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It’s 5 a.m. and I Haven’t Been Able to Sleep All Night

Posted on | September 6, 2010 | 113 Comments

Last night, just after 11, I decided to go to the store.

And hit a deer.

The car that my son worked so hard to fix?

The car I just spent $700 to fix?

Totalled.

The insurance probably won’t pay as much as we owed on it.

So . . . the trip I’d planned to Delaware today is canceled.

Probably no BlogCon, no 9/12.

Probably no more travel for weeks, even months.

Completed immobilized, just at the onset of the campaign season.

An irretrievable disaster.

I’m emotionally wiped out.

UPDATE: TERRORISM ON FOUR HOOVES!

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113 Responses to “It’s 5 a.m. and I Haven’t Been Able to Sleep All Night”

  1. Red
    September 6th, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

    Sorry to hear of your accident. I’m thankful that you are unharmed as is your family I’m sure just as grateful. They say, “It’s only a car”. Still that doesn’t make it any easier. For instance, my mother and stepdad have been fighting to hang on to their home. He has been out of his usual (high paying) line of work for over a year and a half. I’ll put it this way: I make more than him right now with an Associates and that isn’t saying much. Their water heater just about blew up. It overheated and flooded their house. Come to find out it wasn’t installed to code and could have blown up their house had it gotten any hotter before leaking but now they have water damage and a heater to replace.
    Things can be difficult and not go our way but God shows us a way out. He lends help where we least expect it. Hang in there!

  2. Red
    September 6th, 2010 @ 7:11 pm

    Just pray and know your friends and family are there for you. That’s about all you can do.

  3. Red
    September 6th, 2010 @ 11:11 pm

    Just pray and know your friends and family are there for you. That’s about all you can do.

  4. Terrorism on Four Hooves : The Other McCain
    September 6th, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

    […] the highway and then go bragging about it to their deer buddies back in the forest.In response to my despairing post this morning — honestly, that six-point buck didn’t just total my car, he wrecked my entire month […]

  5. CrustyB
    September 6th, 2010 @ 11:32 pm

    “White Supremacist Makes Veiled Death Threat Against President, Runs Over Deer Representing Obama”

    Just trying to anticipate the headline over at LGF.

    Hope you get back on wheels again soon.

  6. CrustyB
    September 6th, 2010 @ 7:32 pm

    “White Supremacist Makes Veiled Death Threat Against President, Runs Over Deer Representing Obama”

    Just trying to anticipate the headline over at LGF.

    Hope you get back on wheels again soon.

  7. Larry
    September 7th, 2010 @ 2:25 am

    For what it’s worth, you can get a real good deal on a 2010 Ford Mustang GT now, since the 2011 GT has the new 5.0 😉

  8. Larry
    September 6th, 2010 @ 10:25 pm

    For what it’s worth, you can get a real good deal on a 2010 Ford Mustang GT now, since the 2011 GT has the new 5.0 😉

  9. Blog of the Week: The Other McCain
    September 7th, 2010 @ 9:21 am

    […] to find that Stacy’s visit with Todd Palin had transferred, possibly through osmosis, some primal urge to go deer hunting, with his 2004 KIA Optima(!) which, last I checked, isn’t offered with a night vision scope […]

  10. Michael Adams
    September 7th, 2010 @ 9:29 am

    Given the relative value of a car, not to mention your life, versus thirty pounds of venison, and that you drive country roads, if I were you, I’d look into those ultra sonic deer scarers, that go on the front bumper and are powered by the air passing through them as you drive. If they aren’t on sale in MD, e-mail me and I’ll dig up a supplier in Central Texas who’ll send you one by mail order. If we get a bit of overtime, I’ll hit the tip jar, too, but any “if” is a big one until it comes to pass. We are all giving thanks that no one (important) was hurt. Deer are not important, except as food.

    BTW Your boys can butcher that thing? I have hunted part of my life and been around hunters for all of it, and we all,every last one, take the deer to a guy in town. It comes back as white butcher-paper wrapped packages of frozen venison, labeled in that purple ink stamp. I am very impressed!

  11. Michael Adams
    September 7th, 2010 @ 1:29 pm

    Given the relative value of a car, not to mention your life, versus thirty pounds of venison, and that you drive country roads, if I were you, I’d look into those ultra sonic deer scarers, that go on the front bumper and are powered by the air passing through them as you drive. If they aren’t on sale in MD, e-mail me and I’ll dig up a supplier in Central Texas who’ll send you one by mail order. If we get a bit of overtime, I’ll hit the tip jar, too, but any “if” is a big one until it comes to pass. We are all giving thanks that no one (important) was hurt. Deer are not important, except as food.

    BTW Your boys can butcher that thing? I have hunted part of my life and been around hunters for all of it, and we all,every last one, take the deer to a guy in town. It comes back as white butcher-paper wrapped packages of frozen venison, labeled in that purple ink stamp. I am very impressed!

  12. victoria_29
    September 8th, 2010 @ 4:09 am

    Glad to hear your okay, I been gone a few days over Labor Day. I just bought a new KIA Rondo & they have some really good deals on them (& yes they are US made in the south), this is my 3rd KIA & I won’t buy another brand. I don’t get paid until tomorrow, so too broke to hit tip jar tonight but will tomorrow night. LOL got to wait until payday…..sorry.

  13. victoria_29
    September 8th, 2010 @ 12:09 am

    Glad to hear your okay, I been gone a few days over Labor Day. I just bought a new KIA Rondo & they have some really good deals on them (& yes they are US made in the south), this is my 3rd KIA & I won’t buy another brand. I don’t get paid until tomorrow, so too broke to hit tip jar tonight but will tomorrow night. LOL got to wait until payday…..sorry.