[Elfsea] aftermath of Tor Yule Revel

[Richard Threlkeld]

I just drove back to the site in my rented truck
and found the cell phone in the parking area I
had occupied. Apparently, it had fallen out of
my grasp while we were loading.

Thanks,
Caelin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org
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> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 5:23 PM
> To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Elfsea] aftermath of Tor Yule Revel
>
>
> My goodness, Caelin!   Don't you know that Miatas are fast,
> but not supposed
> to fly?  ;)  I'm happy you are safe and home.
>     As to your cell phone, I stayed after to clean up site
> and did not see a cell phone.  You might check with the
> autocrat, Lord Einarr, at the5 at yahoo.com to see if someone
> turned one in to him.  At cleanup, I did not see one there.
> I hope you find it soon.
>     Good luck!!
>
> In service,
> Lady Genevieve del Gamba
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Threlkeld" <rjt at softwareinnovation.com>
> To: "Elfsea" <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:24 PM
> Subject: [Elfsea] aftermath of Tor Yule Revel
>
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > Hey guys and gals! Caelin here. We had lots of fun talking with our
> > friends at the Tor Yule revel yesterday. Unfortunately, the
> aftermath
> > was a bit less fun. On 67 prior to 174, a car coming the other way
> > shifted into my lane and came right at our Miata. I chose (can you
> > really choose in a tenth of a second?) to go to my left
> since he was
> > heading to my right and I was not sure I could miss him
> that way. Pyro
> > tells me it was a white van, but I only remember the headlights.
> >
> > We spun around, slid into the mud-filled ditch, flipped onto the
> > passenger side and back several times (I was sure we
> flipped onto the
> > top and then back down, but the top looks pristine and this is a
> > convertible). We ended up in the ditch on the opposite side of the
> > road wheel deep in mud and grass. Some people saw it and stopped to
> > check on us. Amazingly, we were OK. Both of us had seat belts and
> > chest straps in place and the total damage to us was a small bruise
> > for Pyro. I apologized to her, but she thanked me for
> keeping us alive
> > :-).
> >
> > The car was damaged on the passenger side, but still running. The
> > police arrived in force and puzzled for some time about how
> we could
> > get where we were. They gave me a field sobriety test and,
> of course,
> > I passed with flying colors. They said this kind of thing
> was almost
> > always alcohol related (I believe the other guy who kept on driving
> > was drunk). I suspect being dressed in 1540 Italian garb
> did not help
> > much.
> >
> > They called a wrecker who pulled us out. I wanted to try to drive
> > home, so we tried it for a while. There was a shimmy that
> was like a
> > bent wheel, but the wrecker guy insisted it was mud, so we drove
> > slowly to the nearest car wash and washed out the undercarriage. It
> > turned out we had a slow leak puncture in the passenger front tire,
> > but we filled it and made it home about 1AM.
> >
> > To make things more difficult, I can not find my cell
> phone, so it is
> > probably at the Yule site somewhere unless one of you great people
> > gathered it up. Could you please check and if there is someone near
> > the site, could they look around (I won't be driving much for a
> > while). I would greatly appreciate it. I have insurance on
> the phone
> > and can get it replaced, but the mass of phone numbers in it is not
> > properly backed up anywhere.
> >
> > I'd like to thank Timothy, Anezka, Seamus, and Genivive for
> worrying
> > about us and attempting to track us down.
> >
> > In service,
> > Caelin on Andrede
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