201st Blog spectacular!

Apparently that last set of pictures we put up was our 200th blog post.  Not too bad for 18 months.  Emily is down in Hotlanta this week, so it's my and the 'Dood.  I dropped her off at the airport early Sunday morning, and then I slid about 100 yards trying to stop for a red light driving home.  In fact, it's so icy out our garbage can slid across the street last night b/c we had a huge windstorm.  I fishtail almost every time I turn off of Arctic (a main street) onto our street, and I couldn't get up our driveway tonight after work with the 4x4 on and with the studded tires.  This picture was taken around Thanksgiving.

I went to court again today.  This time I got to watch our firearms expert, Bob Shem, testify.  He's been in the business for 28 years and is a pretty smooth at giving testimony.  One funny part was when the prosecutor wanted to admit his CV as evidence, but the defense protested b/c it was heresay.  So the prosecutor then took his sweet time to go over virtually every single line of Bob's CV - which is probably over 7 pages long.  His education, his previous job experience, professional organizations, positions held is said organizations, peer reviewed papers he's published, patents he had, so on and so on.  It took well over 40 minutes.  Usually it takes maybe 5.  I think the prosecutor wanted to give the defense a giant F-U for not letting the CV be admitted as evidence.  Tomorrow we will go back to watch Abi, our DNA tech manager, give testimony, since the court didn't have time to get to her today.

Oh yeah, so maybe you want to know about the case.  There was this shoot-out at a football game a few years ago.  53 shots were fired from a minimum of 5 guns.  One bystander got shot in the head, but he lived, and apparently totally turned his life around and started to do triathalons and such.  There were a lot of people in the gallery, and two TV cameras.  And one of the anchors of the 6PM news of the local ABC affiliate sat next to us.  She had on some crazy boots.