasn't dressed any better than a T-shirt and jeans for the performance she said, "When I dress up I look like Will Ferrel doing Janet Reno." I felt like I would get whiplash swinging between her really lovely songs and her painfully funny commentary.
Sunday we went to see 'Hamlet' at the Guthrie Theater, the final play that will be performed at the old location. We had plenty of reminders as to why the theater is moving. We waited so long in the turn lane to reach the theater that the rest of the family piled out of the car and left me to park it. We waited so long to get out of the parking ramp that we were all starving before we escaped. And the crowding was so bad that I was unable to reach the front of the line for a cup of coffee during the intermission. The new theater will be two miles up West River Road from our home, so we're eagerly awaiting our chance to visit it on our bicycles...
And yesterday was the first and only blizzard of the 2005-2006 winter season, which should have warned me that there would be a car totality. The last time this happened was the winter of 1981, and I wrecked my Mazda RX 7 in that year's only snowstorm, driving back from seeing "Altered States" with the late Steve Moldenhauer.
We'll see about the car. The tire seems to have taken the brunt of the damage, so maybe we'll be lucky and the vehicle will be repairable. Otherwise we'll be adding a car purchase to the already expensive 2006 fiscal year.