Dan’s Blog

Our avatars took turns posing in front of the cake. The big date’s coming up soon!

Thanks, everyone, for all of your congratulations! (Yes, Chorna, I’m really engaged )

Our wedding will be an intimate, private one. Since we’re blessed with a large number of family and friends, our guest list could easily reach into the many hundreds.

But our guest list will be in the 20s or 30s, so we’re making arrangements to visit most of our family and friends a few weeks after the wedding.

I’m going to try to contact many of them to let them know; right now this blog post is the best I can do.

In other news, the reception area is chosen, the honeymoon is arranged, but there is still much to do!

Gotta go, so busy! (I just packed my first box today - yay! We got a townhouse where I’ll move next month!) And I have Bible study tonight! Later!

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Quote of the Day:

“Yes.” —Diva.

I’m ecstatic!

I was hit again.

But first, the good and fun stuff:

The good: My friend’s daughter drew this cartoon of me and Diva the last time we were in Indiana—it’s adorable!

Anime Diva and Dan
by Kit | 4 November 2007

It’s on my refrigerator. I love it. Check out our stylin’ threads! She also drew a cartoon of Steven and Keiko; Steven, can you send me a photo of it?

The funny: Earlier this month, I was trying to text “Yay, epiphany!” and it came out “Yay, driediow!” Dried-i-ow?

Quote of the Day:

“Global warming skeptics, I have a message for you: buy beach front property and call me in fifty years.”
—John Green.

::chuckle:: I love the vlogbrothers! They helped inspire me to recycle, which, by the way, is going well.

And the reason why I’m home blogging instead of at work: I’m waiting on a phone call so I can take my car to the body shop because a very nice man pulled out in front of me on my way to work this morning:

Crunched Car
by Dan Plummer | 18 December 2007

Closer View - Hood is Crunched, Too!
by Dan Plummer | 18 December 2007

Hi, windshield-wiper fluid reservoir!
by Dan Plummer | 18 December 2007

I saw him pull out and there was no time but to hit the brakes (and I decided to close my eyes; didn’t care to see it). I could not have turned left or right. But he’s been really friendly, and I think I’m getting a rental while the repairs are done.

Although, to be fair, he had a truck with big tires, so it’s more like I had a wreck with a tire.

As for the two of us, we seem to be okay, but I’m wondering if my back/neck is going to be fine. I just had a chiropractic adjustment yesterday.

Addendum:

I just learned the gentleman (whose pulled in front of me) is contesting the accident. This has caused, not only trouble getting the rental, but other headaches which, when the fault is established as his, maybe I can get back from his insurance agent?

He seemed nice during the accident; I suppose that he is nice and that he’s only doing what I’d do.

1.

I was driving along the green path in the turning lane. He pulled in front of me.

2. A cop who happened to arrive at the scene before the traffic cop told us to move our cars and that the nice man was at fault, even after the man at vault voiced his concern that he wasn’t at fault. The police officer said that I was on the road and he pulled in front of me.

3. The traffic cop who wrote up the report put the blame on the other man and gave him a ticket for it.

And my back and neck are feeling…unusual.

Too many things to blog about all at once in regular-style, so here’s a bullet list!

• Diva and I went to Indiana to visit my family the first weekend in November, and here’s a shot of us at Fourth Street Live!

Diva and Dan at Fourth Street Live
by Bryan Scott | 3 November 2007

• I always saw the term “Near East” in our Bible study aids, but I didn’t know exactly what the term meant. I again saw it recently and decided to look it up. It means “Middle East,” and scientist-types prefer it to “Middle East.”
• ifixglasses.com—Their website looks sketchy, but these are the most awesome eyeglass repair people in the world! Diva and I couldn’t get her glasses repaired anywhere because they broke in an impossible-to-fix spot. These folks in Texas (Collin Creek Eye Clinic) fixed them for nearly half of the cost that the laser-weld mall store wanted to charge us—and the mall store failed! Collin Creek replaced both temples and they look marvelous!
• foozoo.com hostees: I’m dropping my hostees, simplifying things for other projects and possibilities. Sorry, three folks. (this affects only Steven, Tristan, and Cindy, whom I’ve all contacted already)
• I finally started recycling! After 2.5 years living in Memphis and trying to start right after I moved here, but being unable to find any recycling centers, I finally found the one down the road (just over a year ago)! But in typical Dan fashion, I just now got around to implementing my plan. (That’s so me. I wrote a note to research something for Diva back on July 25, and I finally got to that “to-do” note yesterday.)
• I’m cooking soul food with friends tonight! I bought a half a ham and I am making greens! My job was to get the greens started first, and then my friends will come over later and finish the other parts! Will blog later, hopefully with photos.

And now for Chinese Spam in my

Quote of Day [interspersed with my snide comments!]:

Dear Purchase Manager,

We learn from China Commerce that you are involved in bags field. [Oh, you learn that, huh? Well you’re wrong!] We are a professional bags manufacturer and exporter from Xiamen,China. Do you have any purchase plan or need some bags information recently? [Um, what? Not recently bags information have I needed…recently.]

Welcome you browse our website to get details. [Is it you written as poorly as email?]
We’re ready to serve you all the while. [I’ll bet you are. I’m ready to delete your email all the while!]