Jake’s Life

The other morning I went to Vince Dizzle’s place for breakfast. Not surprisingly, it involved beer and guns. I helped fix his laptop’s performance (was suffering from  all of the TTDs…Technologically Transmitted Diseases) that come from downloading porn, as well as not clearing off the stock programs installed by most vendors. Anyway, for being a knob he is a surprisingly great chef, but I had already heard the legends.

Since I got my tax return I have hardly followed much of my “plan.” I’m going to make an eye exam appointment tomorrow to get either contacts again or some better suited glasses for work (i.e.: not expensive and plastic). Depending on how much I have left I’m going to contact some places that I hold delinquent accounts and try to resolve those.

I put together a collection of the essays I’ve written over the last almost two years from my Criminology, Criminal Law, Criminal Investigations, Social Problems, Criminal Procedure, Police Operations, Human Relations, and Ethics courses for my grandmother. She’s always complaining about how she doesn’t have many things to read except the TV Guide, and she loves crime and law related readings. I went and picked up a nice presentation binder and have most of my essays printed out so far:

Bail: Concept, Determination, and Denial
Confessions and Guilty Pleas
Right to Speedy Trial and the Statute of Limitations
Motive and Intent
Functionalist Perspective on Crime
Racism and Reverse Racism in Law Enforcement
Polygraph Use in Investigations
Protecting the Integrity of Crime Scenes
Latent Fingerprints as Evidence: Collection and Presentation
Arson
Profiling by Law Enforcement: Gang, Narcotics, Racial, and General
Jury of One’s Peers
The Mistrial
Interstate and International Extradition
Homicide Victimology

I couldn’t find my essays on Specialty Police Units, Ethics of Police Pursuits, or offender profiles, which I’m sure she would have enjoyed. My uncle is putting her in a home soon, which enrages me on one hand, but on the other I know that it will allow her to be more active and more social, two things she really needs right now. Plus, she will be a lot closer to me.

I picked up some overtime for this coming week, but it won’t sound like it. I had Thur-Fri off, tonight (Sat), I work Sunday, off Monday, on Tuesday, off Wednesday, then on Thu-Wed (7 days straight). I’m going to be beat by the time I get another day off.