The MacDeskBlog

I’ve been sitting on this news for over two months now. Wow. I knew this took a long time, but I didn’t realize just how long until this moment. I had a mediation session with my former contractor in early July. By the end of the day, it was pretty clear that his insurance carrier would settle my case against him. Then it just became a question of when they would realize how much money it would take. That took another couple of weeks, at which point we reached a settlement. Alas, their incompetence continued, which was aggravating but not surprising. They wanted me to sign the settlement agreement which stipulated that I had received the money from them before they were willing to write the check. After a lot of back and forth, we finally cleared that up and they got their signed settlement agreement minus the stipulation that they had already paid me. It took them another three weeks after that to finally send a check by courier, after the first one “got lost in the mail” (yeah right). [Of course, as with any settlement agreement, nobody admitted any fault of any sort.]

I am extremely happy today as I deposited the check. My attorney was extremely happy yesterday, as he got paid for the past two months of work. And my creditors will be extremely happy within the next week, as I am able to catch up on bills which have run up in anticipation of the check.

It’s a good day. I think I’ll go celebrate by heading to the Giants game to watch Barry Bonds hit #704 tonight against the Dodgers.