Mr Lector notwithstanding, I am making progress now!
I spent the day glued to the working chair. I got blisters on my hand yesterday wielding a broom, trying to help Jane clean up the gutter mess, which shows you in what sad shape my hands are. They caught the gun-waving bad guy who held up somebody in a state park the size of a postage stamp, kind of off the beaten track and in a wooded area, where nobody in his right mind should be at 10 pm…they had the choppers around hunting for Mr Lector, but the gun-toting robber just reaped the benefit.
Jane’s got yet one more slide show up. I haven’t heard from Lynn since she took a flu shot on top of the swine flu and we hope she’s alive (Please, Lynn!) but we’re pretty sure she’s ok.
We haven’t heard from OSG. We haven’t heard from Joane. We haven’t heard from Lynn. We’re beginning to worry.
OSG has been around. Talk like a pirate day has been keeping her busy I think!
Good luck, CJ in getting your city feeling safe again.
Umm, oh good and oh dear at once? 😀
Argghhhh! That bonny wench Kato-ji be spyin’ and tellin’ tales o’ the briney deep!
‘Twas a piratical day indeed, after the sun was past the yardarm, wi’ o’er 7 turns of the hourglass spent sittin’ in me Captain’s Chair, wieldin’ a sharpened quill and scribblin’ on scrolls of parchment. Tellin’ Non-Dead Men’s Tales will drive a lass to grog, it will, but the bloody job is done! Arrrgghhh!
And before the sun was past the yardarm, it nearly came to fisticuffs at Ye Olde Mountain Geare. A worthless lily-livered bilge rat got in line ahead o’ me and plundered a boat me eyes were on.
To Davy Jones Locker wi’ ‘er!
But, ahoy! Me hearties, all ended well. A grease o’ th’ palms of th’ Mountain Geare First Mates with an extra dubloon or two, coupled with a saucy show of a well-turned ankle, worked a fine miracle indeed. Avast! Two coveted sea-farin’ vessels now be flyin’ the flag o’ me fleet — although one admits me treasure chests now be pillaged of gold!
Aarrrrh. Ye were buyin’ a fleet? Shiny!
OSG, we want pictures of your fleet!!!!
Have they caught Mr. Lector yet? Maybe they should send the person who decided he was “safe” to take to the county fair out with a flashlight and a butterfly net to find him and bring him back. (and I thought some of the sentences in Latin were convoluted!)
Mr. Lector is still on the hoof.
The fleet: 2 kayaks. Mtn Gear was selling their demos at sharp discounts, so that’s why I was in line outside the door. I was 3rd — but there was a couple who was first in line and wanted the one Steve has been paddling. So, they got it. I snatched the one I’ve been paddling, and ended up getting OSGuy a brand new one. (Current Designs “Vision 140” & CD “Kestral 140”, respectively)
Then — straight to my office to finish up the 30+ charts. it took 7.5 hours but I got every last one DONE. What a relief. This exemplary state of affairs won’t last long — but at least I’m no longer behind. Of course, the fact that I was so severely behind shows how much I need help. A week ago, I was 50+ charts behind. Spent 6+ hours last Sunday doing the same exact thing.
Then, we can discuss the Pig Flu, and my personal experience of why TAMIFLU is a miracle drug if started quickly enough….
Mr. Lector was just apprehended near Goldendale. That’s not very far from Sunnyside…
Waiting to hear the collective sigh of relief. Damn scary mess and sure hope there’s several someones that the good folk of Spokane and vicinities can boot out of office/vent invictives upon and generaly make their displeasure known were it will hurt the most. Glad all are safe.
And dang, no fun missing the speak like a pirate day!
That is good news! I hope you two sleep better now.
*big sigh of relief*
Hurrah. Glad nobody was killed. And the Feds are investigating the decision. I like that idea.
Since criminals on the run, pirates, and history have all been discussed recently, you may be interested in The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – nearly 200,000 trials online, searchable by crime, sentence, keyword, etc. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
I find it fascinating reading.
Today’s highlighted trial, 20 September 1720:
Thomas and Ann Tompion allegedly picked the pocket of a woman they had asked to sit between them in a boat. Thomas was acquitted, Ann was found guilty and sentenced to death.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17201012-5
It’s interesting to see today how short and sharp some of the trials are. For example, a case in 1775 of a man who grabbed a cloak from a woman walking in the street at night. He hit her when she shouted for for help, and then ran away. He was caught by a passer-by, still holding the cloak. Result: A trial that must have lasted about 15 minutes flat. Sentence: Death.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17750531-5-off25&div=t17750531-5
Here are 2 cases of piracy on merchant ships, where the crews killed their captains and seized the ships, both cases tried on the same day, 24th February 1737. Not quite Pirates of the Caribbean.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17370224-1-off5&div=t17370224-1
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17370224-2-off25&div=t17370224-2
And here’s a case of a highwayman (complete with with mask and pistol) caught after a watch he stole was identified.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17750218-19-off99&div=t17750218-19
Reading these cases, you get a feel for the times that you simply can’t get by reading modern history books.
Since criminals on the run, pirates, and history have all been discussed recently, you may be interested in The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – nearly 200,000 trials online, searchable by crime, sentence, keyword, etc. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
I find it really fascinating reading.
Today’s highlighted trial, 20 September 1720:
Thomas and Ann Tompion allegedly picked the pocket of a woman they had asked to sit between them in a boat. Thomas was acquitted, Ann was found guilty and sentenced to death.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17201012-5
It’s interesting to see today how short and sharp some of the trials are. For example, a case in 1775 of a man who grabbed a cloak from a woman walking in the street at night. He hit her when she shouted for for help, and then ran away. He was caught by a passer-by, still holding the cloak. Result: A trial that must have lasted about 15 minutes flat. Sentence: Death.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17750531-5-off25&div=t17750531-5
Here are 2 cases of piracy on merchant ships, where the crews killed their captains and seized the ships, both cases tried on the same day, 24th February 1737. Not quite Pirates of the Caribbean.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17370224-1-off5&div=t17370224-1
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17370224-2-off25&div=t17370224-2
And here’s a case of a highwayman (complete with with mask and pistol) caught after a watch he stole was identified.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17750218-19-off99&div=t17750218-19
Reading these cases, you get a feel for the times that you simply can’t get by reading modern history books.
CJ, I think a posting of mine about Old Bailey trials online and pirates may have been caught in a spam filter for some reason. Can you please check? Thanks!
Got it. They are now liberated.
Stupid filter. Great post.
Hey, Mr. Lector made NPR this morning! Congratulations, Spokane is officially on the map.
Unfortunately we are the serial killer capital of the Pacific Northwest. We have Gary Ridgeway, who is the Green River Killer; and we had, though only seasonally, Richard Resendez Ramirez, otherwise known as the Railway Killer, who used the rails to get about: Spokane is a rail hub. We also have several notorious mental cases: we have Mr. Lector, who did not manage to repeat, thank goodness, plus another guy, out of a prominent local family, who used to look like a GQ ad, and who has now deteriorated to the point you’d cross the street to avoid sharing a sidewalk with him…never killed anybody, but it was a matter of time: he’s now in an institution. We really don’t have that much crime, but when we do, it’s spectacular.