My day today

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My day, Wednesday 15 May 2019:

https://youtu.be/7Qp2At__M38

First, I didn't fall asleep until 4am. 

I call my son, Sunjay (age 12), on Wednesday and Sunday mornings at 7:30, so that was a bit rough. Mother nature helped after Sunjay politely pouted that Sunday was a long ways off, if we're to end the call early today (to let me get back to sleep). 

The finest of farts made me feel like I was about to have the runs, and that got me out of bed. We ended up talking for the usually 1.5 hours and enjoyed several games of chess at http://lichess.org (they have neat variations).

My son won that one.  The version is "Atomic".  When a piece takes another, all the pieces in the surrounding squares explode.  Therefore, in that game, if the Queen checks the King directly adjacent to the King, it's checkmate.  We both had a good time playing.

I did have a nap for 2 hours after the call.


Then got a court submission ready. It took a bit of work, but I prepared the e-files yesterday: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eLUlpceIV7Zr19xB_dNb11hDN3Lqalw/view?usp=sharing

Still took 2 hours to get it printed, put together, and submitted.

I printed four copies, but only submitted one complete 292-page copy. The woman stamped mine, for me to keep, and then looked at me while I waited for her to stamp the court copy.  The short version and the long version are identical, but it costs a fair bit of money to print out a long version. So I put it all into one PDF file and included it on a DVD.

Taiwan High Court

My copy got a round stamp. The court copy gets a larger rectangular stamp. She stamped the short version with the rectangular stamp.

I waited for her to stamp the long version. The one with the pink and blue tabs.

Then she double checked that it was an exact copy. I guess she wasn't really paying attention the first time when I said that I'm giving her three copies. Never mind the fact that I said it three times.  I insisted that she stamp that big copy with a rectangular stamp.

At the lower court, the receiver stamps all identical copies.  At the high court, she insisted on only stamping one copy.  I apologized profusely and explained that I didn't know how many copies they want. But if they only want one copy, or are only going to stamp one copy, please stamp the big one for the judge.

A gentleman came to help the lady.  He told me that they only need one copy.  That was good news.

Then the kind lady decided to whiteout (erase) the stamp on the little copy. I wasn't sure if she was planning on keeping the short copy, or handing it back to me with the stamp covered in whiteout. She looked at me hesitantly, seemingly unsure of what I was trying to say.

I tried to tell her in my broken Chinese that if she only needs one copy, just tear the page and throw it out. She smiled happily. She'd tried to tell me exactly that while I was thinking it.  

She held the torn page somewhat gently, so much so that I felt like suggestion she tear it before deciding to reuse it!  I happily accepted the remainder of the short copy, minus the first page in Chinese:

She did manage to stamp the big copy. I apologize one more time, and waved at everybody as I left. The room seemed a bit confused, but everybody had generally good spirits.

That's a pretty normal work day for me.

It then took me another hour trying to affix the stamp to the e-file which is posted at the above link.  However, now that that's done...

... I'll try not to think about how super long everything's taking and look forward to winning a pot of gold after the trial...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eLUlpceIV7Zr19xB_dNb11hDN3Lqalw/view?usp=sharing

...and an ever bigger one when The Law Society Of Ontario, Canada, finishes its review of the the Canadian portion of this story, posted at http://hull.talk2dream.com

CC

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