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Our semiprofessional hockey team won a game last night, ending their franchise record of 18 straight losses and also ending our ambitions of them going 0-for-March 2021- this, after failing to win a regulation game in March 2019 and then winning just once in the COVID-shortened March 2020. The Sabres got out to a commanding lead, but then, these are the Butterknives of whom we speak; they'd blown three-goal leads each of the previous two nights oot, and we had every expectation that the Flyers' coach would shame his team into a third-period comeback. Alas, it was not to be, as Buffalo padded its three goal lead by two more, both short-handed, even!
Winning Streak?!?
Check back tomorrow.
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Or, hell, watch the Butterknives-Blueshirts game tonight on your MSG channel of choice. Ain't no stinkin' baseball on.
The Mets were scheduled to play their first, more or less on-schedule, game of the full scheduled 2021 season. On the road, and at night. The former place is a necessary evil, but the latter time was solely to accommodate ESPN in its desire for Prime Time. This, alas, was not to be, either- as word got out midday that their opposing Washington Baseball Team had come up with some COVID-positive tests and contacts and that tonight's marquee opener would be postponed. But not to the available open date tomorrow, the one traditionally set aside for just that purpose (only for SNOWVID rather than COVID), because the World Wide Leader already has some other night game scheduled and they likely wouldn't release this one from their corporate clutches.
So #LGM remains #TBD. Which sucks.
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As opposed to the dog. Which barks.
A drywall contractor was here yesterday to begin filling holes in the bathroom. No, not the most essential of them, but ones left by a never-used laundry chute and a too-small-and-ratty medicine cabinet. I left for work yesterday as soon as Eleanor got home from Planet Cortisone, and the whole time the guy was here while I was out, Pepper was barking, whining, and totally out of sorts. He needed to come back today for second (and third, as it turned out) coatings over the new wallboard, so I volunteered for Take Puppy To Work Day duty She was relatively quiet in my office and on walkies around the surrounding neighborhood. There's definitely a different bond between her and me than there is with her and Eleanor: whether I calm her more, or she tries to protect Mommy more, who knows? Rudy (who, as we know, Can't Fail) is still not 100 percent finished, and we may just try leaving her in a car outside while he finishes up if I need to be on the road or otherwise dogless during the day of his return.
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Today's funnies:
I so enjoy when car accident attorneys try to defend simple collection lawsuits. My two page, seven paragraph standard form today produced an answer with sixteen affirmative defenses, a demand for production of documents, and a deposition notice. On a claim under 10K.
My email in response:
I tried calling you to discuss this but nobody answered. I received your thorough answer and demands today. While you still are way short of the one I got a few years ago- a 27 affirmative defense monstrosity on a simple contract case that will likely hold the record forever- you still have 10 days to amend if you want to include contributory negligence, sovereign immunity, lack of proof of paternity, or the Mann Act.
For your convenience, I am attaching the terms sheet and all the invoices sent. I have requested the contract but I really don't need it. The invoices establish a separate basis for liability as an "account stated," which, as long as the invoices were sent and received in the ordinary course and not objected to, render the account debtor liable for the amount shown. Payment is an affirmative defense, which is sortof included in your 12th of 16. It's your obligation to prove.
Based on that, I can move for summary judgment as soon as the court can schedule it, which who knows when that will be. I've got a Niagara Falls City Court motion that's been pending for over a year now. We ultimately settled the 27-affirmative-defense one (same client), and I think we can try to do the same here.
Too verbose? Try this, my Passover-related incantation to usher in the start of the new month:
Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi!
Or this, yet another sport where we're not used to seeing people score:
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Tomorrow, in addition to the very important NHL update: the entertainment from last night and tonight.
They play again tonight, opening the spectre of a, dare we say it,?
Winning Streak?!?
Check back tomorrow.
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Or, hell, watch the Butterknives-Blueshirts game tonight on your MSG channel of choice. Ain't no stinkin' baseball on.
The Mets were scheduled to play their first, more or less on-schedule, game of the full scheduled 2021 season. On the road, and at night. The former place is a necessary evil, but the latter time was solely to accommodate ESPN in its desire for Prime Time. This, alas, was not to be, either- as word got out midday that their opposing Washington Baseball Team had come up with some COVID-positive tests and contacts and that tonight's marquee opener would be postponed. But not to the available open date tomorrow, the one traditionally set aside for just that purpose (only for SNOWVID rather than COVID), because the World Wide Leader already has some other night game scheduled and they likely wouldn't release this one from their corporate clutches.
So #LGM remains #TBD. Which sucks.
----
As opposed to the dog. Which barks.
A drywall contractor was here yesterday to begin filling holes in the bathroom. No, not the most essential of them, but ones left by a never-used laundry chute and a too-small-and-ratty medicine cabinet. I left for work yesterday as soon as Eleanor got home from Planet Cortisone, and the whole time the guy was here while I was out, Pepper was barking, whining, and totally out of sorts. He needed to come back today for second (and third, as it turned out) coatings over the new wallboard, so I volunteered for Take Puppy To Work Day duty She was relatively quiet in my office and on walkies around the surrounding neighborhood. There's definitely a different bond between her and me than there is with her and Eleanor: whether I calm her more, or she tries to protect Mommy more, who knows? Rudy (who, as we know, Can't Fail) is still not 100 percent finished, and we may just try leaving her in a car outside while he finishes up if I need to be on the road or otherwise dogless during the day of his return.
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Today's funnies:
I so enjoy when car accident attorneys try to defend simple collection lawsuits. My two page, seven paragraph standard form today produced an answer with sixteen affirmative defenses, a demand for production of documents, and a deposition notice. On a claim under 10K.
My email in response:
I tried calling you to discuss this but nobody answered. I received your thorough answer and demands today. While you still are way short of the one I got a few years ago- a 27 affirmative defense monstrosity on a simple contract case that will likely hold the record forever- you still have 10 days to amend if you want to include contributory negligence, sovereign immunity, lack of proof of paternity, or the Mann Act.
For your convenience, I am attaching the terms sheet and all the invoices sent. I have requested the contract but I really don't need it. The invoices establish a separate basis for liability as an "account stated," which, as long as the invoices were sent and received in the ordinary course and not objected to, render the account debtor liable for the amount shown. Payment is an affirmative defense, which is sortof included in your 12th of 16. It's your obligation to prove.
Based on that, I can move for summary judgment as soon as the court can schedule it, which who knows when that will be. I've got a Niagara Falls City Court motion that's been pending for over a year now. We ultimately settled the 27-affirmative-defense one (same client), and I think we can try to do the same here.
Too verbose? Try this, my Passover-related incantation to usher in the start of the new month:
Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi!
Or this, yet another sport where we're not used to seeing people score:
----
Tomorrow, in addition to the very important NHL update: the entertainment from last night and tonight.