SATURDAY
- Swimming class with Katherine. She’s one of three kids in the “Otter” cohort, and she’s behind the other two (who’ve had private lessons), struggling to learn forward and backward crawl. But she’s perceptibly improving, and she’s enthusiastic, and she declared repeatedly over the weekend how she wants to be a swimming teacher when she grows up.
- Errands. The Joy of Costco.
- CoH in the afternoon, participating in the big Freedom Phalanx Council-bash. More over on the CoH page when I get to it.
- Hungry Flock “progressive church dinner” thang. Good food, good conversation, lots of inquiries about the new rector I couldn’t answer, lots of discussions of controversial stuff, but quite pleasant. New sitter worked out very nicely, so she goes on the list.
SUNDAY
- A very pleasant morning with Margie.
- Church. Palm Sunday, so loooooong (both Matthew’s the entrance procession, and Matthew’s Passion, and the, alas, sermon). No announcement on the new rector yet — but, appropriately, I expect one on Easter Sunday.
- Jackie was feeling under the weather, so the Testerfolk bowed out of the Sunday game, which I then cancelled (their being 40% of the team).
- Finished getting Christmas down and packed away! Huzzah! And in one fewer crate than last year, which is … worrisome.
- Did some CoH stuff. More on the CoH page when I get to it.
- Relatively early to bed.
TODAY
- Jury Duty! In Colorado, it’s one-day-or-one-jury. So I’ll could be dismissed when I show up, or sucked into a full-blown trial by the end of the day. We’ll see. I’d actually like to sit on a jury — it’s interesting stuff, when it isn’t so damned boring.38 view(s)
On the box thing.
Maybe Margies abilties to pack things is now at such a high level that she is able to bend the laws of nature to her will. By doing this she has created a TARDIS of packing.
My last time was a few years ago. One of the most annoying things about jury duty is that you’re held incommunicado when you’re not even on a jury. Jury duty waiting areas should have wireless ethernet, web-connected computers you can use, and people should be allowed to have cell phones. That way it would be less of a hardship on busy people.
It would be a bit more of a waiting-room management problem but likely fewer problems with people trying to evade jury duty. So it would probably come out about even. As it is the waiting rooms are managed in a way that fails to recognize the human factor.
When MrsDoF went to Jury duty they told her she couldn’t even crochet while waiting. She gets very nervous and agitated if she can’t crochet, and it interferes with her concentration if she has to watch something without it. Apparently a six-inch wooden crochet hook is the equivalent of an AR-15 so they can’t let it in the courthouse.
Feh!
Maybe Margies abilties to pack things is now at such a high level that she is able to bend the laws of nature to her will. By doing this she has created a TARDIS of packing.
She’s had that special talent for some time. Now if only she could warp weight as well as volume, we’d be set.
There were certainly people in the waiting room using their cell phones. Nobody had any computers out that I saw, but I’d been planning on bringing mine. No instructions beforehand about what was or wasn’t allowed in the jury waiting room (or into the building).
Come to think of it, there was a note at the front desk security line about sewing scissors, but none about crochet needles. Given the general goofiness of the security uniform, though (suede epaulets and pocket covers on white shirts), it wouldn’t have surprised me.