Edit: Turns out my memory is off by 100 posts. This is actually weekly post #160, not 260.
My desktop computer is now in California awaiting repair. It cost me $260 to ship it via UPS, but that included insurance. Plus, the thing weighs 40 pounds, so that didn’t help a bit. They’re going to deal with the overheating issue and a failed BIOS update. In my mind, that’s just a one- or two-day repair, but we’ll see. In the meantime, I’ve hooked up the HP laptop to one of the bigger monitors I use for the desktop, plugged in the external keyboard, and added the mouse from the desktop.
And we got the dirt work done for the pool! The contractor called me Thursday afternoon, came out, and got things nice and level. Diana’s busy this weekend with a wedding and preaching, then she’s got the last three days of school next week, so we’re going to wait until next Thursday to get the pool up. That works out well with the weather forecast; they’re calling for rain Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Youngest Daughter, fresh off a very successful freshman year at NSU, headed off to a half-summer of work at her favorite camp. This year she’s working activities and something else that neither Diana or I can recall.
Diana and I spent Saturday afternoon at a widower friend’s wedding that she co-officiated. His new wife is a very sweet lady he met at the retirement community he’s been living in. I’m happy for them to have each found a second love later in life.
We’ve been binging The Rookie lately, and we just finished the second season episodes involving Rosalind. When I first got interested in the show during season six or so, I watched a lot of clips at Kroginator’s YouTube channel. He posted short episode recaps, and there are plenty of other channels that post short extracts from the show. But what I discovered the last couple of nights is that watching those scenes out of context really isn’t fair to Annie Wersching. She really was an incredible actor and was wonderfully chilling as Rosalind Dyer.
Wrongful Convictions
A bit of good news from the Oklahoma legislature this week. They passed HB 2235 which raised the compensation for wrongfully convicted people. It had previously been capped at $175,000, no matter how long you were behind bars. Anything more required a lawsuit. Assuming the governor signs the bill, which isn’t a given even though it had good bipartisan support, survivors of wrongful conviction cases will now receive $50,000 per year of imprisonment, and $75,000 if they were on death row. Read the Tulsa World article or the bill information here.
I hope Governor Stitt will sign the bill into law, because it’s the right thing to do. No one who’s lost years of their life to misguided or mistaken prosecution should have to file a lawsuit to be properly compensated for their time.
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