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l33tminion) wrote2024-01-21 11:22 am
l33tminion) wrote2024-01-21 11:22 am
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Claim the Coin
This was a pretty eventful week.
Mystery Hunt had a Greek gods meets American roadtrip theme, as the Meeting of Interplanetary Theorists demoted Pluto from "dwarf planet" to "insignificant cosmic debris" at kickoff, accidentally destroying the lord of the underworld, and the hunters had to escape the underworld, collect the shades of Pluto, and bribe the committee in order to fix what went wrong (all via puzzles, of course). I was able to help with a few puzzles, but it felt like relatively few this year. Also, my team completed hunt first, finding the coin early Monday morning (this one went long) and for the second time gaining the definite honor and dubious prize of writing next year's hunt. Which means I'll be able to try to help with that as well. I guess this year's outcome means we can win an extremely long hunt, our past win was an extremely short one. The last attempt turned out amazing, so with any luck we'll be able to do something great again.
On Thursday, I had my date in small claims court for the dispute between our condo association and a contractor. We attempted mediation, though I didn't expect that to lead to an early resolution, I really appreciate that Somerville District Court provides that option to all small claims litigants at no cost, the mediator seemed extremely skilled. Then we had our hearing before the clerk magistrate. After going through the whole process, the judge required (strongly advised?) that she continue the case so the plaintiffs could refile the paperwork to sue the association instead of me and our condo treasurer personally. So I'm no longer being sued, I think, but there's still a lawsuit that I need to handle, and it will probably require going back to court. If the case is continued, all the existing exhibits and testimony are still in the case record, so at least I probably won't have to repeat everything again. Really looking forward to having the matter resolved, but I suppose things will go at the pace they go. (I don't know which the magistrate finds more annoying: Pro se litigants that are totally unprepared or smart aleck pro se litigants who relish the opportunity. Obviously I'm in the latter column, fortunately/unfortunately.)
Thursday to Friday, Julie was out of town for an event in Miami. Which was planned on Wednesday (presented to me in a "got to go here are my flights" kind of way), and involved her flying down Thursday afternoon, attending the event, and catching a flight without any sleep beforehand early Friday morning. Startup life.
The weekend has been cold and quiet. I left my scarf at a cafe yesterday but managed to get it back today.
Mystery Hunt had a Greek gods meets American roadtrip theme, as the Meeting of Interplanetary Theorists demoted Pluto from "dwarf planet" to "insignificant cosmic debris" at kickoff, accidentally destroying the lord of the underworld, and the hunters had to escape the underworld, collect the shades of Pluto, and bribe the committee in order to fix what went wrong (all via puzzles, of course). I was able to help with a few puzzles, but it felt like relatively few this year. Also, my team completed hunt first, finding the coin early Monday morning (this one went long) and for the second time gaining the definite honor and dubious prize of writing next year's hunt. Which means I'll be able to try to help with that as well. I guess this year's outcome means we can win an extremely long hunt, our past win was an extremely short one. The last attempt turned out amazing, so with any luck we'll be able to do something great again.
On Thursday, I had my date in small claims court for the dispute between our condo association and a contractor. We attempted mediation, though I didn't expect that to lead to an early resolution, I really appreciate that Somerville District Court provides that option to all small claims litigants at no cost, the mediator seemed extremely skilled. Then we had our hearing before the clerk magistrate. After going through the whole process, the judge required (strongly advised?) that she continue the case so the plaintiffs could refile the paperwork to sue the association instead of me and our condo treasurer personally. So I'm no longer being sued, I think, but there's still a lawsuit that I need to handle, and it will probably require going back to court. If the case is continued, all the existing exhibits and testimony are still in the case record, so at least I probably won't have to repeat everything again. Really looking forward to having the matter resolved, but I suppose things will go at the pace they go. (I don't know which the magistrate finds more annoying: Pro se litigants that are totally unprepared or smart aleck pro se litigants who relish the opportunity. Obviously I'm in the latter column, fortunately/unfortunately.)
Thursday to Friday, Julie was out of town for an event in Miami. Which was planned on Wednesday (presented to me in a "got to go here are my flights" kind of way), and involved her flying down Thursday afternoon, attending the event, and catching a flight without any sleep beforehand early Friday morning. Startup life.
The weekend has been cold and quiet. I left my scarf at a cafe yesterday but managed to get it back today.