I know nothing about Mark Zoch, Docket No. 15438-24, filed 1/5/26; the only anomaly is that filing fee was waived, yet the case involved a six-figure deficiency with substantial add-ons and chops. The case was on this morning in The Bayou City, where I happened to be visiting my nearest and dearest.

I couldn’t get down to Bush Street to sit in on the proceedings. I called chambers to see if any of the cases on today was going over to another day this week, but there was none. Mr. Zoch’s case was dismissed for want of prosecution.

So I didn’t get to provide an in-person “hi, Judge Holmes.”

Hence the title first set forth hereinabove at the head hereof, as my expensive colleagues would say.