Counting Down to 2008
27 December 2007
I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays or looking forward to the new year. I have been working on cleaning my office and finding many adapters plugged in but not being used and sucking electricity like little vampires. This is the only time of year I can catch up on my reading, file organizing, and email. I am off of work until next Wednesday.
Here in Salt Lake the snow has been piling up and I have a little over a foot of snow out my door and 6 feet in the mountains about 15 minutes away. On Christmas Eve I was in the Sugarhouse shopping district looking for a present at the last minute and ended up witnessing 2 teenagers running across a main street and into oncoming traffic. One of the kids ran into the path of an oncoming car and hit the driver side fender then over the hood shattering the windshield of the car and scaring the driver who could not see anything and had no time to react or avoid the teenager. I saw the boy flip in the air about 10 feet then land and by the time he landed I was stopped and running to help and dialing 911. Luckily the boy was not seriously injured but was bruised and cut up fairly badly. I had to fill out the police reports for witnessing the incident where the driver was not at fault. I have to say that the accident forms used by the Salt Lake County Sheriff was created by someone who could not speak English as the questions in English were almost laughable and had to be read multiple times to get what the question was asking, perhaps they got a cheap price on them. One note of interest is that even though this teenager when hit flipped 10 feet in the air doing a cartwheel and lost his shoes in the process, he never lost his grip on his beloved skateboard. I definitely had a talk with my kids about crossing at crosswalks and only when it is safe.
Now as I turn on the TV news I see that Bhutto has been murdered in Pakistan, a tiger killed a person at the San Francisco Zoo, and more depressing news. I can only hope 2008 will be a better year for all.
The New Year cannot come soon enough for me.
-Shaan