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Well, it’s official–I even have a shiny certificate to prove it!–I am done with my week of jury duty! Whew! Who ever thought that sitting around all day waiting for something to happen would be so exhausting?
This week I was called to three criminal trials. The first (on Monday) was a laundry […]

Growing up on the south side of Chicago there in one candy that you can call home to, and that’s the Tootsie Roll. As a kid, they were around every where. I remember in second grade when we had the surprise field trip to the Tootsie Roll factory and than got McDonald’s Happy […]

Survived Day One of jury duty at Cleveland’s downtown Justice Center (which, to my hopelessly geeky mind, sounds like I’ve been hanging out with the Superfriends all day). Nothing terribly exciting so far, though most of the process (not including an actual trial, deliberations, verdict, etc.) is now thoroughly demystified. Got a modest […]

This past weekend we spent a great deal of time cleaning the basement in an effort to make it a useable room instead of just a dumping ground for boxes, stuff we don’t need any more and extra junk.
So, we now have several piles in the basement. Garbage, boxes, wine shipping boxes […]

So Saturday, MIke did probably the stupidest thing I think I’ve ever seen him do. I took a wet paint brush and put that paint on the wall paper in the laundry room.
Why is this stupid? Well, he knew I’ve been looking at the room pondering what I’d do with it. […]

I’ve found myself not listening to my iPod as much over the past year or so, even though I love it and it has done more to preserve my sanity at work than any three other gizmos, and I lay the blame on headphones. I disliked the original iPod earbuds (uncomfortable, crappy); my over-the-ear, […]

My case of the Mondays just keeps right on rolling… I’ve spent the whole week putting out small fires on projects that were supposed to be long put to bed and/or that I wasn’t supposed to be spending any time on. How did an official allocation of zero percent of my time suddenly […]

I feel as if 150 cases of wine have fallen on me and I’m finally digging out from under them. I can’t believe that last time I posted was Dec. 15! But than again, between, work, holidays, parental units visiting, and everything else, I’m not surprised.
So, since it’s already after 11. Let’s […]

Liz’s birthday is on New Year’s Eve (apparently her folks really wanted to claim the deduction ASAP), and since we generally prefer not to go out when it’s going to be a suicidal drunkfest on the highways, we tend to stay in and fix up something tasty to enjoy. This year, as part of […]

And it’s not even a Monday. Blecch.

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