So, lowering the portcullis and staying in the castle with whatever goods may be needed to survive the siege of winter is not a good plan?

No. Every actual appellate lawyer (and the judge is not one) says that for it to be grounds for appeal there has to be a finding of a direct link -- a juror who heard the statement, brought it into the jury room and that MW being angry at them affected decision making. Can't be speculative in any way.

Thanks for the clarification, Sparky. Always better to hear from the experts.

I have to share - I am officially taking a sick day today but I'm getting a little work done because there are things that can't wait that no one else knows how to do and I feel ok. Anyway, I checked my email for anything urgent and there was a question about this ongoing thing that I felt like I should respond to. So I did, and got back three OOO autoresponses from other people in the conversation. This seems hilarious to me - so urgent and none of us are actually there working on it!

We managed to get appointments booked! First shot on Saturday, wheeee!

{makes Kermit arms} Yay!

Jim just used the phrase "I'm completely aligned on this" in a meeting. I am going downstairs for the flamethrower.

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Hahaha that’s our current buzzword for everything and I hate it! Driving alignment has become my primary priority, apparently. Ugh.

Toddson! Jesus, how scary!

I've been called once, and I reported, but I just sat in the room all day. I'm all registered and licensed and stuff, but... only ever been called once.

Timelies all!

I've been called twice to jury duty, once in NC, once here. Didn't end up on the jury either time, though the one here was close(I was the first person after the alternates, I think).

Meanwhile today was not a great day. I was teleworking, which turned out to be a good thing as our nanny was sick. I ended up sitting in his room during one class which he wasn't paying much attention to. Later I ended up going outside with him, and of course he had to go to the playground that's a mile away. He ended up running far ahead of me on our way home(I was taking his bicycle back) and locking the front door on me. Sigh...

Look at all those summer pictures with nary a winter picture to be had of what frequently is a frozen hellscape of the Lake they call Michigan.

Or as I call it, good skiing weather.

I only served on a jury once. It was a shoplifting case with a black defendant. The security footage made it clear she was innocent, but there were two white jurors who wanted to vote guilty because she “just looked guilty” (i.e., black). Everyone on the innocent side was salaried and happy to come back the next day to discuss it further. The two on the guilty side were hourly and losing money with every minute they spent on the jury. So they gave in. And so the course of a person’s future was decided. I believe in trial by jury, but justice shouldn’t depend on the overlap of racist and insecure income.

Had my performance review. I got "strongly exceeds" which is very good. I know I put the work in, but it's weird getting the rating when I feel like I've been languishing the last few weeks. Which was directly after a 7-day On Call rotation. Hmm. Okay, that journey into impostor syndrome was brief.

Just put my vaccine card into my wallet! Heading to Walgreens shortly.

I've been called for jury duty 2x both in Tallahassee. The first time I was selected but there was a plea deal. Which was probably the best outcome for the defendant since his attorney wasn't well prepared for jury selection and the judge admonished him about something.

The 2nd time I wasn't selected. I had put on the paperwork that I wasn't related to anyone who was in law enforcement or a lawyer and had forgotten about my uncle. I was asked about it and just completely blanked on him . I never thought of him as my uncle the lawyer just my uncle...who oh yeah was a lawyer.