Archive for the ‘Current Events’ Category
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Monday I spent three hours at the Autauga County courthouse waiting to go onto a jury duty panel. Judge Sibley Reynolds told us that the jury selection process used to be "ten old men" who were selected to pick jury panels, and they placed names of potential jurors in a ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
One more post about the accident from last January (not to be confused with the accident from last May, or the bumper-tap a couple of months ago). The settlement is finally done.
One of the first things that people say after you've been in an accident (aside from Are you okay? ...
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I finally got the settlement done, more or less as I wanted it. More on this after the check is in my hot little hand.
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
What's odd, and perhaps ironic, at least in the Alanis Morrisette sense of the word, is that my greatest fears leading up to a concert all revolve around getting there in one piece. I'm not a morbidly fearful kind of guy, despite nearly killing myself in a motorcycle accident early ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The Prattville Chamber is sponsoring a seminar by Tony Rubleski TODAY, and there are seats available, last I heard. What's funny is he is able to do this seminar (at this price) because he's already in town doing a (much more expensive) seminar for another group, and THAT seminar is ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
So I got a Starbucks gold card, which is actually black, a month or so ago. Cost $25 annually, but should be cost-effective because of the 10% discount. When you stop and think - that's sad that that's a good deal.
Recently I started seeing the Starbucks (red) propaganda bobbing up, ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
All time worst go at Nanowrimo so far. Every year I've tried it (until now), I've been able to get an idea and run with it. This year it's been three attempts at developing a plot, all of which have bored even me. If I don't abandon, this Thanksgiving weekend ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Probably time to update WP, but it's not happening right now. Behind on Nanowrimo wordcount. Off to work
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
To: Sarah Palin
Re: extemporaneous speaking
When a reporter tosses you a pineapple along the lines of "Wasn't it risky to make a joke about your opponent's longevity when your running mate is over 70 years old?", the denial approach works well, but in inverse proportion to how short said response is.
Good:
"No, ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
The more interesting life is, the less time I have to write about it. And then there are other complications. Interesting stuff at work. Not finalized so - can't write about it. Making some progress with the accident case. Not finalized so - can't write about it.
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