A No-news day

[howeird]

Woke up to KOMO news at 7 am, which is 10 am DC time, which is when Supreme Court decisions are usually handed down. DOMA came first. As usual, they mis-reported it as being struck down when they really left it mostly intact, except for the handful of states where gay marriage is legal.

Switched to DC's WNEW news station for more educated commentary, and waited for the Prop 8 decisions. Again, mis-reporting that it was struck down when what they really did was refuse to hear the case on a technicality. Switched to the local news, got educated California commentary which explained that (a) Supreme Court decisions don't take effect until 25 days after and (b) there is still a stay in effect against overturning Prop 8 which won't be lifted until those 25 days are over, and maybe not then. In the good news side, Gov. Brown has told all the county clerks to start printing up new marriage license forms.

And last night's brave stand by Texas  Sens. Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte, backed by a packed peanut gallery, has to do it all again because the Putzoner has called a special session.

So that's how my day started.

Tried again and failed again to connect to the company VPN, but started early enough to not be late for work.

 Took on a particularly challenging bug fix verification because I own the feature it is about. I needed to borrow a pair of machines with a particular setup, and the engineer who loaned them to me last time let me use them during my lunchtime. But they were not the same pair, and didn't work. He fixed that, and then fixed some files which delayed testing again, so what should have been a 20-minute test took 2.5 hours. But no worries, late "lunch" at Starbucks, complete with much eye candy. Not much left to do back at work, but the day was almost over.

Called the car audio place and made an appointment for Saturday morning to have the backup cam re-attached directly to the in-dash unit now that the firmware has been upgraded.

Called the nails place and made an appointment for tomorrow lunchtime.

Straight home, thinking of going out later, but the patio and Kindle beckoned, and the new flower pots needed watering.

Online, ordered 10 packets of Domino's favorite dental treats from Petco. Half the price of Amazon.

Frozen spaghetti & meatball low-cal dinner, bananas & whipped cream w/cinnamon and nutmeg for dessert.

Watched an episode of Restaurant Stake Out.  Scheduled Tivo to record the next Crossing Lines because three diverse friends have posted good things.

Fired up the VPN again, and when it failed I phoned Motorola support, since we are still on their network even after a year of being owned by Google and then sold to Arris. Turns out they have switched to a very new and vastly improved product from Juniper called Pulse which the support guy installed for me via remote desktop. Impressed at how efficient he was.

Email from Petco, confirming my order, but ship-to was my last year's address. Went to their page, fired up chat, the supportless person said there was nothing she could do because the order had been processed. I pointed out it won't actually ship until tomorrow. She suggested I have UPS hold it for me. I suggested I can stop payment on the order. She didn't reply to that after 3 minutes, so I ended to chat and gave her all 0's in the survey.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Nails
Band practice or NASA event? Hmmm.

Comments

[susandennis]

I think you'd appreciate Crossing more if you watched the 2hr pilot first. There's a lot of story building in it.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Actually, in Prop 8 they heard the case on the technicality (just not on merits), and ruled on the technicality to vacate the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision. This threw things back to Judge Walker's original federal court decision, which does strike down Prop 8.

If they had refused to hear the case, they would have dismissed the case as improperly granted, and the 9th Circuit Court ruling would have stood.

[howeird]

Nope. It does not strike down Prop 8, since they never got to the merits of the case. It only makes that particular group ineligible to contest Walker's decision.

In effect the Supes did refuse to hear the case.

The decision cannot take effect for 25 days, and during that time an appeal by Bigots, Inc. can be made to hear the case on its merits.

Judge Walker, interviewed by ABC-TV, said he would not be surprised if a county clerk fought the governor's order to make marriage licenses available to same-sex couples. One would think county clerks would have standing.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=9153726 at about 2 minutes in

Of course, I'd like to see anyone get married who wants to. But the Supreme Court obviously doesn't.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

There are some interesting and compelling arguments against a county clerk filing suit now. They're also very arcane, but this case was already decided on an arcane technicality...