It's official, my car is totalled

My insurance company (AAA) is cutting me a check for blue book value on my car; they pressed the auto body shop to find used parts for repair but they couldn't bring the price down below total value even with that. Here's a closer look at the worst damage:

Neither AAA nor the Palo Alto police are interested in finding out anything about the white van with blacked-out windows that did this, at least not without a license plate. Can't really say I blame them too much. At least this is a non-fault payment, so my insurance rates won't go up (but I still lost $500 to the deductible, oh well).

For the past three years I've been meaning to get this bullet damage fixed:
...but now, of course, the wisdom of procrastination is made clear. And, given that the last time my car was shot before this was about twenty years ago, it looks like I have a good seventeen years before I get shot again. I'll be ready this time!

Don't park your car on Palo Alto Avenue

Sometime between 8AM and 10AM this morning this happened to my car:

Of course, the good news is that nobody was hurt, but this is never a fun thing to have happen. I'm guessing even money on totaling it out...blue book is around $10K, so I think they'll fix it. I guess I'm okay with that as long as it is fixed properly.

There were a couple of guys out front of my building when it happened, but all they could say was that it was an old beater white van (maybe a Ford); nobody got a plate number. And, without that, the police aren't even interested in showing up. Same with the insurance company.

Hey, at least I'll get the bullet in the door fixed now...