Something About Jury Duty and Worldcon

[kevin_standlee]

For some reason, I seem to get a jury-duty summons every second year or so just before Worldcon. This time, the summons date is the Wednesday before I leave for Japan. I have applied for a routine deferral to October. Every time I've asked for a deferral before, they've not actually called me again, but just put my name back into the box and called me a year or two later.

Mind you, they still haven't corrected my name in their records, despite me having repeatedly told them that it's "Standlee," not "Stanolee." Typos live forever, it seems.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

In California, cities are not permitted to annex across county lines, and maybe that's why.

However, I do know someone here who lives in the really tiny smidge of one city that has the phone numbers (and the different area code) of an adjoining city. She couldn't get service from one company that divided its territory between those cities, as the one for city A wouldn't do it because she had the area code of city B, and the one for city B wouldn't do it because she had the address of city A.

My city is so diffuse, it sprawls into the USPS delivery zones of other cities. We've had city council candidates supposedly exposed as carpetbaggers because their mailing addresses were in other cities.

[renegade500.livejournal.com]

I think that's when I'd ditch the landline altogether.

[fr-john.livejournal.com]

That's ok. Richmond has parts that don't connect to the rest of the city at all.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

San Diego annexed parts that are not contiguous by land. Since the city charter mandates they be contiguous there is an eight or ten foot wide corridor down the center of the bay to join the two areas.