I have some neat personal news to report! I finally know someone involved in an Oklahoma political scandal!
I’d like to give a big shout-out to former OMES Budget Director Jill Geiger and her chess-loving consulting firm for making State Auditor Cindy Byrd’s scathing audit report about Oklahoma government's wasteful, questionable, and rule-breaking spending of Covid tax dollars.
I don’t think I’ve seen Jill since I entered into dad-life hermitage over six years ago, but in the early to middle parts of the last decade, we had a lot of mutual friends, and as a result, became solid acquaintances. She's a decent domino player, has nice taste in booze, women, and music, and it was always fun to run into her alter ego – Jill-sus Quintana – at Big Lebowski watch parties: