Karl and Angela Rees

Karl spent a lot of time working this week.  A big client who hadn’t given the firm new work in a while called on the firm to do a rush job to write and file an application before a big demo this week.  His boss claims he asked Karl to handle the matter because they really want to impress the client so that the client will give them more cases in the future.  But Karl wonders if maybe he was just the only attorney who had his docket clear enough at the moment to handle a rush application like this.  At any rate, Karl’s been paying a lot of attention to the application so that the c  read more »

Karl bought a bike on very cheap mountain bike Monday night.  Since the only purpose of it is to ride back and forth along 4.5 miles of unpaved, somewhat rocky, and mostly flat trail every day, we decided that we didn’t need anything particularly fancy.  Of course, there were hidden costs.  The people at Target had put it together very hastily, so it wouldn’t shift into third and the brakes were constantly rubbing against the back wheel.  So Karl spent the entire evening and well into the night disassembling (the easy part) and reassembling (the part he had to learn) his bike.  Now  read more »