Don't Worry, Be Happy
In the morning walk to the office. Work on many files. Get cases ready for next week. Walk home. Drive to the Mitchell Field Airport. Walk around the airport. Stop to watch planes taking off. Walk back to my car. Get food from Denny’s. Drive home.
In the morning drive to the courthouse. Go in for verdict. It is split across the counts: guilty and not guilty. Still not a good result for the client. Drive home. Walk to the office. Work on catching up on everything that has been piling up all week. Walk to Zeidler Square and put out peanuts for the squirels that live there. Walk home.
In the morning drive to the courthouse. Go in for more jury trial. Present several witnesses to the jury in the client’s defense. In the afternoon make closing arguments. Drive home.
In the morning drive to the courthouse. Go in for more jury trial. Over the lunch break walk to my office in the rain. Download videos to show at the trial. Drive back to the courthouse. Show the videos to the jury. Drive home. It is still raining.
In the morning drive to the courthouse for jury trial. There all day. Cross examine witnesses and sit through videos and object to whatever from time to time. Drive home.
In the morning drive to the courthouse. Go in for jury trial. Pick a jury in the afternoon. Drive home. Walk to the grocery store. Pick up a frozen dinner and cookies. Walk home.
In the morning drive to Port Washington. Get pulled over by a cop. Got caught in a speed trap. Walk west to Saukville. Walk my way back east on country roads. Drive home.
In the morning walk to the office. Get file ready for jury trial next week. Walk home. Walk down to the lakefront. A little group of geese walk right up to me but I have no bread for them. Then another person starts throwing out bread and the little group of geese runs off there as fast as they can. Walk home. Drive to Delafield. Eat at a hibachi restaurant to celebrate my nephew’s 18th birthday. Drive home.
In the morning walk to the office. Work on several files. Walk home. Walk down to the lakefront. Walk the same route from yesterday. Walk back home.
In the morning drive to the courthouse. Realize that I do not have my courthouse identification card. Try to sneak past security anyway. Get caught. Have to go through the line like everyone else. Go in for court hearings. Drive out to the House of Correction to get my identification, which I suspect leaving there yesterday. Wait in line for a long time there too. Get my identification back. Drive home. Eat lunch. Drive back to the courthouse. Go in for several more hearings. Drive home. Walk to the lakefront at sunset. Walk out on the breakwater after dark. Walk downtown and I am impressed by all the activity I see.
