Pastor Ag just got released from hospital. A drunk driver doing 60, ran a red light, plowed into my car, spinning it around so far, the cops could not tell how it happened. Luckily the witnesses were good enough to stay. Even more luckily, Spousette was released from intensive care, since all hospital beds were full, eventually released (7 hours later) with instructions to seek more care tomorrow.

Driving to see doc, however, may be a problem now that the front of the vehicle reaches the back.

Thanks to seatbelts and airbags, only one broken bone, but spousette's face looks like she enjoys playing the roll of punching bag.

omg Ag,
I don't even know what to say.
I hope you guys (especially your wife) can figure out how to get more care this morning.
Damn, I did that myself (a few years back) and know what it feels like. No broken nose but the jaw took a bad hit, so did the rest of the face.
I feel her pain.

Take care, Ag ang Ms Ag.
I am so sorry to hear this.

ps I am grateful you're both alive

Ag, I'm glad you and yours made it through the accident without even worse injury, and I sincerely hope the other driver is in jail and licenseless. I wish you both a fast recovery.

Olyve - lovely opener today; Peter O'Toole is a major favorite of mine (time to watch "A Lion in Winter" again...or maybe "Lawrence of Arabia." Though considering Ag's news, maybe I'll abstain from drunkards for the day in his honor.)

Regarding "Wild Bill" Hickock -- he started his less-than-illustrious gunslinging career about two miles from my childhood home. My father used to say that a boy who ran from the gunfight probably ran right through what became our yard. Hickock still has a bad name in those parts.

Ag, keep us posted on your progress when you can?

Thanks Mellow!
I should have known you'd have a thang for Peter o Toole.

Wild Bill ran through your yard??

Hey, my daughter is out there in the wild wild west!!

Olyve - I meant to send you this last week when I first heard it.

Composer introduces a 'Dead' Symphony

I particularly like the "St. Stephen" section. Sounds Russian to me.

Where did this ridiculous "fact" come from?


Already, while the infamous quote "we have no opinion about your border dispute with Kuwait" is still echoing in our present memories, history is being revised before our very eyes! And, I suppose we will "learn" soon enough, the US retaliated against Iraq because they dumped Kuwaiti babies out of hospital incubators!

Sheesh.

Dear pastor ag: I can see yours and your beloved partner's faces in my mind, and I am holding you both in the Light and sending you healing beams. Get well soon!

Love that "summertime" photo, olyve. Here's one I took in Boston last year with a similar theme:

Boston? About a year ago? Hey, I do I smell an anniversary in the air?

What a terrible event, Ag, speedy recovery to you both.

And jail to the drunk driver.

Yes yes. We got our marriage license on July 30, 2007. However we celebrate our wedding date as May 24, 2008 which is the date we were married under the care of our Quaker Meeting.

The annual thing actually coincides with Bele Chere, Asheville's summertime street festival. We leave town to avoid it each year. In '06 we went to Western PA via West Virginia. In '05 we went to the Virginia Highlands.