I’m getting more and more gruntled.

The past couple of weeks have been sort of a whirlwind. Let me try to sum things up:

back on Labor day(or was it memorial day? Is there anyone who doesn’t get the two mixed up?) I was working, and it was a holiday. I got a very silly speeding ticket. The officer was very mechanical in the whole discussion, asked me the model year of my ol’ beater 3 times and *still* wrote it out on the ticket wrong. There were tons more details, and the whole situation was silly.

So I called on the ticket, daily, to find out what the fee might be. The automated system was never updated. Up to and including the day of the hearing. I tool a day off work and went to the hearing, sat for a couple of hours, filled out a sheet of paper saying that I contest the charge, and was sent home with a summons for a day the following month. This past week, that day came, so I took another day off work and went to court and I waited through all of the posturing, to the call of the calendar. I counted 15 cases where parties were present ahead of me alphabetically. When the judge came in and started court, she went by the officers. She called the officers up one at a time,a nd tried the cases for each officer (so that the ones who had a regular beat during those hours sould be able to get back to it). There were tons of cases being tried where the charge was speeding in a school zone…. those fees are through the roof! When they finally called my case, I had some really good questions for the officer, and was almost at the end of my questions, was going to make my argument for the judge to hear, then wait for the news one way of the other. “Two more questions…” The officer spoke directly to the judge, and dropped the charge. It’s all over.

I moved the site to another host because I will be changing jobs. This post is the first since the move, and should be a good test for the DB transfer, and to test all the scripts.

I just have to say that I adore Wordpress. I’d suggest it to anyone doing a news post, blog, personal site, etc. The plugins, skins, and full implementation for stylesheets make it both simple to use, and fully customizable.

I was reading some articles and came across this one I was reading along and laughing so hard, M thought I was going to hemorrage. This writing style is one of my favorites, and Pasha Malla captured it masterfully as well as coupling it with potty humor (one of my favorites). Give it a glance. Then give it a full read