Musings on a Small Life

**Happy dance** A "private name, private number" call came shortly after I got home this afternoon. I didn't pick up, presuming it was a spammer. Instead, it was "Heather" from the courthouse, letting me know that jury panel #5 had been cancelled for May 12th and that I didn't need to show up. Yippee ki yay! Hallelujah! Hurrah! That made my entire week, folks! Here's hoping you had some good news this week too! Some daffodils finally are in bloom!

First, to answer The Furries: Yes, we can be called repeatedly for jury selection, which might or might not lead to actual jury duty. I appreciate your perspective...but I still don't want to serve.   And to Bellen: Yes, I was called for selection last September, but Dad was arriving that week from Vancouver and so they deferred it to the spring. Well, it's spring, at least by the calendar! I have a feeling this will be for the "big and very long" trial from the fall, which they probably held over for some reason. I do remember your suggestion, as well as others made, and might have to put one or more of them to good use.  :-P *** As for getting the hang of this, I mean the Picture Window template.  I've been trying to resize free desktop wallpaper images to fit, but it's hard because monitors can vary so widely in size. Blogger's suggestion is to use an image that's 1800x1600 or larger, but I'm trying 1800 pixels wide with a smaller h...

Juror #4752 has been summoned to courtroom A on May 12 @ 9:30AM for jury selection. I can't think of an excuse this time; Dad's not visiting next month. I hope it's PMS week.

So all of a sudden (or so it seems) Nicki won't touch any paté food, not his favourite Fancy Feast or the ProPlan, even with FortiFlora on it. Not even a can of leftover Friskies chicken paté I still had from feeding Toby. He'll give it a lick or two, then walk away, even though he's obviously hungry. I'm wracking my brain trying to think if he started this before the vet visit or after, but all I know for sure is that it's been last couple of days, at least. He will eat his kibble, any treats I give him, and he'll certainly eat the ProPlan salmon and rice (with gravy). He lapped up the Friskies gravy in their chicken dinner (pieces of what's supposed to be chicken in gravy). I don't want him to have those "sauce" type foods, as they have wheat and sometimes soy too, and I prefer to stay away from corn, soy and wheat. But if that's all he'll eat right now.... I can't think what the issue is. Is he somehow associating patés ...

Well, hell's bells, I knew this would happen.  I got home to find the docs in the mail--I've been called for jury selection on September 10th. Should I forgo bathing for a few days to make me smell offensive to others? I just called the courthouse to confirm this meant one day only, as Dad is arriving later that week. After going through their long voice mail spiel, the voice said that if I still wanted to leave a message I could do so and that someone would get back to me at their convenience . So you can guess what came out of my mouth on the message I left. A very snarky comment that I had expected a real person, but gee, shouldn't be surprised with the lack of service from the government. I asked for confirmation that this was the one day only, explained why, and left my work number (not my name, actually) and said they could call me back at that number, at their convenience (with heavy sarcasm). Oops. It just slipped out like that! What, is it a f...