Larry and Keith put on their kneepads yesterday and continued the evaluation of the foundation piers. It appears there will be about 200 that need to be replaced. In some ways I feel vindicated for all the times in recent years that I tried to get the board to take a look at our foundation, but on the other hand it is too bad that this will be so expensive. Keith is still taking bids. My best guess is that we will be between $125K and $150K. I had a call today from a realtor trying to sell 404. She said the deed restriction is making it so difficult to find a low income buyer who can afford large assessments as this may be. We had money left over from our foundation lawsuit settlement in the early '90s, but a recent board absorbed that into the general operating account.
Super Bowl viewing here at Kontiki was a disaster. In Corpus, Time Warner gave away 80,000 sets of rabbit ears so their viewers could watch the game. Here in Rockport rabbit ears will not do the trick. Like me, many others just thought we would stream it live on our computers. There was not nearly enough bandwidth to go around. I was getting about half the speed of a dialup connection. We could watch about 15 seconds of game and then wait about 45 seconds for buffering. I called Kevin, but he said the problem was not in his network, but in the Time Warner wireless internet lines serving the area. As soon as the game was over service returned to normal.