Thursday, May 29, 2025

Great idea to use something more visual to keep track of your schedule. You would be surprised at how many retired people over schedule themselves then complain. Especially those newly retired. I think retiring to be a caretaker kept that from happening to me. Then when I was ready to add activities back it was COVID time. So easy for me to do it methodically.

And fun retirement celebration! You will miss those folks.

Kirby has found all of his happy energy and then some. He's in a cone for another week. I thought that seemed excessive until I took it off for a minute and turned my back this morning and he chewed at his stitches drawing a little blood. Stinker. I'm sure it itches as it heals and that the shaved skin feels chafey.

I had a lazy day. Yesterday was the annual board meeting for the HOA and I finished the newsletter for the neighborhood. I never feel like there is anything to say and then it ends up 6 pages (though the template is such that there's not a ton on a page).

Tomorrow I have to be at the county courthouse by 8:15 to plead my case why I can't be on the grand jury for the next 4 months. I won't be here! But I have to go in person to tell them that. The bummer is, it's an hour and 40 minutes away. I hardly remember how to get up that early. And I feel guilty leaving Kirby with the cone alone for that long. Normally I would ask my iffy-neighbor-friend to come let him out, but we aren't at that level of friendship anymore. Hopefully it's a quick dismissal for me. And then I can quickly stop at Costco and head home.

I shall report back!

They commit people for 4 months with the potential for that long a drive!?!? Not sure about Florida (I was summoned once but told not to report the next day), but in Massachusetts it is one day or one trial. So if not picked for a trial on that first day you are dismissed. If picked for a trial, you are dismissed once that trial concludes.

This is the grand jury they are seating. So it's a four month commitment every Friday and you hear evidence about cases and decide whether or not to issue an indictment. You aren't deciding guilt or innocence, just whether there's enough evidence for the state to indict and go to trial. The jury pool they pull from is the same. I think if I get out of it today, I am done for another year. My county is huge area-wise (nor people-wise), It's as big as the state of New Jersey. So you potentially have to drive a long way for jury duty!

Oh - I think Massachusetts may be like that for a Grand Jury as well - and likely that is held in Boston so potentially a painful commute in too. Good luck getting excused!