managing stress in a fast-paced world

I have 2 universal laptop power supplies at home, one of them is an iGo ice90, a 90-watt model. This went with my emachines laptop like 3 years ago, the cable broke, so I need a new cable and a tip if I want to use it with my new HP dv9700… of course the cable is $20 and the tip is $10.

Instead I bought a whole power supply off ebay for $30 shipped. Maybe it’s time to sell this universal one on ebay…

I got into a car accident about a week ago, it was actually really funny I thought. A woman rear ended me, I was waiting at a yield sign and she came up behind me. I think she was looking over her shoulder and saw a car coming and pretty much floored it thinking she’ll get in front of that car. Well there I was stopped waiting for that same car to pass before I merge. I was looking back and saw her coming straight at me, scary sight!

Anyways, after the accident I pull over and get out to go over and ask her “are you okay” to which she replies, “yea, but I’m really upset!” She asks me “how did you get in front of me?” To which I said, “well, I exited the freeway and you were behind me…”

So her car isn’t drivable and I suggested we swap insurance information. She asks me, “so whos fault is this?” I start to say, “well…..” and she says it’s not her fault… I tell her lets not try and assign blame right now, to which she said she thinks we should call the police. I’m more than happy to call the police at this point, I even lookup the number for her.

This is the funny part, she calls the police and an officer shows up, the first thing she asks him is “Officer, who’s at fault here?” the officer replies, “it’s your fault!”

So back to the point, I’m working with her insurance company and I went to their suggested shop, the estimator says the repairs are more than 80% of the value of the car so most likely they will just make an offer to buy my car.

I got a friendly email from American Express today, the subject was “Your 2007 Year-End Summary”.

It’s pretty neat, they summarized all the things I bought and money I spent over the year. It turns out I spend $35k on merchandise, and that accounted for 49% of my spending. It’s actually pretty freaky that I spent that much last year. Some of it must have been company expense that I “hopefully” got reimbursed for.