Today was my deadline for the county to have my permits ready.  As it turns out the county really doesn’t care about my personal deadlines.  I’ve recently heard a term somewhere that seems to fit the situation here, that is “institutionalized incompetence”. I submitted my application for permits on April 08 2010. It is now Aug 18, 2011 that’s a processing time so far of 1.3 years.

Once again I’ve been delayed by someone’s absence.  The person who was supposed to sign off on our last detail left on vacation.  Who goes on vacation mid-week?  Even more stunning was the number of details left undone that were uncovered by our probing.  Not that they don’t have what they need, they just have no follow through.  They ask me for plans, studies, and other info, but apparently there is no thought of processing that stuff as it is turned in.  I would just never get away with that kind of nonsense.  The disappointment is huge, and the tension is mounting.