Well Well

This is the funniest thing I have ever read….ever:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php

I think I missed something in this movie…if the Autobots have a pretty hard time killing the Decepticons, then why do the humans think that machine guns are going to do anything to them?  Why did half of the movie have humans shooting at them?

Better yet, did the elite force of humans ever once do anything that was beneficial?

Also, in the first shown incident, over in China, I kinda felt stupid because I couldn’t follow who the bad guys were and who the good guys were (yeah yeah, I knew the huge dude was bad, but then another baddy popped in there too).  Maybe I’m just getting too old to follow such fast moving action — or maybe it’s because I sat in the side seats and didn’t have a head on view.

Also, ol’ boy has been waiting for 19,000 years to devour our sun.  Why didn’t he just fly to another star and devour it?  Our sun is fairly small in comparison to most stars — why was he so hell bent on ours?

And if ol’ boy built this machine to devour our sun, then presumably he built the key for it too.  So when the other fools took it from him, why didn’t he just build another one?  Or modify the machine to not need a key?

And are we to believe that Optimus Prime can defeat ol’ boy when 6 or 7 other Primes fighting together couldn’t?  And what is the magic of “Only a Prime can defeat me?”  Really?  I didn’t see any magical power coming from Optimus that made it possible to defeat him.  It kind of looked like that rail gun could have done it.

I think my cheap-bone really paid off this time. A few months ago, it came time to renew our home warranty for $500. Last year we used the warranty once to have the A/C recharged, which apparently is a recurring problem every since the house was built. The previous owners said that the repair people can never find a leak, and sure enough last year they couldn’t find the leak either. So, pretty much we were resigned to pay $60 for a service call every year, and $500 for the warranty.

But, this year I decided that a service call would probably be cheaper (even if we were paying full price for it) than the warranty plus deductible.  Also, by the time something major goes out in our fairly new house, we would probably have saved that much money along the way.

Well, that paid off big time today.  The A/C man came out, and within a couple of minutes he found the leak and repaired it.  And where the warranty company told us “you should have your A/C serviced twice a year” — this guy told us “you should never have to have us out here.”  My theory is that the people that the warranty company have service their claims have no vested interest in finding the root of the problem.  If they get year-after-year repeat business, then that is an assured cash flow.  But the A/C guys I hire on my own know that I can choose anyone to come work on my house…and they will do the best job possible to ensure I use them for all the future work.

In conclusion, I would never recommend carrying a home warranty.  Most families should probably save up $2,000 or so for emergencies anyways.  If you have a $5,000 credit card, you should have all your bases covered.  By the way, to permanently fix our A/C problem, the bill was only $175.

Chief came over this weekend and helped me finish the trailer. The R/C thing is currently broken though. The battery came disconnected, then touched the terminal again and shorted out one of the boards. I have the replacement part on order, and will fix it and put it together again by next weekend.

I drop the mess out of this thing Saturday. I drove it about a mile away from my house in all. The front left wheel is completely shredded now…so I took it off, and move the right wheel to the center. It rides a lot better like that.