What are you feeling badly about folks? Or goodly? What's on you mind? It is Big Fat Friday and I'm a slim 177.8 (down 19.8 since Christmas), even after a big bowl of ice cream last night!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Big Fat Friday Free For All
What are you feeling badly about folks? Or goodly? What's on you mind? It is Big Fat Friday and I'm a slim 177.8 (down 19.8 since Christmas), even after a big bowl of ice cream last night!
Obviously your GC doesn't know how to plan or stage properly.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Anon, I might have agreed with you before this job began. You see, every single person I talked to who has gone through a home renovation told me that it will take longer and be more expensive than you planned. Every---single---one. Such a thing was offensive to me in every way. And I set out to try and prove them wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have been horribly unsuccessful. Though our costs have been well-managed, it is taking longer than was projected--as it seems--all projects like this do.
So--I should have just planned on a year and then saved myself the aggravation.
Bet those roofers wish they had finished on time in February/March. Must be 120 on that thing at least. Any solar going on the roof CW? That seems to always push timelines.
ReplyDeleteNo solar---I absolutely wanted it--wicked southern exposure--but the Kitten didn't cotton to the panels on the roof...
ReplyDeleteI am so getting ready for the football season. This time of year is the sports doldrums. Baseball is ok but there's so many games they don't really carry the impact. We had the women's World Cup but that's a minor distraction. British Open, enhh.
ReplyDeleteOhio State seems to be in a spot of bother, UNC is struggling to put some issues behind them (unsuccessfully I hope) and we have a new quarterback at State (our old one defected to the Wisconsin Badgers) so college football might be interesting this year.
I feel much worse than even I had anticipated that the shuttle program is over and that now the US is 'grounded' in human space exploration behind most of the world. The Russians are actually making fun of us and parlaying this into their actually having 'won' the space race using the same tactics we used to win the cold war. They broke our space program economically. I think that it is a sad moment for the US and it really does not matter how NASA and the President try and pitch it, this is a dark moment.
ReplyDeleteAnother successful bailout:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-us-closes-book-on-chrysler-with-13b-loss-20110721,0,3613260.story
U.S. taxpayers likely lost $1.3 billion in the government bailout of Chrysler, the Treasury Department announced Thursday.
The government recently sold its remaining 6 percent stake in the company to Italian automaker Fiat, wrapping up the 2009 auto bailouts that were part of TARP.
CW, did you have many change orders to drive up the costs? If so, the GC gets a pass, otherwise, he didn't stage and plan properly.
ReplyDeleteWill soccer ever be big in the US you ask? Not on your life! Why, you ask? " The way the game is played" he offered. It's 45 straight minutes followed be a short recess followed by 45 more minutes plus added time for injury time outs. No commercial time outs - not one. Europe uses time wisely but money hungry US business can't stomach such an idea. Guess what, I was watching a baseball game a few nights ago and the catcher called time out to visit the mound and talk things out with the pitcher who was in deep trouble with base runners and no outs - so what happeden the station slipped in a TV commercial.
ReplyDeleteI am tired! Tired of being a frequent flier who continuously must look at TSA and think that for every time I go through screening it costs ten cents. An $8.1B budget gets what? Uniforms, a badge and highly trained highly obnoxious "agents". Nazi Germany reborn with, "show us your paypahs, you must have your paypahs"! Gov't out of control and all we can do is say baaaah baaaaah
ReplyDeleteI heard the Navy is saying that Ballistic Missile Defense is not one of its core competencies.
ReplyDeleteCould it be that Sailors really aren't looking forward to manning the Phased Adaptive Approach, AEGIS Ashore Units (acronym: PAAAEU...pronounced "Pee-Eww") that will be based in BFE (short for Bum F%$# Europe)?
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ReplyDeleteHey CW was my story about soccer in America the one you cut out ahead of the Any Winehouse crap?
ReplyDeleteDan--BMD not a core competency--but deterrence is. BMD is part of conventional deterrence for the Navy.
ReplyDeleteHey Willie--kiss my big butt. I have to screen all of these comments because of spam, and if I don't get to them for a day, they don't get posted. If it isn't dirty or hateful, it will get published.
ReplyDeleteSorry CW. I thought "Big Fat Friday" meant Friday. I never realized you were "that" busy.
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