Rodriguez Family Events

I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Hang in there, it's probably only another fifty more years before you can retire. But, seriously, let's talk about cake... Tiffany has a really nice strawberry cake with yellow and chocolate cake, strawberry filling and chocolate covered strawberries on top. They've also got an all-chocolate cake with chocolate filling and chocolate pieces on top... You get the idea. I'm not entirely sure what kind of cake you'll end up with, but, I'll see what they have on hand tomorrow. Let us know if you don't want cake and we'll be sure not to save any for you.

I got picked for jury duty today. I get to the local courthouse a bit early and since I was the 6th person to arrive, I ended up being juror number 6 in the first big jury pool of the morning. After filling out the juror questionnaire, we headed up to a waiting area and watched the obligatory video describing how to fill out the form we already filled out. By the way, Mayor Nutter has done away with coffee and donuts for jurors, so, if you get picked, be sure to have breakfast before you arrive. The first big jury pool of the day contained 100 members. The first phase of selection was to turn in the jury questionnaires, so, that the prosecution and defense can review the forms and excuse perspective jurors sight-unseen. After sitting for a while waiting for a lengthy review, several of the perspective jurors were excused -- I wasn't one of the excused. After the first round of cuts to the perspective juror pool, the survivors were ushered into an actual court room where we got our ...