Final post of the day

Furthermore, having a title and a label seems redundant. Nit wit programmers.

I include another picture of two.

And, information about good brother Thelin. He called last week and asked about a trial I was starting. I gave him some detail. It was a life case, I had some good issues for a change. (I tried one a couple weeks ago, also life exposure, that had NO issues, until I created some, most creatively. Still I lost! :) ) He then texted me today and asked how it went: my pretrial motions, jury selection, the trial itself. I wrote him back; I told him I ran some motions; I lost some and won some. These "in limine" motions are an interesting part of trial, and the defense winning some is always a good thing. I then told him something happened during voir dire. (French for "to tell the truth" and our phrase for jury selection. By the way, as an aside, a good part of our present day legal terminology comes from French, thanks to William the Conqueror. More on that to anyone who asks for details.) The jury panel, about forty of them, were sworn to tell the truth, then the two attorneys were able to ask them questions about themselves to see if they would be able to be fair in this particular case. I told Tim he would have to call me to find out what happened. And I'm telling all of you the same thing. Respond to this post, inquire, comment, express a desire to know. And perhaps I'll tell you what happened. There were actually two things that happened. One has happened only once in my legal career. The other has never happened in my legal career, nor in anyone else's legal career as far as I can determine.

There you go. Pictures hereto attached.

Spelling mistakes and wicked programming

I am ticked off. I noticed two typing errors in my post. I tried to edit. I selected edit. The program would not let me edit. Now it looks as though I can't spell. My bad spelling is hanging out there, in little 0's and 1's, for all the world to see. I am so ashamed.

I imagine the programmers made editing difficult in this program just so they could trap people in this fashion. Fie on them. Fie on the world of nit wits who create programs that do not let you edit before publishing. Fie on spelling mistakes in general.

Fie.

Posting at the Zoo

A few weeks back, Matt, Britt and Abby visited, and we went to the Zoo at San Diego. I posted two pictures taken at the house. Yesterday and today Mom and I went to the Zoo again, this time with Luke and Leona. I thought I'd post a couple pictures from each post. I'm getting better at this!

An important thing to note as that the picture of Luke and Leona together is taken in front of the Komodo Dragon: the big one. Luke wanted to see this creature more than anything. So, we went both yesterday and today to the lizard house. Today, Mr. Komodo himself was out and about, awake, and right by the glass. So. There you have it.

And Leona is with the FABULOUS acrobats we saw at the Hunte Ampitheater. Luke was offered, Luke declined. He probably inherits a certain degree of occasional shyness from me, the poor guy!

Rats

I am also pleased. For other reasons. No longer will a rat be nesting in my beloved daughter's hair.

Oh. How inappropriate. I am sorry for your loss.

Love, Pops

Pacino Burton Thelin

At 12:10pm on July 25th 2011, our dear little buddy Pacino passed away and joined his pal Guster. Pacino was a year and a half, and full of energy is his last weeks. He will be remembered for his sweet nature and his love of cuddling. Everyone who met him soon realized how loving and gentle he was, he changed the premise for what people thought of rats. Pacino lived a privileged life, one filled with love and constant attention. Whatever he stood in need of he received (even if he didn't really need it). His favorite past times were cuddling on our shoulders while bruxing and boggling his affection toward us, playing fetch with his ball, and rearranging his cage to his suiting whenever we dared to changed it up (not to mention his affection for cooking with us in the kitchen). He will be missed dearly, he was our little buddy who would see us through what ever bad times or good times we came across. We are pleased that he will be in good hands and is reunited with his brother Guster.

I can do it too. I think.

So Britt inspired me. Sarah came here yesterday after dropping Thom off in Palm Springs: he's flown out to more training. She'll see him next at graduation, but he'll likely be gone a week after graduation before returning home. We need to keep him in our prayers, I think. Anyway, she and the grandkids went with Mom to the Pioneer Days activity for the stake. (I stayed home and worked on my trial that starts Monday. The guy is facing life in prison, and he may not be guilty. Those are the hardest for us. If I have no chance at winning, trial isn't such a bad experience. When your client may be innocent, the pressure is much greater, and it all depends on what you do, what the witnesses do, what the jury believes. But I divert from my original purpose.) Before they left, we visited, and I got some shots of Emily. (Sorry Luke and Leona--Emily was my target this time.) I took some photos. I also found some we took while Matt, Britt, and Abby were here. I'll try to post a couple. We'll see whether or not I'm successful.

Some fun videos!

It's been too long since I posted some videos of Abby. Here are a couple from this month and last month, enjoy!

My baby can hold her own bottle! I am so proud of you Abby! (6/4/2011)



This was the funniest day! Abby just couldn't stop laughing, even a fall couldn't get this little girl to not giggle. (6/12/2011)



I thought that the fireworks we had for the 4th of July might scary Abby, she loved them! (7/3/2011)




It's hard to believe my little baby girl can already crawl, and man is she fast! Its going to be not too long now until she is walking. (7/15/2011)



Abby just keeps amazing me everyday! Today while I put her on the floor so I could grab something she did this...well this is the second time she did it since the first time I didn't have my camera, she is so smart! (7/23/2011)