stupid ass inspectors

First he fails us because he wasn't happy with the ground wire, which pisse off my electrician because the f-ing wire was right there. Now today, he didn't want to pass us, because our electrical box isn't supposed to be within 3 feet of anything else. Now I know that is a good rule, but for the love of God, it's been like that for 30 years. Now quit being a dickhead, pass the new work, and let us get electricity back to your house.

Then, because the inspector failed us yesterday and wouldn't (maybe couldn't) come until after 1:00 today, the power company can't come out to run new wiring to the house. So now we're looking at now electricity for the weekend, which even though we have someplace to stay, just chaps my ass.

stupid city inspectors.....

It's been a week or so since the last update, a fair amount of stuff has happened in that time.

Bin Laden was knocked off, and I'm pretty happy about it. The only bad thing was I think they should have killed his ass and not told anyone. That totally keeps him from being a martyr....although so far, it doesn't seem he's being mad into as much of a martyr as I would have expected.

The Ms. river is going to be flooding big time, and it's going to be scary. In keeping with my new "prepared" motto, I"m picking up a few things that would tide us over should a major Baton Rouge/New Orleans flood occur. More to the point, should the old river control structure fail, this would protect us to some extent from that nightmare. I don't think we would be in line for flooding, but it would cause major disruptions to the oil and gas infrastructure, transportation to the East infrastructure, and would probably destroy Morgan City and all points south of there. This is a disaster that is going to happen in slow mo, since the crest of the flooding isn't expected for a couple of weeks yet. I guess we will see, and hopefully it's a big non-event, but it's sort of fun (!!) to prepare. If nothing else, these preps can be held over for hurricane season.

(mumbles "stupid inspectors" to self)

Just returned from Houston, the Q1 Board meeting was a success and a good time was had by all. Or something like that. If nothing else, the meeting did go well, and the dinner the night before was actually fun, so it's not that far from the truth. Got a few marching orders, and will be carrying them out over the next couple of weeks.

Anyway, I think that's enough, or maybe even more than enough for now.

Later