Welcome home to Kentucky!

Colorado MoJo

This new website, Colorado MoJo, is about Colorado's mountains and outdoor sports in Colorado. It looks pretty darned good to me.

Nov 14, 2009 :: lake Vesuvius

My beautiful daughter

Nov 10, 2009 :: Editorial oversight

The attached web article is funny because this is an article about "men's rights," and the photograph for the article is labeled, "photograph of a man." Like, readers might not know that the article is about men, and specifically, what a man looks like. An editor somewhere at doublex.com missed a golden opportunity to ask, "does the image add anything to the article?"

And, Happy Birthday, USMC - Ooh-rah!

Sep 22, 2009 :: Waiting for bar results

I painted some acrylic onto canvases to spruce up the office

A year without a blog entry. Blogging while moving from Colorado to Kentucky is depressing when I would have preferred to stay nearer the mountains.

Since starting criminal defense with the DU criminal representation clinic in January-October of 2008, which helped me into my internship with the Colorado Public Defender's office from January-May of 2009. I wanted to work in public defense, and applied all over the country. Holly was, and remains, supportive of this decision of ours. We moved to Kentucky to work for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, my present employer. In a little more than two weeks, I will know whether I passed the Kentucky bar exam.

I have found a book on the Red River Gorge. The climbs in that book seem like they will fill the gap I miss about Colorado, elevenmile canyon, clear creek canyon, boulder canyon, and all my old favorite canyons and other climbing areas in the West.

September 12, 2008 :: The working world amuses me

As 3L's, looking for a job, it's disheartening to see such debauchery happening, practically at my doorstep... at least, being unemployed now, I wasn't contributing too many tax dollars to support this federal agency:

From Parties, Sex & Drugs Made Fed’l Office Much Like a Frat House, Probe Finds

Parties, Sex & Drugs Made Fed'l Office Much Like a Frat House, Probe Finds | ABA Journal - Law News Now

A federal government office charged with overseeing the collection of some $4 billion in royalty payments by oil companies to the U.S. government allegedly operated more like an out-of-control fraternity than a regulatory agency.

Sex, booze, drugs and parties among federal employees and representatives of the oil companies they were overseeing contributed to a ''culture of substance abuse and promiscuity'' at the Denver office of the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, a $5.3 million investigation found. Meanwhile, there is concern that some 13 current and former employees in Denver and Washington, D.C., may also have been improperly influenced by gifts including sports tickets, golf outings and ski trips, according to the Associated Press and Washington Post.

BUT, compare with the verizon worker who used 45,000 (that's forty-five thousand) minutes of time on the phone AT WORK to make sex calls. I figured that works out to three hours per five day work week, for an entire year without a vacation. All charged to customers accounts, as well. One comment I read was, "how does one spend the equivalent of 3/8 of one's day, or 15 weeks out of 40, making sex calls without someone noticing?" The answer, I suppose, is, "beats me."


From Verizon Worker Charged in 5,000 Illicit Sex Calls

A former Verizon technician racked up $220,000 in calls to sex chat numbers by tapping into the land lines of nearly 950 customers, authorities said Tuesday.

Joseph R. Vaccarelli, 45, of Nutley used customer accounts to make about 5,000 calls to sexually explicit 900 numbers lasting a combined 45,000 minutes, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a news release.

The calls were placed over the last 10 months from residential and commercial accounts in about 30 Bergen County municipalities, authorities and Verizon officials said.

Vaccarelli worked for 10 years as a Verizon facilities technician, installing telephone service and repairing damaged or faulty equipment, said Rich Young, a Verizon spokesman.

Vaccarelli resigned last month after Verizon officials told him he was the target of an internal investigation that began after several customers complained about unauthorized charges, Young said.