Saw a couple minutes of the evening news and saw a report about the trial I was almost a juror on. The defense is, and its not surprising, going to try and pull all the stops out to get the guy off. He was claiming he had some mental defect that made him do it. Well there are ways to get treatment and some are even free, so I don't buy that. Now he's saying he has post tramatic stress from a bad childhood in which there was violence in the home. Well goodness. There are lots of people who have worse childhoods then his and they didn't commit five counts of capital murder. I doubt I will follow the trial that closely, but I will pay attention if and when they reach a verdict.

Got an inch of rain earlier in the week and got about half an inch of rain this morning. Overslept by 30 minutes this morning.

THE RED SOX HAVE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE RED SOX HAVE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never in my entire life did I EVER think I would witness a miricle of the Boston Red Sox winning the world series. They have been twice since I was born but haven't won since now. Yippeeee.

BTW, New York Yankees suck (big time), St Louis Cardinals suck, Hockey sucks and Soccer sucks.

Thank you, now off to bed.

Found that I did not get picked for jury duty. Of the six groups, they dismissed group F and did not pick anyone from my group. I was in group A, most of the jurors were from group C, a few from groups B and E.

Went to Topeka today. Mom is into genealogy, so we went to a research library so she could look up some things. Haven't gone to Topeka in several weeks.

Have a couple small projects to take care of tomorrow. Will do some things in the coming week that I can do by myself. Doing so will free up some time on the weekend to do something else. Need to get up and do more around the house.

It has been cloudy and misting all week. Hope the weekend brings the sun.

Still don't know if I have been picked to serve on the jury yet. I do know that they are questioning the 4th group (there are 6 groups in total). At this rate they might not start the trial until November. May not know until then.

Betty Hill, who along with her husband Barney, had a UFO experience some years ago in New Hampshire (or was it Vermont), has passed away. Though I have an interest in ufology, I don't know if I believe the Hills story.

I got out of court at 2:40 yesterday. Didnt have lunch, but the lawyers had something delivered in like they did Wednesday evening. How special for tem, the bastards. They want people to do their civic duty and serve on a jury but we get a pittance amount for service and milage and we dont get snything delivered in for meals. We don't get nice seats to sit on, no we get hard benches and meals out of vending machines. And there is almost nothing downtown in the way of restaurants, and there should be something. I can only go to Subway so many times before it gets old.

I pray I don't not get picked. I have served on juries twice and will be willing to do it again, but not for this case. I do not think I can give up 5 or more weeks of my life and not come out drained. With it being a death penalty case, I can't send someone to death without it being on my conscience until the day I die. I just couldn't do it, it would eat me up knowing I had done it. If by some chance I get picked to be on the jury, and I hope to hell it doesnt happen, I don't know what I would do.

Will find out next week if I get picked for the jury.

Hardly slept last night. I am lucky if I got 4 hours of sleep total. Have no idea what time I will get out of court today. Had they not screwed around Tuesday, we would have finished yesterday. But because of the late day yesterday and the half day Tuesday, I have to make a third trip downtown and I still don't know, but I can only hope, that I am on the jury or not.

Did not get out of the court house until 10:15 pm. Yes, you read that right. Did a couple errands after mom picked me up. Long day of hurry up and wait and sitting on hard benches. I've taken a shower and off to bed. Just hope I can sleep.

Got home from jury duty earlier then expected. Have to go back tomorrow, which is a pain in the ass. Wish I had just done regular jury duty. Funny moment in the jury lounge, the noon news came on and the lead story was the trial I am up for jury duty for. One of the clerks came in and turned off the tv.

Glad I took an umbrella, was walking back to the courthouse from an early lunch break and it began to rain. Even now it is still raining. Will get ready for tomorrows part three of jury duty and take a shower tonight.

Tomorrow if I end up getting out of jury duty early again, I might head off the the main library and read magazines until I can get a ride home.

Finally got rid of my headache.

Have jury duty, part two, this morning. Everything is up in the air until I know if I will on the jury that will hear the trial.

Got some rain yesterday. It was a light rain most of the day, don't think it amounted to much.

Almost missed getting the trash out. For some reason, I assumed wrongly that the trash wouldnt be picked up. Went back to get my Walkman from my room and hear the sounds of the trash pickup, rushed downstairs and just managed to get all the trash out before they picked up.

Attempted to get cash at the bank last night and then remembered that it was a Federal holiday and the bank was closed. Will get some cash this morning before I head downtown to do jury duty.

Got a one-two- punch this morning when I logged on to my ISP. Found that Christopher Reeve and Ken Caminiti had both died. Although I was never a big fan of Mr. Reeve, many in my generation will remember him always as Superman. I saw at least the first couple in the theaters when I was younger. I know he made other movies like "Somewhere in time" and "Death Trap" (Think thats the name of it). Mr. Caminiti was a good ball player. Had had him on at least a couple fantasy baseball teams during the years he played.

My current favorite cd is "The Delivery Man" by Elvis Costello & The Imposters. Favorite songs are "Either Side Of The Same Town", "Monkey To Man" and "The Judgement". It is rare that I buy a cd based on the strength of one song, sometimes I buy a cd based on the two or three songs I have heard. Most often I end up pissed because the songs I liked were the only ones that are any good. But this cd is very different. On repeated playings, I like it more and more. Never been a big fan of Elvis Costello, I knew who he was and had heard some of his songs, but until this cd, I never felt compelled to purchase a release of his.

Got an 1 & 1/2 inches of rain today. It started earlier this morning. There were a couple times that the sun peaked out for a moment. Although the rain was a bit heavy, for the most part it was just a light rain.

Rodney Dangerfield and Gordon Cooper have also passed away this week.

Wonder who else will pass the pearly gates this week.

Janet Leigh passed away. Will watch either The Fog or The Manchurian Canidate dvd tomorrow.

Billy Joel marries. Katey Segal marries. Tiger Woods is rumored to be getting married. Britney "Oops I did it again and it won't last this time either because he's dirt poor and I didn't lend him the money for my ring" Spears married again.

The Royals suck. The Chiefs suck. KU sucks. My neighbors kid who drives up and down the street with his crappy ultra bass radio (which proves he moron for wasting his money on a worthless radio)and ruins the peace and quiet of a nice area sucks. The television season so far sucks. The Tech tv & G4 merger still sucks. Okay that's enough suckage.

Have been fumbly fingers today. Didn't get enough sleep last night and not nearly enough coffee this morning.

The problem with the car was a vacuum hose with a hole you could stick your thumb into. Got that fixed and now the car runs fine.

Got a light amount of rain early this morning. It didnt amount to very much.

Had some trouble sleeping last night. Can't blame it on the menstral cramps, though.