Musings

So, other than having a really good ride on my horse yesterday. (I got several really nice half-passes out of him) I spent the entire day stressing over this dispute we are having with our former contractor. This guy was totally incompetent and useless. He came to the building site all of four times in a year and left Carl to oversee the building site. Carl was on our lot 7 days a week 12 to 14 hours a day. I helped Carl build the entry courtyard out of porphery (the stuff Romans used to build their roads and the architect says that’s how you spell it), and I painted almost the entire house.

When it was all over we wanted to see the books because there had been some shady goings on. The jerk wouldn’t give them to us so I hired a lawyer to demand the books. We finally got this jumbled mess of paperwork, and got it to a bookkeeper. It turned out the guy was incompetent and the books were a mess, but apparently nothing illegal took place. So I was going to drop it.

Then he started writing us these illiterate, crazy letters demanding all this money from us. So now we’re faced with going to arbitration. Up until now this has cost him nothing because he’s been writing to the lawyer while I have a lawyer which is costing me plenty. I’m hoping that now that Jerk has to hire a lawyer he will just go away, but I’m afraid I won’t be that lucky.

Yes, I passed the bar and practiced law, but you know the old saying. A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a lawyer. So, all in all it was a bad day. I try very had to treat my writing like a job, and not allow emotional upset to get in the way of work, but sometimes it’s hard. I did get a bit done on the shared universe project.

Melinda

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