Waiting for the big BOOM!

I got very discouraged with the blogging thing for awhile.  I feel the need to write something.  I believe the real reason for this is that my last post was about me losing a case.  I have since won a cajillion cases since then!  Yeah.  That's right.  A cajillion.  

Lots of interesting stories.  One guy perped on a little baby girl, and it felt good to put that guy away.  I got burned on a couple of things by the defense attorney but I learned a lot.  I'm getting a new PD assigned to my area and I like him quite a bit.  He seems very straight forward.  I must admit though that I was never one for a challenge.  I don't really play video games and when I do I put them on the easy and invincible and unlimited ammo settings.  I want to win and relax!  When I watch my sports team play I don't want an "exciting" game.  I want my team to crush the opposition!  I want them humiliated.  I have the same wishes at trial.  I don't want to go up against competent counsel!  I want to crush the opposition!!!

This last part is kind of a joke.

One interesting bit of news about being a prosecutor in Alaska right now is that we're all awaiting the impending volcanic eruption of Mt. Redoubt!  My office manager is frantic.  She thinks we live in Pompei and that they'll excavate our office in a thousand years and find our shapes perfectly preserved in little ash pockets!  We have to cover all our computers and they even have masks.

I lived through a couple of other eruptions and we got some ash that fell like snow.  Excluding babies, the elderly and those with asthma, it was more interesting that a nuisance.  I'd rather deal with that than tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes...wait we have those too.  And maybe I wouldn't mind an occasional hurricane if it meant that I lived someplace really warm and by the ocean...

Anyway, I'm not huddled in the bunker just yet.  It sure is exciting when you live in the coldest (except when you're next to the active volcanoes) State!!