CRASH! BOOM! BANG!

SHIP'S LOG:

     OUCH! ! ! ! ! The good news is that I am alive and well(relatively speaking). The same can not be said for my 19189 Ford Tempo P.O.S. A small fender-bender with a recent vintage Mercedes-Benz SVU led to a totaling of both vehicles. The P.O.S. sustained the most damage - mashed front-end, sprung frame, cracked block - while the cost to repair the damage to the Benz - just replacing the 7 airbags that went off would be in the neighborhood of - get this $15,000! - would render repair just not financially worth it. I should have such problems.

    Well, actually I do as the P.O.S. is/was 24 years old and had no collision insurance and anything more beyond a deep scratch would cost more to fix than I could afford. So now I am sans wheeled-vehicular-transportation. It is a good thing that I now "live in the city" making getting to places I need to go not too terribly difficult. However, If I don't find another set of wheels soon, the launching of ABISHAG will be seriously set back as she rest in snow and ice some 42 miles away. More than I can walk in a day one way let alone both ways.

     I put my friend Tom on it, he who came up with the P.O.S. in the first place and I have great faith that he will work some magic. Until then, if I really, REALLY need to get some place that is too, too far to walk, I have friends who will drive me. Still in all, it is amazing how dependent you get on your car. But having lived so long on a boat, it is a little easier. It is a bit of a pain, but what can one do?