Kim

I have a comment about ZL. Do you suppose you could talk her into a wood burning stove? Someone already mentioned it as a good idea. The more I think about it, the more realistic it seems because people who are paranoid often are most suspicious of electricity. And think about it, who really understands it so it becomes a perfect target for their paranoia. I worked in rehab and heard it many many times. Houses were bugged, people were listening in, etc., all through the electricity. Usually it was the brighter people who developed this irrationality. So even if the Grid Good Fairy does come and try to work out something, I don’t think ZL is going to change her mind. So for whatever it’s worth…

HT

I have no time to read books with my two jobs and Luke.

I’m surprised you have time to read stop signs for God’s sake.

And thanks for the trailer, but no I don’t have this movie. I did see it a while back, and I’m quite sure that I had never heard of the case before seeing the movie – when I saw that it was “a true story”, I had to find out more and that’s when I dug around and looked for more information about the case.

I don’t know if Movie Gallery has it – I’ll have to check. I saw it years and years ago in Florida.

If you find the movie – let me know.

Kim

Personally, I’m not over the OJ thing, which is really sick.

I know what you mean – personally, I’m not even over OJ’s first trial, let alone OJ 07. OJ is one of my favorite, favorite cases to debate, although it’s the one case where I could imagine strangling someone who doesn’t “get it”. I used to hang out in an OJ usenet group, until it just got to the point where there were so many OJ apologists who refused to answer questions and discuss the evidence and instead would just reply “How do YOU know? The police could have PLANTED that…” to every honest attempt to get them to explain their position that I finally just gave up and don’t even bother anymore.

OJ is easy to discuss, though, there’s been so much made public and so much written and I know the case well enough to really be able to debate it. Hell, I can probably say the same thing about the Kennedy Assassination. I’ve got hundreds and hundreds of books on that “case” – it was the first “unsolved” case I was ever interested in and probably fueled my appetite for the law.

I do still obsess about the Jayson Williams case. Still waiting for the retrial. Don’t think it’s ever going to happen, though.

I’m eagerly awaiting that one, too. That’s a case of “interesting via the legal principles”. Almost as good as a straight out “did he or didn’t he”.

did you ever get into the HBO Show “Six Feet Under”?

Nope, never did. Hell,I’ve never even seen an episode of the Sopranos.

Actually, even though I am one of those people who has the TV on 24/7 “for the background noise”, there’s few shows I actually watch. “Lost”, “Heroes”, “House”, “Project Runway” and whatever flavor of “Can you sing/dance/ice skate/cook or do something else to make good TV” series that’s on that season are really all the TV shows I watch. And even then I have to be doing “something else” at the same time – I can’t just sit and watch TV – bugs me. I have to be knitting or sewing or reading or doing SOMETHING besides just sitting there – except for Lost – for that show, no one can breathe, the phone goes off the hook and God help you if you knock on my door.

What’s up with Zombie Lady?

Well, in my never ending quest to intrude in her life and be a nosy neighbor, I called National Grid. I asked the girl on the phone if they had some sort of Community Outreach person, or a manager or a public liaison officer or someone who could help me get this fool’s lights back on. I explained that she’s been without electricity for 6 months, that it’s fucking cold out and that she was in her house with a gas grill that was either going to kill her or blow up the street. I also explained that it’s not a financial thing, that it’s a mental health issue and asked if there was some policy they might have to make concessions for obviously mentally ill people, hinting that I couldn’t believe they just routinely terminated services of mentally ill people who might not understand their statements and didn’t pay them.

She said that they do have a “customer advocate” and that she could send one out. Although she couldn’t say when that might be. I told her to please write down my name and address, because Zombie lady was unlikely to open the door for anyone, and that the customer advocate could come and talk to me and I could explain the situation, point out some of the more obvious signs of zombie lady’s mental illness,(curtains, flowers, mailbox on the back of the house, Big Bird in the doorway), and maybe get zombie lady to open the door.

Hopefully this will help.

What did you do with all the flannel?

The flannel is still sitting in the huge lawn and leaf sized bags I got from Joann’s on the cutting table. I’m not kidding when I say I HAVE NO ROOM FOR THIS. I really don’t. Every nook, cranny, box, drawer, shelf, cupboard and corner is full up with yarn and other fabrics. I don’t know what to do. Paul came into the sewing room and started yak yak yakking about “You have no room in here – this whole room is going to have to be rearranged…Jesus H. Christ – you have two fucking rooms up here and already those are crammed with shit….You have half the goddamned bedroom loaded with boxes of shit that won’t even fit in the two rooms you already have….I might as well just move into the Harley shed and let you have the whole fucking house – we’ll see how long it takes you to run out of fucking room…”

And I don’t know which I need LESS of – Paul bitching that I have too much shit or more fabric.

I went to Joanne’s on Sunday. It was still a friggin Zoo in there.

OOOOhhhh!!! What did you get good at Joann’s???

Kim