I was behind on blogging anyway, and I wrote, like, half a post the other day. I was going to finish it off and push it up and it's completely missing. Argh. That's odd, WordPress is usually great about saving that stuff without you having to push a button or anything. Well, I don't have …
Cross Examination, pt. 3
Sorry, I know this is late. Part 1. Part 2. So, to remind you all, this all started right at the top of the year, and it took about a week to get the jury together, and they set the schedule as being Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, so we didn't get started until the second Wed …
A Veritable Smorgasbord
The word 'veritable' came up in the NY Times "Strands" puzzle recently and my brain instantly leapt to this. https://youtu.be/kf1bu5sUXaU?si=kpNQyvYQxCZziX4p I hadn't heard that in years! Sam and I were both fans of the book as kids, and we as a family went to see the movie, which I didn't love, but have grown to …
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (pt. 3)
Now we're up to Sunday (Mar. 8th). Daylight Saving Time happened overnight, urgh, but I woke up at my traditional time, now 6:15. My legs hurt (I'd done 25K steps or so the day before) and I had a blister forming on my right foot. Oh, well, no hope for it. This day was starting …
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (pt. 2)
Saturday! Magic Kingdom day! I'd bought a two-day 'park hopper' pass, so theoretically I could go to any of the four parks, but Magic Kingdom was what I'd planned. The way you jump the line at DW is called "Lightning Lanes". You could buy a set of 3 timed entrees (one each) to a selected …
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (pt. 1)
So, as threated, I went to Disney World last weekend! It was a blast! Growing up, my family was not an amusement park family. (we were a sailing family, and also a 'go to odd Central American countries' family.) I did get to go with friends' families to King's Dominion and Busch Gardens and had …
Camaraderie
This is just a 'life of Eric' post. I promise I will wrap up the Tale of the Jury Trial soon, but I have a case of the I-dohn-wanna's about it, which I'll just have to push through, probably on Sunday. Good things happening! For instance, I am going to Disney World! Next weekend! I …
Cross Examination, Part 2
So I covered in Part 1 who the players were as far as the crime. As far as the trial, we had: The judge. He was from Central Casting, older, silver hair, and we found out when we ran into him in the hallway, quite tall. He was avuncular and funny. But he also took …
Dam Busters
Paul Krugman, in his email newsletter, always ends it with a 'musical coda', a video of a song he wants to share, maybe related to the email content, maybe not. This is mine today. https://youtu.be/kvyaLAdLmo4?si=ewgSn1lKlORIZjip And who is this adorable bear conducting? His name is Ben Palmer. *makes notes to google-stalk him later* Anyway, the …
Cross Examination, Part 1
OK, so I've gone on about the jury duty and the voir dire and what a pain it was to find lunch in Kew Gardens, but I couldn't talk about the trial until it was over. Well - it's over, as of Tuesday. Here's a good summary of the crime. Parolee allegedly guns down mother's …
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