Eighteen months after escaping jury duty I have received notice of being summoned again. Goddammit. Hopefully when I call the night before I will once again be relieved of this, but I have a feeling that I won’t be so lucky this time.
However, today is all about this space, as it marks the 21st anniversary of this nonsense.
After two days of allowing my body to recover, and though I’m not yet back to 100%, I’m hoping today will mark the day I return to doing a lot of moving about. Unfortunately my sleep schedule is still completely out of whack.
Wordle: four, my starter was BLAST
I never understand why jury duty bothers people.
(this is not directed at you Paulie – this is a general observation)
Sure, its an inconvenience, but it gives you something different to do, and you get to see how the justice system works. If you are working, you get a “free” day off.
I am so shocked that neither Allan nor I have ever gotten called up since we’ve lived in Cobb county. (it’s been over 15 years)
I guess it’s because it’s an interruption and imposition? I think this may be the fifth time I’ve been summoned in my 25 years in Dekalb County? It seems statistically incorrect given the number of people who live in this county.
I assume as soon as Allan shows up in his firefighter uniform he’d be dismissed, if being a firefighter doesn’t get him a get out of jail free card before actual jury selection.
I’m with you Barb, I enjoy the process of the justice system and you get to hear some pretty great stories.
However, getting called every 18 months is a bit much. I was on that schedule for a while, even had to defer once due to being on vacation.
Funny story, I was talking to Dean a while back and he said it had been a while since I had jury duty. I usually connect with him for beers afterwards. Well, the next week I got a summons. Don’t tempt the universe!
Now I’m knocking on wood
Funny you mention that Bob. While wandering around Vancouver I saw a Canada Post mailbox and mentioned to Tamara that I no longer liked mail because it only seems to bring bad news like taxes and jury summons.
Yeah, I’m with ya. I like jury duty, I even served on a trial once. I got called as soon as I turned 18 and then every couple years until my late 30s. Then it stopped and I think I’ve only been called once since then and didn’t have to show up.
21 years of this blog – wow!!!!
I wonder when I started reading it………..
Yep, the blog can now buy beer… just not before 8am.
Wordle in 4.
Now that the blog is 21, can we take it out for a drink?
And you remember jury duty is a PAYING gig?
Last actual Games meeting before the event. Gladly, no surprises. All seems ready.
On the way, stopped at the greatest hardware store in the world in Tucker and also dropped my Scottish attire at the good cleaners there.
Prior to the meeting, a few of us gather at the Iron Horse in Norcross for dinner. Guinness is now $9 a pint. This seems outrageously expensive. It had been 8 and I thought it was too much…
-FP
Paying gig, surely you jest. It will cost me more to drive, park, and eat lunch, than I would receive as compensation.
All beer is expensive now.
they don’t have a free lot of jury duty? (I know, its Decatur, of course not)
John/HamWithCam will set me straight on the cost to park in Decatur.
Free, depending.
Mostly troublesome parking kiosks.
Avoid lots that threaten to boot, they will.
Is it convenient (given you are called to serve) to ride MARTA?
FYI, on the street is free….(After 6pm and Sunday).
Parking is a hassle in Decatur.
https://www.decaturga.com/cd/page/parking
73 de JG/HamWithCam
Payment for jury duty in Fulton county is like $25, not really worth it.
Fortunately my job will pay me while on jury duty.
Still waiting to feel well enough to undertake chores.
I went online yesterday to pay our property taxes – there was a $72 convenience fee.
I think we will go to the county office & pay in person. $5 or something like that I could live with, but $72??
I may have to do the same. I don’t remember what I paid last year as a “convenience” fee, but I know that it was too much.
Allan wrote a check – I don’t know if he asked about using a debit card, but that convenience fee was the same at the office for the credit card.
But- property taxes are paid!
I assumed it was more convenience fee to charge, as opposed to paying by check. I’m not sure that I have any checks, so I may just pay online and suffer another insufferable fee.
we have about 10 checks left, I figure that will last at least 5 years
WORDLE IN 3 BITCHES!!!!
(Ok, it was a crazy lucky guess, never thought that would be the word)
Can’t believe this blog is 21 years old, I don’t remember when I started reading but it has been a while.
Travis is on fall break next week so we decided to go somewhere. It is just our luck that we chose to fly (during government shutdown) to Chicago (apparently it is an active war zone). If our flight doesn’t get cancelled and we don’t get arrested by ICE we should have a good time. We are even renting a car to go out and see the house I grew up in.
Wish us luck!
Good luck.
I honestly had no clue about the government shutdown until my Lyft driver mentioned how light traffic was on Monday due to it. I live in a bubble which I have painted black in order to keep the world away.
I found this blog randomly before I knew any of you, but then I met Laura on the Buzz in like 2007 (?) and we created a running group in EAV (which Paulie and Steve attended several times). Ah, running. How I don’t miss you.
We have friends who split their time between Puerta Vallarta, Connecticut, and Atlanta. They are in Atlanta for a couple of weeks so we met them for dinner at Alici (in midtown in the Trader Joe’s plaza). They specialize in oysters and we had a dozen. It was nice because Kevin won’t eat them so I never order them.
Yes, I recall my short-lived EAV running days. I saw a lot of people running along the water in Vancouver and mused on how easy it is to exercise while traveling when running is your drug of choice.
Oysters? YUCK!
I can do oysters, but I like them cooked, not so much raw.
Bob, have a great trip. Let us know if you need bail money. Now that I’m retired, if the NG is deployed in Atlanta, I might just have to show up and exercise some first amendment rights.
oysters – they are usually too expensive for us to have very often (note to self – go somewhere where they are cheaper) but we enjoy them a lot. Every once in a while we find a happy hour special……..
Yeah, oysters are something you definitely don’t want to cheap out on. Bad oysters can be…very bad.