Happy New Year

New Year's Day is my birthday, and while at first that sounds like it might be cool, it's really not for a variety of reasons. Namely, the day usually means hangovers, that it's a holiday, and this year it's that my car was hit during a hit & run.

But let's back up. I had a great time NYE at Cedar Street seeing the Spazmatics. They are awesome!!!

My birthday usually means a family meal - brunch or something. Sometimes my mom prepares something over at their house, and sometimes I want to eat at a restaurant, but it's hard to find places that are open on the 1st. Trust me. Try it sometime. This year I had chosen the original Kerbey Ln., but because so many restaurants are closed on New Year's, the wait was an hour & a half. No thanks. So, we ended up at Chez Zee, and it was pretty good.

Afterward, I headed over to Panther's for his annual Pot Luck NYD party. We were all hanging out on the back porch when we heard "Screeeeeeeech! BANG!!! Bang!" Panther immediately said that he thought one of us got hit, since we were all parked on the street. A quick run to the side of the deck & I saw a gray truck speeding away & some neighbors yelling, "Stop! They're leaving!" I ran through the house, with everyone else, grabbed my keys, and headed out into the front yard & down to my car. I was parked at the end, and sure enough, my car had been hit. It was relatively minor, though, compared to the Maxima that had taken the brunt of the truck's impact.

Apparently, the gray truck ran a stop sign & slammed into the Maxima, totalling it, then in an effort to flee the scene (losing it's license plate in the process), hit my car (primarily my hitch-mount bike rack). Police came, EMS came, AFD came, it was amazing. It took about an hour to get eyewitness statements (apparently, it was a woman driver who fled the scene), exchange insurance information, and get a police report case number.

My insurance ran the plate that was left at the accident & got a hit but wouldn't give me any details as to the owner of the gray 2004 Dodge Ram & said they would follow their standard procedures for contacting the owner, APD, etc. to close this out. However, I found a website & for the low, low price of $11.95 I got the name, address & all sorts of deets on the truck's owner. I Googled the address & saw the house (thanks to the street view) and it's really a nice house.

So today, because I'm apparently a stalker (hehehe) I drove up to Round Rock to see if the truck, by chance, was in front of the house. It was not. And the house looked much nicer in person than on Google, and I just have this bad, bad feeling that either the gray truck was stolen, the plates were stolen, it was recently sold to someone else, or some other horrible reason why I will end up being responsible for repairs to my car (at least the deductible).

So much for good luck from the black eyed peas, right? Oh well... Happy New Year, anyway!