it was a dark and rainy night, when....

....actually not, no it wasn't "dark" nor "rainy" or any sort of dramatic conditions like that at all

this all happened on a normal old boring afternoon...sunny, clear, dry, and really run of the mill for Iowa in this time of the year...the air was still, the city was coming to an end of its summer, and even with the influx of students back in town for college a few blocks away, at the Iowa City Johnson County Building there were plenty of parking spaces near by the door, and no lines inside to get my title and plates on the motorcycle(7th I've owned, 5th that I currently have plates and insurance on) that I'd just bought the day before

outside if anything it was a little hot and very dry, with notably light traffic on an un-busy Wednesday ...I really couldn't have asked for a more mundane day to nearly lose my life, that is if I wouldn't mind being taken out by someone else's minor mistake in such an unremarkable way....heck, I wasn't even really upset much when it happened.....yet it is a very disturbing story that I don't like to retell  as often as I have to....so I'm going to make this blog for whomever wants the details


                                       

this is my Granddaughter and Me

 ...my Granddaughter really likes water, and coming outside to help me in the yard...everytime she sees someone on a motorcycle she yells out my name...we have started to figure out that she has a 'crush' on me(I am a pretty nice guy after all..but just wait till she finds out I'll be the same person that tells her to clean her room and put her napkin in her lap, as I did with our boys) she spends about 3 or 4 nights a week at our house, and makes me carry her out before bed to see if we can find the moon...anyway, I took this picture of us about a week before the accident, I just like it and wanted to use it for something...maybe give some people(that might not know me in person) a little idea of who I am