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Old Town Salinas

I’ve got a hearing at the WCAB in Salinas this morning.

If you’re around this morning, stop me and say hello!

Driving under the influence

Yesterday I was driving back from Modesto and I noticed a CHP officer out of the corner of my eye. [1]  My first instinct is always to double check my speed.

However, yesterday afternoon I noticed this officer was on his cell, left elbow propped up on the edge of the window, yakking away, while tailgating a semi in the slow lane.

Not wanting to get pulled over for driving under the influence of irony, I didn’t take a picture with my phone.

BTW, I’ve got to be in San Francisco this afternoon – stop me and say hello!

1. Photo courtesy of OregonDOT [↩]

Free pass

Yesterday I had an appearance in San Jose and then another up in San Rafael.  From San Jose I drove up through San Francisco, northbound over the Golden Gate Bridge, to my appearance, then back over to Contra Costa County via the Richmond Bridge.[1]

Wait for it…

The Golden Gate is only toll southbound and the Richmond is only toll westbound.  I traveled over two bridges and didn’t pay a single toll!

1. Photo courtesy of worldsurfer [↩]

Success??? Where do I sign up?

In my tradition of sharing my fortunes[1] with you, I present my latest fortune cookie fortune.

I like to think I earned this one.  I ordered mu shu from the same place as last time.  So far so good.

TMI?

1. Both good and bad… [↩]

'Nuff said

This last weekend while attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the State Bar of California I referred to myself as a workers’ compensation nerd. [1][2]

Some very kind, but ultimately uninformed, person assured me that I was not a nerd after all. [3] [4]  Let’s step back for a minute and examine the facts.  At that very moment I was:

• Taking a few days off work to attend a meeting about workers’ compensation[5]
• Inside a conference room with about twenty other workers’ compensation attorneys
• Awake at 8:30 AM on a Friday morning pontificating about Ogilvie math
• Sitting in front of my laptop, typing about workers’ compensation
• Making notes in my blog about workers’ compensation

Clearly, we need to have a heart-to-heart about “substantial evidence.”

Well, last night I received an e-mail stating that they had seen this website and offered this retraction:

“I must actually withdraw my objection to your calling yourself a workers’ comp nerd.”

They must have seen my walk through posts.

1. Can you believe someone already owns WCExec.com???  What a perfect domain name for the workers’ compensation executive committee! [↩]
2. I kid because I love! [↩]
3. Glasses notwithstanding. [↩]
4. Photo courtesy of this person. [↩]
5. Without MCLE in sight! [↩]