Well, at least it's over.

We had our mediation meeting today with the incompetent dishonest roofers. (This is a mandatory thing in this kind of civil suit in this state.) I say "with"; actually each party and their lawyer sit in a different room, and don't see each other at any point during the process, which I think is an excellent idea. Hearing their lies second-hand was quite blood-pressure-raising enough.

Short version: We settled. And, well, there's a reason they call it "settling".

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(thefridayfive for tomorrow is about meetings. Well, I sure had a doozy of a meeting!)