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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    The acorns are still green but coming along. I'll go back out to where the oak trees are in two weeks and check them again.
    oregano
    My Cummins generator froze up this afternoon. Fortunately I have a backup for now. I wish there were heat pumps for tiny homes.
    oregano
    I was telling the clerks who run the jury assembly room about my excuse and they were perusing my letter when the actual jury commissioner walked in. She talked to the room clerks, asked me a couple questions, and said I was free to go. She did say I should bring the formal letter when I get it.
    oregano
    I have to report in person to the Siskiyou County Courthouse tomorrow for jury duty. :mad: My psychiatrist is on vacation so she can't sign an excuse letter that the jury commissioner will accept. I have a draft on her letterhead done by her assistant. I will show that to the judge and hope for the best.
    oregano
    oregano
    If the letter isn't signed and sent via US Mail the commissioner won't accept it. I was emailed a draft.
    Outdated
    Outdated
    I only ever got called up once, I wrote to the Clerk Of The Court and told them that my previous criminal history should preclude me from jury duty. That got me off. My criminal history - minor possess hemp when I was 18. :)
    oregano
    I find it bizarre that bubbly, happy teenage girls die horribly from cancer by 18, yet those who would welcome an early, natural death have to either live long, healthy lives or make a noose from a belt and hope it works as intended.
    oregano
    I found a place to collect acorns too. Acorns have to "cure" over the winter though.
    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    After they are cured are the acorns for eating?
    oregano
    oregano
    Yes. The acorns have to be shelled, then the nutmeat is smashed into a powder (pre-colonization this was done with mortar and pestle, today it's with a blender) then the powder is mixed with water and boiled until the bitter "tannin" is leached out.
    oregano
    Will climate change eventually turn the (former by then) USA into a land of wandering nomadic hunter gatherers? Next year the state will likely resume selling civilian fishing licenses for the Klamath River. Yummy salmon.
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    I see the USA descending into a brutal monarchy where anybody who says anything bad about the king is immediately put to death.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I hope someone gets impeached
    oregano
    oregano
    Monarchy? Not really. Look at Hungary under Orban, Russia under Putin. More like authoritarian semi-dictatorship. Our dictator is nowhere near as smart as those two men though.
    oregano
    LOL The so-called local "property owner's association" only contacts me once a year to demand a yearly "fee". It's not too much money and for the other 364 days a year they are invisible. Hey, if I have to pay protection money, fine as long as you don't try to micromanage me.
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    oregano
    oregano
    That's about all they do. The subdivision is quite remote so there isn't any reason to fear severed horse heads. I also don't know if anybody is willing to push us around out here-the residents are not only very independent but very armed as well.
    oregano
    oregano
    Everybody owns their own land, this isn't a mobile home park where some big corporation owns everything. Everybody pays their own property taxes and is responsible for their individual parcel.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    All the houses we owned, none had HOAs. But that was in MN. Everything in FL has a HOA attached to it.
    oregano
    I have been mildly heat sick for the past couple days. It is difficult to keep my little house cool, and I have to run the AC on a generator. Even worse fire warnings on the weather radio kept waking me up yesterday evening. (A line of thunderstorms came through.)
    maleonolo
    maleonolo
    I'm sorry, hot weather is the worst. If your area has low humidity a mist fan works wonders. I used to collect ice packs and hug them to sleep
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Ice packs can really bring down my temperature, place on my neck, or inside wrist, or even on my scalp to cool my body.
    maleonolo
    maleonolo
    When you say you have to run the AC on a generator, are you literally pumping electricity with a hand generator into the AC?
    oregano
    You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch people's heads a-roll...


    Entering "Megadeth" into Youtube search brings up this song as the first autofill option. I'm not the only one to see the relevance.
    oregano
    The dumpster is on fire? What fire? I don't see a fire?

    dumpster.webp
    Dagan
    Dagan
    I was at a Spencer's store for once in however long, and they have autism shirts, stickers and mugs in there, all akin this kind of humor for us. They're great.
    oregano
    oregano
    I remember Spencers as the place where you went to buy adult items, not porn per se but items couples used in their bedroom lives. Spencers was mall oriented and I assumed they had died out with the indoor mall format.
    Dagan
    Dagan
    In fact, it was at an outlet mall. Tanger's...as they are called around here.
    oregano
    Spotted at the entrance to my subdivision:

    trash.webp


    Somebody here actually has an account with Yreka Transfer, the local garbage hauler. There are two 90 gallon garbage cans getting blown around by the wind along the main road where the turnoff is. They doubled down on stupid and put a few things out that Transfer won't take since they're not in the cans.
    oregano

    I don't need your civil war / It feeds the rich while it buries the poor / Your power hungry selling soldiers in a human grocery store, ain't that fresh?
    oregano
    I am hoping to get potatoes in the ground this year. I have already mowed and raked the garden plot so tomorrow I will get the garden claw and rip up the soil, then use the hoe and make the rows. Then I will order the seed potatoes. Volcanic soil apparently is good for root veggies, but I only have 6 inches or so of soil.
    oregano
    I got yet another jury duty summons. No matter what I do I keep getting tracked down, over and over. The American "justice" system is a cruel joke and I hate it, but they keep trying to force me to participate. Buzz off!

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    Judge
    Judge
    LOL...reminds me of watching prospective jurors behave like asses directly to the judge. Used to be the fastest way to avoid serving.
    oregano
    oregano
    LOL one time the court rejected all my excuses and I had to wait in the courtroom to be questioned by the judge. One guy said he had a huge project due at work and couldn't step away from it. When the judge ignored that, he ranted incoherently until he was dismissed.
    oregano
    oregano
    The psych sent me a draft of the excuse letter for approval. My diagnosis is: 1) depressive type schizoaffective disorder and 2)unspecified obsessive compulsive disorder/. A court will see "schizo" and run away screaming. All I have to do is present it to the jury clerks.
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