Erator's Sandbox

Somewhere, I don't know where, I read writing is a good exercise for your mind because it forces you to put your thoughts together and come up with something that makes sense (most of the times). Today, or tonight really, I'm taking the first step in a new direction that will force me to write something here daily. I really want to keep my word this time, I will begin by writing my about page, as a quick intro so anyone who wonders here one day, might care to know who I am or who I was. Also, who knows, maybe my children will read this one day and wonder just what the heck I was thinking. Live and let live.

As if it wasn't obvious, I haven't been updating my blog as often as I should or would like to. So in order to save face, I usually update my twitter account . You can also stalk--err follow me on friendfeed . I need to reconsider the purpose of this blog and if I'm really going to follow up on it. Until then, happy browsing -- you know where to find me.

What have I been doing lately? Well when I'm not at work, I'm usually at home with my wife playing with our daughter. Lately I have been playing Counter-Strike on weeknights and just yesterday started playing Call of Duty 4 online. As an ex-WoW addict, my coworkers don't make it easy to leave the habit behind, and so I've been contemplating playing WoW again, but am actively trying not to due to the time it consumes and may keep me from doing other things. Other than that, life is pretty stable, watching movies via-Netflix and repeating the cycle. What about you? What have you been up to?

Accidents, car accidents in particular, are very common. But unless you're in it, you really don't care or become affected by them. Today, on my way home from work, I was about half-a-mile from my front door, and out of nowhere a car runs in front of me at the intersection and although I slam on the brakes I hit the car. I was going north on Custer Road, and the other car was going east on El Dorado Road, but the light was green for me, as 5 or 6 other cars in front of me had already gone through the intersection, so of course I'm unsuspecting of any person at this point thinking of running the red light. It was around 6:30pm CST, and by then it was already dark, since we just switched DST, so the street lights are pretty easy to see and to notice what color they are. So what the heck happened? After the impact, I scream in frustration, look around and try to turn my car off, but it is already off, but I am unable to pull the key out. I finally get out of the car, and sev...