I had a fun Friday.

First off, dax crashed again.  This time, ad12 was detached (some history here).  I logged a support ticket with Voxel asking if they could just swap out the box for a new one, keeping the existing drives.  I was thinking that the SATA controller was flaky, since two drives couldn't be bad, right?  They were nice enough to do the swap in <15 minutes flat, and I was up and running again with a brandy-new box (only difference turned out to be a E4500 processor compared to a E4300 in the old one).

(of course, today the box crashed again w/ad12 as the culprit.  These guys at Voxel are really nice, they're going to swap out the disk tomorrow.  After that - all hardware is new)

Anyway, to continue my fun Friday.

As I was driving home, I decided to stop at Best Buy to pick up a Bluetooth adapter for my Eee.  As I was driving there, I witnessed what is probably the worst Charlotte driving I've ever seen.  I've [poorly] illustrated it overlayed on blown-up Google Maps satellite photography (link).

Centrum Pky. is a four lane road, two lanes in either direction with a sometimes-absent turn lane in the middle.  My vehicle (green) was in the left lane, since the turn to Best Buy was going to be on the left, driving at around 25-30Mph keeping at a distance of around 1-2 car lengths behind a silver Honda Element (red).  Some brunette with sunglasses was driving (as I found out afterwards).  So far, so good?

The Element moved into the right lane (no turn signal, of course!) and started slowing down.  I figured she was going to turn right into the Wachovia branch, so I didn't think to slow down or hit the breaks, yet.  No problem, so far.

As you look at the image, you say, "nah, she didn't do that."  Yes, she did.  Without letting me pass or slowing down at all, the Element swung a full 100+ degrees right in front of me, cutting me off completely, and completed what looked to be the most dangerous U-turn I've ever seen.  I'm fairly sure my car left tire tracks when I stopped (anti-locks kicked in!) short.  I blew the horn, and received what I can only guess was a confused or surprised look on the woman's face as she just went on her merry way.  Seriously.  What the heck.  These people need to be taken off the road.  It's too bad I didn't get the license plate.

To top it all off, I didn't get any trick or treat-ers!  I never do, though.. disadvantage of living in a condominium.  I went swimming at the Y, instead (wow, was it empty), to blow off some steam.

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