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Someone Backed Into My Car & Didn't Leave A Note

About a month ago, I took a train to DC, so I parked my car in Newark, New Jersey's Penn Station lot.

When I returned from DC the same day, I was relived to see my car was still in the lot. I got in, it was very dark, and drove home. The next day or so, I noticed the front of the car had some damage.

I looked and there was a chip on the front of the bumper and under the car, the bottom plate under the car, was slightly hanging down.

Someone must have backed into my car and drove off without leaving a note.

Yesterday I dropped it off to be fixed. The most annoying part of it is having to go get a money order or something like it from the bank for the $500 deductible I have to pay the auto shop.

Of course they don't tell me there "payment policy" until after they order the parts, schedule the work and after I sign all the paper work.

Also would have been nice if the person left a note, instead, this is costing me $500.

I just hope it is a quick fix.

Note, that picture is not of my car, it is from Flickr.

Posted at 9:47 AM | Permalink | Category: Motor Vehicle | Comments (1) (0)

Ever Put Your Shoes On Before Your Pants?

Have you ever accidentally put your shoes on before putting on your pants?

I didn't do this recently, but I did do this once - I think a few months ago.

In fact, I was in such a rush, I managed to keep my shoes on while putting my pants on afterwards.

It happened when I woke up early and was in a daze, so much of a daze that I actually put my shoes on prior to putting on my pants.

This is weird, but have you ever done it?

Posted at 12:20 PM | Permalink | Category: Just Weird | Comments (3) (0)

Upgrade: Down To Two Monitors

Our creative director at RustyBrick, Mabe, needed new monitors - her old ones were losing their color. (Although for someone like me who is almost colorblind, I couldn't tell.) So we ordered her the latest new Apple Thunderbolt Display - the 27 inch piece of art.

It came in today and she tried to hook it up only to realize that her Mac doesn't support thunderbolt.

So instead I gave her my two Apple displays, one was the 24 inch with a mini-display port connection and the old 23 inch with a serial like connection. I took the new thunderbolt display.

I am adjusting to going from two full displays and a laptop display (3 total displays) to a full display and laptop display (2 total displays). There is a lot more screen real estate on the new one I am using, so it is working out better.

The best part is that I no longer have that flickering issue with the Apple displays which Apple has been trying to fix for almost a year. Now, since my laptop is thunderbolt and the display I am now using is thunderbolt, I no longer have that issue - which is awesome!

The cool thing about thunderbolt is I technically can daisy chain more of these monitors with my laptop. Whereas before, if I wanted more than one external display, I had to use a software/usb hack, which was awkward and slow. Now it would just work well. I have no plans on doing this any time soon, but good to know I can if I wanted to.