Back to work. I got dismissed again from jury duty without ever stepping into the courthouse. This is probably about the fourth time this has happened. You just call the number the night before and listen to the recorded message. It makes me wonder what happened. Did they have a settlement or just throw out the case? Do they just not have any other cases requiring jury members to be selected today? Do they just randomly call you to duty even if they knew they wouldn’t really need you, just to see if you’re paying attention?
I decided to finally reformat and rebuild my Toshiba Satellite 5005-S507’s hard drive from scratch. Yikes. I have such paranoia about leaving important files behind. *Click* Oh well, no point in thinking about that anymore. Goodbye, cruel world! “Formatting 38,15.34 M. 3 percent completed.” It disturbs me that the comma is in the wrong place. Not exactly reassuring…
——Update——-
Wow, I’ve had my “new” computer on the network for all of 10 minutes, just enough to get the updated virus definitions for Symantec Anti-virus and start downloading Service Pack 1 for Windows, and already a virus has been intercepted! 10 minutes with a new system! I haven’t done ANYTHING with the machine yet! Wow, it’s crazy. It sucks that some packages take just 1 minute to download but over 30 minutes to install (i.e. Service Pack). They really should have a reminder: “Download complete. Disconnect your Internet connection in the meantime, before you catch another 3 viruses!”
I guess jury duty is one of those few things that you are happy to be rejected from. Not many other things in life are as nice to be excluded from.