A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Jury and Strange Weather

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Thursday, March 4, 1999 9:44 AM
Subject:       Jury and Strange Weather
 
I have been called up for jury duty twice. The first time was in Florida and I called up for Grand Jury duty.  At the time I was doing contract work so anytime taken off for jury duty was time I didn't get paid.  What is really bad is that Grand Jury duty goes for six months.  Also it was in Orlando so I had to travel an hour to just get there.  I sent a letter to the clerk of the court stating what a hardship it would be but the judge turned it down.  As it turned out I went the first day and they drew numbers from a hat to select about 25 people out of the 100 or so called up.  I got lucky and didn't get selected.  The second time I got called up was here in Virginia.  It was for regular court and I got called up in December.  The duty here runs for six weeks in which each week you call a number to see if you have to go in that week.  Again I got lucky, two weeks I didn't get called, then there was Christmas and new year holiday weeks they were closed then one week we got snow and they were closed so again I didn't have to serve.  I do think it would be interesting to serve at some time but it does take a fair amount of time out from work and some cases, as you know, can run on for weeks or even months.
 
I spent all day yesterday downtown at the ATF. It was supposed to rain all day, 100% chance but I got down there around 10am.  I drove instead of taking the metro.  I had to do some maintenance on one of the systems we have at one ATF facility and then I had another meeting at 3pm at the ATF HQ facility.  I was glad it didn't rain for I parked a couple of blocks from the HQ facility and then walked about 6 blocks to where I had to do the system maintenance.  I finished the maintenance around 1pm and was quite hungry (I usually eat right at 12pm) so I went by this micro brewery that is downtown and got a salad.  I then still had an hour until my 3pm meeting so I went to a small park across from the ATF HQ and just sat on a bench and enjoyed the afternoon.  As I said it was supposed to rain but it turned out to be around 60 degrees and somewhat sunny although it was very windy.  My 3pm meeting was short so I got out by 3:30 and was able to drive home before the HOV lanes started and got home a little past 4.  I did finally started to rain after I finished racquetball around 7:30 and it really rained hard.  I wasn't feeling to well so I skipped Yoga and went home where they had a severe storm warning with winds around 30mph gusting to 50mph.  The winds bought in a cold front and when I got up this morning there was a light coating of snow on everything which they didn't predict at all.  
 
I really didn't want to see or hear about the Barbara Walters Monica Lewinsky interview, I have just had enough of all of that and had hoped it was finally out of the news.  Of course it was on the front page of the paper this morning.
 
Well enough for now.  Larry

Interesting thing about writing up this page was that just three days ago on the way back from camping at the Ochlocknee River I was listening to NPR on the radio and they were interviewing Susan Page who just released The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara and the Lewinsky interview was discussed. The interview was watched by 70 million Americans, which was a record for a news show.   Larry April 27, 2024

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