News Roundup No More.. Plus Other Things..

OK, so the news roundup experiment was a bust. While it was fun to post the first few days and include some cool pics like that Russian rocket burning up over Colorado I just don't have the time some days to keep up with it.

The renovation of the bathroom needed some renovating too. The location of the sink was giving me a headache. The drain would have been run through the side of the vanity instead of the bottom which meant the vanity location was very much set, the electrical would have been a pain since there is a pocket door where no receptacles can be mounted, and it just didn't give me the opportunity to do the lighting that I wanted. As is the case with me sometimes it took a little while to make this decision then take out the work that had already been done. I am chomping at the bit to move forward and I will - it's just been a delay. Argh.

OJ Simpson is back in the news again. The chapter of his cancelled book, "If I Did It," that deals with the murders of his (ex?)wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman was leaked in Newsweek. It turns out that his "hypothetical scenario" closely mirrors the actual facts of the case.

Here is an excerpt from that article -

After the murders... "Simpson writes that when he regains control of himself, he realizes he is drenched in blood and holding a bloody knife. Both Nicole and Goldman are dead. Simpson heads back to the alley but before getting into the Bronco to flee, strips down to his socks. He rolls his bloody clothes and the knife into a small pile. (That's an important detail. The police never recovered those clothes or the murder weapon, but they did find Simpson's socks—with Nicole's blood on them—at the foot of his bed at his Rockingham estate.) As he nears his house, Simpson sees the limo that will take him to the airport for his Chicago trip. He steals onto his estate via a darkened, hidden path that takes him directly behind the guesthouse where Kato Kaelin is living. Simpson describes how he stumbles into an air conditioner for Kaelin's room, making a terrific racket—just as Kaelin told police he had heard."

I always thought that OJ did it and because of the police screw ups in the case the jury ended up doubting his guilt instead of believing his innocence. These details, especially things that line up with the case like the socks, make me believe he's guilty even more. Too bad he can't be retried.

Here's a link to the Newsweek article -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16610772/site/newsweek/

Plus another piece from Slate -
http://www.slate.com/id/2157652/