Day 338: Two Failures, Two Saviors

 

December 4th, 2011Today was a day of two distinctively large failures, in the form of a stomach flu and a car accident. I woke up and felt quite nauseous, under the assumption that Burger King had induced it within me the night before. I perservered on though, so that Geetha and I could meet Bee-John at his car to make our trip to Wal*Mart to get car fluid and tea. I felt so sick on the car ride there that me and Geetha resorted to buying soda, gum, and Pepto Bismal to try to cure me. It prematurely failed, as we made our way to Tofu House. I made the mistake of ordering food, because I ended up being unable to consume it. My stomach just hurt WAYYYYY too much. I ended up taking a huge box of it to go, and settled on eating it later.

On our way pulling out, the second failure happened to start. Bee-John pulled out from parallel parking where a huge car behind him rammed the side of his car. The guy came out screaming “I had the right of way!”, and the two spent a terrible 30 minutes debating and exchanging insurance. Meanwhile, I was stuck in the car still naseous and sickened from my stomach flu. As Bee-John called his insurance company, and subsequently a tow truck, I called Adam Ratke to come pick me up. And came, he did. The savior Adam came up like a ‘G all the way from USD to pick us up. As Geetha snapped my picture of the day for me (because my camera is still in the process of being recovered), Bee-John posed with a smug look on his face. Adam eventually dropped me and Geetha off at Sixth, where I took a massive nap at Geetha’s place. She subsequently saved my life by giving me drugs, stomach flu safety foods, and a bed by which to lie on. As my fever raged on, my ability to comprehend had decreased dramatically. Eventually I would attempt to eat the Tofu House again, which made me sick once more…. this caused me to finally knock out and call it a night. Perhaps tomorrow I will be cured…

A force of Continental dragoons commanded by Colonel William Washington–General George Washington’s second cousin once removed–corners Loyalist Colonel Rowland Rugeley and his followers in Rugeley’s house and barn near Camden, South Carolina, on this day in 1780. After nearly a year of brutal backcountry conflict between Washington and the fierce British commander Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton (who was infamous for Tarleton’s Quarter, the murder of colonial POWs on May 29, 1780 at Waxhaws), Washington had retreated to North Carolina the previous October. Commanded to return to the South Carolina theater by Brigadier General Daniel The Old Wagoner Morgan, Colonel Washington still lacked the proper artillery to dislodge the Loyalists. He told his cavalrymen to dismount and surround the barn. While out of Rugeley’s sight, Washington’s men fabricated a pine log to resemble a cannon. GOOD PLAN.

If the general election were held today, only Ron Paul could beat Barack Obama in Iowa. According to an NBC-Marist survey (pdf) conducted Nov. 27-29 among 2,896 registered voters, Paul ties Obama, with each contestant gaining 42% of the vote. Other Republicans do significantly worse against the presumed Democratic candidate: Romney -7, Gingrich -10, Perry -11 and Bachmann -23. The margin of error is 1.8 percentage points. AMAZING.

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