Filet embroidery amongst other things

I have been looking at vintage and antique embroidery, crochet and knitting. I have decided that Filet embroidery started out as embroidery and branched into netting, filet crochet, Irish crochet and hardanger. Filet embroidery was started with a net as a framework you created by using a shuttle and thread, then you used a needle and thread to embroider the net. It ended up looking similar to today’s filet crochet. So now today you crochet your framework as you go along with filet crochet and Irish crochet. Hardanger today starts with some quality fabric like linen for example. You embroider the design and then you cut away the fabric between where you embroidered. Then as a finishing you use a needle and thread to embellish the embroidery. I guess I don’t like most of Irish crochet, it is a little too busy for my taste. Netting is done either with a shuttle or without a shuttle.

I know you Midwesterners are hunkering down and getting ready for the cold to get worse. Here in Tucson, it is yet another beautiful sun filled day so warm that I needed the air conditioner.

Got an email last week for a job that I applied to, three weeks ago. I had to get a credit and background check, which I passed. I used my PDF creator and made a pdf out of it to save for future job interviews. Then I had to fill out some other forms. I had a problem with one of the forms. The issue was not resolved until late Wednesday evening. So now I wait for an email to get results.

I have been busy yesterday and today taking some online courses. I am suffering from information overload. I am just trying to improve my job skills and job marketability. This is a good place to go for some classes  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm  . There are of course lots of other web sites to find an online course.

I have been going through my boxes and organizing and throwing out stuff. So I have been looking at needlework magazines in my collection. I have found some things I can make in the future. The oldest magazine I found was from 1959. Some of the magazines are in bad shape. When I go through them I find that I made some stuff from that magazine. One project I am still working on as I found the needle still in the ball of thread. If I remember correctly I am working on the last one third. The colors are yellow, green and white. I am working on the green. One magazine fell completely apart as I opened it up. This magazine would be easy to scan for my computer as the glue has come undone.

As I was going through the boxes I found some places I used to buy stuff from and wondered if they had a website. Most of them have a website so I am of course disappointed about the ones that don’t have a website. So anyway I perused the ones that did have a website. I am not through with my list though, so I have plenty to keep me busy.

The Job I applied to week before last

Has been reposted this week. I had an interview last week. The original ad was just a customer service ad. The way it was worded I know a lot of people missed it (because it paid well, for Tucson). Anyway I applied to the ad originally because it said to read the ad carefully before applying and apply correctly. So I needed a challenge. I applied on October 1st and got an email on October 2nd with two attachments. One attachment described the job in more detail. The second attachment had 62 count them questions of the essay kind but not all of them were essay some of them were much shorter to answer. I took my time to answer these questions and sent the Candidate Questionnaire on Saturday afternoon. I had spent most of Friday and Saturday morning in answering the questions. Monday the 5th I got an email asking three more questions which I answered right away. I got a call Monday afternoon asking for an interview which I made an appointment for the very next day. During the phone call he said he liked my answers to the Candidate Questionnaire. I did my usual Internet research about the company before the interview. I saw his Facebook picture and that was scary, then I saw his LinkedIn picture and that was just as scary. The first bad thing to happen was while I was on my way to the interview. They asked me to come in half an hour later. So I did. I had to park somewhere and wait for the time to expire. So I got to the interview and he still wasn’t there yet (why they asked me to come in later). So I waited. The second bad thing to happen was they asked me to sit in a chair that had one wheel broken and the chair made a noise while I was looking in my job folder for some information he asked for. The interview was with the owner and his personal assistant. It did not go well and I knew he wasn’t going to call me to offer me the job. They hadn’t posted the job yet because they had just created the position and the job was more in line with my resume and experience. They said they would post the job soon and they would be in touch. I was hoping that when they posted it I wouldn’t apply to it but they used words that let me know not to apply.  This was Tuesday and Friday I knew that they had hired the person already, so I thought. I just did my daily applying to jobs today and noticed that the job has been reposted. So this means that they didn’t like any candidates they had, so I feel better.

This is the time of year where you need extra channels to watch on TV because of all the football. The TV informs me that we have graupel, not hail here in Tucson. Graupel is soft hail for those of you that are curious.

The big surprise last week was the awarding to Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. They had to have nominated him 12 days after he was in office. What has he done? Jesse Jackson has done more to earn this prize. Jay Leno joked that he got the peace prize because of the beer summit with the police officer and the history professor. Jay also joked that he shouldn’t go to Norway to pick it up because it is just a trick, they will arrest him if he goes.

In the end it is OK that I didn’t get the job last week. Today I got a response from another job I applied to. I had to fill out some paperwork and e send them with an e signature. So now I wait to see if I pass the credit and background check. This usually does not take very long but seeing as how I waited two weeks to get a response this may take a while. Another reason it is OK that I didn’t get the job because I found another place on the Internet for job leads.

The only picture I took on my Road Trip!

 

I was on Route 66 and I was hungry so I started looking for a place to pull off and get something to eat. I couldn’t find anything right away so I started to worry. I finally pulled off between McLean and Jericho. I had to take a picture for proof that NOT everything is bigger in Texas. This is the Alan Reed Jail. You can get lunch, buy stamps,  mail packages, be incarcerated and buy some gewgaws and knick knacks at this store.

With his new ad campaign we discover the secret of Donald Trump’s combover. Yes his combover is made from DoubleStuf Oreos. The Golden flavor of course not the original.

My feedburner is getting full. I have added sites to it. I have added job related sites and a whole bunch of needlework sites, mainly knitting and crocheting sites. I have had some extra time lately, sure wish I could get a job so I don’t have all this extra time.

I took the Fiskars to my hair because it was getting way too long. It looked too short right away but I am used to it by now. The first time I cut my own hair was beginner’s luck. I have done OK since then, no big mistakes and nobody has said anything so it must look OK to others also.

I have discovered that my neighbor has been running into the mailbox with his big ass truck. I started parking in that space to save the mailbox. A couple of days later I have reconsidered. Somebody broke some glass beer bottles in the dirt. I picked up as much glass as I could and every time I go to the mail box I check for more glass. Most of the big pieces I have already picked up. I am still debating whether to park back where I was or not. I don’t want to ask the landlord to have to fix the mailbox again and have him ask me why he has to and me tell him about the neighbor.

I used to look at Magic Crochet and Decorative Crochet, two magazines that came out 6 times a year. They are no longer publishing and I miss looking at the designs. Every now and then I saw one that I just had to have. Maybe I will get lucky and someone new will pick up the slack and publish.

I rescanned my TV because in the back of my mind I remember some blurb suggesting that we do this every now and then. Rescanning paid off because the one channel that I couldn’t get I can now get. So I have added one more TV channel to watch, ABC. So now I can watch Jeopardy and Ellen DeGeneres if I want to, amongst other shows. So be sure to rescan YOUR TV to see what more you can get.

Speaking of TV an interesting phenomena has occurred. In the 1950’s hour long dramas were 52 minutes long with 8 minutes being advertising. Today’s network TV hour long dramas are 42 minutes long with 18 minutes of advertising. Cable shows that are slated for an hour are 56 minutes long. So network shows now have 10 more minutes of advertising. So what is a network to do for more advertising without reducing the show minutes. They are doing subtle advertising. Theater movies have started doing this also. It is called product placement. For example, American Idol judges are seen with a glass that says Coke every time the camera shifts to them. America’s Got Talent has this also. When the camera goes to the Green Room and shows the contestants you see Orville Redenbacher Popcorn Icon show up on the screen and they talk about eating the popcorn and so on and so forth. So sit back and be prepared to see more advertising of this sort.

Another week, still no job in sight

But I am still working on my back up plan. I am creating a blog of my research resulting from my back up plan. I will post it later when I am all done. It may turn out to be more than one blog because I am getting a lot of information.

I have not heard from the interview I had on the September 17th so I guess it is back to the drawing board. They said when they called that they had found my resume on http://careerbuilder.com but I had a feeling that wasn’t true. I looked at the jobs I had applied to and found it. They had posted it to http://craigslist.org and I had applied to it. They must have had me mixed up with someone else.

I have a cookbook from my childhood days. I think it was given to me when I got married many years ago. I made some baking powder biscuits from one of the recipes. The biscuits tasted like saltine crackers only not so crunchy.  So I am going to try another biscuit recipe. I have a folder with some recipes that I got from magazines, newspapers and friends. I looked through the folder but I did not throw any recipes out. Who knows I may use them one day. The cookbook is covered in contact paper. It was not meant for this use I believe it was supposed to be shelf paper. The paper works though because cookbooks get wet or dirty in other ways and the contact paper helps keep it water and soil proof and is easy to clean.

I took some online skill tests. Some I passed and some I did not. They were harder than the tests I have taken at temp agencies. I can retake them so I guess I will. Maybe after I do some studying. There is a BIG list of tests at this site that people can take. It didn’t cost anything but time to do this.

Individual Mandate on the Obama Health Insurance plan. You must buy health insurance or be fined $1900. In addition a year in jail or $25,000. Are they crazy? How many people are out of work right now? How would this affect them? Make me buy health insurance and I will be homeless. Make me go to jail OK. Then I don’t have to worry about rent for a year.  I don’t have to worry about where the money is going to come from for food either. This is clearly unconstitutional because it sure doesn’t fall under ‘the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. This is supposed to be a free country. Making me buy health care is NOT freedom. It is dictatorial. Seig Hiel Obama because you now join the ranks of people like Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe, Idi Amin, Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh and so on and so forth, you get the idea. Obama is going to be a one term president because of this.

A cheer rises from the crowd

Another Soap serial bites the dust. Yeah, Guiding Light is going off the air due to low ratings. One more show in the tank. I don’t like soap serials. They are so morally corrupting. All that sex. During the day. When your kids are home. All that hatred, envy, jealousy, thievery, in short all the immoral values being displayed. People being mean and hateful towards one another. What is good about that? I sure wouldn’t want my kids to see that. There is already enough maliciousness and hatefullness and envy in the world. So a little less to me is a good thing. I am sorry that a lot of people are now out of a job. Hopefully they can get on a new team soon, maybe a primetime show, maybe some other show.

I have a flash drive. A San)isk. It is so easy to use and so small. I can load up to 8 GB on it. No software to install, it does it all by itself. It is better than a floppy or a mini disk. It has a small metal bar on the back that I can use to attach it to my key chain.

I got a call for an interview last week. I looked at my cell phone when it rang and it said ‘unknown ID’. I decided to answer it anyway. Good thing I did. They said they found my resume online. They found it at Careerbuilder, http://careerbuilder.com. It is a part-time job and may end up being a full-time job. It is on the other side of town but the road I took to get there has a higher speed limit than most city roads. I thought the interview went well. I agonized afterwards going over the interview trying to decide where I went wrong, what question I goofed up. I couldn’t find a question this time so I wait until I hear from them. It will pay $13 less than my unemployment check but that is before taxes. So if I get this job I will have to get another part-time job to meet all my bills.

Ellen DeGeneres is going to be the fourth judge on American Idol replacing Paula Abdul. Some of you are thinking how is a comedian going to be a good judge? Well I can answer that. Ellen knows ALL the words to all the songs.  She enjoys lots of different types of music. Yeah she knows ALL the words. That is the answer folks. Plus we get some comedy as a bonus.

Good looking Patrick Swayze is dead along with Henry Gibson and Mary Travers. Plus Norman Borlaug who has saved BILLIONS of people from starving. I remember Patrick Swayze in ‘Too Wong Foo, Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar’. Julie Newmar is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. To be sure I haven’t seen her lately but in her prime, yeah beautiful.

What is really mean

is that scammers are posting fake jobs to craigslist.org . Most of these I can spot right away and don’t apply to but yeah, I have applied to a few scam jobs. It is mean, mean, mean to post fake jobs on craigslist.org. Just mean. But this week takes the cake.

One job actually asked for, and I quote:”We looking for a younger attractive female.” unquote. I wrote them saying that if I knew what the name of this company was or the address I would put in a complaint to the Federal Government to file charges of discrimination. They didn’t have to say that. With all the people out of work they would be sure to get what they are looking for. All they had to do was throw away all male candidates. Then throw away older female candidates. Maybe other people responded also in the manner I did because the job has been removed from craigslist.org.

Quite some time ago I had been sent a Jury Summons. This weekend I was to report for jury duty. I was supposed to either call or go to the website. So I chose the website and put in my jury number. I don’t have jury duty this week it has been canceled. I am disappointed. I would have liked to see how far I would have gotten. I would have liked to be asked a bunch of questions and so on and so forth. But maybe because I did not do jury duty I may still be on the list sometime in the future.

I have been reading some books that I have read before to keep busy. I finished the Jason Bourne series by Robert Ludlum. Eric van Lustbader has 5 books in the Jason Bourne series and I only have two of those and not read yet. The Robert Ludlum books have been made into movies and let me tell you the movies are like having three totally new Jason Bourne stories they are no way shape or form like the books. Never have I read books made into movies that were so totally different. Don’t get me wrong the movies are good it is just that they are so different.

I have also been reading the Harry Potter books by J K Rowling. The movies made from these books  adhere to the story line extremely close. Just a few things left out mostly because otherwise the movies would have been much longer. I remember way back when the first one came out and all the buzz, buzz, buzz. I bought the first one just to see what all the fuss was about. I was doing laundry at the laundromat while reading Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone. There was a young girl there and she was looking at me funny, like what was a grown up reading a child’s book for. Now if I were a parent I would of course read what my kids are reading so I can know if there is anything I need to talk to them about or possible questions to be answered. Hopefully the little girl will remember when she is grown up and has children of her own why an adult would read a child’s book. For my part I read them all beyond the first one because they are good to read no matter what your age. Something exciting is happening in EVERY chapter.

I read about half of Obama’s speech to schoolchildren. It was a good speech. I can understand why parents kept their kids out of school that day though. A lot of politicians are liars, cheats and thieves so why should I let my kids listen to one. Parents who are responsible for what their kids are learning and what their kids are doing pay attention. These parents screen as much as they can and decide whether their kids can go see a movie or read a book or go to a concert. Obama should have let the parents read his speech before he gave it to give those responsible parents a chance to screen it. Not so many kids would have been absent that day if he had.

I haven’t heard as much gunfire

This summer as I usually do. Especially on the weekends. I haven’t gotten woken up by gunfire in the middle of the night in a long time. Maybe the tide is turning and all the people shooting the  handguns have moved out of this area.

I keep having dreams about where I used to work. The first dream I had, I dreamed I was back at the car wash. There was a big thundercloud overhead. The second dream, I dreamed I was back at the dry cleaners and the person that made my life hell was not there anymore. The third dream I was at yet another previous employment but had co-workers from another job not that one.

My mail delivery time changed. I used to get the mail in the afternoon around 3:30 pm. So then the time changed and I was slowly moving back the time I went out to the mail box. Well, one day I came back from a job interview and I noticed the mail truck on the other side of the street. I knew that the truck had already been to my box. So I checked to see if I had anything. That was at 11:00 am.  This was nice because I could stop slowly moving back the time I picked up my mail. So after experimenting around I have found out that the mail can come as early as 11:00 but as late as 11:45 am. So I just go out to the box at 11:45 to get my mail.

Earlier this week I went to mail a package to my friends in Saranac. While I was waiting in line I heard the clerk telling another customer that “they are shutting down and moving here”. So this tells me my office is one of the ones remaining open.

I have been busy working on my ‘back up plan’. I haven’t been able to get a job. I suck at interviews. So I have been thinking about what can I do and developed a back up plan. I have been researching into working at home. Like what do I need to do that and what it would cost and so on and so forth. Well, some time ago I did apply to one place for a work at home job but nothing happened from that one. I applied to another one and that one was a 5 step process. Well, I got to the fourth step which was a skills assessment test. I don’t type fast and you need to type fast.  But hope is still alive because I have not gotten through all the leads I have found. I applied to another place but have not heard back from them. I won’t give up until I exhaust all my leads.

While applying to jobs online I avoid the ones that are obvious scams. But, I have applied to a few that were scams. People on craigslist.org complain about the scams but craigslist.org has a link in the upper right hand corner and you can click on one of those to let craigslist.org know to remove that post. The Internet chatter is that no one is hiring. News sources indicate that the jobless rate is rising. Last year I heard that the tide would turn sometime this summer but that has not happened.

I used to be afraid of Escalators

I also used to be afraid of Bumble Bees, Hornets and Yellow Jackets. I also used to be afraid of dogs. One day I decided that I didn’t want to be afraid anymore. So with dogs and flying, stinging things, I worked at it. I faced my fear instead of running away from it. I worked at it and worked at it until I was no longer afraid of dogs and flying, stinging things. Now with dogs I walk around them because they have germs that I don’t want to get. The flying, stinging things I just open the door (if they are inside) or just walk on by or just look at them.

Escalators was another problem altogether. I have a balance problem. I never know when I get up from a chair or sofa if I will end up right back where I started (sitting down). It used to take me a while before I could get on the escalator. I tried to time getting on just right. Then when I was on I was afraid of falling and then at the end I was afraid again of getting off. I worked out the ride by hanging on to both rails as tightly as I could. I used to stumble getting on and off. Now, because I worked at it, I just get on immediately and get off just as fast.

I mention escalators because when I go to my favorite movie theater I use the escalator to go up (I use the stairs to go down). I did see a movie recently (Julie, Julia). During the movie I saw this tiny little light out of the corner of my eye. So I looked in that direction and lo and behold it was a firefly. Yeah, the fire flies you see after dusk. I had never seen a fire fly in a movie theater before.

Well, I finally went back to the Monday job fair. I was interviewed by the same person. The result was just the same as last time. The gal asked me if I had been then before, because she thought she recognized me. I said no. Later I realized that she said that to everybody to weed out those that had been there before. This time there was not as many people as last time and this time they did not give the computer test.

I had an email instructing me on how to do a phone interview for another job I had applied for. It was an automated phone interview, a first for me. So I called the number and entered my PIN number in and proceeded through the interview. I thought at first that it may be a scam and had decided to hang up if I got asked any scam questions. But it turned out to be a phone interview. I received another email saying that the automated interviews did not work so I would be getting a call on Thursday between 2pm and 5 pm.

Thursday morning I had an actual in person interview. I got there on time but my interviewer did not so I had to wait for him. I didn’t have to wait long. I had a test when the interview was done.  I made a mistake on part of it but the rest I did OK. The bad part was that it took way too long for me to do. That and some of my answers to the questions I was asked is why they decided on someone else. I got sent an email that had been cut and pasted. Please employers don’t cut and paste an email like that. It is bad form.

I probably would have ended up riding the bus to work at that job because in order to park in the neighborhood people need a permit. I had to use a temp permit to park during the interview. The neighborhood is up by the University of Arizona so the parking (because of the students) is at a premium.

So after the interview I decided to do my every other week grocery shopping. Then I went home to wait for the phone interview. I hate waiting and I had to wait between 2pm and 5pm. So began the long wait after 2pm. Thank goodness the phone rang shortly after 3 pm. It was the phone interview and the person at the other end did not ask any questions that were on the automated phone interview. But I don’t think I will be hearing from them. So, I have a back up plan that I will start on sometime Monday.

I played hookey Tuesday because I finally got a project done that I had started quite a while ago. All I have to do is wrap it up and send it (mail it) off to the recipient.

This is a partly sad post

But I will get the sadness done immediately and then on to the usual.

Old Joe Zebo was a stumble bum well known in the little bitty town I grew up in. A loner for sure and no relatives in town. We used to see him on occasion. He wore overall blue jeans, well worn as was most of his clothing. One day there was a rumor going around town. So us kids all went down to the railroad tracks to check it out. The rumor was that a train had run over Old Joe Zebo. So we went, and they did do a good job of cleaning it all up but along the tracks was a tiny piece of Old Joe here and one there. Not much left but a lot of talk about how it happened. They surmised that he had drunk a bit too much and fell on the tracks. The other half surmised that he drank all the time so how was this any different. And so on and back and forth, but nothing settled.

Then also another death in the early 60’s was a male friend of one of my siblings. He died of Leukemia. I mentioned it to him one time but he did not want to talk about it so I never brought it up again.

My maternal grandmother taught me how to make a noise with a long, wide blade of grass. You take it and place it along your thumb and wrist and place your other thumb and wrist on the other side. Then you blow. At first when I tried it didn’t work but I kept trying and I finally got it to work. Part of the trick is to stretch the blade of grass tight.

My fraternal grandmother was in a car accident and lost part of her finger. During the accident she closed the finger in the glove box and that is what severed the finger. The force of the closure. She also had to have a mastectomy and lost one of her boobs, but that was a few years later. She got a fake one that, get this, she never failed to take out right on the spot to show the person that asked about it. Yep, she just popped it out and showed it to the person and let them squeeze it.

I was looking for some yarn in one of my boxes and I didn’t find it right away. I did eventually find it but what annoys the heck out of me is that I found something else while I was looking and now I can’t find the something else. Oh well, I probably will find it again when I go looking for something else again.

I went to see Julie & Julia at the theater. I bought a ticket just to see the Julia part because Julia Child is more interesting than Julie Powell. It started out OK then it continued with a Julie part so long that I thought I wouldn’t see enough Julia part. But it did go  back and forth through the whole movie. I thought I saw Julie Powell in a cameo, someone correct me if I am wrong. Then I knew the movie was over and I was hoping that it didn’t end on a Julie part, I wanted it to end on a Julia part and………….it did. The theater was more crowded than Harry Potter but I did see Harry after it had been out a couple of weeks. The crowd was half older and half younger. All in all it was a good movie. Meryl Streep is sure to get yet another Oscar nomination.

Julia Child was 6′2″, a graduate of Smith College and  she played basketball at Smith. When World War II came along she tried to join the WACS and the WAVS but they said she was too tall. She joined the OSS instead. Office of Strategic Services. So she performed a secretarial function and had access to top secret information. Apparently the OSS was the precursor to the CIA. She was transferred to Ceylon and then to China. It was in Ceylon that she met Paul Child her future husband (he was an identical twin).

Just when I was thinking about

how fat I am I saw three ladies that were much bigger than I am. I have been weighing myself and I guess I will keep track to be sure that I am not gaining weight.

I went to see Harry Potter earlier this week. I went to a job fair but I was too late so I decided to do errands instead. While I was getting the errands accomplished I decided that Monday morning would be a good time to see The Half-Blood Prince. I got some popcorn and asked if the butter was real. Well they assured me that the butter was real.  I was able to sit in the back of the theater where I like. I sat near some people my age. I was hoping that the movie wouldn’t be too crowded and not too many kids. I got my wish. There were so few people that I was not once disturbed by someone checking their cell phone for calls or text messages. The back light is very annoying.

I ate the buttered popcorn and thought for sure that I would have indigestion and heartburn along with gas but I didn’t experience any of that. Later on in the week I decided to experiment. I had some toast and put some real butter on it. I didn’t experience any side effects from a dairy product so the jury is still out as to whether the butter in the popcorn at the theater is real or not. So maybe it is just from ice cream and yoghurt that I have side effects.

I took my garbage out to the container and noticed another dead beetle. I guess that area is a beetle burying ground because this is the second beetle I have found dead in the same area. I have never seen beetles this big, four inches at least.

I had another sucky interview that informed me that I would be notified by Friday. So, friday morning I left my phone at home and got groceries. This way my morning is broken up and I am not waiting by the phone for a call. Even if I had taken my phone I wouldn’t have pen and paper to take down any information. The phone silence is deafening. No calls. It seems like I get a bunch of interivews and then I wait for a month before I get some more interviews.

I have been woken up at night by a spider crawling on me. I went over the whole apartment trying to locate any spider webs. I was still woken up at night so I had to find where the spider goes during the day. I stopped up the bottom of the door of the spare bedroom and that has worked because no longer have I been woken up by any spider.

I think the movie that for me is a must see is Julie & Julia. Apparently the movie is based on both Julia Child and Julie. Julie started a blog by going through Mastering The Art Of French Cooking (by Julia Child) a recipe at a time. My siblings and I used to watch Julia Child on TV as teenagers. We used to watch The Copper Kettle moderated by Martha Dixon. One time while I was browsing a used book store I ran across a copy of a Copper Kettle cookbook so I snapped it up and it is somewhere in my collection. I watched PBS this weekend and they aired a show in black and white with Julia Child. It brought back watching her in the 60’s.

I got something in the mail from the courts. So while I was carrying it in to the house I was worried that the money I sent for the speeding ticket I got was not enough. I was charged with speeding and for not having proof of insurance.  The ticket stated that if you send a copy of proof of insurance that amount will be discharged. So I sent a copy of the proof. I was worried that the envelope from the courts would be asking for the money for the proof of insurance. The ticket did not state whether you had to send the entire amount or not so I just sent the money for the speeding part. But when I opened the envelope it was not for the ticket it was a jury summons. So I now have some paperwork to fill out and send in, they provided an envelope. I am supposed to start calling on a certain date and so on and so forth. So I will go see what it is all about, that is if my juror number is called.