JURY SUMMONS

I didn't have much in the way of sleep.😔💤😴 Because I didn't want to be even a minute late for the Jury Summons!

The Coolant Air Bleed Hose that I slipped onto my car antenna to stop it from whistling 😗 🎶 in the wind 🌬️ since March 19th, because of the turbulence created by the spiral wound along the antenna's shaft, Really WORKS AFTER ALL👌❗😎❗👍

I arrived at the designated parking 🅿️ section with 20 minutes left to spare. ⏳

And I was ready to present to the judge at the qualifying interview my 7-page argument on my I am biased, partial and prejudiced! And therefore ineligible to serve as a juror.

I went inside of the building and had to remove my belt and everything at the security checkpoint and put them all in a tray to be x-rayed. The lady security told me that I either had to take my keychain mini knife and my keychain mini folding scissors back to my car or she'll be forced to confiscate them.

A minute later, she changed her mind and told me that she'll keep the "contraband" items and hand them back to me on my way out.

Soon, a Chinese-American came in and was very apologetic. He forgot to call ahead for the jury selection. Oops, I did the same thing❗😬❗And a man and 2 ladies came in separately who also forgot to call ahead of time! I thought, as did they, that the Summons Card WAS an appointment card❗🤦‍♂️❗

I went into the jury selection room where the receptionist was explaining to the man ahead of me about the need to call beforehand. And she was about to explain the same thing to me; as well as to those who will arrive after me! 😁 😁 😁 They should have hired Cine-Man, the Common Sense Writer, to write their Summons Card for them❗🤓❗Their hired writer was probably college INDOCTRINATED. 😒

So, I will have to call the Summons number after 5:30 p.m. today. And see whether or not I have to go back to this County Superior Court tomorrow for a pre-qualifying interview.

ATTENTION, CA US CITIZENS: IF YOU WANT TO HAVE 2 DAYS OFF FROM WORK BECAUSE YOU WERE SUMMONED TO APPEAR IN COURT AS A POTENTIAL JUROR, DON'T CALL THE NUMBER BEFOREHAND SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE AN EXCUSE FOR AN ADDITIONAL DAY OFF FROM WORK❗😂❗😂❗Just Don't Tell Them That I Told You!  🤫

The female security guard gave me back my items. And I talked to the male security guard. I asked him about the Joe's Buffet Sandwich Restaurant. He said that it's a good place to go to for lunch. He recommended the Joe's Special Sandwich. I'll try that tomorrow, hopefully, if my interview wait time will be longer than anticipated.

As I exited the courthouse, I talked with Jason, one of the potential jurors who Lives Just 2 Blocks Away---"Lucky," as Napoleon Dynamite would say.  😏 I told him that the reason why I was summoned was because I wrote an angry letter to Clusterfucknia DEMON-cratic congressman garamendi and Clusterfucknia DEMON-cratic senator dodd about issues that I was having with a power-hungry, idiotic Solano County case worker assigned to my case. And jury duty is their way of getting back at me!  🙄 I should, perhaps, learn to hold my tongue and/or act more civilly around TREASONOUS Public Servants! Which explains why I wrote a 7-page statement to present to the jury selection judge; or he/she will know firsthand what The Bible means by "Son of Thunder" if I am to SPEAK 🗣️ my reason for disqualification! Then, I'll be held and fined for Contemp of Court! I left the parking lot at approximately 8:30 a.m.

I decided to go to the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max to see some movies because today is All Day Bargain Tuesday. The 1st show that I want to see starts at 11:00 a.m. And the 2nd one starts at 1:25 p.m. That gives me plenty of time to write this blog. 👌

I also had time to park my car in the shade of the building directly across the street from the Cineplex. This vacant building used to be the old 2-screens movie theatre. The last movie shown here is THE MATRIX ( 1999 ).

This became a co-ed gym which

was forced to close down

because  of  THE 

Plandemic.

Then, it closed a week later when the bigger 16-Screens Cineplex opened across the street with the premier of STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - THE PHANTOM MENACE. I parked here to put an extra quarter inch/0.6 cm of hose at the base of the antenna so that its tip will look much nicer and more professional looking.  👍

Unlike yesterday when it looked like it was 

proudly waving itself in the wind like a

circumcised pole, now it looks like

a pole with a retracted foreskin!

I'll have to Super Glue it as soon as I have the time. I thought that I kept some of this glue in the trunk of my car; I thought wrong, apparently!  😕

It's almost time for the 1st movie, IF, to begin.

When I got home, I compared the step-count of either of my cellphones. I brought them with me for such a purpose.

My main cellphone, a Nokia, showed a step-count of 2,563.

My emergency cellphone, a Cloud Mobile C7 showed a step-count of 3,548.

Just as I suspected❗ The pedometer app on my Nokia has been short-changing me all of this time❗😡❗I'm going to have to replace it with the same kind of pedometer app that I have on my emergency cellphone!

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Now, for the winners in today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race.  Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Hong Kong for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎇🏆🎆🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰

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🍾

Congratulations to Israel for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇮🇱🥈🇮🇱

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Congratulations to the USA 

for winning in 3rd place!

🇺🇲🥉🇺🇸

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And congrats to China, Germany 

and Ireland for the 3-way

tie for the 4th place!

🇨🇳🏅🇩🇪🏅🇮🇪

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Let's give 🇮🇪Ireland🇮🇪 a nice & warm welcome back❗🤗❗

Thanks to the countries that took part in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish!  🏁    🛣️    🏎️

     

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CONTRABAND, R ( 1 hr & 50 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Saturday, January 14th, 2012
show:  12:35 p.m.
costs:  $7.00 Ticket + $4.50 20 oz. VitaminWater XXX = $11.50
auditorium:  14
seat:  5th row, 6th column


synopsis/overview:  A former master smuggler, Chris Faraday ( Mark Wahlberg ) must get himself back in the game when his brother-in-law, Andy ( Caleb Landry Jones ), is forced to not deliver on a drug run.  And the bad guys are threatening the lives of his wife, Kate ( Kate Beckinsale ),  and their kids, as a result.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Customs raid on a ship; 2.) Hospital; 3.) "I like your outfit"; 4.) "We're playing"; 5.) "Will you just trust me, please"; 6.) "The proudest day of my life was when you turned legit"; 7.) Funny money; 8.) Interview; 9.) "It takes money to make money"; 10.) "You're still the captain's bitch-boy"; 11.) "That's the point"; 12.) Intruders; 13.) 'Phone call; 14.) Accident; 15.) "You got a lot of pussy in there"; 16.) The iodine test; 17.) "If you'd hired a real smuggler"; 18.) "Human speed bump"; 19.) Gun battle; 20.) Last container; 21.) Inspection; 22.) "I f-cking warned you": 23.) Salt; 24.) Threat; 25.) "Who f-cking told him"; 26.) "I know what you did"; 27.) Double cross; 28.) Intradiction team; 29.) Tarp; 30.) "You won't get your dope if I'm dead"; 31.) Security alarm; 32.) What are you doing in my house"; 33.) "South corner first"; 34.) Ringing cellphone; 35.) "Sea-full of money"; and 36.) "Twenty on the Black Market."

audience reaction:  The audience liked it.


recommendation:  It was just okay to me, being that I don't like the subject matter to begin with.


spoiler alert!  Why does Tim ( Giovanni Ribisi ), the drug dealer, live in a tenement building?  Even with your back turned to it, you can tell simply by the sound that it makes if a vacuum cleaner is being moved back and forth.  Why didn't she report the break-in to the cops?  The cops could have run a ballistic test on the bullet that was lodged in the wall for future reference.  I know that there are many uses for Duct Tape, but as a mask ...?  They should have used Masking Tape, instead!  Ha, ha, ha.  And I don't think that Duct Tape comes-off that easily if you wrap it around your face and head, especially if you have all that hair!  Those Duct-Taped bad guys deserved to get what they got!  That last container hoisted onto the ship should have caught someone else's attention, what with the ship running behind schedule.  Yup, that sure looked like a tarp to me.  Ha, ha, ha.  Why didn't he check for pupil dilation or used a mirror to check for breathing?  Or, better yet, he could just have put his ear to her left breast to check for--Ahem!--heartbeats; and do Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation!  LOL.  ( Hey, that was what he wanted in the first place, when you think about it. )  Why would you haul around a Wet/Dry Vac like that without emptying its liquid content first?  Sebastian's ( Ben Foster ) nose bleed coagulated and turned dark too soon--trust me, I know; I get about a dozen nose bleeds each year FROM EACH NOSTRIL!


fyi:  I know of this young woman once who fell down and hit her head on the ground one day while she was out in her own back yard.  She complained of a headache that night, yet never bothered to have herself checked by a doctor. The next day, she was dead.


word of advice:  Don't betray/abuse the trust of those whose lives depend on you.

Crime pays ...?

tidbits:  After the movie, I went to the Dollar Tree Store at the Target Shopping Center to buy two door stops for my condo's hallway doors because the painters messed around with them so that now they don't stay open.  And fresh air needs to circulate down the hallway to air-out any unpleasant and/or stale smell. And I feel more secure with the hallway doors open because it discourages or lessens any criminal activity.

Then I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet on Springs Road here in Vallejo, CA, for dinner and to catch the football playoff game between San Francisco Forty-Niners and the New Orleans Saints.  That was a close game.  I thought that it was gonna end-up like last week's game in which the Saints won.  But the Forty-Niners won by just a few points.  Whew! that was exciting.