Wednesday and stuff still not done.

[ianuk]

Well, my hopes for last night was to get all of mom's gifts done. Yeah, not so much. Now, I can either stay home from knit night and work on them or just send her two packages...with the second not getting there till after the holiday. I think the easy way out would be good for me. Less stressful. I hope to get home tonight, get the gift number 1 unpinned from blocking...take a photo of me wearing it and then mail it off. We shall see though if its dry. The blocking is really helping it though. (I'll post a friend's locked post to show it off btw, don't worry). So, I think I've made my decision.

I did manage to make dinner last night though with some pretty good pantry kung fu. I took london broil and chopped it up and added it to the dutch over where I had sweated garlic and onions. I cooked the meat with cinnamon, fresh ground cumin, dried diced jalapenos, pepper and kosher salt. Once that was cooked I added a can of corn and a can of crushed tomatoes and let it simmer until it thickened up. I added a bit of cornstarch to thicken it a bit more and it was nummy.

Pour mel found out when he went to get his cavity fixed that he needs a root canal/crown. That is scheduled for monday am. Poor guy. Course he's lucky. He's never felt a problem at all in the tooth and I guess that is a blessing.

In the rash of weird...I got one of the speeding tickets in Phx when american_knight and I came back from Kingman. That is a bill I wasn't expecting. It was right where the speed limit drops on I-17 to 55..I was going 71. le sigh. Oh, well.

And more in the random file. The commercials from Sunmaid about "fruit and sunshine!" being the only thing in them are LIES! Seriously. they should say "fruit and sulfur dioxide and sunshine!" Asshats. All this means is that I will be heading to trader joes for my fruit cake supplies, like I expected but I was kinda hopeful I could have knocked that off my list last night too. Oh, well.

Time to crunch down and get things done at work.

Comments

[bertana.livejournal.com]

Interesting - i can't find that in the Arizona Revised Statutes. (The only criteria for dismissal listed there is if the proper signage isn't present in a photo enforcement area). Where can I find that info?

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Here's some court cases (http://www.photoradarlaw.com/cases.html) where the law has been challenged.

And this article (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-02-08/news/gotcha/) from early '07 is a fascinating read.

[bertana.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you for the links! I think I left my Google-Fu at home today. ;)

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

No problem! I got one of these back in February and everyone up here was telling me to ignore it. Ironically enough, it's EXACTLY where Ianuk got her ticket. I was very hesitant, but did a lot of research and found out these links and more. I ignored the ticket and because at the time my stuff was still linked to my Tucson address, I was never served by a person and the ticket was dismissed. You can look up the court case and see it.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

So how do I go about getting it dismissed? Just ignore it? Or do I have to do some paperwork.

Wow, even after reading this it seems...weird.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

What normally happens is that you're sent about two notices in the mail and you ignore those. If a process server comes to the door with the ticket, that's when you do have to pay it because you have been actually served by a person. If not, then 120 days after the ticket is filed with the court, it's dismissed. I did it because at the time I just couldn't financially afford it at all.

You can pay it for your own peace of mind, but either way you wouldn't get assessed points on your DMV record. I pulled up my DMV record over the weekend and it's completely clean because the photo radar ticket doesn't count and for the ticket I got on my way to spring coronation, I did a defensive driving course for.

And, you're right, it does seem weird. Talk to a lawyer friend about it and see what they have to say.

And another article (http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2008/12/how_to_beat_a_photo_enforcemen.php) here.