Won an issue at the trial court. State AG's office took a writ. Wrote a response. Circuit court denied writ. State AG's office appealed to LA Supreme Court. Wrote a response. LASC denied cert.
Then today I learn that my response I wrote to the State's request for summary dismissal in another case appears to have been successful, since an evidentiary hearing has been set.
Me IRL right now:
Me mentally right now:
I dont understand a word that you just wrote, but I salute your victory.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Ghost said in RL things I love:
I dont understand a word that you just wrote, but I salute your victory.
A prosecutor said "I can do X." I said "no, you can't." A judge listened to us and said "you can't do X." The prosecutor said "I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUPERVISOR" and wrote a big long letter to the appellate court saying "I can do X." I wrote a big long response to his letter saying "no, you can't do X." The appellate court listened to us and said "you can't do X." The prosecutor said "I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUPERVISOR" and asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to grant him a hearing so that he could argue that he can do X. I wrote a response to the Louisiana Supreme Court saying "this jabroni can't do X--you know it, I know it, he knows it--and he doesn't deserve a hearing on the matter." The Louisiana Supreme Court didn't grant him a hearing.
tl;dr I won and there's literally nothing he can do about it.
In the other case not much has happened yet. I just said "hey you should do X for my client" and the state said "no and you shouldn't even give them a hearing" and I said "yes huh you should" and the court said "we're giving them a hearing."
LAW
Most Baller thing ever...
Reading the history of quiche on wikipedia while waiting on QA code validation.
Ain't no one gonna dare fuck with me. I'm the bawss.
My grandpa died recently (which is a bummer), and he had a sailboat that I've been doing all the maintenance work for the last decade and a half. Its a real beauty, this glorious teak deck and interior, and it sails like nothing. These days it's a bit small compared to the others around (33' when everywhere they're rocking 40' and 50's these days), but its built like they don't quite do anymore (unless you're paying in the millions) so its fairly roomy anyway. Its stable, designed for ocean sailing.
Anyway, while I just don't have the time to use it enough to justify keeping it, I took a 'farewell' trip, a week long sail down the coast of Norway with a friend, picking up my cousin on the way. It was just so freaking glorious. First day they promised lots of wind in our back and sunshine. Got out on the water? No wind. But we were bobbing along, and then in front of us we see this big black wall. A massive thunderstorm coming in. But we got the wind, suddenly! Even if was a headwind, but that's fine, the lady sails really well even close against it. And the storm just blew right next to us, so we got 15 minutes of downpour, then it was bright and sunny again. Off the the rainclothes, back to shorts and no t-shirts. Behind us it was this gorgeous display of awesome lightning, shooting down like an orbital bombardment. The rest of the week, all kinds of weather, all kinds of winds. When you sail along a broken coast like Norway, the wind is really unpredictable like that, but that just added to the fun of it. We had sunshine, we had downpour, but it always broke up so it didn't become a drag.
We sailed the whole week, barely using the engine when we had to get into some tricky ports. One beer for lunch (don't drink and drive, kids, even on the sea), but every evening we had a few. The food was great (friend's a great cook, even in the tiny galley he did wonders), and thankfully my cousin became the cabin boy, so he did the dishes. As captain, I could just have my beer outside and grin!
It was just a wonderful farewell with my gramps, and to the boat that I am now debating if I'm going to keep anyway. Though between it, and the dingy, and the boathouse, and helping keep grandma's house in order, my own place, I just.. bah! We'll see.
The trip took us past glaciers, inbetween fjords, and across a couple of really rough ocean stretches. The latter became our bane on the way back. The weather was nice, and we thought we'd be good.. but the massive swells and the headwind.. and then knowing 30 minutes behind us lay a safe port and all the beer we wanted, sort of killed our adventuring spirit. We took it the next day instead. 
Anyway, life can be great.
I just rolled a 20 and my garlic bread was 90% garlic, 10% bread. Who wants to make out?
@SG said in RL things I love:
I just rolled a 20 and my garlic bread was 90% garlic, 10% bread. Who wants to make out?
I just want the bread.
Being able to watch from the window as the plane both takes off and lands. It helps that I'm scared if heights so it's an extra rush of omg!!!
Mac threw a ball with Chase Utley. I thought @Ghost might appreciate that.
@insomniac7809 said in RL things I love:
Mac threw a ball with Chase Utley. I thought @Ghost might appreciate that.
lol I messaged him about that earlier today. If anyone would be excited about it, it'd be Ghost.
When you don't really care for white bread, but tear through that loaf of french crusty bread inside 30 minutes of getting home from the store.
@SG said in RL things I love:
but tear through that loaf of french crusty bread inside 30 minutes of getting home from the store
Well you have to, after an hour French bread becomes inedible.
He/Him
@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@SG said in RL things I love:
but tear through that loaf of french crusty bread inside 30 minutes of getting home from the store
Well you have to, after an hour French bread becomes inedible.
That's why pan perdu exists, mon ami.
I run a DnD campaign. It started after I tried desperately to get my RL friends into a campaign because as we get older we spend less time with each other and it seemed like a good way to keep us meeting each other. I got a DM from my work and it was nearly ruinous, he was bad and they all wanted to quit and it made them all, including my wife hate dnd.
After we quit that game it took me a major amount of convincing to talk them all into playing again with me as the DM. And the first session was mostly a 'try it out' session. I got a different coworker to come play and he brought his girlfriend of one month to a new session. It introduced my wife, my best friend of twenty years, his wife, a good friend of mine from work and his girlfriend together. People who didn't know each other.
Since then we have become such a family in two years of this campaign. My best friend plays the cleric, and our other friends are getting married soon-ish. Last night at a party the two betrothed players went to our party cleric and asked him to officiate the wedding because they would rather no one else do it then their trusted cleric Yuri.(character name) It was the cutest damn thing in the whole world and it made my heart melt. These people became friends because of DnD and now one is officiating another's wedding. It's so sweet and I cried just a little.
@Kodiak Normally I'm pretty passive/apathetic when it comes to things people post on here. But damn if that didn't make my heart ache and yearn for a DnD campaign, and associated bonds, of my very own.
@lordbelh said in RL things I love:
It was just a wonderful farewell with my gramps, and to the boat that I am now debating if I'm going to keep anyway. Though between it, and the dingy, and the boathouse, and helping keep grandma's house in order, my own place, I just.. bah! We'll see.
You are an astoundingly amazing person. I would have loved to get my sea legs back.
Everyone at work is really happy for me with the new job. They've expressed they'll miss me, which feels good too, but honestly I will miss the camaraderie here.
I am also really looking forward to being able to afford my meds. Been off anything for migraines for a week and I am suffering.
I saw Hamilton tonight. Nothing could have prepared me fore the emotional rollercoaster. It was so good I cannot describe my feelings fully.
@silverfox It's okay. You'll be back.
@silverfox said in RL things I love:
I saw Hamilton tonight. Nothing could have prepared me fore the emotional rollercoaster. It was so good I cannot describe my feelings fully.
Won an issue at the trial court. State AG's office took a writ. Wrote a response. Circuit court denied writ. State AG's office appealed to LA Supreme Court. Wrote a response. LASC denied cert.
Then today I learn that my response I wrote to the State's request for summary dismissal in another case appears to have been successful, since an evidentiary hearing has been set.
Me IRL right now:
Me mentally right now:
