Re: Hello? Anyone here?

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:39:12 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:08:48 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Here in northern MA we got a dusting of snow last night. Further north
snow was over foot. It looks like upper NY will get slammed with lake
effect snow this winter.
>
For reasons, I had to drive in the vicinity to two major area
malls on 'Black Friday' - both were slammed with customers.
>
This year, we didn't do Thanksgiving dinner at home - we went
out to a restaurant 45 miles away that was doing a
Thanksgiving buffet. It was very nice, though spendy. There
were sand and salt trucks on the roads as we returned.

>
Here in Vancouver BC we've had a snowfall and have woken up to snow on
the lawn but not the road but mostly it's been high 30s / low 40s
around here. (And we live at the foot of the mountain higher up than
most locals)

No snow here, so far.

I hoping this will be true until late January. I have Jury Duty
starting 1/8/25 which could go on a couple weeks if I actually end up
on a jury.

Their methods have grown more sophisticated: instead of just telling
me up front where to go (there are three possibilities), I have to
wait until I am contacted. This means I have to plan for all three.
And I have to be alert on 1/7/25 (for 1/8/25) and 1/8/25.  Adding snow
to the mix might produce more uncertainties, as even the date might
change.

OTOH, it could be just /one/ (1) day; the last time it was two days of
waiting around to be formed into jury pools and possibly selected. In
fact, if I am /not/ contacted by 4:30 PM 1/8/25, I can consider my
duty done. So the new method does have its advantages.
--
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"