I just checked and found out that this year's Blogathon falls on July 25, 2009, which is right in the middle of the Great American Irish Festival weekend. So I'll have to choose between them, and since I'm really looking forward to the Irishfest, I guess that means no Blogathon for me this year!

justpapabear predicted this correctly: the Google Chrome browser is going to become an operating system.

Wishing a happy U.S. Independence Day if you celebrate it (and just a fun Saturday if you don't). I'm hoping to go to Saratoga Springs with phoenix_raging this afternoon and evening to catch some of the Fourth of July festivities. In the meantime, I'm going to try installing the release candidate of Windows 7 on a computer that is no longer in active use, so that I can experiment with it this morning.

The rain was absolutely torrential, pouring, when I walked over to the courthouse this afternoon. I actually broke my usual rule and used an umbrella - it was THAT rainy.

I ended up with an hour break between cases, but since the car is in the shop having the brakes checked and I'm on foot, I decided that walking back and forth in the rain one more time didn't make sense. Without a car I can't accomplish most of the errands that I would have liked to do anyway. I could do the dishes during this break, I suppose, but somehow the idea of walking home in the rain so that I can wash the dishes and then walking back to the courthouse again doesn't appeal to me, so I'll take the break where I can find it and just rest while I wait.

Logan's back (or something else, but I think it's most likely the dachshund back) is bothering him again, so I'm probably going to have to keep him crated again for awhile, and put up with the whining. Since listening to the pitiful whine doesn't accomplish anything and only tempts me to let him out sooner than I should, I guess I'll be listening to a lot of music in the near future.

Tsk tsk, it's 10 PM, and I have been caught not working, listening to really old Israeli records and checking LiveJournal. Whatever shall we do about this? I'm feeling altogether too good, happy, and productive lately. Mischief must be made. :-)

Edited to add: It's almost 11 PM now, and I could happily play on the computer for hours yet, but Logan insists that it's time for bed. Since I do have court at nine in the morning, he's probably right. I can have fun again tomorrow. :-)

Today's 2ndpersonlegal Tweets

• 08:42 Back to work this morning, court at 9 AM, but any day that starts with a Krispy Kreme donut (even though I had to reheat it) can't be bad. #
• 10:49 It was a beautiful sunny day at 7 AM, but when I came out of the courthouse at 10 AM it was raining. Oh well. I still had Krispy Kreme. :-) #

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It was a joy to get up and take Logan out (briefly) this morning. It seems like the warm, sunny weather has followed us home. If I had been wearing something more substantial, I would probably have taken him for a longer walk because it was perfect walking weather. This is one of those few mornings when I wish that the walk to the courthouse was longer. I won't wish that in the winter, but for now I will be enjoying every moment I can catch outside.

Today's 2ndpersonlegal Tweets

• 11:44 Lunch at a Perkins in Pennsylvania, and planning on Krispy Kreme for dessert. #

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I was last up all night for the Blogathon in 2007 (I tried in 2008, but didn't make it).

Jess and I are back from Georgia, and tomorrow I'm back to work. Tonight I'm catching up on mail, e-mail, LJ and Facebook, since I'm a week behind on everything. I'm experimenting with the new LJ Messenger tie-in which has apparently replaced LJ Talk (this one ties in to Windows Live Messenger instead of Gizmo). I'm logicalargument@livejournal.com on the new LJ Messenger if anyone wants to let me know what interesting things I have missed this week. :-)

We're staying over in Winchester, VA on the way home. I haven't been keeping up with LiveJournal and Facebook very well, so don't feel ignored if I have not responded to something major you have posted. I will only be online for a few minutes tonight because Jess is exhausted and needs to go to sleep. We will be home tomorrow evening.

Today's 2ndpersonlegal Tweets

• 16:58 Gotta love a puppy who runs right over and sits down to make sure he is included in the Hughes family picture. Yay, Scooby Hughes! #

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I am grabbing a few minutes of free wi-fi at The Deli Junction in Ellijay while Jess and Jenna shop for shoes. This visit is a lot of fun. Logan's behavior is an issue, but when is it not? I am really enjoying this time away from the office, although I'm still doing a little bit of business by cell phone and e-mail. Rural north Georgia is a lot like the foothills of the Adirondacks - just warmer (there has been a twenty-degree difference this week). I'm getting to sample things like smoked chicken (yum!) while I meet phoenix_raging's family and friends and I'm having a great time.

Today's 2ndpersonlegal Tweets

• 08:13 You know you're in the south when you make a passing comment to a stranger at a rest area and she responds "Bless your heart." #
• 08:45 Passing a sign to "Hungry Mother State Park." Interesting name #
• 12:20 Having lunch at a Krystals in Tennessee #
• 14:33 Made it across state line into Georgia! #

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I'm holding Logan on my lap while I type this (on that famously insecure Super 8 wi-fi) to keep him out of trouble while phoenix_raging takes a shower. We're hoping to be packed and back on the road within the hour. Logan is being a whiny brat this trip - I think he's worried that Jess and Maddie are leaving him - but I'm having a great time just being on the road. If I were decent at sales I would have made a good traveling salesperson, because I love the traveling part!

I did convert, from being a non-observant Jew to several different flavors of Christian (with a stop at Baha'i along the way), but hey, that's why I call myself CatEcumen the Ecumenical Cat. There is only one. Accept no substitutes.

phoenix_raging and I are spending the night at a Super 8 in Virginia on the way to Georgia. Of course, when I logged in to the hotel's wireless internet, I received all kinds of dire warnings about how insecure it is, and that hackers may be waiting to intercept my information. So, if you suddenly start receiving messages by e-mail, LJ or Facebook claiming that I'm in trouble and need money sent to me, please ignore them. It will be one of those nasty hackers. If either of us has a genuine emergency, we both have our cell phones with us.:-)

I'm just going to give Logan a bath, and then I'll be heading up to bed. We're heading out as early in the morning as we can get ourselves (and two dogs) on the road. See y'all!

Today's 2ndpersonlegal Tweets

• 19:15 has court tomorrow morning but one of the attorneys may not be there, and is beginning to pack for the trip to Georgia on Wednesday #

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I'm sad to see Sacred Heart in Gloversville being closed. That was the church I attended in the 1990s when I was trying to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. (I am ineligible because I'm married to someone who was previously divorced before marrying me - and getting a Roman Catholic church annulment of a marriage between two Jews, my husband and his ex-wife, isn't a very practical possibility.)

It is a beautiful church, and it was one of only two churches where I have ever really felt comfortable and at home. The other, of course, was Fulmont, and that didn't work out either. I enjoy Northway, but it has always been too far away for me to become an active member of that church community.

I guess I'll probably always be a wanderer without a church home, and maybe that's just part of who I'm supposed to be, as CatEcumen the Ecumenical Cat.