Park Row Fallout ⋅ 40 ⋅

Midwest Attorney trying to navigate the waters of life

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Haruki Murakami

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(1) LOADS of Bookmarks. I’m surprised. (2) Stupid bloody on-line job sites. Received several e-mails about businesses looking for Dog Walkers and Receptionists. These websites know that I hav...


November 06, 2016

NoJoMo 6 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Written, not posted (until later) Write about something common that makes you wonder. I don’t wish to stir up the issue as contentiously as I have before; but something that truly brings me an al...


November 05, 2016

NoJoMo5 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Written, not posted (until later) If you were/are a farmer/gardener, what would you grow? An interesting question with too simple a response. I would have a garden for food and a garden for flow...


November 04, 2016

NoJoMo4 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Fingers crossed that today will be productive to a fault. Juvenile Court this morning. Difficult call to a Prosecutor in Illinois about Iowa Law making her case more difficult. Motion Response Cr...


November 03, 2016

NoJoMo3 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

But first: Another fun day of waking up exhausted, super tired, super cold into a village cloaked with darkness. Bah! The good news is that when I got into work LinkedIn sent me an e-mail sayin...


I stole this from a PB Friend. I would honestly give credit; but I feel like it would be inappropriate to advertise someone’s ‘Diary Space’ without their express permission. 1) Do you think kids...


November 02, 2016

NoJoMo 2 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Before I start… I honestly mean it when I say I wish the world could live in harmony and peace. I know that sounds idealistic or “hippy dippy” but… the whole “everyone at each other’s throats” h...


November 02, 2016

Unity in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Two Des Moines Police Officers Ambushed and Slaughtered After this election, can we try to find common ground with other people? Is it possible to come together as communities and focus on suppo...


November 01, 2016

NoJoMo 1 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Tell two lies and one truth, but make them so believable as to confuse your noters. (Lie or Truth 1) When I was a kid, probably around five years old, I met Tom Arnold at a Celebrate Iowa event. ...


Wow… I never thought that I (of all people) would find a Halloween in a negative mood. Halloween is wonderful, typically. Parties, friends, costumes… all sorts of great things. None of that thi...


Super glad it is Friday. I can already tell today is going to be (largely) a wasted day. It feels wrong to have such large chunks of time in a life so short be so completely meaningless. I antici...


October 27, 2016

Yeah in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

I called in late to work today. I woke up early, I planned on going in a few hours early and getting work done… and when I thought about it… it deflated me. Putting in all of this work… giving ...


Court Day today. Bad day. I woke up this morning and the world was pitch black and rainy. I think that makes it out of my 206 days in Tiny Town… at least 134 have been dark, grey, and rainy. T...


It is my sincere desire and hope that today will not be a noteworthy day. That I can survive today without any emotional meltdowns or Job Inspired Complete Bullshit. But… two things to throw ou...


1- My contact at the Prosecuting Attorney’s Training Counsel said that (1) as to the ex-parte issue; provided I disclose the communication to the opposing attorney, that fixes everything… and (2...


I woke up tired. Of course I did. Over the weekend, I saw friends and hung out with my family and that was good. Until I received a Voice Mail from an open Mental Health Case patient. RULES OF ...


October 23, 2016

Rage in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

People like to tell me that my situation would be better if I had a better attitude. People like to tell me that my situation would be better if I complained less. People like to tell me that I a...


I thought of a metaphor. Or a literary allusion. Or a way of describing something via something else. And it involves Harry Potter. While Harry was growing up, he felt ostracized and different....


October 20, 2016

Panic in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Hello Anxiety. You bitch. I’m having what can only be described as a legitimate genuine panic attack. My heart is racing and breaking. I feel like vomiting. I want to scream at the top of my lu...


Good morning, one and all, and welcome to The Circus of Life. This morning, my first hour of the day was receiving notifications from judges and attorneys telling me that the things I had been wo...


Bah. I’m tired. The kind of tired where I want to sleep for seven months in a row. The kind of tired where it would be really nice to contract some horrible disease that lays me up in the hospi...


October 18, 2016

Private in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Holy shit, I’m pathetic. This is/was going to be private… but I once promised myself that only things I was working on and intended to release would ever be private… and only so that I could wor...


I am very tired today. And in not so great a mood. Really, just feeling pretty seriously misanthropic today. In other words… Bernard Black from Black Books. But in Lawyer terms. Which is funny b...


Today was a district court day. So… I spent several hours in court doing nothing. But then… my life in this job is largely spent doing nothing. But I did enjoy speaking with other humans… a pa...


October 17, 2016

Feeling in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

I can’t explain it and it may turn out to be nothing; but I have a strange feeling. Something suggesting that today is going to be a bit different; but I can’t quite place my finger on it.