I had to go to the bank today because Citizen's/Charter One has had enough of me just letting my personal account gather cobwebs and (rightly) started to charge me for it. But of course I get there and I have to answer fifty questions about why I want to close the account. What's so funny is that unlike every other time I've closed out a bank ( Read more... )

One of the few benefits of continuing to be so sporadically employed is that I have a lot of time to read. A lot of time, which is arguably not particularly productive but at least is more intellectually active than watching hours of tv every day. If my jumble of records are right, I hit somewhere in the 160-170 books/plays mark in 2010. Even I ( Read more... )

Dear Idaho GOP,

I understand that you don't like Obamacare. Agree to disagree on that point. But please don't argue against it on nullification grounds.

[For Non-Legal types: Nullification is the legal doctrine developed by some of the founding fathers in the late 1700s that claims that states retain enough sovereignty independent of the ( Read more... )

Ugh, the closest thing I made to a new years resolution was to get back on the regular lj entries bandwagon. You can see how well that's going ( Read more... )

- Decided to cull my personal library and do another biannual purge. This will clear out some stuff I'm no longer interested in and let it back out into the world where someone else can enjoy it. Also, it'll save me from having to get another bookshelf for a while. Doing this brought me in about $26 total (some of that is through Amazon trade in ( Read more... )

The reports of the dreaded all-consuming snowpocalypse that was supposed to hit today appear to have been greatly exaggerated (sorry peeps in the Midwest), which was helpful since I went downtown this morning to get sworn in so I can appear if needed in front of the local U.S. District Court. I mean, it was a bit icky and I didn't want to be out ( Read more... )

Dear Friends and Family,

I am so blessed to have you in my life. Hope everyone has a wonderful relaxing day.

Dear Vegetarian/Vegan Friends on my Facebook Feed,

Please stop the week-long campaign trying to guilt me into not eating the turkey already purchased for consumption on this day. The bird has been procured so to not eat it at this point is ( Read more... )

The storm that was supposed to roll in this evening has arrived, so I'm bunkering in. Just as well, Sabres are on Versus in a couple hours ( Read more... )

I'm here to confirm the rumor currently making its rounds across the interwebs that I did in fact (finally) pass the Pennsylvania bar exam. While it might not have an immediate impact on my employment prospects in a still-struggling legal job market, it can't hurt. And I won't have to start studying again in a month and a half. But I might have ( Read more... )

It's Banned Book Week, and of course the forces of censorship continue to object to even the concept of having Banned Book Week - as everything from a "lie" to the "denial of communities' right to request that objectionable material be reshelved or removed." Guess what folks? Communities don't have that right. If you don't what Junior reading ( Read more... )