The Wind Chills Right To The Bone

And the mothers weep for the children who will never come home.

I've really got to sing the praises of Soundhound. It's an app unlike Shazam for the Iphone, where you play a song and it will identify the song and the lyrics for you, as well as provide a link to the youtube video. You might be thinking that it's exactly the same as Shazam, but the key difference is that the indexing on the Soundhound is far superior. You can listen to a song on very low volume, from a large distance away from the source, and for a fraction of the usual time, and it will still tag the song that you need.

I've resumed my blognotes, and have opened them up after a long absence. Yes, I have a ridiculous number of additions to Joaquin's Rate List (JRL), available here: . I'll update the list when I have the time, and let you know.

Yeah, yeah! I've been meaning to talk about my car accident for a long time now. What happened was that I had taken my brother in my car to go and get some food. At the bottom of my street there is a T-intersection where I need to pull out right to get to where I needed to go. I stopped and noticed a car approaching from the left, which was driving incredibly slowly and randomly putting on its brakes. Instead of driving like I regularly do and pull out in front to beat this guy, I decided to do the responsible thing and wait and let it go first, since I had my brother in the car.

I let the car pass, and then I pulled out. Further up the road there is a slip lane to the left to turn onto a street going left. The car I was behind went around the corner, so I started to slow down and go around the bend as I looked right to make sure that the coast was clear. I heard my brother gasp, and I felt the impact and my legs hit the console of the car. We were travelling quite slow - probably
about 20km/h, which meant that the seatbelts didn't really engage. Apparently the other car had gone around the bend but had slowed down after the blind point, which I could not see. The angle of the impact barely gave his vehicle a dent, whereas my car was totalled. A real shit heap really, especially since I was a big fan of that car. We only have third party insurance, so the car was not recoverable. For a few months after the accident I had recurrent knee pain, but that was gradually faded away.

Lesson learned? Don't drive to please people! Drive how you feel comfortable! If I had avoided this guy from the start, I'd still have my car, as well as the cash I had to pay for the insurance premium!

Do you know why I enjoy blogging? Because this will always be here. It is a testament to me being here, and all my messed up thoughts. I can die and my body rot away, but this will always remain (barring the Internet disappearing). I take a certain joy from that.

Joaquin out.