Day 2 of Jury Duty. This is how it started:

“Juror #16. Please go to empty seat #1. Juror #5, you are excused.”

I was juror #5.

It turns out, when you are leaving a court room, and the defendent looks at you, and gives you a “what’s up?” style head nod, and you return that nod in full view of all attorneys and the judge…well…that is a bad thing.

Food tastes better. The sky is clearer. The roads are a bit more open for me to surpass the speed limit. It is a good day.

Now…I’d like to address some of the “God-fearing” “flag-waving” emails I have received over the last few days…

I have gone through my own court case. From start to end, it was over seven years. During that time, I saw many acts of collusion, deceitful business practice, and other “tried-and-true” lawyer tricks that made me truly sick of the entire system. When someone assaults you, fully admits to it, admits to wanting to do it again, tries to assault you again, yet you lose a case due to your first attorney filing a insignificant paper incorrectly (and then going to work for the other side), it kind of sours you on the legal system. Don’t even get me started about our current president (capital letter not worthy), and his abuse of the system. I love my country. I feel, however, that it is a far ways away from being run properly.

So, I ended up as a juror for two days. That means I received $15. As any good citizen should, I am taking my $15, and helping my fellow man. I have purchased fairjuryduty.com. I plan on using that site to rally together all of the freelance workers in California, and with our joined voices, change Rule 2.1002. Freelance workers are getting screwed by this jury duty law, and that needs to stop!

Watch for the site launch…soon.

Back to real work…