poetic justice?

I think though I'll file this under sad (courtsey the Arizona Republic):

Hurt driver lies on freeway for hours before help arrives
Michael Ferraresi
The Arizona Republic
May. 11, 2006 02:25 PM
Investigators said a Phoenix man is lucky to be alive after he rolled his car on the Loop 101 after a night of drinking.

Brandon T. Hassell, 23, was ejected from his Infiniti sedan on the eastbound freeway near Tatum Boulevard, nearly losing an arm in the accident around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning.

He is suspected of driving under the influence. Charges are pending, police said.

Despite his injuries - and the fact that he was lying wounded for about four hours on the side of the Loop 101 in the middle of the night - Hassell was conscious enough to tell DPS officers that someone else was driving the Infiniti, which is registered to his girlfriend's mother, police said.

Officers searched the area of the crash, but did not find any evidence of another suspect fleeing the scene.

"Our conclusion is his story is fictitious," DPS spokesman Harold Sanders said.

Hassell, who was driving on a license suspended from a previous DUI charge, lay in the dirt on the side of the freeway for hours until a passing driver reported the single-car wreck to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Officers responded at 5:30 a.m. Hassell was taken to John C. Lincoln Hospital-North Mountain in serious condition.

One of Hassell's arms was "nearly severed" in the accident, Sanders said, though the suspect's injuries are not expected to be life-threatening.

"We really believe he's going to live," Sanders said.

Hassell, who admitted to officers that he was drinking at a nearby bar before getting on the freeway, could face charges of aggravated DUI.

Additional charges could be pending, police said.

Somehow I doubt this accident will be enough to change his ways. And no matter how much my kid loves someone - anyone having a prior DUI will NEVER borrow my car until they are able to acquire a driver's license. I wonder if you can charge the parents with negligence for loaning the idiot the car in the first place.

Epidemiology of an infection

I know I've ranted about Wal-Mart in the past, choosing Target as the lesser of two evils (though them banning the Salvation Army's red kettles was very scroogy of them).

I came across this today, and it looks a lot like the outbreak of an infection. Check it out and let me know if you agree with me.

it's confirmed now

I remember reading a small article a couple months ago from an AT&T whistleblower that they were tracking numbers of their clients and handing it over to the NSA. I can't even remember where I read it (TLF?)

Then nothing else came of it.

But the MSM caught wind of it, and found out that AT&T weren't the only ones doing it.

I'm not terribly shocked at this.

Extremely happy that I have only my Sprint cell phone, and it seems that Sprint wasn't a part of this. But I'm sure my number comes up in some of the records from others calling me (or me calling them).

I'd like to know what they consider a terrorist calling pattern. Is it lots of short calls, a specific time of day over and over again? I might fit that pattern since my Mom tends to call me between 5:30PM-6:00PM. Most of the time, they're short calls, but we like to keep in touch, so we do.

Does this mean that the NSA is now listening to my calls? I hope not because I'm sure I'd be boring them to death. Unless they think there's a hidden meaning to the phrase "your cousin's kid was in a car accident, you better call over there."

don't you hate it when:

I'm going to make a run to Target on the way home today. There's a couple things I know I need to get (like Mother's Day card).

But when I was getting ready this morning, a couple items were running in my head. I told myself "don't forget to get ____"

Finally got around to writing them down a couple hours later, and I'm drawing a blank.

Good news is that I have a good part of the day yet to figure out what that is that I'm currently forgetting.

Hopefully it'll come to me by then (and yes, the card is already on the list).

Home?

What is a home? I've always seen it as a place to spend your time when you're not working and be a safe place to sleep at night.

The latter is about what my home is these days. Sure I get a couple hours after work to prepare something to eat, talk to the boyfriend via IM programs. Then it's sleepytime.

My weekends are not at home these days. Easter weekend was in San Diego with boyfriend. Then Phoenix. Then the county fair. Then San Diego again.

This weekend is Mother's Day, so it's Phoenix again to be there for Mom.

Then it's the food faire weekend for celiac patients.

Then it's San Diego for a Memorial weekend with boyfriend. Yeah he'll have to work a bit, but we'll get to see X-Men 3 one night.

poor kitties - no wonder they're a bit more affectionate when I am there.