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Well as a result of the Deer and some Vandals I had to take my car in to the body shop and get some repairs done.

All in all it should cost me about $800

$300 deductible - Deer

$300 deductible - Vandal

$200 deductible - New windshield ( it was recommended that I get done)

I will post some pictures once it’s done. I should have it back this Saturday.

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I am seriously starting to think I should give up on having nice cars and start riding my bike.

Sunday night I hit a deer on 0Ave and around 180th St.:

Then on Monday night the car was vandalized:

The unfortunate part of this is that now ICBC wants two deductibles of $300 each.

I am sick of having bad Carma. (For those thinking “No he didn’t” Oh yes, yes I did!)

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Leasons are often learned the hard way…

Today I learned that one should always test any and all changes made to a script prior to letting it run unattended. I didn’t do that, and thanks to a mistake in my code my script deleted /usr and /boot from a live server. Fortunately I have a recovery partition I was able to use to bring it back.

Leason learned: test test test!

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I don’t know what I have done to deserve this, but I have had the worst luck ever recently. It all started with me getting into a car accident a month ago. The chain of events is as follows:

1. Crash my car.
2. Girl friend lends me her car which was parked for 8 months.
3. Alternator belt breaks on GF’s car, car over heats and dies. Car gets towed to Chilliwack from Richmond
4. By the time the car gets to Chilliwack the brakes are on fire!
5. Car eventually makes it to a shop, to brakes and alternator get fixed.
6. I rent a car while the GF’s is in the shop, lock the keys in the trunk.
7. The shop needs a part they cant get, I go to pick-a-park and find them, in the process injuring my self and almost needing stitches (yes I was at the hospital)
8. I call the shop to pick up the car; Them: “Uhmm, we have a problem. You need a master cylinder” Me: “Fuck!?! Just fix it please.” Them: “Okay, it should be ready by 5:00pm”
9. 4:30pm they call “Too much air in the system, have to bleed all 4 corners, it will be ready tomorrow, but safe to drive.
10. Total bill $840
11. BCAA chips in $160 for pads, calipers, bearings and hoses.
12. GF pays out $680 for repairs
13. I finaly get the car back, and its not running right. I check under the hood, the belt is not tight.
14. Today, I take the car in, get the belt tightened.
15. Belt is too tight, it snaps off. I don’t notice until I am 30mins from home with no tools, and no BCAA to tow me. FUCK!!!

I just got home, I am not happy with that car, and I want it to die!

The worst part about this whole thing is that its my GF’s car. Which she was sweet and generous enough to lend me, clean out for me, and fill with gas. Plus she has paid for all the repairs. (I hadn’t driven the car for a whole day to be fair)

I don’t know what to do. I just want to cry. I have never had this much bad luck happen to me all at once.

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So a friend of mine had a mention of “beer pong” in his msn name. The resulting conversation said it all….

Ryan
19:51:17 beer pong?
Chris.
19:57:29 quite the intricate game :)
Ryan
19:57:38 oh?
Chris.
20:00:32 not quite.  essentially you have two sides.  each having a triangle of beer cups. two members on a team.  and 2 ping pong balls.  goal is to get get the ball in the other teams cup and they have to drink.  if you bounce it in they have to drink 2 of the cups.  if you call your shot and hit it you get your ball back.  which ever team runs out of their own cups first loses
20:00:43 and loser has to drink the remainder of the other teams booze
Ryan
20:02:30 so the loser wins :p
Chris.
20:02:53 kinda.  you get drunk pretty fast
Ryan
20:03:03 i bet
Chris.
20:03:10 and it gets intense
Ryan
20:04:14 so, if you miss both times
20:04:29 or you call your shot and miss?
Chris.
20:04:57 other team goes
20:05:13 if both team members hit in one turn they get the balls back too.
Ryan
20:05:19 ahh
20:05:20 ic
Chris.
20:05:35 if you call your shot and hit a different one then they don’t have to drink
Ryan
20:05:53 and you dont get your ball back?
Chris.
20:07:15 correct.  each team member gets one toss.  unless they call the shot or both get it in. the other team would then go
Ryan
20:08:03 and you keep going, ad-nausea
Chris
20:13:22 oh and each team is allowed one realignment per game. ie if they want to have the remaining cups rearranged into a different shape they may.
Ryan
20:14:19 do they have to be touching?
Chris.
20:14:27 yes
20:14:49 they have to be touching to start. and after a realignment
20:15:10 and the opposing team gets to decide how they want it rearranged
Ryan
20:15:16 ahh
Chris.
20:15:20 diamond, line, square, etc
Ryan
20:15:27 ic
20:15:49 so the team that wants it re-arranged is the one being “attacked”
20:16:03 and it is the “attackers” that decide the rearrangements
20:16:24 ?
Chris.
20:16:40 the attackers call for the re-arranging at the beginning of their turn, and decide the shape
Ryan
20:16:48 ahh
20:16:48 ic
Chris.
20:16:53 but only once per game
Ryan
20:16:56 Ahh
20:16:58 the catch!
Chris
20:20:06 oh. and the last two points: instant game over if team gets two balls in one cup on the same turn (defending team has to be on top of pulling it away as soon as scored upon)
20:21:26 and when down to the final cup. if you are scored on with the last cup. you get two chances to nullify the shot by scoring on the other team. if you miss both you lose. if you score. no drinking happens and the game carries on. called last resort.

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Ok, so I am so baffled by this… I have to ask… WHY?!?

Edit: I am refering to the spoked rims on a jeep cheroke

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So the other day when I arrived at the local coffee shop, at which I am a regluar known by name, and the owner of said shop approaches me and asks if I have forgotten my [laptop] computer there. My notebook pc was on the back seat of my car, so i replied “No, but I will have a look at it.” I figured it could have been any one of my friends who left it behind in a hurry.

Turns out it was. Now before I go any further with this a little background is needed. The laptop in question was owned by one friend, lets call him Barney. Barney has several older laptops, including this one, so he lent this one to another friend, lets call him Fred. Now Fred is normally not an extreemely forgetful person, but he is rather intelligent for the most part. This is both his blessing and his curse, you see as a result of being so “Handsome and intelligent” his mind always in 16×10e^100 places at once. He also for the sake of efficiency keeps all his things in one place, his laptop bag which used to house his own laptop before it died in a horrible accident involving goats, a hockey stick and three rubber boots. I didn’t ask, nor should you. Any how back to the funny.

Now Fred seems to relish in getting on my nerves, not sure why, but he is very good at it. So as a punishment, and just to be a tiwsted SOB, I took the laptop which did not belong to Fred and put it at my home. I then informed everyone to act as though they had no idea where it was, we all know I have it.

Here is the good bit, Fred left his precious date book in the laptop bag. So me and another friend, say his name is Jack, wrote out some of what we planned to do to him. Funnything was, I wrote on the day for May 17/2006 that he would fess up that he lost it, and low an behold he did!
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