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I had to go tell Kylie what I had done. At this point, I was so pissed off at myself, I couldn't even type in my garage door code to get back in the garage, So I walked to the front door, walked down stairs and told her. The conversation went kinda like this:

Me: Kylie, I hit your car.
She looks at me, a bit confused.
Kylie: What?
Me: I hit your car.
Surely this is a joke, she thinks.
Kylie: Are you kidding?
Me: I hit your car.
I see her starting to realize I'm serious.
Kylie: You are not kidding?
Me: I hit your car.

Dave hopped up to go and look at it, and as I go back outside, I'm not sure if his initial assessment of "it really doesn't look that bad" was an attempt to make Kylie feel better, or an honest assessment, I was glad he started doing "damage" control.

At this point, I just wanted to get the hell outta Dodge. Lon offered to drive to get the food. On the way, Lon made some very good points about being thankful it was only a minor accident, and how no one got hurt, and it's only money. All very good points, but nothing was removing doing a very good job of removing the "I am the biggest douchebag on the planet" feeling I had.

Lon also revealed he's been cursed. When he rides in the passenger seat of friends cars, people have accidents. Dave almost ripped the bikes off the roof of his car at OBX, another friend got rear ended while Lon was in the passenger seat, and now me. He's a menace, I tell you.

Um… yeah, anyway…

We get home and bring the food in. Kylie told me she wasn't mad at me. I didn't think she was, but it sure felt good to hear anyway. I sure was mad at me enough for both of us.

I gave Kylie a check so she could fix her car, and started watching the debate. I still felt like a douchebag, but at least I felt like a douchebag who had done everything possible to rectify his stupidity.

At this point it was about 9:15 pm, and we now return to our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress.

My thoughts on the debate itself was that Bush did a lot better than he did in the previous debates. Not that there was a lot of room to go down after the first one.

Kerry did a very good job, as he always has done in these series of debates. I think Kerry did a good job of redefining what he meant by global test as standard of truth.

I still think Bush is wired. They just drilled it into his head how to act like he's not wired.

It was fun to watch the debate with room full of friends and discuss. It was very geeky sitting in the same room as Wyatt and talking to him in IRC about the debate. Sure was a nice way to discuss without disturbing people who still want to listen uninterrupted.

After the debate, Wyatt helped me clip by bumper back on to the frame, so now it has big ass dent, instead of having a big ass dent and looking like it was half ripped off.

I think this weekend will be spent seeing how I can get the bumper off so I can pound it back into shape. If that doesn't work, looks like I'll be ponying up a bit of money to pay for my stupidity.