Haven't poested much in a couple of days. I've had a really busy week with client committments, which is good. Yesterday I had to take a semi-annual National Association of Secuities Dealers exam. A mind numbing, brain scrambling 3.5 hour ordeal. It's a good thing the mind in numb before it gets scrambled.

Today was jury duty. A half day exercise in futility, in that I was not chosen to serve.

Just got back from a walk with my Rottie. Weather is really getting nice here. It's funny how friendly people are in the Houston area, as long as they're not driving... I talked to several people I did not know during my little walk. In Chicago, any such attempt at conversation, by either party, would me considered a threat and met with open hostility, if not violence.


Oh well, life's good and the worst day I've ever had was wonderful.

Best regards,

It is strange how people act completely different behind the wheel. They showed people in cars reacting to situations then the same people walking and it was night and day. I have had people try to run me down on my motorbike for getting ahead of them by lanesplitting.

I live in a very small city and always say high to people I meet. I had a heck of a time when I moved to vancouver.

I had jury duty today too!! They called yesterday though and said that they'd settled and wouldn't need me! "SCORE!!"

Good to see ya back though!

Just say you are predijuced against everyone.
Homer Simpson

Tell 'em you're looking forward to being a juror, because you think you'd be real good at it. Cause you can spot a guilty person *snap* just like that!

LOL Andy that was perfect.

i prefer "if there weren't guilty, why were they arrested?"

Working in the prison system will pretty much disqualify me as far as attorneys are concerned.

How about this one, "hang them all"!

i'm pretty sure he's innocent your honor, but the voices in my head keep screaming "GUILTY"

A large part of what disqualified me was my admission that I listen to conservative talk radio. The question I was asked was, "Do you listen to talk radio?" I said I did and told them I listened to Rush Limbauh, Sean Hannity and other radical conservatives. That pretty much did it and I was largely ignored thereafter.

My wife just got dismissed from jury duty. In the 5th or 6th largest city in the U.S., she knew the guy.

I went to NY and it was the same way. Everyone looks eternally depressed and stairs at the ground, no one speaks and everyone has a look on their face like they just lost all of their 401K. Maybe I just happened to go on an off week.