So,

For the third time in about 9 years, I’ve been summoned to Jury duty. Now, you only have to serve once every 4 years so I’ve been getting picked pretty much immediately after each of my 4 years is up. I only wish I could be so lucky in the lottery.

I need to serve for two days (Feb 27-28), and the first day (yesterday), was pretty busy. However, they had someone from the blood center at the courthouse and they were doing a blood drive. I had never donated before so I figured, ‘what the hell…it might help pass some time’. What I didn’t know is that signing up for it automatically removes you from the pool until you’re done giving blood. Since I was one of the last to sign up for the drive, I never was called all day.

Today it’s much much slower. They’ve only called one panel so far today. Maybe they’ll let us out early today.

It’s interesting to see the various people in the jury waiting area, as it’s pretty much a true random selection of people from the community. Race, class, political bent, it’s all here. What’s surprising is how easily everyone just accepts the situation of being stuck in a somehwhat small area for two days straight and gets along with their fellow citizens. You really don’t hear any grumbling or see any bad moods.

Hey!

Yeah, the last few weeks have seen very little new content here…sorry about that. There are a few reasons for this which I’ll put in their own blog entries shortly. In summary though, I returned to school at the end of January after about a 20 year leave, and even though I’m only taking two classes a week it has taken me a few weeks to adjust to my new schedule and get an idea on how much time homework and reading are going to be taking.

We also had a huge network issue at work….where our switches kept resetting themselves. Took the better part of a week to resolve that…turned out to be a faulty router.

Finally, the last few weekends I’ve had booked. Either for my Birthday, or for a trip to lambeau field for a Hockey game with a group of friends, I’ve just had no time. Thankfully, there isn’t a whole lot on my calendar in the near future and I’ve adjusted to being back at school so I hope to start adding content on a more consistent basis shortly.