A Four-Starr Day
Jun. 16th, 2021 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogRingo, that is:
Four things wot did not happen today:
- Ray did not have to pile into a car and point it toward Rochester for the third straight day in a row. I found out toward the end of yesterday afternoon that a hearing was taking place tonight that I'd been trying to resolve without showing up, 70 miles away and after business hours, for months. Fortunately, when they gave me the number of the town attorney who would be presenting the case against my client, I recognized the name. It was from long ago in a law practice that far away, and I couldn't remember where I knew him from and even told him so. He got right back to me first thing this morning, made an offer exactly within the parameters of what I was looking for, and let me know I did not have to go.
Not that Siri understood this predicament as I described it before I got this good news.
What I said: I have to drive to Rochester for the third time in three days because of an adjournment I just found out about.
What Siri heard: I have to drive to Rochester for the third time in three days because I’ve been a germ and I just found out about.
SOOOO judgy.
- Ray didn't even have to take a much shorter detour this morning for fixing a booboo in an order certified yesterday and identified AS a booboo within an hour of the ink being dry on the official seal. The parties agreed that it was not a big deal and they are adding an extra page to the recording document to make that clear. Total cost of my mistake: fitty cent.
- Ray is also done with a messy piece of litigation that took up way more of yesterday than was expected. As I predicted yesterday, as soon as I filed my six page answer with a 47-page "confirmation notice" from the court, the other side called me back about settling it after I'd bugged them about settling it several previous times. We didn't, but it was enough of a clean break to convince the client to end things right here and we even agreed on how much he's going to pay me for everything I've done.
- And Ray isn't buying a rather expansive, if not expensive, piece of real estate. After all the runarounds of yesterday, I decided to drive home on the Lake Ontario State Parkway. Driving by water is always one of my calming routines, whether Cayuga or Erie or, when I get this rare chance, up north where the parkway practically runs along the southern shore of this Great Lake:
I posted that photo and got compliments on it. Siri must've liked it, too, because when I did the grocery shopping tonight and took a picture of a jar of nuts to be sure it was the one Eleanor wanted, she threw this one onto the text, too.
It's beautiful and all, but I have no idea where we'd put it.
Four things wot did not happen today:
- Ray did not have to pile into a car and point it toward Rochester for the third straight day in a row. I found out toward the end of yesterday afternoon that a hearing was taking place tonight that I'd been trying to resolve without showing up, 70 miles away and after business hours, for months. Fortunately, when they gave me the number of the town attorney who would be presenting the case against my client, I recognized the name. It was from long ago in a law practice that far away, and I couldn't remember where I knew him from and even told him so. He got right back to me first thing this morning, made an offer exactly within the parameters of what I was looking for, and let me know I did not have to go.
Not that Siri understood this predicament as I described it before I got this good news.
What I said: I have to drive to Rochester for the third time in three days because of an adjournment I just found out about.
What Siri heard: I have to drive to Rochester for the third time in three days because I’ve been a germ and I just found out about.
SOOOO judgy.
- Ray didn't even have to take a much shorter detour this morning for fixing a booboo in an order certified yesterday and identified AS a booboo within an hour of the ink being dry on the official seal. The parties agreed that it was not a big deal and they are adding an extra page to the recording document to make that clear. Total cost of my mistake: fitty cent.
- Ray is also done with a messy piece of litigation that took up way more of yesterday than was expected. As I predicted yesterday, as soon as I filed my six page answer with a 47-page "confirmation notice" from the court, the other side called me back about settling it after I'd bugged them about settling it several previous times. We didn't, but it was enough of a clean break to convince the client to end things right here and we even agreed on how much he's going to pay me for everything I've done.
- And Ray isn't buying a rather expansive, if not expensive, piece of real estate. After all the runarounds of yesterday, I decided to drive home on the Lake Ontario State Parkway. Driving by water is always one of my calming routines, whether Cayuga or Erie or, when I get this rare chance, up north where the parkway practically runs along the southern shore of this Great Lake:
I posted that photo and got compliments on it. Siri must've liked it, too, because when I did the grocery shopping tonight and took a picture of a jar of nuts to be sure it was the one Eleanor wanted, she threw this one onto the text, too.
It's beautiful and all, but I have no idea where we'd put it.
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Date: 2021-06-17 05:14 pm (UTC)But at least it wasn't "You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine"...