This started today around noon. Snow. In Victoria. Cool.

Hmmm, what’s wrong with this picture? I am at work, typing up a post. Anyone spot the problem here?

Yesterday was a pretty busy day. Sox and I headed up to Nanaimo to pick up our new car. Very cool. We did a little test on the way home. We both filled up before leaving Nanaimo, then filled up again in Victoria. The CRV used half the gas that the truck does. Holy crap what a difference. Nice car to drive too. Maybe Sox will let me drive her car some time. 😉 Just kidding babe.

After getting back to Victoria, eating dinner, we got ready to go to a Salmon Kings game. The game was very enjoyable. Definitely a step up from the Salsa, and I enjoyed every Salsa game I saw. Lots of action, some good goal scoring. With the game tied at the end of the third, I couldn’t wait. I headed for the washroom, hoping to be back before they hit the ice. In the can I heard them take the ice. 10 seconds later there was a large cheer as they scored the winning goal. All the guys in the can cursed their luck (myself included). I missed the winning goal, but still thought the game was great.

Pics are here.

After that we headed out to the Canoe club for drinks and food. Way cool time.

Today Sox and I did a little spring cleaning in the fall. We have decided to perform a makeover on our filing system. To facilitate this we needed to purge the crap, to make room for the keepers.

This was the result of the purge. Who really needs bank statements from 2000? What about pay stubs from 1998? Sheehs. The biggest thing we have to decide is what to keep. Of course, in this day and age, it isn’t safe to just put all this stuff in the recycling. We purchased a shredder a while ago, and it got quite a workout today. Just look at all this paper! Yikes. We probably should have done this a lot sooner.

What sort of paperwork are you supposed to keep anyway?

So, here is the scoop. I feel like I have been very negative here on the blog as of late. I am not sure why, but it seems like I have just been using this blog as a place to vent. I am going to try and curb that a little.

So let’s begin now.

Today was a fairly productive day around the house. While Sox was walking Yoshi, I got outside and started raking the leaves in the front yard. Wow. I had done the back yard already (not that you could tell by looking at it right now), so I thought the front would be a little easier. Wrong. Big time wrong. I was working hard for close to 3.5 hours. Raking in to piles, piling onto a tarp, taking the tarp to the truck, dumping it, and repeating.

Felt good to get it done, but I was sure beat by the time I was done. So far this year I have taken 4 full truck loads of leaves to the municipal yard. I am very glad that I have access to that resource. It is close to home, and free for Esquimalt residents. Sweet deal all around.

The municipal yard is well used too. Each time I have taken a load there, it is full of people dropping yard waste off. Way better than taking it out to Hartland.

Taken at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

WTF is wrong with people anyway? Driving along Esquimalt Ave tonight, while on my way to pick up Sue I see someone in the oncoming lane enter the parking lot by the Esqumalt Inn very quickly. Like 50 KM/H quick. Next thing I know traffic around me is stopping quickly. The guy that left the road, after entering the parking lot, then hooked left across a sidewalk, just missed a telephone pole (but taking out a guy wire), and struck a metal lamp post. He hit with so much force that he pushed in the front of his Explorer about a foot.

I never actually saw the impact (other cars were in the way), but the after effects were something else. Bits of the truck were thrown 10 feet away. Coolant and other liquids drained onto the sidewalk. Parts dangled off the crumpled front end. A used air bag slowly delfated from around the steering wheel.

Other actual witnesses rushed over to see if the driver needed help. He seemed coherent enough. Very, very strange incident.

I remained on the scene until some police officers showed up. When they had a moment I asked to make sure I could leave. After explaining what I did see, the officer said I could go since there were so many other witnesses that saw more than me.

Thankfully there wasn’t anyone on the sidewalk where that guy drove. Could have been so much more worse.

On the way home today Sox and I were almost in an accident. Scared me pretty bad. We were just talking about when we are going to pick up our new car while driving our death trap of a Firefly. Seconds later I was making an emergency swerve with full on braking.

What happened? Well, as I was rounding the corner on Esquimalt Road, someone in the left lane decided they didn’t want to wait for the left turner in front of them and decided to change lanes. We were in the right lane passing the stopped cars. With very little room to spare, I managed to hit the brakes (locking up at least one wheel), and swerve right enough to avoid the trans am, but not far enough to hit the curb or sidewalk. I swear that there was less than a foot of space between our car and the other.

I was shaken, but grateful that I had quick enough reactions to avoid everything. Very happy that the contents of the car were safe. Soon we will be getting our new car. I was already looking forward to it, but now even more so.

After walking Yoshi Tuesday at lunch, I headed back to wotk. At the intersection of Esquimalt and Catherine St, I saw a large moving truck and trailer parked with its 4way flashers going. As I got closer I saw a cop van behind it with its lights flashing. Immediately I thought that the truck was pulled over for speeding or some other infraction.

A little closer I saw that in between them was a small 4 door sedan. The driver side of the sedan was crumpled from front to rear, and there was a 3 inch high gouge the entire length of the car too. The driver of the car was an older woman who looked like she was having a bad day.

Seems the something happened between the car and the moving truck. Yikes, that would be scary, but as a passerby, you can’t help but laugh at the misfortune of others. I just wonder how it happened. Did the truck swing wide? Did the car sneak up on the inside of the truck as it made a corner? Did the truck sideswipe the car? Who knows. Sucks to be them.