Screen is actually complete

I am still in Vancouver - looking forward to lunch today with some old friends.

As I was sitting in the hotel this morning I got a call from wife.com - in a little over a day and a half the contractor actually installed the screen around our pool.

It has taken almost 4 months since we first signed the contract on this simple little piece of engineering - but it is up and complete.

Photos will be coming once I return to FL on Monday.

In Vancouver....

After a weekend spent with wife.com's parents outside Toronto - I flew into YVR last night.

I will spend the next few days visiting my mom, taking a couple of meetings, and catching up with some old friends. It really is the first time I have been back home for more than a day in about 4 years

This afternoon I am heading out to my old country club to play a little golf. A little in the sense that I am awful.

On the other hand the scenery is spectacular at Westwood Plateau - and I really do miss it! If I shoot under 110 it will be a good round!

Best of all - there is a Chinese restaurant at the bottom of the mountain this is also a required component of the day. Hon's makes these little pot stickers that I dream about while on the other side of the continent.... hmm BBQ duck and potstickers....

Finally a freaking screen... almost

After receiving the variance to install a screen around our pool on the 23rd of July - the contractors all made noises about being able to get the damn thing completed quickly.....

Of course once a variance is granted - it appears that there is a 2 week waiting period to issue the permit... then more waiting etc.

Regardless - it finally sounds like next week the constuction will finally begin on this last major element of the pool.

Jihad the Musical.....

Our friend Kelly from Seattle sent me a link today for a musical running in London called appropriately enough "Jihad the Musical".... even better than the fact that it makes fun of the wacky islamo fascists - evidently it has a number that mocks FRENCH Islamic Fascists - how can one NOT like that!?!

There is a YouTube video of the song "I wanna be like Osama" posted below(coincidentally that title would still rhyme if you changed it to "I wanna be like Obama" - but that would be a different post....)

I take what these folks (the muslim fundamentalists) say seriously - they tell us they want to replace western democracy with Sharia - OK - that means I GET TO LAUGH AT YOU at the same time we watch out for you and hopefully send SpecOps teams to "deal with" you!

Feel free to download the audio to the song Turned and Ran - the ode to French "youths".....

I don't remember if it was St. Thomas More or Martin Luther who said that the Devil is a proud spirit and can not abide to be mocked - well let the taunting begin.