Alicia Daniel

Did you hear about the street sweeper in New York that killed a mans dog as he was walking it down the street?  How absolutely awful.  I’m sorry but you would think the gentleman would have kept the dog back away from the street sweeper to begin with but to watch that thing jerk your dog right out of his collar must have been a horrifying experience.  Sometimes people just don’t think and unfortunately this mans dog paid the price.

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.

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.

To read more about this tragedy, you can go to http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080720/ap_on_sc /brazil_dead_penguins and I hope you do.

I’ve been looking for a new laptop and I have found one that I think will work out perfectly.  I ordered it online from Wal-Mart today.  It’s an Everex 7  CloudBook.  Have you seen them?  They’re a very portable laptop that I will be able to tuck in my hand bag and take practically everywhere I go. It only weighs a little over 2 pounds and I can’t wait to get an email telling me that it has arrived at the store and then I can go pick it up!  I had it sent to the store instead of being delivered to my home address and saved the $9 shipping I would have had to pay otherwise.  I like that policy.  I can’t wait to get it.  That tax stimulus check has come in handy.