another day, another tantrum

[lucy24]

Last night I fetched up those basic GWT tables-- Top Pages, Top Searches-- cut back to "web"* and was hit in the face with a solid page of red two-digit numbers.

!

Fer ### sake, google. I'm too small to get panstipated or whatever the verb is. Pick on someone your own size.

Ignorance is bliss. I should stop looking up the ### thing and concentrate on getting my art-studio director to write up the twelve paragraphs that I need in order to mount the site that has been under construction since May. I've already done a bunch of decision-making on my ownsome, including picture selection, but I flatly refuse to write this final set of blurbs. (Rewrite, possibly, if she tells brazen untruths about me. Another four are about people I see face-to-face every week. Nuh-uh, not touching those.)

This is, please note, someone who's been saying for years that having a www site for the studio is a long-standing dream. Uhm, wake up. Your cat has a web site. I finally got exasperated, coughed up $9.95 or whatever it was to register a domain name, and parked it next door. Assorted robots visit on a regular basis. Surprisingly, only one of them headed straight for the roboted-out directory, enticingly linked from the front page.

Got a nasty feeling there are at least six e-books waiting for me to pick them up. That's in addition to the six that I actually have picked up and am assiduously avoiding. Have to figure out how to sneak around the No Scripting rule, because parts of Tristram Shandy just cry out for it. Yes, OK, so I'll make a babified alternative version for auto-conversion into five different e-book reader formats, four of which will be as dead as BetaMax in a few years' time.

Over the weekend, I was so desperate to avoid Real Work, I waxed the hardwood floor in the hall. It looks pretty. Maybe one of these weeks I'll ask the vacuum cleaner if it has recovered from its Thermal Cutoff sulks.


* With the exception of heraldic lions, image searches are
#1 people looking for pictures to hotlink to
or
#2 candidates for <cue Obi-Wan Kenobi voice>Move along. These aren't the pictures you're looking for</voice>.

[lexipixel]

You forgot the </tantrum> tag.

:-)

[lucy24]

Nope, had to leave it open because I was scheduled for jury duty this morning. I live in a "one day / one trial"* jurisdiction, so I am now off the hook for at least another year.

:P


* A pool of about 100 people get called in. Out of those, an unlucky couple of dozen have to stay for the next round, formal jury selection, if any. Two of the three times I've been called, they settled at the last minute so everyone was excused. Apparently something about the hard fact of jury selection scares both sides into compromise. The third time, both the DA and the PD hated me, so I only lost a day and a half.

If you come in at all, you have Done Your Duty for a year. If you end up on an actual jury ("sworn juror or alternate") you are off the hook for two years.

[lexipixel]

Your state must have a high criminal to jury pool ratio -- I'm in MA, we only have to serve once every 3 years.

[Old_Honky]

In the UK if you are called for duty service as far as I am aware you never get called again. (but I may be wrong in which case I am sure someone will enlighten me)

[lucy24]

! If so, your crime rate puts everyone's to shame. This would not especially surprise me. But what does "called" mean? Is it one day/one trial or are you on-call for some longer period of time, putting your entire life on hold?

[Status_203]

what does "called" mean? Is it one day/one trial or are you on-call for some longer period of time, putting your entire life on hold?

How Long Jury Service Lasts [direct.gov.uk]

Jury service usually lasts for up to ten working days.

Many trials last only two or three days, so you may be on a jury for another trial.

If a case is complex (like fraud) it could take longer than ten days. You’re asked at the court if this would cause you any difficulties.

In the UK if you are called for duty service as far as I am aware you never get called again.

I didn't read the entire section of the website but another answer on the same page quoted above would suggest that's not the case.

Asking to be excused from jury service [direct.gov.uk]

If you can't do jury service at any time during the next 12 months you must state the reason on the form. You’re normally asked to give evidence - like a letter from your doctor about a medical condition you have.

If you have served on a jury within the previous two years you have a right to be excused.

Why aren't there anchors within this page?

[tangor]

@lucy: Your rants always make me chuckle! Thanks!

Jury duty: Rarely serve (though because my surname starts with "B" and the Metro area where I live numbers about 6 million (thus lots of crime, etc.) I am called as frequently as every six months because I maintain my driver's license---which pool is used even though I sold my last petro-fueled vehicle seven years ago---because I always answer "I support the death penalty. Roe v Wade was a mistake. The War on Drugs is political posturing. Marriage is one man, one woman. HCL is generally the best way to deal with criminals."

Needless to say NEITHER the prosecution or defense want me on a jury panel. That said, I've sat on three juries over the last ten years, once for 6 weeks, one for a day, and the last was three days.

Meanwhile, I have some windows on the southern exposure which need attention if you're done with your hallway?