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I have made a new account on Twitter, the name is mwoodruff.

The purpose of this account is to make a place where all my public tweets will be posted and to allow me to respond to people who aren’t following me (Speaking of, Twitter should allow people to see Tweets you @ them in even if they aren’t following you). Anything that I want anyone to read and stuff that will be posted on my Facebook status (because it’s annoying for me to put # or any symbol infront of my tweets to filter for Facebook) and for people who I don’t know personally, but want to follow me.

If I don’t know you personally then I will be removing you from my followers list on MattyLight if I haven’t already, so you should start following mwoodruff. No hard feelings, just trying to organize and consolidate.

For those of you that I know personally, you don’t need to do anything. The plan right now is that MattyLight will contain ALL of my tweets and mwoodruff will only contain some of them.

UPDATE: I won’t be posting all of my @replies on both accounts, just the ones that are through the respected accounts.

For Spring Break, Whitney and I decided that we were going to go down to Florida to visit my parents, hang out at the beaches, and relax. At about 6:40 we decided to stop to fill the car with gas a go to Starbucks. About 4 Hours left in the trip, 5 hours with a dinner stop. After I got back on highway I did what most people do, accelerate to the speed of traffic and I proceeded to move into the middle lane and continue on…

So now, let me paint a picture for you…
I’m surrounded by cars. The left lane is going about 5 mph faster than I am, the right lane about 5 mph slower, and I’m going somewhere between 70 and 80mph… all SUVs or cars.

Well about 5 minutes after getting back onto the road, the SUV infront of me runs over a piece of plywood and his back wheels throw it into the air… The best I can describe what I saw to you for the brief 5 seconds it was in the air before contacting my car is by showing you this:

Yeah, imagine Batman flying at you… horrifying, I know!

When the plywood hit, it was a few inches off the ground, standing up, and measuring around 2 1/2 ft tall, and 6/12 – 7ft wide. I even didn’t have time to hit my breaks before it hit though I might have, had the car in front of me  done something like, i dunno, hit his breaks upon seeing the possibility of hitting a GIANT PIECE OF WOOD in the road…

So I’ve hit the plywood, or it hit me, still trying to figure out which… and it disintegrates for the most part, except for what you will see in a bit. The cars behind me all hit their brakes to avoid any debris themselves which gave me a good opening to get off the interstate and check the damage, and no one stops for us, not even the car that ran over the plywood.

I pull over onto the side of the road and make sure Whitney is ok, then I get out and check the car. This is what I find:

Passenger side

Grill and Passenger Headlight

Passenger Headlight

Passenger Headlight, Bumper, Grill

Passenger side from the top

Passenger side of the grill

Front of car

Front of car again

Driver side of the grill

Driver headlight

Driver side bumper

Gallery of photos here

So I call FHP, my parents, and my insurance. Deal with all of that and end up one exit down the road to wait for my parents to come pick us up Pretty much end of story.

Bad news: The obvious is that my car is not drivable and has to be fixed. Other than the obvious body work, my radiator is busted. Anything else we will find out about sometime this week. So I’ll be without my car until the Summer sometime.
Good news: No one was hurt, Insurance is covering it.