Plans for today (2023)

JAS_OH1 said:
I love those docs!
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There used to be two that I liked, sort of opposite sides of the same subject.

One was “We Built This City,” where they started with a big metropolitan area, and with imaging/graphics/special effects, showed you what the area looked like before humans arrived, and proceeded like a time-lapse through the centuries, showing the first people to live there, the first basic settlement, then coalescing into a village/town/city and up to today.

The other, I can’t remember the name of, but it was about what would happen if humans instantly disappeared from the planet. The first episode covered something like the first 30 days, then the next episode the first year, etc, showing how long (or how quickly) the planet and non-human life moved to fill our space.
 
Glitch in the justice system, they’ve cut us loose until 12:30PM.

I walked the 1.5 miles up to McD’s, having a late-morning coffee, and about the time I finish that, I’ll have an early lunch and walk back.
 
TastyReuben said:
I ended up getting excused on the final pass by the defense attorney. 🤷🏻
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Consider yourself lucky. I hated jury service (this has more to do with the fact that 2 of my 3 fathers were lawyers and my mum retrained to be a lawyer, so I used to work for them during the school holidays and would attend trials sitting in with the barrister/QC as they were then, now KC's). I spent way too much time visit police stations and courts for my liking.

I've had 2×2 week sessions as a juror. When the 3rd came through the post inside 2 years, I objected and "won". I'd sat on 3 or 4 trials (as a juror) by that point including a paedophile (convicted) and an armed robber (also convicted). The armed robber was the last of a gang of 5 all tried separately so it was quiet a relief when we were told after giving our verdict, that the other 4 had all been convicted as well.

Since then, I've not been summoned again, but have provided police with evidence to convict a man of being a paedophile (again he was convicted, so I can call him that).
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
Who's funeral is this?
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My mum´s. My dad died last year.
So the funeral went fine, if you can describe losing a family member as "fine".
The local vicar, who conducted the service, was absolutely great, and we had a good funeral wake at a 14th century pub a few miles away. Closure, at last, for the two of them.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I've had 2×2 week sessions as a juror.
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I’ve been a bailiff on a court-martial, way back in (probably) 1989. That one was for sexual misconduct with a minor. Found guilty, but from where I was sitting, I had more than a reasonable doubt about it, but that was just me.

The most enjoyable part about that was that I was an airman (E-3, pretty low enlisted rank), but as bailiff, I had “the power of the court” behind me, and when a Lt. Col wouldn’t turn his pager off, I got to manhandle him a little escorting him out. The judge was so pissed off, when he instructed me to escort him from the courtroom, he even added “…and don’t bother being gentle about it!”

Sometime probably 20 or so years ago, I was a juror on a child abuse (beating, not sex), and that was something out of a TV show. The family were portrayed as a bunch of oddballs, because they were living off the grid before that was ever a thing, and didn’t have a phone or a TV or anything like that.

The accused, the father, chose to defend himself, and it was obvious he was, to be kind about it, a little eccentric. He was all over the place, bringing up things that had nothing to do with anything. He was very hard to follow.

The case ended up being dismissed, because the teenaged daughter finally admitted, in court, that she’d gotten blind drunk and fallen down the stairs at home, and on top of that, the social services investigator was found to have asked highly inappropriate and leading questions, and we got to listen to a solid 10 minutes of the judge ripping her a new one when he dismissed the case.
 
karadekoolaid said:
My mum´s. My dad died last year.
So the funeral went fine, if you can describe losing a family member as "fine".
The local vicar, who conducted the service, was absolutely great, and we had a good funeral wake at a 14th century pub a few miles away. Closure, at last, for the two of them.
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I am so sorry for your lose karadekoolaid , please express my sincere condolences to your family and of course to you.
It is like closure isn't it?
Now, both your parents are at peace, together.
I'm curious as to a good wake in an old pub... never having been to a pub before, but that sounds like my kind of send off.
 
My pain has lessened significantly again the past few days, fingers crossed my immune system is tired of fighting back 🤞

So, I made an orange drizzle cake which will be ready tomorrow due to the drizzle coating having to set.
And I am going for my second fysio therapy session! So happy I'm able to move a little more like a normal human.
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
I'm curious as to a good wake in an old pub... never having been to a pub before, but that sounds like my kind of send off.
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The "Wake" is actually very beneficial. It gives you a chance to chat to all the guests outside the rather grim atmosphere of the church funeral. Most of my cousins were there (including one I hadn´t seen in 50 years or more) ; my remaining aunts, and some family friends. It also gets you something to eat , and more than anything, there´s free beer!
This particular place is 14th century, all the food is made from fresh and the patrons are just marvellous.The Cock Horse
 
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