Memeage

Go to Pop Culture Madness (http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/2006.html) and select the year you became 18. Snip the best 50 songs from the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like and strike the ones you dislike, italic the ones you know but don't like nor dislike and the ones you don't know will stay common text. (I've added comments on a few in monospace font.)

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Being Summoned

A few weeks ago I received a jury summons from King County. I was scheduled to report for jury duty on Monday, November 13, but on advice from my boss I requested, and received, a postponement. The reason for doing this is that I am in a contract-to-hire status, and as a contractor I do not get paid for jury duty but as an employee I would. So I picked the week of July 9, 2007 to reschedule (the requirement is that the schedule date be within 12 months).

In today's mail what do I see but another jury summons, this time from Renton Municipal Court for January 24 and 25. I don't know if I will be able to postpone this one, and it falls within the period when I will most likely still be contracting and thus forced to give up a couple of days' pay.

I'm rather amazed that a) the various courts in the counties of Washington don't coordinate with each other when doing jury summonses (unlike New York, where the county supplies jurors to all levels of court within the county and there are time limits within which jurors cannot be called again), and b) I've now been called twice and gmjambear, who has so much more time on his hands, hasn't been called once.

Some things I guess are not meant to happen. Grr.

I Wanna Drive The Zamboni

A couple of idiots in Boise, Idaho decided to make a midnight run to Burger King on a pair of Zamboni machines which they were employed to operate at a local ice rink. They were, of course, fired.

gmjambear and I often watch Hockey Night in Canada thanks to our local cable provider carrying the CBC affiliate in Vancouver. There has been a series of ads showing a kid whose ambition, it is later revealed, is to drive the Zamboni at an NHL venue. The background music is "I Wanna Drive the Zamboni".

Oddly enough, one of my roommates during Spring Break my senior year in college actually did drive the Zamboni at the OSU Ice Rink.