Living in a larger town is different than one you can get from one end to the other in 30 minutes.  It takes so long to travel to places.   Sometimes I end up at the end of town where the mall is without intending to.    And then I say, “Darn.  I’m on the other side of town again.”   I am too impatient not to take the tollway.

This may not be a good thing.  I keep telling myself they haven’t billed a Nebraska car yet, so why worry about racking up toll charges.   Ok, I worry to much to think that for real, but it is the convincing line I use when I am trying to decide:  Tollway or Not the Tollway?

Tomorrow, I have an interview.   It should prove to be interesting, at least, even if I don’t get the job.   Or maybe I won’t want the job.   I won’t know until it’s over, really.

Anyway, it’s good to be around family now.  I like when they say, “I have made too much food.  Would you like some of it?”   Yes, we would.  

I’ve been hearing about the Amanda Knox case for several years now, but paid special attention over the last several months while the appeal process finished up. I kept wondering what would happen next as whatever evidence the Perugia police thought they had was excluded.

As soon as the evidence was excluded, the only question was whether or not the Italian justice system would be willing to let someone go when there was no evidence to prove she had even been at the scene.

I could only imagine, as I heard the verdict read, what it must be like to be a young person arrested and held in a foreign prison, thinking you would spend a bulk of your life there.     What if she IS innocent?   The evidence is lacking… entirely.

Then she is set free, and it was emotional, even for me, and was not even involved, except as a spectator.

I could only imagine what it must be like on that long flight home, and even watched the plane land on FlightTracker, because it was momentous, after-all, and someone tweeted the link, so why not?  It was exciting to imagine her finally getting to do what she thought she wouldn’t be able to.  Come home.

Good luck to her, is all I have to say, really.   I’m happy things went her way.

I hope the family of Meredith Kercher find the answers and peace they are looking for. Sometimes, there are not enough answers in the end, and that’s the sad part of all of this.  No one deserves to die that way.

People even have crappy things to say about people starving in Somalia.   This is ridiculous and disgusting.   It’s not all people are commenting vehemently about, but it’s the story I find least deserving of crappy comments at the moment.

I keep thinking… Would you say these things to a person’s face?   Would you actually stare a starving Somalian person in the face and say, “Tough luck.  Move somewhere else.” Or something 1000 times worse?

I guess everyone has an opinion and a right to express their opinion, but really?   Are we really living amongst so many exceptionally asinine people who just want to document their most hateful opinion on news stories about whatever story they find deserving of their abuse?

Maybe comment sections should be altered to say, “Please write the most inhumane, hateful thing you can think of here.   Just be a total ass.  Go ahead.”   Then the world of online commentary might begin to make sense.

I think most right-thinking people would agree that things looked pretty bad for Casey Anthony. Casey Anthony was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, and disposing of her body in a trash bag, which was tossed into a swampy area not far from her home.

For 31-days, Casey lied to her parents about where she was and where her daughter was.  She was REALLY with her boyfriend partying in Orlando.  The end of her freedom came when Casey’s mom found her and insisted on knowing where Caylee was. She was arrested and charged with the murder of her daughter, having told police that Caylee was stolen by what turned out to be a non-existant nanny.

Prosecutors alleged Casey Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious and then duct-taped her mouth and nose to suffocate her. They said that she put the child’s body in the trunk of her car for a few days before disposing of it. Caylee’s skeletal remains were discovered 荫蒂被男人添舒服了九浅一深 11, 2008, by former Orange County meter reader Roy Kronk. – cnn.com

Caylee was last seen in June of 2008 and her remains were found, completely decomposed in 荫蒂被男人添舒服了九浅一深 of 2008.

After 3 years, Casey was finally tried and… acquitted. Shockingly. Why? Because as perfectly sensible and strong the prosecution’s case was, no matter how well they tied all of the lies and behavior into a situation where a mother didn’t appear to be grieving over her “accidentally deceased” daughter, no one had the ability to determine Caylee’s cause of death.

There was no DNA anywhere, although I believe there was a hair from Caylee in Casey’s car trunk which was proven to be from a dead body, and didn’t match the length or non-treated composition of any hair in the Anthony home… except for the possibility of Caylee.

I am not sure how to feel. I look at the footage of her being acquitted and think, “How often does that happen?” She thought she would spend her whole life in prison, I’m sure.” I think her parents did, as well, since they indicated through their attorney that they didn’t think she was innocent, but they didn’t want her to be executed, either. But instead, she’s about to be free.  How often does someone get such a drastic second chance at life?

Then I wonder what kind of life she will have. Lots of people have become emotionally involved. Loads of people have watched every day of the trial. The prosecution’s case was so strong and the defense’s case seemed so full of lies and holes, it wasn’t even funny. Yet, she is walking.   I hope she will spend her life doing really useful and important things.

Also, I think about little Caylee and how unfair it is that she died and no one will be blamed or

have to suffer legally for it. No one will have to sit in a cell and think about what they did to get themselves there.   No one is going to jump up at this point and say, “Ok, this is exactly what happened to her.” It still seems that Casey doesn’t even grieve for her. All I’ve heard is that she is talking about adopting or having other children. You had one, you know. Do you even care or know what happened to her? Just once, can you stand up and say with some emotion, “I miss my daughter so much. I wish I could have her here with me now.”

I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it might be a lie if it does.

I would just like to say that I believed the prosecution team, and they did an impeccable job.   Too bad the police didn’t look for little Caylee’s remains several months earlier, when they were first seen and reported.  

Casey won’t even talk about Caylee in a loving way.  That’s what makes me sad.

 Casey Anthony’s lawyer said Wednesday that her acquittal signified justice for little Caylee Anthony, who prosecutors unsuccessfully argued died at the hands of her mother.

“Caylee would never have wanted her mother to suffer this way,” defense attorney Jose Baez told Barbara Walters of ABC News. “Caylee certainly never wanted her mother to die.”

I don’t know, Mr. Baez. She probably wouldn’t, but she didn’t deserve to have her life cut short. Too bad you can’t figure out what really did happen to her. Or maybe the prosecution team already knows.

When I picked Brit up from school, I asked her if she had an interesting day.   She said, “Yes!  We had a code red and it was for real.”   In the car, we asked her for details.

“We were out on the playground after lunch.    The gym teacher started yelling for us to come in right now.   I thought, ‘What’s the rush?’, but I ran across the baseball field and walked up the hill, because it’s steep.    My teacher said to come into the classroom.   She had us all go to the corner, she turned the light off and locked the door.   Then we all started asking questions.    Two girls were crying and one was worried but didn’t cry.   One had to go to the bathroom really bad, but she couldn’t leave the room until the code red was cancelled.”

She had all sorts of rumours about why there was a code red, but they all had to do with a person shooting someone.   A student, who may have been expelled earlier in the day, walked into school and shot the vice principal and the principal.   The first is in critical condition; the second is in serious condition.   The student is dead by self-inflicted gunshot.

I was in a meeting at work when one of the managers came into the room and said, “Did you hear about the shooting at Millard South?”      Details trickled in, but once I heard all of the Millard schools were locked down, I felt a bit better.   The part of me that wanted to run out of the room and pick Brit up from school calmed down a bit.     I love our school district.   I appreciate how they watch after our children and have these safety plans in place and practiced throughout the year.

I know Millard South well.  My brothers and I graduated from it.  Brit takes swimming lessons there.

I hope the people who were shot make a full recovery.

update:  Assistant Vice Principal Vicki Kaspar has died of her injuries.