Can I Please Get a Break?

I guess the One Armed Sabattical has officially ended, but the blog lives on.
First things first: Tuesday night I decided to have some last-evening-before-going-back-to-work-full-time-fun, and jumped on the Vespa to ride down to the softball fields and watch my team from the last couple of years play their last game of the season. The route takes me through downtown Columbus, and as I was approaching an intersection, a guy who didn't see me coming made a left turn directly in front of me. I'm pretty sure that I swore and hit the brakes, or maybe I hit the brakes and then swore. Doesn't matter. I had to lay the bike down in the street and both the Vespa and I skidded into the bottom of this guy's car. Now comes the part where I talk about divine intervention. The scooter has a couple of minor nicks and scratches but otherwise looks OK although I'm having it checked out for internal damage. As for me, I had a conscious thought that I could not land on my recently surgically altered right shoulder. I ended up going down on my left side and have some pretty big abrasions on my arm, side of the knee, and ankle plus a couple of Technicolor bruises on my thigh. My shoulder was also sore for a couple of days but seems to be OK now. The wreck drew quite a crowd including a fire truck, medic, police car, cop on a bike, and my chiropractor, who happened to be out for a run when he heard there was an accident. I can also say that my helmet probably saved me a trip to the hospital or worse, as my head hit the ground first and pretty hard. All in all, I'm in OK shape. I can't have hard feeling towads the guy who pulled in front of me, as we all get distracted and make mistakes. I told him that I won't say "It's OK", or "Forget about it", but I won't hold a grudge. Life goes on and I consider myself fortunate that I was able to walk and ride away.
I went back to work full time this week, got caught up on email and a few things, and will start back into my projects next week.