Well, life has been a bit crazy lately, but on Friday I got finished with the brief I was writing. Signed, sealed and delivered to the printer. It turned out to be 56 pages and 13,137 words. (The new rules of the Appellate Division, First Department require you to do a word count and not exceed 14,000. I'm actually surprised to have gotten so ( Read more... )

You know you've been working in the office too long when . . .

you wake up in the morning out of a dream that you're repeatedly opening up the copier/printer to clear a paper jam, again and again.

I was standing on the platform at 23rd Street waiting for an uptown train. As an R pulled into the station, I noticed that the train was nearly empty, and stood near the edge of the platform waiting for the train to stop ( Read more... )

Well, immediately after the Dopefest, things went batshit at work. I'm in swamped mode, so I'll just say great weekend.

We'll do a post-mortem soon.

As I was heading down the steps to the Downtown N/R platform at Times Square today, I heard the sound of horns, which are not the usual subway musical instruments ( Read more... )

Oh hell, I'll do the state thing: Bold=been there, italic=lived there.

1) Alabama 2) Alaska 3) Arizona 4) Arkansas 5) California 6) Colorado 7) Connecticut 8) Delaware 9) Florida 10) Georgia 11) Hawaii 12) Idaho 13) Illinois 14) Indiana 15) Iowa 16) Kansas 17) Kentucky 18) Louisiana 19) Maine 20) Maryland 21) Massachusetts 22) Michigan 23) ( Read more... )

Today, it finally got to be too much. My hair, that is ( Read more... )

Sometimes I will pick up (or have thrust into my hands) a copy of AM New York, the new free news-daily in the City. (What's the story with that, anyway?) Every once in a while, it's worth the cover price. In the lower left of the front page was the following story (which wasn't credited to a news service and I couldn't find on line).

Snake ( Read more... )

Hey gang, we're within a week to Dopefest, and I've finally updated about the Sunday Night dinner on Page 4 of the SDMB threadThere are still several people that hang around LJ-land who are still officially on the maybe list who I'd like to hear from (SDMB screen names): bristlesage, CrankyAsAnOldMan, DynoSaur, Hamadryad, jinwicked, Miss Creant, ( Read more... )

This weekend I went out to visit my sister in New Jersey. The NJ Transit train from her town ends in Newark, where you have to switch trains. As I was pulling in to Newark, the conductor came on the public address system ( Read more... )