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My jury duty is over for the year. Or at least until I get another summons in the mail. We were instructed Monday to be at the central courtroom at 8 a.m. Then, the selection of potential jurors for many-a-trials were selected. I was one of 60 selected for jury “I” –yes, there were that many trials scheduled for this week, and more even after our group was dismissed for the day. Just before we left on Monday, we all were given a sheet to have us call in on Monday evening at 5:00PM for further instructions…the recorded message was up for us until 8am on Tuesday morning. Okay, so I called in early hoping the recording would be up…it was…and Jury “I” was then instructed to reconvene at the central courtroom on Tuesday morning at 8:30 am. I got there at around 8:15am, and the sixty people were mostly all there by then, with a few little ‘stragglers’ coming in shortly after I arrived. Then, we sat…and sat. [I hate that part.] Altho, I did get some reading done. And watched juror #36 beside me play billiards on his cell phone while we continued to wait.
Finally the court clerk came in, took roll call. One didn’t show…oh, oh…around here, in this county in Texas if you don’t show up as instructed there is a stiff penalty — $1000.00 for the first and more if you continue to not show after other attempts of getting you as a juror.
Okay, then…the roll call complete. She calls up to the courtroom floor above us, on more floors; tells the judge we’re ready to be taken to his courtroom. We wait some more. She ends up leaving us to bide our time until a court deputy appears and escorts us all upstairs….
Around 9:30am, she re-enters the central courtroom where we were ‘held in captivity’…and tells us we have a twenty minute break. Oh boy……..I’m thinking “This is gonna be a long day for us all.”
Well, the twenty minute break turned into about an hour and a half!!! ‘Long about 11am, after a few of us went to the cafeteria and sat and drank iced bottled water, coffee, juice, etc…we were informed that the accused was in the midst of a plea bargain, yet the judge didn’t want us to leave until all legal documents were signed and notarized, etc. etc. etc. So, guess what, all 60 of us did some more waiting.
But the court clerk stayed with us…she sat by the phone wired up to the judge’s chambers…finally, the phone rang…she said “This is it people!” “It’s either release you, or take you up there for the rest of the day and more”. All’s quiet on the western front…[well, north in this case]…she hangs up the receiver, and turns around to us…”You’re free to go, ’til we need you again”……..boy howdy you should have seen the stampede through the main doors!!!
It was like letting all the pigeons out of the cage to fly free once again.
So, now my jury duty, my citizenship honor is over for this time. We never did find out what the trial was. And for that matter, I don’t think any of us cared.
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I don’t know if each county in Texas does their system this way for selecting jurors, but it’s really quite a ‘rinky-dink’ system here if you ask me. In Colorado, when I was summoned to be a potential juror, when we received the notice in the mail, —we were instructed to go to a certain courtroom in the courthouse, and we already knew what judge we had and soon found out what the trial was beforehand. A much less complicated way of handling it…saves a lot of paper work….saves a lot of time…saves a lot of all this extra labor/time for the unnecessary employees that are paid by our tax dollars!!! Really an odd way. I tellya, really odd. In Arizona while serving jury duty it was quite similar to Colorado’s…Texas? At least this county….did, I say odd before? It is.
NOW!! I can get back to bloggin’ and blog visiting. I must admit, I was ‘dying’ to get back and leave some comments to y’all who visited me in the last couple of days. Yay!! Free at last, free at last…thank god-almighty, I’m free at last. [to blog anyway]
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[scroll below jury duty update for commenting]
My jury duty is over for the year. Or at least until I get another summons in the mail. We were instructed Monday to be at the central courtroom at 8 a.m. Then, the selection of potential jurors for many-a-trials were selected. I was one of 60 selected for jury “I” –yes, there were that many trials scheduled for this week, and more even after our group was dismissed for the day. Just before we left on Monday, we all were given a sheet to have us call in on Monday evening at 5:00PM for further instructions…the recorded message was up for us until 8am on Tuesday morning. Okay, so I called in early hoping the recording would be up…it was…and Jury “I” was then instructed to reconvene at the central courtroom on Tuesday morning at 8:30 am. I got there at around 8:15am, and the sixty people were mostly all there by then, with a few little ‘stragglers’ coming in shortly after I arrived. Then, we sat…and sat. [I hate that part.] Altho, I did get some reading done. And watched juror #36 beside me play billiards on his cell phone while we continued to wait.
Finally the court clerk came in, took roll call. One didn’t show…oh, oh…around here, in this county in Texas if you don’t show up as instructed there is a stiff penalty — $1000.00 for the first and more if you continue to not show after other attempts of getting you as a juror.
Okay, then…the roll call complete. She calls up to the courtroom floor above us, on more floors; tells the judge we’re ready to be taken to his courtroom. We wait some more. She ends up leaving us to bide our time until a court deputy appears and escorts us all upstairs….
Around 9:30am, she re-enters the central courtroom where we were ‘held in captivity’…and tells us we have a twenty minute break. Oh boy……..I’m thinking “This is gonna be a long day for us all.”
Well, the twenty minute break turned into about an hour and a half!!! ‘Long about 11am, after a few of us went to the cafeteria and sat and drank iced bottled water, coffee, juice, etc…we were informed that the accused was in the midst of a plea bargain, yet the judge didn’t want us to leave until all legal documents were signed and notarized, etc. etc. etc. So, guess what, all 60 of us did some more waiting.
But the court clerk stayed with us…she sat by the phone wired up to the judge’s chambers…finally, the phone rang…she said “This is it people!” “It’s either release you, or take you up there for the rest of the day and more”. All’s quiet on the western front…[well, north in this case]…she hangs up the receiver, and turns around to us…”You’re free to go, ’til we need you again”……..boy howdy you should have seen the stampede through the main doors!!!
It was like letting all the pigeons out of the cage to fly free once again.
So, now my jury duty, my citizenship honor is over for this time. We never did find out what the trial was. And for that matter, I don’t think any of us cared.
- – -
I don’t know if each county in Texas does their system this way for selecting jurors, but it’s really quite a ‘rinky-dink’ system here if you ask me. In Colorado, when I was summoned to be a potential juror, when we received the notice in the mail, —we were instructed to go to a certain courtroom in the courthouse, and we already knew what judge we had and soon found out what the trial was beforehand. A much less complicated way of handling it…saves a lot of paper work….saves a lot of time…saves a lot of all this extra labor/time for the unnecessary employees that are paid by our tax dollars!!! Really an odd way. I tellya, really odd. In Arizona while serving jury duty it was quite similar to Colorado’s…Texas? At least this county….did, I say odd before? It is.
NOW!! I can get back to bloggin’ and blog visiting. I must admit, I was ‘dying’ to get back and leave some comments to y’all who visited me in the last couple of days. Yay!! Free at last, free at last…thank god-almighty, I’m free at last. [to blog anyway]
…and the saga continues. I hafta return at 8:30 a.m.[Tuesday] for jury duty. Alas!!
Yesterday’s Fun Monday Poll Results Here
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This week’s prompt for Heads or Tails is – Doctor
Doctors, huh? Everyone that knows me knows I don’t like [but find them a necessity at times] the medical doctors! And I don’t expect anyone to agree…this is just for my own personal views and my experiences. I don’t like the idea that we humans are nothing but guenia pigs of their science. When drugs are issued to a patient on the basis of all the hypochondriacs who think they NEED drugs!! It’s all a matter of trial and error, and too often [even if that error is one in a thousand] it’s fatal error.
- from Yah** News:
The increase in deaths was highest among baby boomers [because of prescription drug use], people in their 40s and 50s.
“We’re sort of drug happy,” said boomer Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, the University of Arizona’s pharmacy dean, who was not involved in the research. “We have this general attitude that drugs can fix everything.“
I’ve learned over the years to question their integrity and education. Seriously. I experienced one nearly fatal Rx [and THAT constituted my decision to have the ablation --FIX the problem, and in turn not depend on any prescription drugs to keep the SVT under control...] in the last year that I am now finding myself literally refusing medication where, if I know I can work on the problem myself [if possible], I work on my own time to fix what ails me. Or what the ailment is, of course, if it’s workable and doable withOUT medication, I will opt to not take them. I’ve spent too many long hours in ER and having tests run where they find the same thing over and over, and they all agree that I’m healthy for my age and my lifestyle. At one time, long ago, before I educated myself with the ‘doctor’s world’ and pharmacy – I’ve been considered high risk at times, but I think of it this way: I’m at high risk getting behind the steering wheel, driving in traffic; even chewing there is a high risk of choking -becoming fatal! So, I need to question it all for my own piece of mind. I don’t EVER want to live a life of being medicated to live a more ‘painless’ life. That, to me is NOT a life. Okay then…so, one day, I’m at high risk –then the next time I have a doctor’s visit, I’m as healthy as all get out…I don’t get it!! Then, ‘these medications will help you live longer’…then, in three months without even taking the so called ‘cure-alls’ [a choosing of my own accord with some strong words exchanged with my primary care physician] I’m now too healthy to even be seen by a doctor-’we’ll keep tabs on your blood work’ ‘other than that, you’re good to go’. And people who talk about all the medications they’re constantly on “I can’t talk right now, my meds are throwing me for a loop”…”These things [pills] are strong as all get out, my head is spinning, but they’re sure working” …hearing this talk, well, it just makes me cringe…there is MIND over matter —even psychiatrists agree that the mind makes you think too much about physical pain– Granted, there are physical things that need to be attended to by the care of these so called doctors of medicine, and I trust there are good ones out there, but learn to question their choices and advice before leaping into a cupboard full of Rx – [ask why? ask side effects, ask is this necessary, ask is there an alternative to drugs. BeFORE you end up in ER with a near-fatal allergic reaction like I did]… Oh well, it’s all personal preferences and thoughts…….
Enough of that. On with my Head or Tails. It’s a little boasting on my part. hehehe Now this doctor will be on the top of my list. He has been since 1972! Altho, right now, he’s taking a year off from his mark in life, he will be and is determined to have the title “Doctor” behind his name. This year, while he’s on ‘sabbatical’ from highering his education to that very title, he is going to be in Argentina for the month soon. This is long over-due vacation-he hasn’t been on a vacation other than a long weekend here and there since 1994. Since high school, then entering the United States Marine Corps and being discharged Corporal, he moved out to Houston Texas and has gone to college part time at night while working long hard hours during the day to pay for his education. Last year, he graduated with his masters degree in Economics, history and education. He’s now a professor of social science and English as a 2nd language and remains working as a real estate/insurance investor advisor. In the near future he will begin working on his PhD in Economics and History. Then, more than likely in 2010 I will be able to say our son…the doctor!!
Our son, receiving his Master’s Degree from University of Saint Thomas [the only Catholic, private, university in the area] in Houston.
…and the saga continues. I hafta return at 8:30 a.m.[Tuesday] for jury duty. Alas!!
Yesterday’s Fun Monday Poll Results Here
Join Here
This week’s prompt for Heads or Tails is – Doctor
Doctors, huh? Everyone that knows me knows I don’t like [but find them a necessity at times] the medical doctors! And I don’t expect anyone to agree…this is just for my own personal views and my experiences. I don’t like the idea that we humans are nothing but guenia pigs of their science. When drugs are issued to a patient on the basis of all the hypochondriacs who think they NEED drugs!! It’s all a matter of trial and error, and too often [even if that error is one in a thousand] it’s fatal error.
- from Yah** News:
The increase in deaths was highest among baby boomers [because of prescription drug use], people in their 40s and 50s.
“We’re sort of drug happy,” said boomer Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, the University of Arizona’s pharmacy dean, who was not involved in the research. “We have this general attitude that drugs can fix everything.“
I’ve learned over the years to question their integrity and education. Seriously. I experienced one nearly fatal Rx [and THAT constituted my decision to have the ablation --FIX the problem, and in turn not depend on any prescription drugs to keep the SVT under control...] in the last year that I am now finding myself literally refusing medication where, if I know I can work on the problem myself [if possible], I work on my own time to fix what ails me. Or what the ailment is, of course, if it’s workable and doable withOUT medication, I will opt to not take them. I’ve spent too many long hours in ER and having tests run where they find the same thing over and over, and they all agree that I’m healthy for my age and my lifestyle. At one time, long ago, before I educated myself with the ‘doctor’s world’ and pharmacy – I’ve been considered high risk at times, but I think of it this way: I’m at high risk getting behind the steering wheel, driving in traffic; even chewing there is a high risk of choking -becoming fatal! So, I need to question it all for my own piece of mind. I don’t EVER want to live a life of being medicated to live a more ‘painless’ life. That, to me is NOT a life. Okay then…so, one day, I’m at high risk –then the next time I have a doctor’s visit, I’m as healthy as all get out…I don’t get it!! Then, ‘these medications will help you live longer’…then, in three months without even taking the so called ‘cure-alls’ [a choosing of my own accord with some strong words exchanged with my primary care physician] I’m now too healthy to even be seen by a doctor-’we’ll keep tabs on your blood work’ ‘other than that, you’re good to go’. And people who talk about all the medications they’re constantly on “I can’t talk right now, my meds are throwing me for a loop”…”These things [pills] are strong as all get out, my head is spinning, but they’re sure working” …hearing this talk, well, it just makes me cringe…there is MIND over matter —even psychiatrists agree that the mind makes you think too much about physical pain– Granted, there are physical things that need to be attended to by the care of these so called doctors of medicine, and I trust there are good ones out there, but learn to question their choices and advice before leaping into a cupboard full of Rx – [ask why? ask side effects, ask is this necessary, ask is there an alternative to drugs. BeFORE you end up in ER with a near-fatal allergic reaction like I did]… Oh well, it’s all personal preferences and thoughts…….
Enough of that. On with my Head or Tails. It’s a little boasting on my part. hehehe Now this doctor will be on the top of my list. He has been since 1972! Altho, right now, he’s taking a year off from his mark in life, he will be and is determined to have the title “Doctor” behind his name. This year, while he’s on ‘sabbatical’ from highering his education to that very title, he is going to be in Argentina for the month soon. This is long over-due vacation-he hasn’t been on a vacation other than a long weekend here and there since 1994. Since high school, then entering the United States Marine Corps and being discharged Corporal, he moved out to Houston Texas and has gone to college part time at night while working long hard hours during the day to pay for his education. Last year, he graduated with his masters degree in Economics, history and education. He’s now a professor of social science and English as a 2nd language and remains working as a real estate/insurance investor advisor. In the near future he will begin working on his PhD in Economics and History. Then, more than likely in 2010 I will be able to say our son…the doctor!!
Our son, receiving his Master’s Degree from University of Saint Thomas [the only Catholic, private, university in the area] in Houston.
My Fun Monday follows my snail mail excitement [ya, right!] in the same entry —
I should be so lucky!! Yep, not more than a year ago, I got one of these in the mail. I managed to get out of it then, but I don’t think I’ll be so fortunate this time. Yessiree, ANOTHER JURY SUMMONS!! I must be an upstanding citizen or something. [kidding] I just hate this. I have to report in the courtroom at 8a.m. Monday -and sit, and sit, and sit. While I could well be home sitting at my computer. LOL
Oh well….c’est la vie!!
Our hostess has asked us to go and rule. Rule a country, rule the world, but rule. And she asks “What rule would you make – abolish the penny, or make coffee free.” I’d say to this: “Neither”. I even pick up pennies if I find them…and I DON’T DO COFFEE!! [ewwwww! just the thought] So, I’m breaking the rules of Fun Monday a bit. Hey, I’m ruler right? I’m not ‘into’ dreaming the fantasy life at all, I’m a realist. I can do this without any qualifying excuses, right? And still have some fun?—-
Headlines:
Hootin’ Anni now rules!
Her first rule for the country is to vote yay or nay. Be careful, remember…I rule!! Oh the consequences I could come up with if you don’t!!!!
On July 17th Ya*hoo N*ws posted an article. Actually I heard about it first on CNN news just the other day. And now since I have become ruler of my country, [men, women, and bloggers alike -as in BlogLand] I say, you MUST vote on this before you leave today. Beware if you don’t. That’s all I can say…this isn’t a threat…it’s my first command as ruler.
Anyway, the article is true. Only in San Francisco would they come up with this. Is it the wet, humid weather that is affecting them, or what? Perhaps it’s ’cause they’re so far up in northern California they get nose bleeds and lose all sanity? I don’t know. But I do say, now hear this:
Thu Jul 17, 8:27 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO –
- A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.
Local Republicans say they will oppose it. Y’all don’t suppose they think it’s a ‘stinky’ idea, do you? Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom. Cool!!
As ruler: I put the ballot online for my ‘stool‘ pigeons [stool, get it? ::snort::] vast community for a vote [activate your javascript in your browser if you don't see this, it's run by javascript!!!]…. POLL NOW CLOSED Here are the results
Now, go out and have a nice day. Feel ‘relieved’ with what you just did here!!
Article copyrighted © by Yah** N*ws.
2008
All use herein by order of ruler Hootin’ Anni
No infringement intended.
Qualifying for educational use only.
No profits made.
My Fun Monday follows my snail mail excitement [ya, right!] in the same entry —
I should be so lucky!! Yep, not more than a year ago, I got one of these in the mail. I managed to get out of it then, but I don’t think I’ll be so fortunate this time. Yessiree, ANOTHER JURY SUMMONS!! I must be an upstanding citizen or something. [kidding] I just hate this. I have to report in the courtroom at 8a.m. Monday -and sit, and sit, and sit. While I could well be home sitting at my computer. LOL
Oh well….c’est la vie!!
Our hostess has asked us to go and rule. Rule a country, rule the world, but rule. And she asks “What rule would you make – abolish the penny, or make coffee free.” I’d say to this: “Neither”. I even pick up pennies if I find them…and I DON’T DO COFFEE!! [ewwwww! just the thought] So, I’m breaking the rules of Fun Monday a bit. Hey, I’m ruler right? I’m not ‘into’ dreaming the fantasy life at all, I’m a realist. I can do this without any qualifying excuses, right? And still have some fun?—-
Headlines:
Hootin’ Anni now rules!
Her first rule for the country is to vote yay or nay. Be careful, remember…I rule!! Oh the consequences I could come up with if you don’t!!!!
On July 17th Ya*hoo N*ws posted an article. Actually I heard about it first on CNN news just the other day. And now since I have become ruler of my country, [men, women, and bloggers alike -as in BlogLand] I say, you MUST vote on this before you leave today. Beware if you don’t. That’s all I can say…this isn’t a threat…it’s my first command as ruler.
Anyway, the article is true. Only in San Francisco would they come up with this. Is it the wet, humid weather that is affecting them, or what? Perhaps it’s ’cause they’re so far up in northern California they get nose bleeds and lose all sanity? I don’t know. But I do say, now hear this:
Thu Jul 17, 8:27 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO –
- A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot. The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.
Local Republicans say they will oppose it. Y’all don’t suppose they think it’s a ‘stinky’ idea, do you? Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom. Cool!!
As ruler: I put the ballot online for my ‘stool‘ pigeons [stool, get it? ::snort::] vast community for a vote [activate your javascript in your browser if you don't see this, it's run by javascript!!!]…. POLL NOW CLOSED Here are the results
Now, go out and have a nice day. Feel ‘relieved’ with what you just did here!!
Article copyrighted © by Yah** N*ws.
2008
All use herein by order of ruler Hootin’ Anni
No infringement intended.
Qualifying for educational use only.
No profits made.
