October 20th

For the last week or so I've been tied up with something quite new to me: jury
duty. I can't say it was something I was looking forward to (my initial response
to being called up was quite the opposite), but once I got into it and assigned
a case I found it all to be quite fascinating.

Not only did the thing play out in a way that felt totally natural having 
watched various shows on TV over the years, but it was generall interesting 
being involved in a relatively simple case that seemed quite obvious from the
start, yet deliberation still took a few hours because we really did have to 
think about exactly what evidence was provided and the small gaps that it
entailed.

Rather out of character for me I put myself forward to be the foreman and lead
the deliberation, which also meant having to deliver the verdicts in court. All
felt rather unusual but it has opened my eyes to the fact should programming go
the way that seems all but inevitable as a career path now, other things might
well be far more interesting to me than I'd suspected, and there's probably 
options I've never even heard of that'd be good to consider. Time will tell I
guess.