InsaneJournal

Notable things that have happened in the past month:
March 21 - Good Friday.  Participated in the LJ striked despite the ridicule of many on my f-list.

March 22 - Holy Saturday: Started my InsaneJournal (IJ) account.

March 24 - Easter Monday.  Went for a drive to Port Royal. Got hit by an old man in an SUV on the way back in.  Parked the car at work because I was closer to there than to home.

March 25 - Reported the crash to the Traffic Department of the Police.

March 26 - Reported the crash to my insurance broker

March 27 - Got a repair estimate for the car and turned it in to the broker.

March 28 - Insurance company send their examiner to see the car.

April 1 - Got pranked by bitchwolf at deviantART and by chibijenhen at another art gallery.  Got a cheese bun from my employers that was supposed to have been part of the Easter package they gave us before Easter.  Being generally skeptical of gifts from my employers and of gifts received or All Fools' Day, I did not open the cheese bun nor carry it home.

Early April:  Heard about sale of motor vehicles by employers, all vans in need of repair or salvage.  One was the remains of a crashed Toyota HiAce van.  Another was a Korean-built Mercedes-Bens van that is the only vehicle ever to strand me on the side of the road while on the way to doing my employers' work.  The third and oldest vehicle was a Toyota LiteAce van.  I express interest in the LiteAce van, because it was the only one of the three still running, and in the Mercedes van, because I would have liked to destroy it Jeremy Clarkson style.  Sale was by sealed bid and is initially open only to staff.

April 7: The police inform my sister that the burglar who robbed our home has been caught.

April 9-11: Work carried out on replacing side fence. Break taken after the 11th for the weekend.

April 10 - Expiry date on cheese bun.  Saw the Liteace for the first time since it's offered for sale.  My employers were still using it!  This is a good sign.  The bad sign is that it has a big dent in the sliding door and the rear fender behind the sliding door.

April 11 - Threw the cheese bun away without opening it. Started asking around about the LiteAce.  I heard it has a tendency to guzzle gas, I heard from one source that it has a 1500 cc engine and from another that it has a 2500 cc engine, I heard from a driver that the suspension is OK but from a passenger that it needs back shocks.  I discovered that the van has an automatic transmission. :(

April 14-15: Work on fence continued and concluded.

April 14:  The insurance brokers informed me that they have written off my policy and that they will pay me J$110,000 if I turn in the rest of the car or J$100,000 if I keep the rest of the car.  Their estimate of the value of the rest of the car is J$60,000.  I initially decided to keep the remains, have it fixed, and re-insure the fixed car.  I also decided to have the LiteAce van assessed by a professional.

April 15: I changed my mind and decided to sell the remains of the car.  Before work I gathered my stuff from the car into a box and locked it in the trunk.  At lunch time I stopped by the garage that assessed the car and gave me an estimate to ask them to assess the LiteAce and to recommend a scrapyard that might want my car.  They expressed interest in the car, named their fee for assessing the van, and said they'd be by later.  They did not show up that afternoon and, when I called them at the end of the day, they said I could bring the car by and they could give me a lift back.  This sounded like a pressure plan to me, but I decided to go ahead with it.  I decided not to let them have my stereo CD player, though.

April 16:  I took my stereo CD out of the car and put the stereo tape player that came with the car back in.  This took longer than expected and did not leave me with enough time before work to drive the car to the assessor.  I called the assessor and told him I couldn't bring the car down that morning and he said he'd be up shortly.  He did not show up.

April 17: Still no word from the assessor.  I decided to put a bid in anyway, but I didn't yet.  I told a young lady how I felt about her and the result was... awkward.

April 18: Closing date for bids.  I put in a bid for J$155,000.  The assessor arrived after this and assessesed the van.  He told me that he wouldn't bid any higher than J$300,000 O_o;  I raised my bid to J$200,000 and hoped no other bidder had the car assessed.

April 19:  Held the dogs to that my sister could douse them with anti-tick solutions.  One of the dogs looked like a tick factory,  They were massed everywhere, his ears, his eyebrows, he was thorougly infested with them.. So was our yard... and our house... ^^;

If all goes well, I'll drive the remains of the car home early tomorrow morning and hand in the insurance papers at lunch time, at which point I should get the insurance money.