text the word "vote" to 5702

yes i did. five times tonight. well done, cookie.

blue mini got screwed

poor mini. tonight while driving home from work the dreaded 'flat tire alert' came on. right in the middle of my newest book on tape, Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark. i pulled off the freeway into a gas station, and discovered that some jagoff lost a screw on the 10 East and mini found it with his front tire.

lucky for me, there were 3 AAA tow-trucks with drivers in the parking lot of the mobil located at national bl. and overland ave. i called AAA, told the operator that i was in a gas station staring at three of their service providers from Brentwood Car Club (a coincidence, as that was who he was sending to my aid), and was told that one them would be right there to help.

then i walked over to these gents who were each enjoying a plastic-tipped cigarillo, told them that within moments one of them would get the call, and when he did, i'd be just 10 feet away awaiting assistance. one of them said "we could have helped you if you hadn't called AAA, but now we have to wait for them to send us over."

10 minutes later, the youngest dude, kevyan, approached. but not to help. he came over to tell me they were still waiting to get the call from dispatch.

about 10 minutes after that, imagine our collective surprise when a 4th AAA truck pulls up. Mostafa hops out, says he's responding to a service call for a blue mini with a flat, and changed the hell out of that tire.

my dream come true

mmmmmm..........

Posting from Jury Duty

I am on jury duty. This does not mean i am here waiting to see if i'll get picked, or hoping that i wont be. That was last week. On wednesday of last week i was not only picked to be a JUROR! but i was picked to be a juror on what is probably going to be a 14 day case. that's 14 court days. or almost 3 weeks!

Good things about jury duty are:

1. our judge is a lady and a saucy lady at that. she often times has been caught rolling her eyes or mouthing "come on!" when people are on the stand. My jury friends swear they've caught her surfing on myspace during testimony.

2. i have made friends with at least 3 of my co-panelists. (here they are) until the trial is over i will refer to them as jurors #1, #6 and #7 - so's that the parties involved do not try to contact them through my blog to sweet talk them or try to buy their vote.


3. downtown la is pretty rad. i park at the disney music hall and strut around this courthouse like i know where i'm going.

4. right now i'm in the jury holding-room, which is where all the people who are waiting to see if they'll get picked are hanging out. they have wireless internet in here and also they have people snoring, yammering on cel phones, and making excuses for why they can't serve.

i am due upstairs to my courtroom in a few minues. i'm juror #4. Here's a sweet pic of my badge.

Introducing Simmona and Kawai Ede

These are my friends Simmona and Kawai. They are the children of Camille (very close friend for over 20 years) and Kaleo Ede (husband of Camille and very close friend for 13 years). Simmona is almost 3 years old and Kawai (the "w" is prounounced like a "v") is 6 months old. They are beautiful and wonderful children and I am so lucky because they and their parents live only 15 minutes away.

Corey, Dhar and Amaya come visit!

Amaya teaches us the Hokey Pokey and she puts her whole self in.

The return of the Bloggy

big news to anyone who might still check this blog. i'm sure outside of lubes who emailed me this morning, there are approximately zero checkers checking.

the big news is that i got a new computer! i bought it used off of craigslist from a man named david with rough hands and sausage fingers. it's a macbook and it's only 3 months old - upgraded memory, still under warrantly, and has a built in camera which as you can see takes unflattering self-portraits.

hopefully having a computer again will mean that i can update this and maybe that means something exciting will happen so i can type about it.