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:: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 ::

Do you ever feel like you're living in the Twighlight Zone?

Yesterday I happened to be in my kitchen grabbing something to eat and I noticed a young man standing out across the way between mine and my neighbors' yards. He seemed to looking at our properties. I wasn't sure why but shrugged it off thinking he was looking for the neighbors' kids or maybe the kids who previously lived in my house, which I moved into several weeks ago.

So, later in the afternoon, it was a severe shock to peer out an upstairs window to see the same on my deck directly below, trying to open the gate to my pool. I barricaded myself in a room upstairs and followed his movements around my house as best I could. I could hear him banging on doors. Eventually it got quiet. I never saw him leave but I got the courage to go downstairs. Phone in hand, I was ready to call 911 (the emergency number in the US) but also felt pathetically ill-equipped for danger and defenseless. The phone wouldn't have stopped him from bopping me over the head.

He wasn't in the house, but one door was left in a position that indicated he opened it and either stepped in or simply opened it and left. I filed a police report after talking with my neighbor who verified no boys they know of would be coming to their house to play with their kids and what I saw was highly unusual for the neighborhood. The police feel our properties were "staked out". Now I'm under protective watch by the police department.

This is why I didn't write in my blog yesterday. I'm trying to work today but friends and my mate call me every few hours. I work from home, alone, and usually that's sheer heaven but I now see that I need a dog. A very big dog. Maybe 20 of them. And a course in self defense. And, some brains. The police officer said next time, call 911 and let them decide if it's a "real" emergency or not. (I didn't think I was in bad danger.)

Sometimes nothing makes a damned bit of sense. I'm having those moments it seems. But I'm not alone. Adrian Lee, one of our Cre8asite Moderators, found this and it's raising some eyebrows >>> Saddening Fact About Web Standards

"It is a sad case that a site all about Web Accessibility and the requirements of sites to be accessible to people with disabilities, has not only been designed without many features to make it accessible, but people have actually tried stopping those features being put in!"

For those wanting to know how Andy's date went..."Well i thought i'd let you all know, it went brilliant, everything worked out fine." Of course! When the Cre8asiteForums guests help a fellow guest make dinner for his girlfriend, what did you expect?

May we all have good days (and dates) like Andy's

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 7/30/2003 03:38:27 PM

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