Well, despite an electrifying Xbox 360 launch for Grand Theft Auto IV this week, and a bunch of us at Turn 10 clamoring to play the second coming of the driving/shooting sandbox game, I have to admit the week started off pretty crap.
On the way into work on Monday, some yokels in a beater Ford truck sideswiped my Miata when I was getting onto 520 from Montlake in Seattle. Nailed my driver-side fender and bumper, but didn't tweak anything else or affect the hood. I hope. Anyway, not cool. To make things worse:
- The dude didn't have insurance.
- The dude said he doesn't have the money now, but -- not to worry -- he could probably scrape up the money to fix my car in a few weeks.
- He and his buddy were baked. Don't ask.
I debated calling the cops right there on the spot, not because I was demanding legal retribution or whatever (not sure why not though, since I was plenty pissed), but I just didn't want to get screwed out of coverage by the insurance company due to some weird loophole. In the end, I just decided to bite the bullet and let them leave after taking down their license plate and cell phone number. Poor ol' Miata-kun is now at the bodyshop for a week or more and I'm out $200 for the deductible since I didn't have uninsured motorist coverage. Why? Because I thought everyone must drive with insurance of course, since it's the law! I'm naive apparently.
Car bang-up aside, we had a pretty good GTA4 multiplayer session last night with folks from the Forza community. We played mostly Cops 'n Crooks with a little Turf War thrown in. Too early to make a call on specifics other than that it's a blast overall and we hope you can join us all week long. Simply shoot over a friend request on Live to either "Che Team Forza" or "BLKJ Blasto" (aka Landin).
And of course, we'll be playing Forza 2 at random times too so feel free to send us an invite.
Hope to see you online!