08-28-2015, 03:00 PM
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I'm still around, just haven't been able to spend much time on here of late.
It was already pretty hectic this past month at work (integrating a 40TB SSD VSAN deduplicating backup system to our production VSphere clusters) but then I had to drop everything to run to Tennessee when Mrs. Tugboat was involved in an automobile accident.
She went to visit our oldest Daughter who lives just outside of Chattanooga and the second day there, got T-boned. Thank goodness she took my LR and not her car. The ride height of the Rover and its side airbags made a big difference in how well she survived. The LR is totaled but it protected my wife very well. She has lots of small cuts and bruises and nasty abrasions from the airbags and is sore as hell, but Mrs. T came through pretty darn good considering.
The 2014 Hyundai that hit her, on the other hand, is in the same wrecker yard as my LR and it looks like a beer can that went through a shredder and then got stomped.
The 17 year old girl that hit her was texting and driving while intoxicated and ran a stoplight. She had a BAL of .14 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a weekday! The girl had to be airlifted to the hospital that my son-in-law works in the ER at and according to him, she is still in the hospital recovering from some pretty serious injuries.
From what we were told by one of the investigators, the girl took the car without permission while her parents were at work and had a suspended license. Apparently this is not the first time this girl has been in hot water with the law. I feel sorry for her parents...
Anyway, we are both back home and I should be around and contributing again.
That and looking for a new ride...
It was already pretty hectic this past month at work (integrating a 40TB SSD VSAN deduplicating backup system to our production VSphere clusters) but then I had to drop everything to run to Tennessee when Mrs. Tugboat was involved in an automobile accident.
She went to visit our oldest Daughter who lives just outside of Chattanooga and the second day there, got T-boned. Thank goodness she took my LR and not her car. The ride height of the Rover and its side airbags made a big difference in how well she survived. The LR is totaled but it protected my wife very well. She has lots of small cuts and bruises and nasty abrasions from the airbags and is sore as hell, but Mrs. T came through pretty darn good considering.
The 2014 Hyundai that hit her, on the other hand, is in the same wrecker yard as my LR and it looks like a beer can that went through a shredder and then got stomped.
The 17 year old girl that hit her was texting and driving while intoxicated and ran a stoplight. She had a BAL of .14 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a weekday! The girl had to be airlifted to the hospital that my son-in-law works in the ER at and according to him, she is still in the hospital recovering from some pretty serious injuries.
From what we were told by one of the investigators, the girl took the car without permission while her parents were at work and had a suspended license. Apparently this is not the first time this girl has been in hot water with the law. I feel sorry for her parents...
Anyway, we are both back home and I should be around and contributing again.
That and looking for a new ride...
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