Near Misses

Well I've just returned from picking my middle nephew up a nursery school. Reaching a mini roundabout that I use daily when doing the nursery runs and quite a lot other times as well I had a near miss. I looked right saw no one, I then moved directly onto the circle doing around 20mph and my Mum yelled 'watch out'. Automatically I break upon not only hearing her but seeing a car appear directly in front of me. I can't remember seeing a car come down the incline from the street on the right. I was about to apologise when the other driver toots her horn, gives me a rude finger gesture and mouths at me that I am a something b****rd. Needly to say I didn't feel inclined to apologise after that.

I can't say who was at fault, either I missed seeing her, or she came down the steep incline doing the 30mph speed and rolled straight onto the circle (which as I don't remember seeing her she could have done) or whether I missed her myself.

Either way I was willing to apologise. Neither car touched as we both breaked immediately but after the rude finger gestures and even ruder swear words she mouthed at me I didn't feel the least bit inclined to do so.

As my driving instructor told me, 'you will be involved with more near misses than you ever will accidents unless you really don't pay attention.' As I pay attention, generally more when I have one of my nephews in my car than I normally do, I tend not to have too many near misses. (Cross fingers, touch woods and cross myself speedily). Usually my heart is pounding when I do have one but this time I wasn't even startled in the least. Generally when I am in fault my heart pounds ten to the dozen and it takes me weeks of extra careful driving to calm down again to normal.

Anyhow that vented back to the subject at hand, I have been working on my pixelling. I am finally getting the hand of my new PSP X2 program. I've had it for a week now and am finally able to start working on colouring some lineart/dolls. I haven't went into the more complex aspects of the software but am getting ahold of the basics at least.

I am also going to be working on revamping my website, I have just renewed my domain for 2 more years, and my hosting for 12 months, and am now ready to do a much needed spring clean. I transferred a lot of files from my old laptop in the past week or so, including a lot of my membership content across to my external harddrive.

I desperately need to update my site. I can do with revamping my memberships site, as some members sites have to be switched from current/lifetime to closed.

Anyhow once I get a (free - I've spent enough money on software to last me the rest of this year) web editor to work on Vista I will be able to continue with my plans to refresh my pixel sites.

Well that's all for now. Check back later, I hope to have some progress to report then.