Thanks to the IT peeps at Seed Media for this nifty "scheduled post" feature because I have been playing with it all week long (I have used it only rarely since February after my initial disappointment when several scheduled messages didn't show up as scheduled. But I later learned that this featured was not enabled then).
Anyway, as I was saying, I love this "scheduled posting" feature and I am using it right now, in fact. As I write this, it is Wednesday night at 8pm. I am sitting in a local Starbux, peering out the windows while I piggyback on a free wireless connection and pretend to be a real writer as I write this on my mac laptop, shortly before I have to take care of some cats across town. Why am I delaying this message instead of posting it live? Well, because Thursday, when you will (hopefully) read this, I will be stuck beneath the wheel of justice; basically, I am stuck in the courthouse, carrying out jury duty for the NY Supreme Court. And I will be thinking of you, but will not be able to post anything fun for you to read, and I'd enjoy knowing that you thought of me while I was trapped in the courthouse, even if only briefly.
So thanks to the magic of scheduled posting, here I am to tell you that there will be a BIG SURPRISE that will pop up here this afternoon! You are gonna love this surprise. Well, sorta. In the meantime, I am stuck in the courthouse and the best that I can hope for is that "my" trial will be amusing, but really short, so I can rejoin you soon (live) and publish all sorts of snarky comments about everyone involved.
And then, the second that I escape from the grasping clutches of the legal system for the day, I have to write Birds in the News. I can only hope it won't be another marathon all-nighter. So it'll be a couple days before I am fully restored live, in electrons.
While I am talking about jury duty, it might surprise you to learn that this is the first time I've ever been stuck with er, assigned to .. jury duty. So I hope that you share some of your jury duty stories with me, since I will try to have a few of my own to tell you after my return.
I have been picked for jury duty on two separate occasions, but I still have not been on an actual jury. The first time I had to report, I spent the entire day sitting in the basement of the courthouse. The second time, I spent most of the in the basement, though I was called up for jury selection once. I did not make it into the jury box, though, let alone get selected. From my observations, I think that lawyers do not like having youngish people on the jury, but I may be wrong.