Close to Home

I don't usually post on current events, I figure I'm out of school, and I don't like watching the news as I feel they're all annoying and bothersome. But I was watching the news a lot last night because I saw a bunch of news vans in the area. And then I discovered that the girl who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe lived just a few minutes from my house. Now the house was literally on the wrong side of the tracks and not in the same demographic area as my house, but it's another reason to want to leave the city I live in. I looked at the house that they were in using Google Earth and holy crap, it's right by one of the driving ranges I go to. I'm a little stunned by this, but not that stunned that there were bad guys living in this area. It's not the nicest place. It's actually on a dirt road that cuts between two paved roads. I just figured there were meth labs and such there, but never anything like this.

I've never been this close to something that made itself a national news story. Of course, living by San Francisco, there's plenty of nuts there to make news and with Berkeley and Oakland close, tons of stories are told. But this one is almost in my backyard. I have a daughter of my own, as you may know, and I have many thoughts on what should happen to these creatures who kidnapped this poor little girl. None of them are nice thoughts.

What makes it more unreal for me is that I just finished reading a book called "Stolen Innocence" by a girl named Elissa Wall, who was in the FLDS and forced to marry at the age of 14 to her first cousin who was 19. I thought that was sick, and it was, but this story breaking right after reading that book has caused my paranoia for my little girl to shoot up a few notches. I used to say that her room would be her little princess castle, and now I'm thinking it's going to become an impenetrable fortress. So boys beware, this dad's not messing around. I'm going to go get that squeaky porch swing this weekend. It's never to early to be prepared.

On a happier note, we found out who T's teacher is going to be and that he doesn't have to get any supplies, just a pencil box. So that should be good. And Works Progress Administration, who I'm going to see at the end of September has started streaming their album on their site, so go check that out! wpamusic.com it's totally worth the trip.