Wildest Police Chases

For a guy who doesn’t watch much TV, I watch a lot of TV. I just don’t watch network shows. When I have time to watch TV, I either want to watch a movie, or a documentary, or a documentary about a movie, or “Wildest Police Chases.” Yep, I really love a good grainy chase down a North Carolina road, waiting for the moment when the drunk misses a turn and rolls thirty times. Of course, he won’t be killed. No one is ever killed on these programs. And no one is EVER gets away.

A couple nights ago they played a chase that summed up everything you’d want in a police chase. An escaped Alzheimer patient driving 80 MPH down the wrong side of a divided highway. He clips a school bus full of children with such speed that his front axle flies off, then he T-bones another car, slides sideways and collides with another car head-on. Sure enough: “Amazingly, no one was injured in the accident.” How? How in God’s name is this possible?

I’ve been pretty irritable all day. Everything has been incredibly annoying. Went to the grocery store, and no one moved fast enough for my needs or purposes. Got behind a woman who was wider than her shopping cart, and moved at two feet per minute down the exact center of the aisle. I wanted to drop back ten yards, roll a grenade under her cart, hold a newspaper in front of my face to shield me from the rain of flesh. But I didn’t have a newspaper. We’ll let her live. This time. Then the person in line ahead of me had 15 items in the 10 or fewer lane. Oh yes, I counted.

Why do I have these kind of days? I’d give anything to always be in that coffee buzzing enthusiastic happy-go-lucky perfect kind of mood that I get in sometimes. But no matter how much coffee I drink, some days I just can’t be pleased.

I guess it’s not usually another person’s fault that I get in such a bad mood, so that’s good. Often times it’s because of the weather, the car, the job, or the balance at the bank that puts me in such a grim mood. I guess if I didn’t get so worked up about things, it would probably mean that I didn’t care. Then I’d probably be in a much worse situation.

I added a new page to the photo album this weekend as promised. I uploaded the Car Craft auto show photos, click here to check them out. Or don’t, whichever you prefer. As I’ve said a billion times, I’m working on the “Where I’ve Lived” photo album, I’m going to try to make it something truly worthwhile and quite large-scale (kind of like all the work I put in to the family tree), so that’s why it’s taking so long. Plus, I have to find time to get all the pictures taken. I’m going to have to do a little driving to do that.

Speaking of the web site, I was looking at the stats this weekend and noticed that the web site passed the 100,000 mark last week for total unique visitors since the site started on October 17, 2002. (By unique, I mean that it doesn’t include repeat visitors.) Yeah, that might not seem like much considering there are sites out there that exceed 100,000 unique visitors every day, but I think it’s pretty cool that in just a little less than three years over 100,000 people have visited some part of my web site. This all equates to over 16.5 gigabytes of data transferred from the web server onto other peoples computers over time. Total page requests is over 400,000. To show how good of a job I’ve done at keeping this web site free of broken links, in the three years there have only been 23 failed requests. Anyway, just thought that was all interesting and worth sharing.

See you next time.