Serious budget crunch again in the bigger county were my offices provide services. Just days after signing a four year lease, getting the county out of something like 20 months lease for one floor (saved them almost $14K), and spending nearly $8K to equip the new offices (everything from business cards to computers), the County wants us to take a big budget cut. As if we were a county dept., not a private business.
Funny, when I get bills for hundreds and thousands of dollars each year, I pay those. I don't turn them into the county. The new contract was in effect less than 2 months (of the 51 month period), and the county prosecutor, who I am seriously considering suing for defamtion, interference with contractual relationship, and other grounds, apparently has them thinking they might be able to cut from our budget. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking. I can't tell, and he keeps misstating the facts AND the law. I swear, I honestly don't know how the F some people make it through law school. And now I'm working into my 16th month to sell a contract bid, 2 months of that AFTER the friggin' thing was signed. And a simple STFU to the county might save me a lot of work now, but will not go over well, and won't be forgotten when this contract runs out.
And late last night, while spending about my 20th hour on the letter in reply (I also have to sit and meet with the county commissioners next week), I get a call informing me that the judge in the superior court in the other county where we provide services had a heart attack and died.
It gets weirder. This is the same judge that jumped all over me 2 and 3 weeks ago, for no good reason. I have never been treated so poorly by a judge in over 20 years. I was livid.
So he's out snorkeling off the Big Island of Hawaii, has a heart attack at age 62, and they find him floating. The guy looked better at 62 than I do at 46. Appeared fit and healthy. Did NOT look 62 at all.
And the place where he died? Just a few miles up the coast from where my parents' condo is in Kona. Pure coincidence...I never told him my parents have a place there. This is that county's first superior court judge they didn't have to share with another county, and he had been on the job less than 2 years.
