What a terrible way to start the day. I wake up, check the mail and there’s a wierd envelope from the 17th Judical Circuit Court. Fairly certain I haven’t committed any major crimes the justice system would have indisputable evidence to lead to conviction I knew exactly what the letter contained.
I have been selected for Jury Duty….
The one thing I’ve noticed when reading all the paper work is how RUDE they are. On the first line they refer to my person as “Term #31 Juror”. I have a freakin name they addressed a letter to my house! They also write this documentation like I have no idea how to read or find what is important in a selection of writing. Every other sentence has either bold or bold underline or CAPITOL UNDERLINE even BOLD CAPITOL UNDERLINE font and poorly executed exclamation points. The best part is the least important part of information (Jury Clerk’s name) is in the largest font size and bolded….ugh….pffft…sigh….eh….
Here is an example of this travesty….
“You cannot postpone your service, after Thursday, July 26th, 2007!”
Give me a freaking break. I understand there maybe others that need assistance and have a hard time understanding this document but if they want to help only underlining “cannot” “postpone” and “after” they should have just gone ahead and underlined the date.
I’m just bitter. The court doesn’t pay you jack crap, I’m going to have to waste vacation days to take care of this, and of course it’s in the middle of the summer. Nowhere in these documents is there a “thank you”. After going though these documents and filling out the paper work I can see why Jury Duty is so loathed. Regardless if anything comes up I’ll just postpone my serve date. 
UPDATE: Upon getting to work and reading my employers “Jury Duty and Witness Pay” policy I will not have to take PTO/vacation to appear in court. I will get paid my normal rate for hours missed for up to 90 days. This news makes this process at least a little bet better. I’ll post my experiences….
I’ve been getting more and more spam comments on my blog. Some of them are quite vulgar and for that I am sorry. Soon I will be looking to upgrade the spam protection and I’m looking for some ideas. I really don’t want to approve every comment that comes though but I also don’t want to have people go though some round about way to comment on the site. I do have Akismet running but too many foul messages have been coming though.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Today has been just an absolutely terrible day. Not like terrible as in loss of job or anything tragic just the type of day where you do everything right and you get nothing back in return. Vanbergs likened my day similar to Jack Bauer’s “Day 4″ of “24″. Jack did everything he thought was right. He helped everybody, went beyond the call of duty, and did more for our country then anybody will ever know. In the end…he was totally f’ed over and betrayed by everybody. Today I feel similar…
I will start with my first bout of bad luck first. Recently I have agreed to work countless extra hours though the next few weeks and months. Also I need to work third shift Christmas Eve/Christmas Day and New Years Eve/New Years Day. I recently came into posession of two Tickets to Disturbed in Battle Creek the day after Thanksgiving. Last week I put in a PTO request to have the day before Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving off. Along with that request I sent an e-mail VOLUNTEERING to be on call for the weekend before Christmas. After all the goodwill i’ve shown to my employeer and fellow co-workers I didn’t think I would have a problem getting any days off I needed to go to the concert. Also this request was put in over five weeks in advanced of the date.
Come to work today getting an e-mail saying my PTO for Friday was not approved, thus I have to work and miss Disturbed. ugh
I come home tonight and have a very nice Spaghetti dinner with vanbergs. While fuming over “The Disturbed Curse” aka somebody always gets screwed over for a Disturbed concert. Vanbergs injured himself at a Disturbed concert while Taproot was playing concert thus MISSING disturbed. Vanberge had to travel for work to Chi-town thus MISSING Disturbed. Vanlandw put in for PTO five weeks before the event and couldn’t get the day off thus MISSING Disturbed. I guess it was just my turn….
OK a little off topic, while sitting down watching Mythbusters I got a text message. I replied to said text message and was going to put my phone away in my bag. My bag was open so I kinda just tossed my phone nonshalantly into the opening. APPARENTLY my phone bounced off the chair the bag was resting on and plummeted into full glass of soda. My cell phone that had four months to last before getting a new one is ruined. I spent $270 dollars on that phone new becuase of getting screwed over on a warranty issue is totally worthless.
If anybody has an extra old cell phone that would work with the verizon network they would be willing to give me please PLEASE think about letting vanlandw borrow it for awhile. I really can’t stomach buying a $300 dollar phone right now 
For my birthday my grandparents got me a window air conditioner for my room. This past weekend I went home for the weekend to celebrate my birthday so I had to drive this box all the way back from Farmington Hills and into my house.
The Gato and myself spent quite some time installing this device into my dormitory. Put the whole thing together during a 87F evening. Sweating and poured our SOULS into getting the air conditioner into the window. I ended up plugging it into the wall awaiting the nice cold air to absolve my sweat. What I ended up with was the complete opposite of what my desires were. APPARENTLY after hitting “power” the engine sounded like the bathroom after a Mongolian Barbeque trip.
Now my room is in utter disarray and parts of this defective air cooler is thrown around. I am sure the air conditioner was not cheap so a call to my grandparents is in order and hope they kept the recept.
**EDIT**
Today I got the recept in the mail from my grandparents. I will go to Lowes tomorrow and try to either get cash or at least another air conditioner.
**EDIT 2**
This past weekend I went to “Lowes” and returned the broken conditioner with no incident. They gave me store credit and I was happy with that. Not unexpected two Lowes had not one single conditioner that wasn’t over 11,000 BTU’s so I wasn’t able to replace it yet. MORE TO COME!
Apparently my car got “tossed”. This morning before going to class after I opened my car door I noticed somebody “tossed” my car. I must have forgot to lock my door last night and low and behold some jackass went though my car looking for god knows what. I hardly keep anything in my car but there is a lot of information for the taking.
If somebody was smart they could find out quite a bit about me. They have my full name because my work badge was in my car. Also they know where I work. Moreover I keep recepts in the center console. I have bank recepts so it shows my avaiable balance.
Personally I think the criminal was looking for money and expensive trinkets. Thank god I took my briefcase into the house last night. For a few weeks I’m going to start parking in the garage. Also if I see any local scum looking at my car ever again they are going to get the living crap beat out of them.
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