follow the yellow brick road
Yayyyyyyy! The Royals losing streak is over. Twelve games too many but thank god. We won at the Indians 8-2 with all our runs on homers but, whatever gets it done, man! Naturally I missed most of it because of choir and then helping mom finish up the church kitchen clean up, but I got home for the final two innings when it was 4-2.
Record high heat today--93. It was so hot it gave me a tummy ache and I just ate dinner at 8:30 after I got home. I just wasn't ready for it to be that hot. Thankfully it's not going to last--by Saturday it'll be a high in the mid-60s.
I have baking for the church auction to do so it'll be nice that the house won't be hot with the oven going. I'm putting together baskets for the silent auction as well--two movie night baskets (cheating a bit because they're dvds I bought new at garage sales but I'm buying popcorn and snacks and popcorn bowls instead of physical baskets). I'm giving a comic book one, too, so I bought those today--five of the first issues of the DCNU and one of the Marvel Civil War trade paperbacks, along with an Iron Man figurine, Avengers poster and some Batman button. I'm hoping to find something Avengers' to put them in, like a bag or something. Off to Target tomorrow.
Like last year I'll be helping with the money and keeping track of who's bidding. Mom was in charge then. This year the person in charge has been dawdling on everything and she and mom got into a hoorah via email today and mom's not going to go to the auction at all now. *sigh* Redhead temper for the win. They're doing this weird thing with baskets. People were encouraged to offer baskets like movie night, wine and cheese, tea and cookies etc. I came up with mine and entered them onto the auction sheets along with my cat sitting, year of bread, and cookies. Others just put theirs on a sigh up sheet and those are all going to be raffled off. Mom was not happy about that because along with a couple booze ones there was her Adult OWL (Our Whole Lives sexuality course) team's naughty basket with edible panties and fur handcuffs and lube and stuff--believe me, I do not want to know what my 70 year old mother is doing knowing this stuff *g*. But apparently the idea is to have people buy tickets and then put theirs on baskets they'd like to have the chance to win. Not as bad as just giving them away willy nilly (I would be SO embarrassed the naughty basket and I don't drink wine), but I don't think people who are making the baskets know that their $50 and up baskets are raffle prizes. Also, in the past, most people have just bought a few raffle tickets--I usually buy $5 worth, that's five--and win gift certificates from shops and things like that. So, we're not sure this is going to work. Because my baskets (and mom's muffin one) were on the auction sheets, ours are in the silent auction.
Anyway, controversy abounds.
And, apparently dad had a contentious department meeting. It's his last as it's the last of the semester, they don't have them in the summer, he's off next fall and since he's retiring in the spring, he's not going to any more. Yeah, we'll see if that works.
It was a bad day to drive. We had one fatality in a roll-over near my parents, and three other car accidents with injuries on the outskirts of town.
The road to church is blocked off so we have to drive eight minutes out of the way to get there. They've been widening Highway 59 for years and it's finally reached that point. I discovered a whole bunch of houses and a vineyard just down the road from church I've never seen before. I probably haven't been on those roads since I was a kid!
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that a few months ago I realized I was having real problems reading. I was okay on the computer (mostly because I can enlarge stuff) but I was getting headaches from straining. I discovered that slipping my glasses down my nose gave me back 20/20 near vision. I've been doing that for a couple weeks but I haven't had to slip them as much. I'm naturally wearing them a bit lower and tonight I realized I could read just fine. Maybe I was wearing them too far up on my nose...For like the last forty years. *sigh* Maybe over the day I was straining my eyes and that was making it harder to read.
I won over the stupid court today. On Monday I filed eight garnishments against the same defendant for rent (he's a landlord) with the hope that they'd get served by the first before people have paid their rent because he's a butt and owes two different clients well over $7000. Today, the court gave back six along with a memo stating that only two could be filed in a thirty day period and citing a statute.
Now I know you can only do one for wages in a month but I didn't know there was a limit on non-wage. Apparently there is...for banks. The statute was for financial institutions. The statute before that one was for intangibles like rent with no limits. My boss called the court and they conceded. :) The bank limit must be new. I remember some attorneys would garnish multiple banks trying to find where a defendant had accounts. That's probably why the Supreme Court put a kibosh on that.
Then we got a call from the Appellate Court. We've never filed an appeal before and there are so many damn rules. Yesterday the Associate got sixteen copies made with a yellow cover sheets and mailed them off. Apparently, if the brief is more than a certain number of pages (and ours was over by five), ten of the copies have to be spiral bound. Originally we thought our deadline was Friday but it's not until the 7th so not as panicky and we don't have to pay for new copies to be bound if someone from our office goes to Topeka and uses the court's machine to spiral bind them for free.
Not me! But, geez.
In better news the district court furloughs are pushed back and may not happen if the legislature finalizes the budget by mid-May. One of our trials rescheduled from the first stupid furlough is now on a date that may be a new furlough date. *face palm* It had already been continued once prior to that. This case, a simple landlord/tenant collection, is over two years old! I hope we win and make the dad (because him being in Europe half the year makes it really hard to schedule anything) pay every cent of interest over those years.
Okay, I think I'll try to finalize my icons while I watch Survivor...
Record high heat today--93. It was so hot it gave me a tummy ache and I just ate dinner at 8:30 after I got home. I just wasn't ready for it to be that hot. Thankfully it's not going to last--by Saturday it'll be a high in the mid-60s.
I have baking for the church auction to do so it'll be nice that the house won't be hot with the oven going. I'm putting together baskets for the silent auction as well--two movie night baskets (cheating a bit because they're dvds I bought new at garage sales but I'm buying popcorn and snacks and popcorn bowls instead of physical baskets). I'm giving a comic book one, too, so I bought those today--five of the first issues of the DCNU and one of the Marvel Civil War trade paperbacks, along with an Iron Man figurine, Avengers poster and some Batman button. I'm hoping to find something Avengers' to put them in, like a bag or something. Off to Target tomorrow.
Like last year I'll be helping with the money and keeping track of who's bidding. Mom was in charge then. This year the person in charge has been dawdling on everything and she and mom got into a hoorah via email today and mom's not going to go to the auction at all now. *sigh* Redhead temper for the win. They're doing this weird thing with baskets. People were encouraged to offer baskets like movie night, wine and cheese, tea and cookies etc. I came up with mine and entered them onto the auction sheets along with my cat sitting, year of bread, and cookies. Others just put theirs on a sigh up sheet and those are all going to be raffled off. Mom was not happy about that because along with a couple booze ones there was her Adult OWL (Our Whole Lives sexuality course) team's naughty basket with edible panties and fur handcuffs and lube and stuff--believe me, I do not want to know what my 70 year old mother is doing knowing this stuff *g*. But apparently the idea is to have people buy tickets and then put theirs on baskets they'd like to have the chance to win. Not as bad as just giving them away willy nilly (I would be SO embarrassed the naughty basket and I don't drink wine), but I don't think people who are making the baskets know that their $50 and up baskets are raffle prizes. Also, in the past, most people have just bought a few raffle tickets--I usually buy $5 worth, that's five--and win gift certificates from shops and things like that. So, we're not sure this is going to work. Because my baskets (and mom's muffin one) were on the auction sheets, ours are in the silent auction.
Anyway, controversy abounds.
And, apparently dad had a contentious department meeting. It's his last as it's the last of the semester, they don't have them in the summer, he's off next fall and since he's retiring in the spring, he's not going to any more. Yeah, we'll see if that works.
It was a bad day to drive. We had one fatality in a roll-over near my parents, and three other car accidents with injuries on the outskirts of town.
The road to church is blocked off so we have to drive eight minutes out of the way to get there. They've been widening Highway 59 for years and it's finally reached that point. I discovered a whole bunch of houses and a vineyard just down the road from church I've never seen before. I probably haven't been on those roads since I was a kid!
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that a few months ago I realized I was having real problems reading. I was okay on the computer (mostly because I can enlarge stuff) but I was getting headaches from straining. I discovered that slipping my glasses down my nose gave me back 20/20 near vision. I've been doing that for a couple weeks but I haven't had to slip them as much. I'm naturally wearing them a bit lower and tonight I realized I could read just fine. Maybe I was wearing them too far up on my nose...For like the last forty years. *sigh* Maybe over the day I was straining my eyes and that was making it harder to read.
I won over the stupid court today. On Monday I filed eight garnishments against the same defendant for rent (he's a landlord) with the hope that they'd get served by the first before people have paid their rent because he's a butt and owes two different clients well over $7000. Today, the court gave back six along with a memo stating that only two could be filed in a thirty day period and citing a statute.
Now I know you can only do one for wages in a month but I didn't know there was a limit on non-wage. Apparently there is...for banks. The statute was for financial institutions. The statute before that one was for intangibles like rent with no limits. My boss called the court and they conceded. :) The bank limit must be new. I remember some attorneys would garnish multiple banks trying to find where a defendant had accounts. That's probably why the Supreme Court put a kibosh on that.
Then we got a call from the Appellate Court. We've never filed an appeal before and there are so many damn rules. Yesterday the Associate got sixteen copies made with a yellow cover sheets and mailed them off. Apparently, if the brief is more than a certain number of pages (and ours was over by five), ten of the copies have to be spiral bound. Originally we thought our deadline was Friday but it's not until the 7th so not as panicky and we don't have to pay for new copies to be bound if someone from our office goes to Topeka and uses the court's machine to spiral bind them for free.
Not me! But, geez.
In better news the district court furloughs are pushed back and may not happen if the legislature finalizes the budget by mid-May. One of our trials rescheduled from the first stupid furlough is now on a date that may be a new furlough date. *face palm* It had already been continued once prior to that. This case, a simple landlord/tenant collection, is over two years old! I hope we win and make the dad (because him being in Europe half the year makes it really hard to schedule anything) pay every cent of interest over those years.
Okay, I think I'll try to finalize my icons while I watch Survivor...