I was never able to get rid of this bad back posture, but I’ve stopped playing Lord of the Rings Online. I’ve also been making a few changes and updates, and well, we’ll see where we go from here.
Personal musings of a Hawaii family law attorney and gamer
The last twelve days were spent in a very unproductive fashion. Instead of reading the “Hawaii Wills & Trusts Sourcebook”, I have been occupied with playing Lord of the Rings Online. Yes, that massive multiplayer online game, where I run around with a level 26 minstrel spamming heals at other online players.
What have I got to show for it? Nothing productive, really. Unfortunately, playing the game is so addicting, I’ve stopped running.
Now that I feel completely horrible about my physical status quo, I suppose I’ll start getting back to work, and getting rid of this bad back posture.
Although I’ve been reading several labor law books in trying to get up to speed for a matter I am reviewing, I decided against reviewing these books due to their rather boring, and mostly technical details. Instead, as I am currently writing down my budget and costs for my month abroad in China, I thought I’d detail some of the events and do some simple scans while I review some of the places I went for the next week or so.
In an odd twist of events, I’ve also been called to jury duty, and that is keeping me from work. We’ll see how it goes.
Legal marketing options
I was sitting in front of my TV and came across a show put out by Est8planning LLLC, a local estate planning law firm. The infomercial (as I see it) was at least a half-hour long, and involved the owner, Scott Makuakane, talking to his associate, Dean Park, about estate planning.
Both Makuakane and Park are attorneys, yet the show had them sitting at a desk in front of the inevitable oh-so-lawyerly-law-books talking about trusts, probate, and intestate succession. They talked to each other, pretending as though they weren’t clear on the law or what the other guy was going to say. I suppose they did that to educate the viewer, assuming the viewer wanted to watch Mr. Park reading off legalese papers held in his hand.
This got me thinking about lawyer advertising – what works, and what doesn’t work. I have trouble believing there was someone out there, other than me, watching this show.