It's been quite a while since I last added anything to this
blog. But no, I'm not drifting into one of those really
long gaps, of six months or so. I'm determined to keep posting a
heck of a lot more frequently than that, though the average time
between posts may be greater than it was during this past spring.
What's making me busier? Well, I am making some progress on
coding the Moneydance extension promised
in my
last post. However, the biggest change is something less
predictable than that.
My good friend Jim is in jail. He's been there about a week, and
will be there for six months.
It wasn't a complete surprise. He was not, for example,
arrested on the street and taken directly to jail. About two
weeks ago, he got something in the mail from a court in Minnesota,
ordering him to report about a week later to a county facility
there. And so he did. (Jim, like I, lives in the Raleigh
area of North Carolina.)
And the letter wasn't a complete surprise to him, when he got it,
either. He'd had a hearing some months ago, and he knew that
this was a possible [worst case] outcome. He'll be locked up for
six months because he's been held in contempt of court.
I may have gotten you curious: what is this case actually about?
If so, I apologize, but I'm not going to answer that. I said as
much as I did only to give a bit of the flavor of it as an
experience for him, and for me: that it was sudden, but not
extremely sudden; also that it's a civil, not a criminal matter.
All this doesn't explain how his being incarcerated leads
to my being busier. I plan on addressing that in my
next post.
4:02:30 PM 
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