Category: Life

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13 is my lucky number but not O.J.’s

There is a part of me that feels terribly sorry for O. J.  Simpson and then there’s the other part.  Here was a GREAT MAN who has turned into the worst example of a Sports (former) Hero there is.  He has thought for too long that he could get away with anything and everything but not this time.

I’m sure most everyone has heard about all the 13’s involved in his trial and his life in the past 13 years so I won’t go into all of them but it is quite a coincidence.  The funniest part to me is that 13 has always been my lucky number.  I guess it only works in good ways for some and obviously not in a good way for O. J.

I only hope and pray that his children do not have to suffer anymore.  They have paid the biggest price for all of the messes O. J. has created in the past 13 years.  Maybe 13 is their lucky number and now their father can’t make a fool of himself anymore and will humble himself and be the man he should have been for more than just the past 13 years.  We can only hope and pray for the children’s sake.

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Computer error causes death

Life just isn’t fair when you lose someone you love to cancer but to lose them to a computer error is unbelievable.  That’s exactly what happened to a 27 year old man in England that was suffering from testicular cancer.  He was happy to get into an drug trial because he was told this would increase his chances of survival.  This man was engaged to be married.

A computer error caused him to be given double the amount of chemotherapy needed over a four month period.  This slowly poisoned him and he died.  There was another man also given an overdose of chemotherapy but he survived.

Computers are only as reliable as the person operating it and there should have been something written into what ever program written for this trial that would warn them that too much medication, chemotherapy or anything else that was to be given to patients had been ordered but it seems that the computer was what was ordering it.  Wasn’t a doctor paying attention?  I would have thought a doctor would have been checking behind what was being given.  A computer has no heart and soul and can’t think for itself like humans are supposed to be able to do.  The doctor over this should lose his license or be reprimanded at least.  What a shame.

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Conductor was texting

Oh my goodness, I just heard that the conductor of the passenger train was sending text messages on his phone, missed a signal and that’s what caused the crash of the two trains.  The conductor was one of the people that lost their lives that day.

People should already know not to text and drive a car so why wouldn’t he have known better than to do it on a train with so many peoples lives are supposed to be in his hands and not his cell phone.  I really feel sorry for whoever he was sending text messages because they are probably going to feel responsible.  I would if I was the one that was texting him.  One things for sure, I sure as heck won’t text and drive anything.

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Trains collide in California

A commuter train and a freight train collided in California killing at least 25 people.  How could this happen?  It’s obvious to me that someone somewhere was not paying attention and set these two trains on a collision course.  They think the number of injured is around 130 people.  The mayor of Los Angeles said this is the worst accident he has ever seen.  I’m sure that’s true for the approximately 250 firefighters that responded too.

Then less than an hour after that, a woman was killed in her car when it was hit by a train in Corona California.  The two had nothing to do with each other but what a coincidence,  I don’t think I would want to ride a train or go near the tracks in California.   My prayers are with the injured and the family of the many that lost their lives.

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Hot iPod Nano

Isn’t this wonderful.  Apple has finally admitted that it’s iPod Nano’s battery overheats.  I guess that makes it one ‘hot’ item, huh?  It says the problem has been rare and no serious injury has been reported.  Well that’s just wonderful that no one was seriously injured but even a minor injury is cause for alarm.  Especially when you consider who usually has these types of items.  That would be kids between say 10 and 18.

How traumatic would it be for them to be burned and scared by one of those things.  Battery burns are ugly.  IF you want to know more about it, check it out at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7571986.stm.  I hope you don’t have one of these.

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The first day is finally here

The first day of school is finally here!  All the kids were excited to be going back even though the boys had to belly ache a bit just for good measure but I know they were looking forward to going back to see all their friends and see who was in their class.

I remember the first day of school very well.  Times like these make me think of my oldest sons father that died in a motorcycle accident before my son was born.  He loved school, he just didn’t like to do the work.  He had a great sense of humor and could make anything fun or funny if it may be.  I still miss him.  I look at my son and see so much of him.  I miss my other baby that died too.

Today is a day of only good thoughts!!  I have to keep focused on the positive and not the negative or life becomes too hard.  Does that make any sense to you?  It does to me anyway.  So we’re off to a good start to a new school year full of hopes and dreams of what the new year will bring.  That’s as it should be, ya know.

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First births and now deaths

For weeks we were hearing about all the babies being born to famous people and now it’s deaths.  Two famous men died last week one of which was Bernie Mac who entertained us all with his stand up comedy, his TV show and the movies he made.  The other was famous for his deep smooth voice, Isaac Hayes.  Neither of them were old by today’s standards either.

What a tremendous loss to the entertainment industry and the world.  Our loss is nothing compared to the loss their families and loved ones will feel.  God bless them and keep them by his side through their time of loss and grief.

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Angelina Jolie

Now that Angelina Jolie has the twins home, she’s complaining that having 6 children is ‘chaos’.  Well what did she expect?  Having 4 children is hard but throw in two babies and I can see that it would be chaos.  The only thing is I bet there are at least one nanny per child in that house.  After all, she did get a very large sum of money for the first picture of both Shiloh and the twins so I’m sure she can afford to have a nanny for each child.  I wonder if she’ll have anymore?  It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if she either adopted or gave birth to even more.

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Motorcycle precession line

The father of my first child was killed on a motorcycle when I was 5 month pregnant.  There were about 100 or more mostly Harley Davidson’s that just passed my house in a funeral precession for a woman that was killed on a Harley Davidson a couple days ago.  She was riding with her husband who is in critical condition and another woman on her own Harley and is also in critical condition.  A drunk driver hit both motorcycles killing the one woman.  He should be charged with premeditated murder!!!!!!!!!!

My sons father was trying to get home before it started raining when he was on his Yamaha.  He was trying to pass three cars in front of him that were going slow and didn’t realize that the minivan in front was about to make a left hand turn.  He ran up under the van and was killed instantly.  That still to this day haunts me.

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Poor baby Penguins

I just read about hundreds of baby penguins being washed up on shore in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It is not common for them to find both adult and baby penguins there it said but this year has been a record year unfortunately. There are some who think it is from over fishing in the waters where they usually go to catch fish for themselves for food and others blame pollutants.

We have to start looking at what we are doing to our environment before we are the only animals left on our sickening planet. If just each of us would commit to one day a week of not driving, that alone would help with the air pollution. If each of us would commit to more and better recycling, that would help too. There is so much more we can do to help and I personally am going to start checking into what more I as an individual to do.