The Better Chancery Practice Blog

Christmas Holiday.

Court House Closed.

PRAYER IN FOUR VERSES

1.

The Lord has shown me

His hands held out together,

His empty hands.

There falls only my sorrow

Upon his palms like snow.

Now, Lord, your hands are full

Like snow-laden boughs of an evergreen.

2.

I have nothing, Lord.

Fill me with the lonely emptiness

From which everything is drained,

Until I am like an empty vase

Left at random on a table.

3.

Something I feel

Of sorrow and ecstasy

Fretting to an irritation.

A moonlight edge of hill,

Ever swept by the wind,

Which I call life.

The whole universe

Glowing white with moonbeams.

4.

A thin thirst is spread in me

Like the violet twilight over a December field.

Crossing over the chilled waters of half-mockery and half-regret,

I proceed toward you, Lord.

Drench my cheeks with hot tears

And drown me in your mercy.

  —  Park Mok-wol (1916-1978)

Where?

Some time this afternoon all of the link categories (over there on the right side of the page) disappeared, amalgamating all of my links into one amorphous blog-glob. I tinkered all afternoon to fix it and finally emailed wordpress for help.

Fret not. The tech folks are working on a system-wide fix.

Thanksgiving Holiday.

Court House closed.

Thanksgiving Holiday.

Court House closed.

Where?

VETERANS DAY. Courthouse closed.

Anybody else got this email? I got it last week, complete with the Regions graphic.

It’s phony. First of all, I don’t do any business with Regions Bank, and I have no reason to have any “incoming Payments” there.

Also this language reads suspiciously like the Nigerian scam artists, doesn’t it? … “to VALIDATE your informations and wait for responds from Regions Bank ,” and “we apologies for any inconvenience.” Best of all … this is cute … it comes from a “security prevention” team. I’ll say.

Me, I’m not biting on this one. I don’t need their incoming Payment, informations or responds, or even their apologies.

This comes on the heels of a flurry of bogus Comcast “Security Alerts” emails with the Comcast logo.

Dear Sir/Madam, At Regions Bank We are proud to announce about our new updated secure system. We updated our new SSL servers to give our members a better, fast and secure service. Due to the recent update of the servers,Your incoming Payment was placed on pending status In order to receive this payment CLICK HERE to VALIDATE your informations and wait for responds from Regions Bank . . We apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Sincerely,Christopher Polumbo Regions Online Banking Security Prevention Team The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in Spam, please kindly move it to inbox.

If you voted already, thank you, fellow citizens.

If you haven’t voted, please get off of this bleeping computer and go vote right now.

If you don’t plan to vote, or, God forbid, you aren’t even registered, shame on you.