Price of a normal pool excavation: $1,287.00
Price for excavation when they realize you have a massive slab of rock in your backyard: $4,617.00.
Total price for the pool after discovering you needed a "hard dig": $28,988.00.
Having a little paradise in your own backyard: Priceless
At least, that's what I have to keep telling Xan. The extra cost for the excavation was a little tough for him to swallow. I gotta admit, it sucks. This is only the second phase of the build and we've already had more than a $3,000 overrun.
Let's hope this is the last little surprise we run into. Well, unless something comes back much cheaper than expected.
I won't hold my breath.
It looks like we won't have to wait long to see how Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to handle the departure of Isaac Hayes. This week's season opener marks the homecoming of Chef--whoever that may end up being.
You gotta hand it to these guys. Name one other series that can crank out an episode so fast they can address current events as if it were the evening news.
Okay, maybe Saturday Night Live.
It appears the Scientologists don't have a sense of humor.
An episode of South Park, poking fun at Scientology, was scheduled to be rerun earlier this week. We missed it the first time around so Xan set the ol' DVR up to record it. A few minutes into watching it Thursday night, we realized that we had seen this episode before and it was not the scheduled episode. Xan immediately said, "They pulled it!"
At first, I didn't think that was the case. After all, South Park has made fun of virtually EVERY OTHER mainstream religion I can think of--Jews, Christians, Mormons, Catholics, even Muslims--and, while there may have been some general sniveling about the show being offensive, none of them have ever been pulled before.
And then I saw the headlines. Apparently the Scientologists have a lot more power than I anticipated.
In fact, I must have been sleeping during the week because I never heard that Isaac Hayes actually quit the show earlier this week, claiming 'bigotry and intolerance'. So I guess its only fair to make fun of religion when its practiced by others?
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. I fully expect Trey Parker and Matt Stone to come up with something far more clever (and highly insensitive) to fire back with.
Hell, I'd pay to see it.
These aren't original and I didn't come up with them, but they made me nearly pee my pants laughing so I'm posting them. For 24 fans only...
Basic Truths About 24's Jack Bauer
Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a
gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack
Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it's beef.
Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour
torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
Let's get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is
because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer
hates lemonade.
Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.
Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding
out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at
another terrorist twelve miles away.
When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says
something then you better do it.
Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it
wasn't a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.
When Jack Bauer pissses into the wind, the wind changes direction.
Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite
color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
When you open a can of whoop-ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.
When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.
When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.
Every mathematical inequality officially ends with "< Jack Bauer".
In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What
the hell have you done with your life?
Jesus died and rose from the dead in 3 days. It took Jack Bauer less than an
hour. And he's done it twice.
Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted
fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie
Dodgeball.
In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
What color is Jack Bauer's blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.
Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out
of MacGyver and get out.
People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
Sun Tzu once wrote, "If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger,
join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you're f***ing dead."
Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That's why there's no life on Mars.
Superman's only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having
a weakness.
When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.
It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.
If Jack Bauer was gay, his name would be Chuck Norris.
The bumper sticker on Jesus's car reads, "WWJBD?"
Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the
location of the egg.
After 7 minutes of interrogation at the hands of Jack Bauer, Tom Cruise admitted
that he was gay.
Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child.
Once.
Ahhh... what a relief. RIM finally settled the dispute over their push technology, which means nobody will be takin' my Blackberry away.
I'm really starting to depend on it. The damn thing really is addictive (there's a reason they call them Crackberry). Its so much more capable than a regular phone. I've used Google to find things around town on numerous occasions and yeah, I know you can do that on some of the other phones too--but typing much with a regular phone keypad is a chore. I've only skimmed the surface of this thing's capabilities and I'd already put it up there on the "technology I can't live without" list.
I didn't REALLY believe the shutdown would happen. The almighty dollar is a powerful one. I'm just glad the threat is over!
I finally got around to installing MovableType 3.2 (mainly because something in MT-Blacklist was hosed, and this was the easiest way to fix it).
Now, maybe I'll actually get around to posting a thing or two.