Open Thread 1: Jury Duty

Unexpected!

I had jury duty today. It was kind of different from last time!

The last time I did this, around two years ago, I got called in to the Supreme Court downtown, and in the first ten minutes my group was called and I was put on the jury for an attempted-murder case. Interesting stuff, seeing how the system works. So I was actually looking forward to doing it again.

This time they didn't even call me in on the first day. The second day (today) I did have to go in, but it was to the municipal court, which apparently mostly handles misdemeanors, and primarily traffic tickets at that. The staffers in charge of the pool of jury candidates said there were seven cases today, but apparently they were all uncontested or something because none of the groups got called and they let us go home at noon!

So I had a nice day of shopping (Valkyria Chronicles 2 came out today, as did Metroid: Other M, but I can't play the latter yet because I don't have RCA or composite ports on my monitor D: ), made an early dinner and had a nice couple of rounds of Starcraft 2 co-op with Z.