So, you guys know I love jury duty, right? I just got the most annoying jury summons ever -- it's "standby" for any court in the county, and it says I need to start calling in on a certain day. Nowhere did it say how long I had to keep calling in. I had to scour the website and open a 32-page PDF to learn that I could be on call for "up to five days." Which means I have to postpone, because I'm going out of town on the Wednesday of that week. I'm pretty sure when I was in Manhattan, it was two days or one trial (and there was no call-in), but I guess the rules go by county?
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2007 1:16:52 pm PDT #8002 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
bon bon - Aug 31, 2007 1:24:53 pm PDT #8003 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
WTH? It might have to do with the court. Does it give you an address or any indication of the kind of court it is? As in, it says something about civil part, family part, anything like that? You're no longer exempt?
Ginger - Aug 31, 2007 1:36:49 pm PDT #8004 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the passing of Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter.
That's too bad. Maybe I'll go out and buy some beer in his honor.
JenP - Aug 31, 2007 1:39:01 pm PDT #8005 of 10001
Because of ita and Lee, I bought tamarind, er, pods, I guess, at the farmers market today. Apparently it's the sweet kind they grow in Thailand especially for eating fresh. It's very tasty. Reminds me of something, but I can't name it yet.
No tamarind balls, but it seems I could make my own with the pulp. My list of things I tried/did/saw/listened to because of this place grows yet again.
I skipped the finance talk. Now I have to clean and pack for a road trip tomorrow.
Oh, and, hi, BigD. I had to skip a bunch, so I may have missed your backstory, but welcome!
Sue - Aug 31, 2007 1:40:11 pm PDT #8006 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I didn't have a lawyer. No way we could have afforded it.
My lawyer's fee was $795 plus disbursements and tax. It worked out to be just over $1100. (And I think $75 was a fee to the gov't to register my mortgage.)
I would love to start paying a little more than my set mortgage payments every month, but I'm not quite comfortable with my new level of debt. Maybe in another year, when I'm earning a little bit more and have adjusted my spending better.
Cashmere - Aug 31, 2007 1:44:37 pm PDT #8007 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
There are mortgage payment companies that take out part of the payment from your check every two weeks and then make one payment to your mortgage company. It works out to an extra payment a year which reduces the time on your mortgage without really ever realizing it. We used one before our last refinance and it worked out pretty well.
Our new mortgage is held by our regular bank so we don't use the service anymore.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2007 1:47:55 pm PDT #8008 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Does it give you an address or any indication of the kind of court it is? As in, it says something about civil part, family part, anything like that? You're no longer exempt?It says literally "all courts in Queens." At least it's petit jury. And one of the courts is close! The last time I had jury duty was like seven years ago, so yeah.
Cashmere - Aug 31, 2007 1:51:58 pm PDT #8009 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Andy Dick lives up to his name. Glad I didn't run into him when he was in town.
msbelle - Aug 31, 2007 1:55:14 pm PDT #8010 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
This week has sucked ass. The office closed at 2, "if you have finished all your work", which is BS, because people had flights to catch and EVERYONE but 4-5 of us left by 2:30 regardless. I stayed because the office was quiet and no one was interrupting me.
All that resulted in was me finding a bunch of errors in peoples' work. GRRR.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2007 2:24:34 pm PDT #8011 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My work gripe of the day is that a new editorial assistant gave me a bunch of files to combine late this afternoon (which is not part of my regular work responsibilities since I'm not officially working on the project), did not inform me it was urgent, skipped out of the office promptly at 5, and then after I'm the last one here I got a call from a more senior editor asking if I was done and could get the combined document to freelancers since this was apparently incoming artillery-level urgent.
People, I know nothing at all about the project you're working on beyond its anagram letters. I have not been in any of the meetings, received any memos or work schedules, or even been told what exactly it is. Since I'm apparently the only person in our entire company who can do what you need done to these files, just maybe keeping me informed of priorities before you scurry away for a long holiday weekend would be a good idea.