Back from NYC

We just had a great weekend in New York City. The weather was great and it even snowed on out last day there. We saw Wicked, went to Central Park, ate way too much food and did a little tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We also visited the WTC memorial. We stayed in a hotel near Times Square. It was a fantastic location to hit just about everything. Nothing too exciting happened but a guy tried to sell us drugs in a bar. Ahhh, New York. Now we are back in Texas and back to work....

I suck at blogging

I know, I know. If I want more readers I have to post things. But I suck at thing blogging thing. Perhaps that could be my New Years resolution.... but I HATE resolutions. I live perfectly every day. But here are some photos from Jason's promotion to major on Dec. 1. He is such a grown up now. But being a major is awesome because it means --- PAY RAISE. Whoo hoo! I got a pay raise too. Nice timing -- just in time for Christmas and New Years. For New Years we went to the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth. AF lost. Boo! But we got to hook up with our friends -- Chad and Jen Hillberg, plus Chad's parents and their kids. It was a lot of fun. This weekend we are going to New York. We are going to see Wicked. I will try my best to take photos and update the blod when I get back. That's a promise, not a resolution.

Work Work Work

Jason has a job interview with the unit at Ellington this week so wish him luck. He is applying for a job "flying" the unmanned aricraft they are getting. Also, he is pinning on major on Dec. 1. Hooray! I am chugging away in Misdemeanor court. I hear that I will be moving up to felony soon but I have no real idea when that will happen. There's alot going in Harris county which went "blue" on Nov. 4. ALL the Republican judges LOST (OK 1 held on to his seat). Plus I have a new boss. She is a Republican but she only won by 4,000 votes. In case yoou did not know, my old boss got the boot because of some racist emails and he was banging his secretary. Those crazy horny Republicans! I am so low on the totem pole it will hardly affect me except that some of the older DAs will be turning in there retirement papers and there might be some more vertical movement. Enough about work! Our repairs are coming along. I don't think they'll be finished before Thanksgiving though. I am considering having the room painted green (think "mossy") and Jason wants it the neutral color we had before the hurricane. Decisions, decisions....

More Interesting

I am not getting as many readers as I would like so perhaps I should make my posts more interesting or -- what the hell -- make my blog public. Because what I truly crave is not sharing our little adventures with my friends and family but getting attention, adoration and glory. But the problem with going public is my job....and unsavory defendants. For example, I have an Assault trial against a Houstone gangster on Monday and I would hate for his buddies to figure out where I live.... So I think my desire for attention has to be tempered against my desire to remain alive ... in 1 piece. I haven't been blogging about work much because I spend so much time there -- why blog about it on my free time right? But work has been particularly interesting lately. In case you don't know, I am still in misdemeanor court and I should be moving up to felony in the next few months. Then I will REALLY be busy. But I have some juicy misdemeanor trials coming up -- 1. Insurance fraud doctor submitting fake accident injuries, 2. high school teacher/prostitute, 3. frat boy drunk driver hits apt gate, and 4. blonde teen girl drunk driver hits skateboarder ... to name a few. Prosecuting drunks is not as easy as people think. For example, this week the junior prosecutor in my court was got a big NOT GUILTY on a DWI case even though they thought the guy was drunk (he could not say his ABCs on the video....). They did not like the fact that the cop pulled him over for making a wide right turn. Juries want the drunk to hit objects or people first. But even with an accident... and with a breath test ... the jury will hand a lovely Not Guilty out because they don't like punishing people for doing what they do themselves. It's frustrating. Enough work -- blah blah blah -- Jason has Columbus day off so he is here for a nice long weekend. yay!

Ike -- Yikes!

Never make fun of hurricanes. Mother Nature will bitch-slap you for it. We got slapped this weekend. A tree fell on our house. The front study is ruined and there is a big hole in the roof. We spent 2 days fighting the water to save the rest of the house. It has finally stopped raining and yesterday a crew from Florida removed the tree. Jason and I are emotionally and physically drained but we are OK.

Go away Ike

This week has been CRAZY. I found out that I am switching courts next week. I will be going from the Juvenile division back to a misdemeanor court. Hooray! I am looking forward to going back to the main Criminal Justice Center.

I am really excited about having a new judge. My current judge is a weirdo. Our office prosecuted his 19-yr-old daughter for Intox Manslaughter last year.... and a jury of her peers found her guilty and sent her to jail for decapitating her boyfriend when she plowed her SUV into a truck while drunk, drunk, drunk. But I have a feeling he was weird before she went to jail. Who knows. The black robe has a strange effect on people. Now -- being weird by itself is OK. In fact, I like a little weirdness in people. Makes life interesting. But he's also racist and an ego-maniac. Awesome.

But then Hurricane Ike rolled into town. I had a trial in Juvenile on Thursday (a nice purse-snatching Robbery) and the judge had not taken his medication. He stopped my witness in mid-sentence -- no kidding -- to take a 1-hr lunch break (which actually lasted 2 hours), answered his cell call during testimony and then postponed closing arguments to Sept. 18. So now I have to come back to Juvenile to finish this trial.

I went back to my office and told another prosecutor about his antics and she told me last years during a child custody hearing for an infant who have been physically abused and neglected he looked up from his computer and asked the attorneys what's a 4-letter word for "blah blah blah." He was too busy doing a crossword to pay attention.

Then the county shut everything down on Friday so I had no chance to move my stuff, meet the new staff, work on transition with the prosecutor I am replacing. Plus, I am working midnight to 8 am on Monday so I will be a total zombie going into my new court that morning. Argh! But Jason took Friday off and he is here to face down Ike with me. He's stressed about the hurricane. I am stressed about my new job. Oh well. Such is life.

Kiddos

Hello world. The dog found a new home. I named her Angel. She managed to break out of my yard during a thunderstorm and broke part of my fence so she was a little "devil" in disguise. But my neighbor repairs fences as a business and fixed it for $20. Also, there is a new hurricane coming to H-town. Whoo hoo! Jason is grumpy about it because he thinks the windows might get smashed by flying debris. But I am happy because court might shut down.