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So, my friend Amanda Jacobs and her writing partner got their Pride and Prejudice produced at the Ohio Light Opera this summer. The OLO operates out of the very theatre in the very school where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etakyma and I were majors; how's that for coincidence? My mother and Carol went out from Rochester to see it, and they talked me into going (which led to a bunch of other complications, but about that below). I buzzed over from Pennsic to attend the closing night. Here's my comments, which I'll forward to Amanda after I've checked a couple things against the program:
( I'll put them under a cut )
So the complications: Yeah. I went to Pennsic on Thursday, set up camp, and then left on Friday to go to Wooster. On the way, my (*EMPTY*, thank the gods) Cartop carrier and roof rack FLIPPED off the roof of my car into the middle of the road. The car behind me swerved and missed it; the woman driving in the other direction? Ran it over. No one was hurt (again, thank the gods), but the whole assembly was DED. D-E-D-Ded.
The cops were very nice, the witness said I wasn't speeding (Thank you, Mr. Witness!), and we inspected the wreckage. Looked to me like the plastic failed on the bottom of the hardside carrier, so that the bolts supposedly holding it to the metal bar, which in turn held it onto the roof rack, just ripped right through. Once it was free in one corner, wind shear caused the whole thing to pull up, and since it was attached by cotter pins on the other side, the whole thing just popped free of my door gutters and flipped over.
The woman driving the other way cracked up her front driver's side headlights and a little bit of her fender (which of course means the whole thing will need to be replaced). She's an insurance agent herself, of all bloody things, so she had a claim in by the next Monday morning. And because of how fucking Massachusetts insurance works, if it's more than $500 of damage, my insurance goes up from a level 9 to a level 12. Three years of $300 ($500?) more per year in insurance fees. Joy.
So keep your fingers crossed, kids, that her damage is $499 or less, or that they mean $500 *over my deductible*, because that could save me, too. Most car repairs, even minor ones, clock in around $750 these days. Maybe I'll get lucky and catch a break. Because I could use it! At least there was no traffic violation, no citation, nothing of that nature. And no one was hurt!
But it was a really interesting start to an interesting war.
Speaking of interesting wars, flist, is anyone able to tell what the heck happened to Alejandro? I'm ashamed to say I didn't even notice he was gone until Magnus said something Sunday night. Did they work out whatever the problem was?
etakyma and I were majors; how's that for coincidence? My mother and Carol went out from Rochester to see it, and they talked me into going (which led to a bunch of other complications, but about that below). I buzzed over from Pennsic to attend the closing night. Here's my comments, which I'll forward to Amanda after I've checked a couple things against the program:( I'll put them under a cut )
So the complications: Yeah. I went to Pennsic on Thursday, set up camp, and then left on Friday to go to Wooster. On the way, my (*EMPTY*, thank the gods) Cartop carrier and roof rack FLIPPED off the roof of my car into the middle of the road. The car behind me swerved and missed it; the woman driving in the other direction? Ran it over. No one was hurt (again, thank the gods), but the whole assembly was DED. D-E-D-Ded.
The cops were very nice, the witness said I wasn't speeding (Thank you, Mr. Witness!), and we inspected the wreckage. Looked to me like the plastic failed on the bottom of the hardside carrier, so that the bolts supposedly holding it to the metal bar, which in turn held it onto the roof rack, just ripped right through. Once it was free in one corner, wind shear caused the whole thing to pull up, and since it was attached by cotter pins on the other side, the whole thing just popped free of my door gutters and flipped over.
The woman driving the other way cracked up her front driver's side headlights and a little bit of her fender (which of course means the whole thing will need to be replaced). She's an insurance agent herself, of all bloody things, so she had a claim in by the next Monday morning. And because of how fucking Massachusetts insurance works, if it's more than $500 of damage, my insurance goes up from a level 9 to a level 12. Three years of $300 ($500?) more per year in insurance fees. Joy.
So keep your fingers crossed, kids, that her damage is $499 or less, or that they mean $500 *over my deductible*, because that could save me, too. Most car repairs, even minor ones, clock in around $750 these days. Maybe I'll get lucky and catch a break. Because I could use it! At least there was no traffic violation, no citation, nothing of that nature. And no one was hurt!
But it was a really interesting start to an interesting war.
Speaking of interesting wars, flist, is anyone able to tell what the heck happened to Alejandro? I'm ashamed to say I didn't even notice he was gone until Magnus said something Sunday night. Did they work out whatever the problem was?
