Y'know, the saying goes something like " Just because i'm paranoid doesn't mean there isn't someone following me..". I finally get brave enuf to play with this and I may not sign in. Tim's across the room despairing -loudly- that i cannot follow the simple directions , and I am again unable to get in. H'mm- could there be something to this? Whaddadya know! I MAY NOT SIGN IN CAUSE THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE WITH THE SAME NAME! The odds of there being another mmelka out there are, like, a million to one? Aaaargh!
Ah, well. No exciting travel plans or too cute blackmail baby shots here, but life is plenty interesting.
Michele and Mark, we are worrying about you both. Stenosis is awful, back pain generally is awful but bad spinal tap reaction is horrible. Good luck with the visualization, but even Wild Horse Canyon Idaho didn't help me. And it got me through labor and delivery. I'm sorry you have this ordeal and worry.
No time for political reading here, for most of us, but we are glued to MSNBC daily- Keith Olberman et al on the Libby trial has been interesting. Alex keeps hearing gut wrenching stories from his Iraq veteran buddies, another friend's son has been wounded, but returned to duty, and Alex has started on Blackhawk Down now that he has seen the recent Somalian covert stuff and several 'copter crashes this month. He saw the movie before knowing the Baraboo connection and now gets it that these are real people, real families, real grieving survivors.
Amazing that Dubbya's staff are so oblivious. I deal with a lot of people who are outside of normal social mores, right and wrong, moral and ethical codes, who lie without qualm. Mostly I go visit them at Mendota, various jails and prisons.
Maybe if you have enough money and power, personality disorders can be steered into successful career path behaviors.
I did a round trip to Richland Co. Tuesday a.m. There is a reason most thrill park rides last under a minute- about all the heart can take. Tim and I have been very busy. The Baraboo SPD office manager switched two staff attorneys between Juneau and Sauk Counties and one of our favorite private practice colleagues got to retire quite suddenly, resulting in masses of reassigned cases. I've picked up more than 30 new cases since Jan. 1, and continue to get positive feedback, more court appointments, more folks asking to get me. One Sauk Judge in particular is slotting me into mental health and child protection cases because I can do jury trials on the fast statutory timelines both types of cases use. And can tell folks what is going on from both defense and prosecutor prospectives. I've continued to win revocation hearings by selling rehabilitation/treatment options to BOTH the Hearings and Appeals judges and my clients, and haven't offended all the probation agents in the process.
We have generally good news on SPD funding solutions too so we are sleeping a bit better. My connection on the Board of Directors keeps me a bit ahead of the announcments on the SPD assigned counsel web site and he was very cheery this week. Tommy Thompson's former law partner.
Puppies are loving this weather. Seamus thinks dogs should not have to go outside for their business ( feet are so cold they lie down? B4 they TCB? I've never seen that, and they are both doing it) and Glif has eaten, yes, eaten his way out of yet another cage. All the way through tthe plastic, then all the way thru the electrical wire (the big wide, industrial stuff) we jury rigged to tie the door closed. He untied it. Really. Don't know how- just saw it still knotted one moment and dragged out sstraight inside his cage the next. Has a nice big window in the cage now. Glif loves licking the snow. His tracks are now four paws and an unbroken tongue drag off to the side. Seamus is more into the inclined plane of the ramp- balls roll down! And if its slippery enuf, one can really slide down and around the corners well. He loves to race to the turn , spin out and drift all the way to the bottom. But, then he remembers its really COLD and there is a perfectly good warm floor there in the inside so he doesn't really need to go out in the yard now does he?
Baby Freya is lovely at 51 weeks and in the altogether. Looks like she has walking mastered? Please send happy birthday pictures. Try a darker bath rug?
Mom, we are now Trader Joe's addicts. The Madison store is almost as cool as the Milwaukee store. The tomato/roasted pepper soup is still the biggest hit but Two Buck Chuck red wines are right up there. Pretty good way to get our daily flavinoids(sp?). I have to keep up cases that force me to drive to Mendota so I swing down into Madison regularly now. My favorite client group right now, tho one threatened to bite me and another spent his whole hearing trying to loosen his cuffs enuf to hit me. Much more likeable than the folks who hurt their children, do meth or break into 20+ vacation homes..hey, there were only people there in two of them. Beach towels. They stole beach towels. Had no use for them. Mostly stole guns, fishing tackle, alcohol and money but all they found at one house was beach towels. Rather than leave empty handed after all the effort of breaking in, naturally, they took them. Discarded most of them. Mystifies me.
I have to write an appeal attempting to offset lying to one's PO now. Datona time trials are on in the background, its another Trader Joe's dinner later and I haven't heard a word about Anna Nicole Smith yet today so its a good time for creative writing.
Good nite and God Bless. Mom and Dad , keep the prayers coming from the group and keep targeting good medical news and world peace, say a word of thanks and farewell for Molly Ivans, and maybe Cheney, Rove and the former undersecretary will have to eat their words someday.
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