6/6/12 Wednesday
There is always so much to do and it
is always more than I can do alone. We have another swarm of bees under the
house so I put a fogger in the crawls space to get rid of them. Got bit by one
yesterday as I worked to repair the drain on our bathroom sink. I spent hours with
a hoe attacking weeds yesterday, and the day before, but you can barely tell I
did much. The rabbits continue to attack our cantaloupe and the snares I put
out haven’t caught a thing. I have a business plan to amend for Texas
Department of Assistive and Rehabilitation that has been sitting untouched for
weeks now. As with most things in my life I simply don’t remember to do it or
when I remember there is something pressing that needs to be done. There is a long
list of projects laying dormant around here, all victims of that inability I
seem to have to follow through on things. It is frustrating to be sure.
This blog bit me in the butt Monday.
After three years I finally got notification from the court that my trial for
the traffic ticket was scheduled. Three years!!! Geese, I had forgotten it
existed. Finally I would have by day in court to fight this ticket that was
clearly a misreading of the radar on the part of the trooper that issued it. I
had requested what they call “discovery” for this ticket when I went to court
and asked for a jury trial, but had received nothing from the state. It was
supposed to be mailed directly to me but having not seen anything I presumed it
got lost in the shuffle. That was good, as I planned on asking the ticket be
dismissed based on not having any of this evidence I needed for my defense. It
did not work out that way.
When I arrived at the court the
prosecutor asked to talk with me privately. She was nice about things, not
antagonistic at all as I had expected. Come to find out the state had generally
denied all my requests for discovery, calling them “overbroad”. I asked
specifically for the make and model of the radar unit in the officer’s car,
nothing general or overbroad about that, but it really wasn’t going to matter.
Come to find out the prosecutor had
looked up my blog and read my account of getting the ticket. In that account I
admitted going 60 miles an hour, nothing close to the 71 MPH the officer said
her radar read, but still over the 55 MPH speed limit. I don’t regret being
honest but honesty comes with a price. The prosecutor said that she wished to
avoid embarrassing me in court and offered to cut the fine down or let me take
a defensive driving course and pay a fine. It really didn’t make a difference
that I was not going as fast as the ticket said because I had admitted going over
the speed limit so I was stuck. Now we have to come up with $123.00 dollars
plus whatever the defensive driving course will cost. As always this makes
things tough. We barely make enough to pay our bills and eat and that dumb job
I took securing houses for banks owes me ten checks that are being held for every
stupid reason they can find and if I don’t run out and mow a lawn as quick as
they want the refuse to pay on other jobs already done.
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