As of this afternoon, I am Juror #4. That's right, I had jury duty today and actually wound up on a jury. It's definitely been an interesting day. It started fairly early taking a cab in through pouring rain to the courthouse. I got there, got signed in, and then sat down in the "Juror Lounge," a big room with a bunch of chairs and TVs mounted from the ceiling. While we were waiting for the orientation, they were showing the Ken Burns Jazz doc from PBS. I was half expecting to get to spend the whole day sitting around watching that. They were just starting to get into the post-war bebop era when my number was called to be on a panel. So I went down to the courtroom with a group of 60 of us and they asked us a variety of questions to eliminate anyone who was unsuitable. After that, they had the first 12 of us go and sit in the jury box while the prosecutor and the defense eliminated some of us. I was in the first group of 12 and there were a whole bunch of people who the lawyers liked less than me. They just didn't ask me any of the right questions. But all kidding aside, I'm actually quite interested to serve on a jury. I've never done it before, I've always been a fan of courtroom dramas, and it's a criminal case that I can't really discuss here until it's all over. For now, just take my word for it that based entirely on opening statements it's going to be a fairly interesting case. The judge insists that this will only take up to three days. I'll offer a full report as soon as it's over.