I was definitely around in the Salon days but have no idea when I first posted!

The first time I was on jury duty it was a week long criminal trial involving gun possession. I was relieved because I'd just done my Backpack Europe thing, had no job, hadn't seen local news in several months, and was prime pickins to end up on some month long sequestered Jersey mob trial jury.

The second time was a civil trial that took two weeks and it was great because my job (which I hated) paid my full salary and it ate no vacation time. The Manhattan courts are close enough to Chinatown that we had fantastic cheap lunches every day and the weather was particularly lovely. We gave the dude in the car accident almost as much as we legally could on the logic of "What if this spinal injury causes further complications down the road and he needs more care?" so that felt good. It was long enough that I was excused from jury duty for something like eight years.

Things my old ass self has been pondering lately:

When photocopiers heated up and kept jamming and you had to let them cool down
When a cup of yogurt was 8 oz in a little waxed paper cup
Getting up to change the channel (misplaced our volume remote for two days - brutal)

When a cup of yogurt was 8 oz in a little waxed paper cup

This is not ringing any bells for me. Yogurt has always been in plastic or glass or made by me and then maybe in anything

Getting up to change the channel

Yeah, but we only had 4 channels so it wasn't so important. My dad, at one point, had a sort of wired remote, a mechanical sort of thing with a cable connecting it to the TV. It seemed very fancy

As a kid we only had NBC as a local station, so there wasn't any changing channels.

I was trying to think if I even know where the buttons ARE on my current TV, and then I realized "changing the channel" isn't a thing I can even do anymore since we only have streaming! (Even our broadcast TV, when we had it, was through YouTubeTV.)

My TV does have buttons but they are cunningly concealed. I think I had to use them to set up a universal remote or something and it was not easy. Pretty much watch everything on my phone these days though

Yeah, I don't think our TV could do anything without a remote.

I pulled my quad muscle and it's really painful! So I took a Vicodin leftover from my carpal tunnel surgery and I took a Flexiril, and it turns out they work together pretty effectively, where "effective" means "makes me stoned." So I am really stoned now and watching Leverage (thank you, TV remote) and eating white cheddar rice cakes.

This is how yogurt-ancient I am. [link]

For some reason I started popping out the cardboard disk in the lid and collecting them for a while. I think I liked the way the felt. Maybe my friends and I traded them?

Yeah, I don't think our TV could do anything without a remote.

Turns out our sound bar can be operated manually. Thank heavens. I felt like an Ingalls.

OK, this Pintarest will probably be my new happy place as the nation burns. [link]

My passport is here! Gotta say, I was a little concerned until I got it. What with the *hands* fracking everything going on in this crazy country.

Amusingly, I just got my hair cut today and my passport picture was the same day as my last haircut.