Domestic Geek

I meant to write about this last night, but Dave W. stopped by visit and took me to dinner. Someone left a bomb that exploded on the Ebay/Paypal campus in San Jose, CA. That's crazy that nobody is giving a reason for the bomb. I wonder what the perpetrator's beef with Ebay or Paypal is?

EBay shut down its North San Jose campus on Wednesday, clearing the way for bomb-sniffing dogs and investigators, who still don't know who planted a powerful explosive that blew out a window and forced more than 1,900 employees to work elsewhere.

Nobody was injured in the Halloween night blast -- and other Silicon Valley companies were not put on alert. EBay expected Thursday morning to reopen the campus that also houses some of its PayPal operations.

The company received no threats before or after the blast, which happened about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in a landscaped breezeway outside the 100,000 square-foot, four-story building.

I've been in a current events deprivation mode since I've been unemployed. If it hasn't had to do with the weather outside or current job openings, I really haven't paid much attention. It's been strange since I used to get constant news while driving around in my car or at the pizza job. I was not really surprised that I hadn't heard about an unidentified amnesia victim found here in Denver when I read an entry on a fellow Colorado blogger's site yesterday. I was surprised at how long ago the story happened—September 10th. I've definitely been living under a rock, lately.

Anyway, I just got an 850koa news alert in my inbox that said the man has been identified and a news conference has been scheduled for this afternoon. According to the Channel 7 web site:

DENVER -- A man who doctors say has amnesia has been identified, Denver police said.

Police said the man's name is Jeffrey Ingram. He was previously being called "Al" until police could identify him.

Ingram, 40, said he found himself Sept. 10 in front of Denver's World Trade Center.

He eventually found his way to Denver Health Medical Center.

Ingram's fingerprints are not in any database, so police were unable to immediately identify him.

Several television stations aired his picture in hopes of identifying him. As a result of the media coverage, family and friends recognized Ingram and called police Sunday morning.

Ingram remains in the hospital and said he is grateful for the media's assistance in getting his story out.

Ingram's fiancee, Penny Hansen, reported him missing Sept. 14 from Thurston County, WA. She said she had not seen Ingram since Sept. 6 when he supposedly left to Alberta Canada to visit relatives. He never arrived and his family and friends said they had not seen him since then.

A missing persons flier reported that in 1995 Ingram experienced an episode of amnesia during a routine trip to the grocery store. He was located nine months later at a hospital in Seattle, WA.

It's a great thing that somebody identified him. How scary must that be that this is not the first time this has happened to that poor guy?

I am so sick of crap like this:

ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

I've had it with this nanny society. All these school system are doing is putting out kids that can't cope with the real world.

I've been hesitant to write about what happened at Platte Canyon High School yesterday. I get a little numb with shock when things like this happen. As I sit here watching the news this morning, I have to get my thoughts out. What the hell is going on in our society? There is no known connection between the creep that did this, Duane Morrison, and the community. He killed a young woman for no reason at all. He terrorized a town for what? He didn't have any demands that we've heard. Then there's the senseless random killing of the Aurora police officer the other day. I don't/can't understand this random violence. How can a person do that? When is this insanity going to stop?

Dr. Phil's son, hunky Jay McGraw (swoon), got married today to one of the Dahm triplets (Erica). They met when they were doing Renovate My Family together. Awwww. Damn, he's a cutie. If I was younger, I wouldn't throw him out of bed for eating cookies. Anyway, seriously, I hope they have a happy life and stay married. Not enough celebrities are happy.