Sandy D over there on the blog universe gave her own list of resolutions which puts me in the frame of mind to cobble up my own list. I know how that goes in the end but it never hurts to have a goal to work for, right? Hers started off:

With the New Year bearing down on us and people making their resolutions, there are a few things I need to also declare and or deal with to make my life a bit more fulfilling:

#1. I will studiously ignore all things Kardashian. Not even a peek. Comcast keeps telling me I’ll be ‘stunned’ by one of them in lingerie or a bikini. I’m not.
#2. No More Honey BooBoo, Toddlers and Tiaras, that Fat Lady’s Dance Troop, or Bridezillas. Kinder and Gentler tv here.

Went to the car dealer and explained what had happened so a service counter guy came out to look at my car. He declared that the doors would have bubbled before damage was done to the tires which makes sense I guess. He really looked harder than I expected him to and when he got to the trunk end of the car he said – this tail light is smoke damaged, this rear reflector is melted here and I can’t tell if the rear paint is damaged – feel this weird roughness? Having a picture of the fire was helpful to show them what I meant about being parked next to a car on fire, LOL. He brought out a guy from the collision/body repair department and they agreed that I should have the insurance guys do an appraisal and then bring it in to get it all fixed. And if they detail it they should be able to get rid of the smoke smell, which isn’t half as bad as I expected it to be.

So I’ll call the insurance folks and let them come take a look.

Someone came running in to work today to tell me and three others that there was a car on fire near ours and we should go out right away. The cops there wouldn’t let us go to our cars (danger of explosion etc etc) so three of us stayed to watch and get info etc. Looks like my car (closest to the now ex-lexus) is ok – I’d thought the door might be melting but it looks just dirty. I’ll get the dealer to check it out.

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller 1880-1968

In other news, I’m going to come close to the thousand posts for the year but I’m not going to try to do ten plus posts per day to get there. I’m just happy to be writing much more regularly and we’ll see what happens next year!

Here are some iphone photos of the other night’s alpen glow lighting up the birch tree out front.

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