Wednesday, November 07, 2012

End of the Republic

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. "
- Benjamin Franklin

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville


$16 Trillon and Counting.
4 more years?

Are we on this Path?

Maria Rowen said....

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
—AYN RAND... Don't lose heart-Sarah Palin



Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Don't OverReact

Here's the thing, Peeps.
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Don't Overreact.
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If Romney wins, every day won't be the Balls.
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And if Obama wins, every day won't Suck.
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We will cope either way, and in the end, your happiness and well being is entirely up to you.
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God Bless America.

Tuna Lips said....

I agree. It taint likes either one can uninvent corn likker and road house hookers. Stays the course, come what may.



Monday, November 05, 2012

Voting Advice

It was quite a busy and aggravating day for me Peeps, as I fielded emails and voicemails in a steady neurotic stream of requests asking me who to vote for.
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Naturally, I gave each and every request a nurturing, patient, and concerned response.
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Something like....."What are you asking me for, NumbNuts?  Don't you have a shred of freaking sense in your freaking vacant void of a cranium?"
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It's important to maintain the self esteem of people who can't figure out how many sheets of paper to wipe their shitty asses with.
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I'm there for you Peeps.  Lean on me.
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But for those of you who still can't figure out this choosing a candidate stuff, here is my election eve advice.    If you think Obama will pay your mortgage, keep you on the payroll, issue you foodstamps, pay for your contraceptives, abort your fetuses... all the while honing his golf game and blaming George Bush for every failure he confronts.....then Obama is your choice for President.  
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And if you think that Elizabeth Warren is a victimized Cherokee Indian, who lives in a $1.7Mil. Victorian mansion in Cambridge that she terms a fixerupper, and who represents large corporations then tries to tell the herd of sheep out there that she was really working for the people who opposed her clients.... then color in the little slot next to Elizabeth Warren's name for your next US Senator.
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I've already told you that I'm voting for Romney and Brown.  Not that they are exceedingly charismatic, but I'm betting that they are smart enough to develop policies that won't screw with me and mine, and won't talk down to me and lay a line of constant bullshit.  In the end, they'll cost me the least amount of money, so they have my vote.

Polls and Polarization

The Polls have the Presidential Election locked in a dead heat.  But I have to believe they are basically flawed.  I'm an Independent and nobody has called me, and I wonder if there are a lot more like me.   Independents are the majority political designation here in primarily Democratic Massachusetts.
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The polls were seriously off when Senator Scott Brown defeated Attorney General Martha Coakley last time and it seems like polling institutions like the Boston Globe skewers their questioning to meet the result that they desire rather than the actual political situation.
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Who would vote for someone just because the polls puts that candidate in the lead?    I doubt that the general electorate is that stupid.  If so, skewering the polls is a self defeating proposition, because  if your candidate leads by so much, why bother going to vote?
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If the election is really in a dead heat, then close to 50% of you will be unhappy with the result.  That's why Obama can't bask in the glory of socializing healthcare with his Obamacare Law.  Even though he rammed it through with the votes, the country is too polarized to accept its implementation.
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In a polarized situation, the victor will not be sucessful unless he can bring the country together... not jam an agenda down on the other 50%.   Obama has said voting is the best revenge.   That mentality insures his ultimate downfall, whether he wins the election or not.


Keep in mind that 17 of the last 19 Presdential elections can be determined by the Washington Redskins game the Sunday prior to the election.
If the Skins win, the Incumbent triumphs. If the skins lose the contender will get in.
Final Score - Panthers 21 - Redskins 13.
Go Mitt Go..

Saturday, November 03, 2012

Bloomberg Blunder

Mayor Bloomberg cancelling the New York Marathon was a real kick in the ass.   I was so ready to exact revenge on those Skinny Africans that win all the marathons these days.   This year was my year.... at the peak of my conditioning, I was poised to take the pace out fast and finish strong, with those Kenyans and Ugandans left to eat my dust.
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Thanks a lot Mayor.  Just because the subways fill up with water and Staten Island gets flattened, you get all huffy and cancel the one chance I had to make white fat guys proud.
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I wish you were running for Prez, so I could dis the hell out of you... Mr. "I'm endorsing Obama because he is the one man who can save the Polar Bears."  Go back to BillionaireVille and pay your share of taxes, you long distance running spoil sport!!
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I'll never forgive Bloomberg for this.

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Vomit and Voting

Peeps....
Won't it be nice when this election is over next Tuesday?  I am really starting to feel nauseous.
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I truly feel that I've heard all of the Warren sound bites.  Don't need to see one more poor Sap say  "She's a Fighta.  She's fa us."  Where do you find these people Liz?  They don't look like they are Cherokees like you.
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Even the Brown ads are starting to get under my skin.   I know you are Independent and are for the Women and stuff like that... and starting to get good and sick of hearing it.
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In the end, my litmus test is "Who has treated me the most like an idiotic, mind-phucked moron who can't see through the bullshit that you are trying to stuff up my orifices."
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Once I determine that, then I vote for the other guy.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Gearing Up the Gunning Dory

I have the itch to get moving on the Marblehead Gunning dory.  Ryan took a video of one riding out Hurricane Sandy in Marblehead Harbor, and it skipped over the waves without any effort.   The Dory style is reputed to be extremely seaworthy, and the video validated that for me.  
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The below photo was found on the web some time ago and ilustrates the type of fit out that I've been thinking of.  I would fill the space under the decks at the bow and stern with polyurethane expanding foam to make the craft unsinkable.  You could stand at the bow or the stern and cast a fly very nicely.
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And I also plan to install a motor well in the back quarter of the boat where a 10HP Honda Fourstroke would be added.
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Naturally we will fit this out to row, but it would be nice to motor this thing close into the rocks to cast for stripers.  Or get some speed to chase a blitz.
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All of the interior fit out will have to be with marine grade, olkume plywood which is expensive, but both light and water resistant.  Boulter Plywood in Somerville is a good local suppler.
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Unlike traditional Marblehead Gunning Dories which were planked and hard chined, I plan on easing the curves on the frames and planking with 1/4" cedar strips sheathed in fiber glass cloth inside and out, then clear epoxy coated.
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The frames and bottom have been done for a few years now and are stored in the Nanepashemet Telecom warehouse in Peabody.    Maybe I'll start spending a little more time at the warehouse.

Speaking' of sheaths, be sure to wrap yer rascal, there's danger at every turn.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Update

Lots of wind and rain, the trees are swaying and Ryan sent us a video of some waves in Marblehead Harbor.  Our lights flickered twice and I had to shut down the main computer system.
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Outside of that, it doesn't feel exactly like a state of emergency.  I guess if windows were being smashed in, doors unfastened, downed electrical wires were whipping around sparking and hissing, and the shingles were being ripped off of the roof, it would seem a bit worse.
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But none of that shit is happening.... at least around my neighborhood.  What really would be an emergency is if my Romney and Scott signs blew off the front lawn... but they're holding up pretty well for now.
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Reporters are standing in puddles in Scituate and Revere, interviewing anyone who wanders close by.... there are 10,000 beds available in security shelters, with a half dozen occupied.
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I pray to God that we make it through this.


Stop by TL's for a good seshun between fightin' this gale. Take a rest, "have a blow" as they says on Friday Night Lights.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Bracing for the Storm

Politicians and the news media love hurricanes.  It makes people pay attention to them and they are happy to comply with  extensive exxageration.
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I'm sure that Hurricane Sandy will impact some people.  But, Gov. Deval Patrick, as he has been prone to do in the past, has already declared a state of emergency two days before the first cloud has showed up. 
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Plus, this gives politicians like Patrick and Mayor Mennino, the chance to advise us to do stuff that we never would have thought of by ourself, such as stockpile batteries and take care of our pets.   If  I didn't hear this for real, I wouldn't have included it in this pathetic post.
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I was in the Blizzard of 78,  the Perfect Storm of 1991 and El Nino while I was in California in in 97-98 and saw plenty of damage.  But the disasters that these politicians make proclamations of.... always seem to come up short.  Even those storms seemed to actually impact a very small amount of people.
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Lots of snow, wind or rain, some high tides and flooding, but quite a bit short of Armageddon.
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So we'll batten down the hatches and live though another of Governor Deval's State of Emergency storms.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Window 8 Evolution

Now that Windows 8 is here, we will all be working on IPad style Tablets  within the next two or three years.
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That is .... if the Mayans are wrong about things regarding the world ending before Christmas.
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I'm betting against the Central Americans on this one, and plan to be happily doing my work on a tablet this time in the next two years.
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Before this MOAM retires, I will bet you that we will be computing on 3D Hologram machines... then after that , who knows.

Tuna Lips
  1. I aims ta digitize me a fire team of virtual hookers. PayPal laundries my money, no one is the wiser.
  2. Hard rain is ginna fall, stop by TL's Place for some per-storm stickin up on what ye needs.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Fifty-Fifty

Today I was on Facebook taking a break from the Nanepashemet Telecom salt mines, when this guy that I don't know decided to tell me how bad Scott Brown is......   Not how good Elizabeth Warren is.
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So I told the goober to vote for Warren and it she wins, then people like him deserve her.  
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I have no patience with anyone who supports the phoney Indian for any reason.
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Stupid people have a right to live too.... and this guy was exercising his right.
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Sometimes it's hard to be tolerant, but this country is split right down the middle........ 50-50 for the right or the left.  And it's not going to change, so we have to learn to put up with goofy bastards.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Not My American Dream

 Peeps -
You already know that I've given the Nanepashemet Nod to Mitt Romney for President.
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And I've tried to tell you why.
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But if a picture says a thousand words, then here's 2000 words why I just don't have the stomach for Barack Obama.
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I don't want my President to prostrate himself to anybody else.... for any freaking reason.
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He may feel that the United States has a tainted history.... and he may have some valid points.
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Only that was yesterday, and pandering to other's culture, which is a lot more stained than ours, is demeaning to every American.   There is no culture that has not sinned or is superior to ours, and yet he lowers himself.
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I want my President to stand up straight.  Obama may be the one bowing, but it will be us who get our Asses Kicked.
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Obama's American Dream is not Mine.


MOAM Mastery

Those of you fortunate/hapless Peeps who find yourself in the Inner Circle of the Mountain of a Man know that I faced the greatest zoning challenge to date last night in New Haven County.
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Many have tried and failed, but your MOAM came home with a unanimous vote in the affirmative after a masterful presentation complete with plans mounted on foamboard.
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I know that some of you are tired of the way that I tout my mastery of the zoning permit science, but I actually never get tired of it.  Last night though, even I was amazed.  Didn't expect to blast a four bagger.  I would have been happy with a continuance.  But I must have wowed the hell out of those zoning commissioners with my expert testimony.
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Like Ali said, "If you can do it, it ain't boasting."
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The good part about winning in a tough jurisdiction is that the adrenalin keeps you alert for the three hour drive home.
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And, BTW.... don't even think about getting into the Inner Circle.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Glue Requirement

BenditPVC. 
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Remember when I told you Peeps about how I bought this gadget to help us bend PVC electical conduit for the Hartford job about a year ago?
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Course you do.
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Well I put this baby to good use yesterday creating a frame for a weather shield on the Herreshoff Columbia Tender.
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After about ten minutes of heating, a 7/8" piece of PVC become as pliable as spaghetti in a colander.  It stiffens up soon to a rigid shape in whatever custom orientation you need.
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Now I have to find a good glue to join blue plastic tarp to the PVC which will create the final shield.   I thought that the PVC glue would do the trick, but it didn't work. 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Latest Poll

 
Everyday the news story is who is ahead on the polls.  And these surveys are notoriously wrong.  Scott Brown showed that we he won against Martha Coakley for the "Kennedy Senate Seat".  In no way could the lefty Media allow us to believe that a Republican was in the lead to secure that family heirloom.
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And the news media shamelessly has a different poll result every day.
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Most of you know that I have given the Nanepashemet Nod to Romney and Brown.   That should be enough ignore these flawed polls.
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The outcomes have been determined in the Akashic Records of Time.


Friday, October 19, 2012

Selling Sex

Time to sound in on this Zumba prostitution scandal up in Kennebunk.
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I'm not really sure why prostitution is illegal.  It's not like drug dealing or anything, and seems like a victimless crime.   Especially now, when you can basically eliminate the health issues if you take appropriate precautions.
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Sure families can get screwed up if some members are cheating on spouses, but you don't need Hookers to do that.  If you cheat on your husband or wife, that basically makes you a scumbag, but being a scumbag isn't illegal.
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So I don't see what the big deal is.
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Seems to have some Puritannical overtones that are outmoded, and now exposing the perpetrators seems to be replete with "holier than thou" voyeurism.
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Sex gets sold by lots of people in lots of situations.  But if money passes, they can lock you up.  Doesn't seem right.

I Swear

I was the subject of a irate email yesterday stating that this Blog contains too many swears and cuss words.
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WTF!
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Here's the deal Peeps.   I don't give a shit if any of you ever read this thing, so why the hell should I care if any of you are offended?
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That said, I probably should cut down on the phucking swearing.  Sometimes it's fun to add a little color to a description, but swearing gets bad when you start to use it instead of a well thought out phrase.
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So KMA.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Historic Evening

It was another night for the history books at Nanepashemet Telecom tonight as the Mountain of a Man was issued seven zoning approvals at a well attended, Essex County municipal public board of appeals hearing.
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That's Right.... You heard it correctly... SEVEN. 
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Each one issued individually with five unanimous approval votes.
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There's good... and then there's Mountain of a Man, Holy Shit, Phucking A... Good.
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Sometimes I think I'd do this for nothing.   But it's nicer to get paid doing it.
And tonight was a payday.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Stepping Out

Peeps...
As some of you know, I am on a Mission from God to lose weight for Katelyn's wedding eleven months from now.
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So Far, I've been hitting the machines at the YMCA with some regularity, and my pants definitely feel a little looser.
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But I've kept away from getting on the scale and weighing myself until this morning.
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When I finally got around to stepping on the digital scale, the weight reading was..... OM Freaking G!!!!
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Let's just say that I can't imagine peeling off all those lbs.  We'll have to reduce every body part.
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As Lao Tzu said, "A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles begins with a Single Step."
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This will take quite a few steps.
A fitting challenge for a Mountain of a Man.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Nanepashemet Fact Checking

Mike Rockett posted this photo on Facebook yesterday and it is a bit troublesome.
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Someone back in the 1930's obviously missed the mark by calling Sachem Nanepashemet a Nipmuc.
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He was the Sachem of the Naumkeag Band of the Massachusetts tribe that actually lived  in Marblehead where this sign is set.   Or to be more accurate, this was a primary village location.  The Indians would seasonally migrate to other locations within their region and Nanepashemet died in a fortress that he built in Medford.
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He ruled the region from the Charles River in Boston to the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth and north to Indians in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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The Nipmucs were allies of Nanepashemet and resided in Central Mass around Worcester and Grafton.  Nanepashemet sent his wife and children to live with the Nipmucs when he was under attack by the Tarratines/Micmac of the upper Maine Coast and Nova Scotia.   The Tarratines were bent on revenge to Nanepashemet because he had aided the Penobscots in Southern Maine who were at war with the Tarratines.  All the while his people were being ravaged by smallpox that they had been exposed to by European fisherman who were plying these shores before the Pilgrims landed in 1620.
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Nanepashemet's family escaped the disease because he had relocated them to live with the Nipmuc's and he was not affected because he was isolated in his war fortress in Medford (located behind the present site of Medford High School).
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The fort was eventually breached by the Tarratines in 1619 and the great Sachem, Nanepashemet, known as New Moon to his people because of his proclivity to take walks at night,  was killed.
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Sucks to be the Chief, I guess.
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But his wife, known only as Squaw Sachem ruled the remants of his territory along with his three sons until 1669 when she was felled by a stroke.  She remarried a chief from the Musketaquids of Concord, but was the uncontested ruler of her people until her death.  There is a mural depicting her in the Winchester Town Hall and she is reported to be buried somewhere in present day Winchester.
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Wouldn't you think that the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission would have checked the facts before they cast this metal commemorative sign?  I wonder if Liz Warren was on that Commission?

Deck Gaze Demand

Apparently, Tommy O, former POTY, was seen up at the Gerry 5 Club last Friday night flashing photos of his new Nanepashemet Deck.
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As long as that was all he was flashing, then no harm, no foul.
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Can't blame Tommy though.  We went over to Home Depot yesterday to get the Lattice stock which will trim out the below deck area and are ready to call for a final code inspection to close this project out.  The deck looks the Balls.
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Plus the good part is that the rate of trespassers entering his property to gaze at this exhibit of Nanepashemet deck perfection has gotten down to acceptable levels.  You can't really stop people from trying.... it's like telling Muslims to stay out of Mecca.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Creepy Reality

Not for nothing, but if you represent a big Insurance Company like Travelers in a Lawsuit, you are not working for the people that are suing the Travelers Insurance Company.  D'uh  Really?
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Then Professor Pow Wow Warren herds up some people who are stupid enough to believe that she went to the Supreme Court to represent them, and gets them to say condemning things about Senator Scott Brown.
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Some of us are stupid, and some of us are "BAAA BAAA shear off my wool" really freaking sheep-style stupid.
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Peeps....
When the Nanepashemet Revolution comes, and you rise up to proclaim me as  Emperor of the United States and its Allies, and Territories, I will make such sheep herding efforts as illegal and subject to the supreme punishment of making perps like Liz continuously watch reruns of Joe Biden debates until they either puke or plead for mercy.
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Plus, I will make the charges retroactive to comdemn Liz.  That's how much I abhore this dishonesty.
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Direct from the MOAM to Liz....

"Professor, if you want to be a US Senator, go for it, but don't go creating some phoney Indian, middle class fighter personality and claiming that you are it.  Be yourself, Pro.....  A carpet bagger Cantabridgian wannabee, who lied to Harvard by saying you are a non-white minority, and makes a household income of 3/4 of a Million Bucks from that institute of Uppity Moonbats then complains about the cost of higher education.... who represents major corporations as a lawyer without a license, and  is in lockstep with our Indonesian POTUS."
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Peeps... here is the creepy reality.   There are a host of people in Massachusetts who eat a heaping helpful of Warren Bullshit and support her dishing out more.
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That is freaking Hallowneen season creepy.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Political Overeating

I'm getting sick of politics.
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Grown adults twisting the facts, or making outright misrepresentations and lies, in an effort to garner votes from an electorate that they are trying to herd and manipulate.
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Some are worse than others.  Some are downright dispicable the way they seem to talk down to us and treat us like imbeciles who can't see through the Bullshit they send our way.
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That said, I'm still going to watch the Vice Presidential debate tonight.
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It's kind of like continuing to eat when you are not hungry anymore.
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Not Good.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Pulling Out the Card

With less than a month to go in the Presidential Election, Romney is on the offensive, gaining ground, and the Lefties are screaming foul.   If what he says makes sense, he must be lying according to these pundits of leftest propaganda.
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The gloves will be coming off as Romney gets depicted as a despicable human being, incapable of the truth......   a Lying, Racist, Low Life Mormon.  You watch how this plays out.
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The Dems have to endure a performance by the Vice President, Joe Biden, who could douse their cause with gasoline and light it up with one of his classic, facts be damned gaffes.
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What's your favorite Biden Gaffe?
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Mine is the classic below...
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008 (Watch video clip)
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I love the way Biden just reaches reaches deep and pulls shit right out of his ass to use as facts.  This is the Vice President of the United States, a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world.  But then again, we have a community organizer who currently has that job, so how bad could Biden be.
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It will be quite remarkable if our unstable second in command doesn't plunge the Dems a little further down in the polls before BO has to face another debate without teleprompter soon.
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I almost feel bad for those unbiased folks over at MSNBC.  They are so close to popping  a vein.  And Peeps ..... they will be rolling out the race card big time pretty soon.  This is coming or I'm not a Rough, Tough, Hard to Bluff, and Damn Good Lookin' Mountain of a Man.
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You heard it here first on the Nanepashemet Blog.

Sunday, October 07, 2012

POTW Week 40

For the 4th day in a row, I've hit the gym for a rigorous workout on the aerobic  and weight machines.  Peeps, you may think the Mountain of a Man is a pinnacle of fitness, but you would be wrong.  Even I have to tone up from time to time in order to maintain peak MOAM condition.
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ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 40th Week of 2012

Kerry D'Orio
Peter Lojko
Fletcher Boyle
Will Murray
Harvey Rowe
Mitt Romney
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Plus now I can chow down with impunity and watch the Patriots take on Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.

New Menu Item

Peeps....
I know that many of you think that my culinary skill is limited to Buffalo Wings, Macaroni and Cheese, and White Trash Balls.
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Fair enough.
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I do prepare these delicacies at a professional grade level... but today I will be broadening my horizons for the Patriots Game Dinner with Chicken Marsala over Penne.
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Sometimes, being a Mountain of a Man means that you have to expand the menu.
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Man cannot live on White Trash Balls alone.

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Helpless Degradation

Yes Peeps, I did get in the workout at the Y this morning ... despite a bit of irritation.
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There are a lot of pretty women working out there, but when I work out, rest assured that it is all business.   But as I was pedaling away on the elliptical trainer, I could sense the women staring at me... especially at my ass in motion.
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Pretty annoying being eyed like a piece of meat.   Downright degrading.
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And then when I would whip around and check who was starring, they would immediately avert their gaze in a vague attempt to act as if they were not fixated on my sweaty backside.
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Naturally, I depend on my Mountain of a Man capabilities to maintain a civil decor in this situation.
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I will try not to let this degradation inhibit my fitness activities in the future.  They really can't help themselves.

Saturday Plan

More work this weekend, processing orders at sizzling hot Nanepashemet Telecom.  I don't mind, but it's not like my cash position will be improving with daughter Kate's wedding plans.
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Not complaining.  She's the best daughter in the world and my hope is that she and Brady will supply me with Depends and other staples as I pass through my Golden Years not so long from now.
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So this wedding is really an investment in the future.
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But back to this weekend... I plan to take a break from the Nanepashemet work at some point and get in an intensive workout at the YMCA.  They have some healthy looking staff there who appear to be trained in the use of a defibrillator, so I'm really going to let it rip.   Some cardio machine for 45 minutes, then upper body weight work, then I will try to remember how to shoot a basketball for a cool down.
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God willing, that defibrillator will stay attached to the wall during my stay.
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High tide is at 4:00PM and at some point, I have to get to the WhaleEye and de-boat all of the boat beers, beverages and that bottle of Lagavulin that is doing me no good floating in Salem Harbor.
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We have important plans for this evening too, which I'm not going to tell you about.
But what the hell are you reading this for????  Get your own freaking Saturday Plans.

Friday, October 05, 2012

Snickering Indonesians

Before dinner tonight at the Dolphin Yacht Club with the Johnsons, we went over to Ryan's apartment where we met up with Brendt and Kerry (POTY) D'Orio.
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Seems that Kerry has ordered some Yoga Pants from the Nanepashemet Clothing line and found them a little snug.
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Damn those Indonesians!!!!!  I put some real American money into their apparel sweat shops, and this is the thanks I get.
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I specifically told those SOB's to go generous with the threads and make these pants a little easier on the derrierre.
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But these obstinate bastards get a huge kick out of the thought of American Women jamming their asses into pants that are just too damn tight.
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Wouldn't you be pissed if you were me????
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I swear to the Baby Jesus, if I have to fly to Jakarta, I will get these pants right. 
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If Kerry thought they were cool, millions will follow and I can't afford a bunch of snickering Indonesians to cut into this profit margin.

Mitt has Momentum

Turns out that Mitt Romney so trounced President Obama in the debate, that his supporters can only say that Romney was "lying".
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Let me see if I understand this position.
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You get up and speak in front of 50 million people and think that you can get your points across by lies..... with the Liberal Mainstream Media fact checking every thing you say.
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@Libs, Lefties and Phonies.... I don't think so.
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And to our esteemed ex-VP Al Gore (inventor of the Internet), who said that Obama was affected by the altitude (no Joke).... I must retort.  Wasn't Mitt at the same altitude????
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When are people going to see Gore as the crazy Moonbat that he is?
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Romney slammed Obama with details and facts in a manner that suggests that he obviously commands the subject and is the most qualified candidate.
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If I were Obama, I would cancel the next two debates and keep running those stupid ads about how Romney doesn't care about half of the population and only wants to help Wall Street and Millionaires.  BO's only chance is if people ignore the facts and believe this bullshit.
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Mitt has Momentum.  31 days to go.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Liberal Ass Whupping

I didn't get to see the Presidential Debate tonight, but I listened to it as I drove the 3hr. drive back from a New Haven County Zoning Hearing (where I emerged victorious in standard MOAM style).
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From what I heard though, Mitt kicked Barach's lefty liberal ass with his facts, logic and style.
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Course, I make this judgement from a thoroughly unbiased, independent and non-judgemental standpoint... a stance I learned by watching Rachel MadDog Madow on  MSNBC.
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I'm no psychic, but I have had a vision of George Democratontopofus declaring BO as the victor on ABC Good Morning America tomorrow.   Next thing you know, I'll be talking to dead people.
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I kaint define sodermy, but I knows it when I sees it. Barry needed a napkin after that seshun.
at 8:43 PM

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Debate Outcome

Peeps...
Haven't I told you how out straight we are at Nanepashemet Telecom?  Working tireless for hours on end to fulfill the 4th quarter push?  Then why were so many of you constantly pestering me today... asking my opinion on who won the Brown v. Warren debate????
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I don't have time to explain the obvious to you time after time, all day long.
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It is my fervent hope that some of you can be weaned from this Blog someday and actually form your own feeble yet pathetic opinions.... and not lean on me for continual  insight into every political aspect of this exciting Senatorial contest.
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And don't be baiting me with questions like whether it still bothers me that Warren claims she is a Native American (pc for Indian) and that her grandparents forced her mother and father to elope because of their hatred for the Red Man.  Liz should be credited for distancing herself from these racist relatives.
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By all things Nanepashemet, Native Americans are inspirational to me, but I regret to say that they seem to lose their cache by the time that the blood is diluted to the 1/32 level that Warren claims to carry around.
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I can't say who won the debate, but I can say that Elizabeth Warren is a liar, and liar's turn into losers.   Scratch that.... Scott kicked her lying ass.

Monday, October 01, 2012

Liberal Feline Bureaucrats

We've had cats all of our married adult life.... from Mingo who we got from a farm in Hadley, MA a month into our marriage, to Roenick pictured below in the driveway, who used to follow us to the neighbors houses up and down Beverly Ave. and wait for us outside to walk us home, all of our cats were healthy, happy and spent a lot of time outdoors.
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It is my considered opinion as an experienced and seasoned Feline observer that to keep a cat imprisoned in a house is cruel punishment and against the natural order of things.   Over the years, one cat got hit by a car, one was poisoned accidentally by the next door neighbor, one went away for two weeks only to crawl home with feline leukemia and die within hours, and a number saw their end at the Marblehead Veterinarian's Office after a full feline complement of years.
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Owning a cat is a pain in the ass, because you end up caring for them as much as a kid, and then you outlive them in 15 years or so.
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So when the Grandkids wanted us to get a kitten, Joanne and I headed over to the Marblehead animal shelter on Village St.  to adopt.   They were charging $180 bucks, but I figured that I was there so that was the deal.
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Then we had to fill out an application, and they wanted to check our references.  Then, they asked if the cat would be let outdoors, because they wouldn't allow any cat to be adopted that was subject to coyotes or cars on the street.  In other words. they are in control of these poor indigent felines, and they know best.
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I was polite though, as I sensed a certain "save the whales" essence starting to permeate the room.  We exited and I told Joanne that we wouldn't be supporting their little kitty fiefdom with a purchase and would find a cat elsewhere.
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Felt a little bad because I did like some of the cats and seemed to make a connection with one of them.
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Then last night, I get a call for my "interview to adopt".
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When I explained to the nice lady who seemed to know best all things feline that I felt that keeping a cat indoors was cruel, the conversation veered off quickly with a mutual declaration that "we have different philosophies."
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Indeed we do, and I bet cats are not the extent of it.
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If she doesn't have an Elizabeth Warren sign outside of her cat filled house, I'll be shocked.


Our basset hound is from the Salem shelter. They pull the same stuff but once you put down $250 for the free shelter dog that no one else wants well they become convinced that you understand the rules and will follow them. True Americans.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Weekend Work and French

I don't like to work on the weekends... Business style work I mean.   The weekends are for diversion, like fishing or building Tommy O's deck.  But this weekend, I had to devote extensively to Nanepashemet Telecom.  The orders are piling in, which normally happens in the 4th quarter of the corporate world and we have to rise to meet the challenge.  Which we will... MOAM style of course.
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I did sneak a couple of peeks at the Patriots game and also visited Ryan in his new apartment.   And got in some good firearms talk with Brendt D'Orio since that seems to be the topic de jour.   (that's French for topic of the day.)

Friday, September 28, 2012

Red Squirrels and Dead Squirrels

Got a ton of response from you Peeps about which new piece I should purchase to add to my obsolete firearms collection that my Grandfather handed down to me.
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When I think of how my Grandfather used to sleep with a loaded pistol under his pillow, and thought nothing of leaving me as a ten year old kid out on the side porch up in his Maine cabin with a .22 calibre rifle telling me to "shoot the phucking red squirrels" that he hated so much.... it's hard to believe that I turned out as such a  well rounded, overall nice person.
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Grampa backed me off of this squirrel duty after I put a round through his shed and splintered a rug on his wooden ladder.... plus I missed the phucking squirrel.
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I know that this is starting to sound like a Tuna Lips vignette, but it really happened.
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Anyway.... I had no idea there were so many Glock and Smith & Wesson afficionados out there.  I was originally set on a Glock 19 or 23.  Now I'm leaning heavily on the Smith & Wesson 38 or 380.
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Thanks for all of your comments and suggestions, but I'm more confused than ever.
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Maybe I'll just keep cleaning Gramps old collection.


If you're truly interested in plinking squirrels, I'd suggest the Barrett .50 caliber. It's the only thing I use AND it quite effectively gets rid of them. It also gets rid of any loose hanging branches as well.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Permit Breakthroughs

Lately Peeps... Nanepashement Telecom has taken the science of Zoning permitting to new levels.
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We have been pulling massive amounts of permits using a range of new and exciting techniques.
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Naturally, I can't disclose these techniques in that they are trade secrets and company confidential, but rest assured that they are wicked effective... allowing us to pull multiple permits in one visit and completely manipulating the outcomes of zoning hearings.
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We may have to seek the services a patent attorney soon.

Glock v. S&W

The handguns and hunting rifles that my grandfather left for me are cool, but are starting to seem really old and dated.   I take one or two of them to the firing range every couple of months, but they are really antiques and I thought that I might want to impress the guys at the gun club with a new composite Glock 23.
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But a close friend of mine, and the guy at the Fireams store today talked me out of the Glock and pointed to good old Smith and Wesson as the direction that I should head in for the use intended.
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Plus Smith and Wesson is manufactured in Springfield, MA, while Glock is an Austrian company.   So I'll be zeroing in on an S&W model to update the family arsenal, and doing my part to help abate the United States trade imbalance.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Racist Grandparents

I've been trying to get over my obsession with US Senate Candidate, Liz Warren, and her claim to be a whopping 1/32 Cherokee Indian... without much luck.
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It's because she won't admit to the lie.  Now she says that her parents eloped because her paternal grandparents objected to her father marrying someone who was part Cherokee and part Delaware.
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What parts Liz????  The top geneologists in the country come up short and can't find a drop of your minority red blood corpuscles coursing on their 1/32nd path through your high income Harvard attorney frame.
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And what about the racist stock that you come from??? Now that you have disclosed your grandparents as anti-Native American.
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I have to admit, my hands are tired from scatching my head every time I see a Warren sign.  Who could ever buy her Bullshit?

Tuna Lips said

Great point. To explain herself she takes a big sh*t on her own. Kind of like Frank MCCourt making money off of telling how his mum had to prostitute herself to get by. It happens, we get it, but don't shame your own in public or speak of their failings in a casual manner to advance your life. They gave you that life.

Warren has loyalty to herself and the story she tells about herself, that is it.
 
Just heard her pathetic ad again this morning.  She ends it by saying that Scott Brown is attacking her family.   Quite a twist of logic.  She accuses her grandparents of racism, but when Brown challenges her obvious lie, he is guilty of attacking her family.   What the Hell do they teach those kids at Harvard anyway????

Just my Opinion - Polls.

ABC News and Bloomberg have polls out that show Romney falling behind President BO.
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What a shocker!  These polls seek to be the news rather than reflect the news.
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Remember the Brown polls when he was running against our beloved AG, Martha Coakley?   Seems the election results showed that the polls were wrong.... big time... as Brown pounded the smug heir to the Kennedy Senate seat.
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That is what I suspect is going on here.
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The only reason that Conservatives have prevailed against Democrats in two of the last three Presidential elections is that Americans are not stupid.  They can't be herded into the pens that the Liberal polls seek to create.
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Good Morning America is shamelessly reporting today how things are getting better in the Country and how Romney is dropping in the Polls.   You can't make this shit up.... excuse me?  ABC News makes it up all the time.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Warren Deserves Respect

Scott Brown Supporters today were shown in a disgusting video, taunting Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren with tomohawk chops and war whoops.
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What an insult to the Native American Indian Senate hopeful!
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Oh... I forgot... Warren is not really a Cherokee.  She just claimed to be when she applied for law professorships in Ivy League Schools, like Harvard.
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And when she was tenured for her teaching position, she did the moral thing by unchecking the affirmative action box.   And it didn't matter a bit that she didn't need to claim to be a minority anymore.... it was the right thing to do.
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Shame on Senator Brown for not controlling his supporters with their shameful display of disgust for Professor Warren.  He should clean his act up.
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Warren deserves Respect.  She's always been for the little guy... like securing a trust fund for employees that her client, the Travelers Ins. Co. was suing.  But... if she was working for the Travelers, why was she helping their opponents????    Then she represented another  big business, LTV Steel.   But I thought she was supposed to be for the little guys.
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This is so confusing.  Can you say "Horrendous Liar"?  Cause that's what it seems like, doesn't it?
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Hopefully some of my "Progressive" Friends can explain it for me.

 
But don't make fun of her Phoney Indian Heritage.  That's just not right.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Narcissist in Chief

I, for one, am not willing to criticize our President for choosing to hang out with Barbara Walters, Whoopie Goldberg, and David Letterman rather that meeting with  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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So what if Netanyahu has his finger on a nuclear trigger in the most volatile hotspot in the world.  Shouldn't he cater to Baba Wawa first?   And what if he were to delay an audience with the cheater but really funny Letterman?  Could he risk getting a cheeky remark from the Liberal wisecracker?
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Netanyahu should take his proper place in line.  Just keep his finger in his pocket and shut the phuck up about that stupid Iranian annihilation threat.   Geez... What a Freaking Nag!!!!  Wants to take up BO's time for that shit when he has to prep for Late Night with Dave?????
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 Go see the Canadian Prime Minister or something and don't be such a whiney girlyman.
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When you are the Chief Narcissist of the Free World, you have to pick your priorities carefully.
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Beyonce v. Benjamin?
You make the choice.
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Whoopie!
 
Tuna Lips Said.....
Say what yiz want, but Billy Clinton woulda had his hand on that comely lass Lizabeth thigh, stead of sitting next to them two beasts. Little known fact, I have done the lighting and soundboard on a couple movies. This set up in the picture, a whole hodge podge of women and a black guy, New York City, it's a story line ripe with potential. on Narcissist in Chief


 
OK..if you can pick out the one person here who knows how to sit like a man, you will win a free copy of Lizzie Warren's best selling Native American Cookbook... "Pow Wow Chow".
 
(Hint.... look at Goldberg.)
 
Tuna Lips said....
I think that Ben Franklin lookin' negress has a sausage betwixt her legs
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Nice to have TL Back.
 
 
 
 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Painted Perfectly

Waiting for the Pats Game to start at 8:30 PM tonight against the Baltimore Ravens.  I doubt if I'll last to the 4th Qtr due to the MOAM effort in painting ceilings at West Shore Drive today.
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The ceiling came out great with minimal mess.... largely due to the Wagner
PaintMate Plus 9 in. Manual-Trigger Paint Roller that I purchased yesterday at Home Depot.
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This little baby cost less than $25 bucks, worked like a charm and cut the time and effort in rolling out the ceiling in half after I finished cutting in the fixtures and the moulding with no mess whatsoever.
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You load up the storage tube directly from the paint can with no drips, then roll away with no trips to the paint tray.
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I had taken a piece of unused moulding from the kitchen cabinet repairto Home Depot, and their computer color scanning system nailed the ceiling paint cover to exactly match the cabinets.  And the quality and coverage of the paint was excellent.
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Painting has always been my least favorite renovation activity... primarily because of the mess involved.  But the success of this day may change things.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Precautions Perpetrating from Project Perfection

Tommy O's Deck is just about finished with a couple of punch list  items remaining.  It is a piece of art by all accounts.  It was my origninal intention to just create a home improvement for a close friend and former POTY.   I did not consciously initiate an attempt to build a project that would attract such media and industry attention.
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Sure the deck is well built and the design proportioned nicely.   I just didn't anticipate that it would be an example of Fung Shue perfection.  Too much hoopla over a wooden platform if you ask me.  All of the people trespassing on Tommy's property to catch a glimpse of the latest pristine Nanepashemet Deck has become a real nuisance.
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Plus it's time to start painting the interior of West Shore Drive.  That property is an unpolished gem and is destined to be a historic shrine as the  center of project management excellence professed by Nanepashemet Telecom.
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By late November, hundreds of you Peeps will be making the pilgrimage to the annual Night Before Thanksgiving Day Bash and your expectations for an ostentatious, yet tasteful and subdued setting cannot be denied.
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So tomorrow, the living room ceiling at West Shore gets a coat of paint.   I would hope that it is a one day job, but you can't rush perfection.

Nanepashemet Opinion Poll

All the poll results are so confusing.  Scott up by 5%,  75% of voters don't care if Warren eats succotash and venison in a teepee, Obama leads Romney by 8%... the day after Romney was up by 2%.
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Pretty unreliable.
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So I've decided to commission my own poll, the Nanepashemet Opinion Poll, in order to get to the truth about what people are thinking.
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The results have been astounding.... suitable for coverage from such unbiased institutions as ABC News and the Boston Globe.
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85% of the scientific sample polled by Nanepashemet thought that Elizabeth Warren did not look like an Indian.

67% felt that Obama had big ears.

72% reasoned that it was racist to think that Obama had big ears.

92% believed the Mitt Romney was a stiff.

55% felt that Michelle Obama would kick the shit out of anyone who said her husband had big ears.
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There you go.... the first of many Nanepashemet opinion polls..... absolutely as reliable as any of the other poser polls out there.
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George, leave me a voicemail if you need me to interview on your Good Morning America journalistic gem.

Friday, September 21, 2012

POTW Week 38

Mitt Romney disclosed his taxes today.   Seems he has averaged 20% over the last twenty years, and the total is in the multi-millions.  And this doesn't include the 10% tithe that he makes to his church.

Now I want to see what Obama has paid... not just the percentage.... but the total amount.   Who has contributed the most????
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And I want to see Obama's college transcripts.  What were his grades?  What did he study?  What financial aid did he receive?  The big rumor is that he registered as an Indonesian foreign aid student named Barry Soetoro.  Obama must disclose and quell this falsehood.  Right?
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We have a right to know.... don't we??????
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And in the meantime... where are Liz Warrens employment records?   How come she won't disclose?  What is she hiding?  A little ill begotten Affirmative Action perc maybe?

Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 38th Week of 2012


Elizabeth Warren
Barry Soetoro
Wendy Heller
Cindy Bencal
Liz Kelleher
Maria Rowen

The game is over now that Romney has disclosed and called their bluff.   Now we want to see from the critical Dems.
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Gotta Love Politics.
It is scientific proof that we never grow up.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Planning the Year

Not for Nothing, but... I was just discussing with Joanne that if I lost 1 lb per week every week for the next year, I would lose over 50 lbs. It seemed like a good sign when she didn't roll her eyes and actually listened.
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But, when you look at it that way, it doesn't seem unattainable at all. I mean, calculate the calories that you can eat every day in order to lose 1 lb per week. In my case, that is 2,237 calories.
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Keep track of the calories with some food program on your computer or IPOD that you eat every day, burn 600+/- calories on the Cybex or the treadmill, and after one year.....you will be the rough, tough, hard to bluff, mountain of a man that is your true destiny.
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It almost seems too easy. Even now, I'm holding out on that second glass of Scotch.
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I can hardly wait until next year, when I give my daughter Katelyn away.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sex Changes and Brain Transplants

A lot of controversy is swirling up here in New England lately about the convicted murderer who was granted sex change at taxpayer expense by the Federal Judge in Boston.
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I basically have no problem with this.... as long as the Judge gets a brain transplant at the same time.  We could then examine his brain to see what makes a Moron like that tick.
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BTW, the Judge also allowed the murderer/he/she to have his/her legal bills paid by you and me.
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Peeps... you couldn't make this shit up.  Nobody would believe you.

No Knock on New Haven

After a quick appointment this morning with my collection attorney, Wendy Heller, I may be taking the F-150 down to New Haven County.
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Lots of stuff brewing down there,  We are filing to install some unobtrusive and rather attractive cell antennas on a former beer brewery building  and will be negotiating to install a slightly thickened  flagpole stuffed with  carrier antennas on another historic locus.
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Also have to start from scratch at a college site down there.
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Being a Mountain of a Man means that you have to go where the work is.... even if it takes a little dose of 5 Hour Energy for the late drive home.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Responsible or Entitled?

Politricks is just what it is.... the effort to herd people like sheep into a non-thinking mode and into the same pen.
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Romney said in May Republican Rally that 47% of the people in the US do not take responsibility for their lives and seek entitlement from the government.
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  Now the Dems want to make hay of that statement, but I highly doubt that either party will deny it.
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Romney is simply saying to his supporters that he cannot hope to reach the 47% of Americans that want to be taken care of and seek entitlements.
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Obama misses the point in his ad that merely highlighting this fact will not bring the other 53% into seeking the federal entitlements that he and the "progressives" espouse.
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The difference in the approaches is psychological rather than political.  If you are self assured and secure in your abilities to provide for yourself and your family, you will vote one way.    If you feel that you are at the mercy of others, and are insecure in your capabilities, you will seek the comfort of the government and vote the other way.
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In either case, you're not a bad person.... it's just your psychological makeup.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

POTW Week 37

This week, I tended to my annual golf obligation as Nanepashemet sponsored a hole at the New England Wireless Association Golf Tournament held at the Red Tail Country Club in Ayer, MA.
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Red Tail abuts Fort Devens, and it was weird to drive by the FreshAyer locus again after all of the trips in previous years.... a feeling of  "Did that really happen?"
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At least my golf game was consistent... on the bad side of sucky. 
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Bobby Brown tried to take the sting out by telling me that he had a bottle of the King for me in his car, but I had to leave the post tournament cook out early for a zoning hearing up on the North Shore and never even connected with the Lagavulin.  Gave Bobby the "Automatic" selection anyway, because I'll catch up with that bottle soon enough.
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Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 37th Week of 2012

Scott Brown
Frank Iacono
Brendt D' Orio
Bobby Brown (Automatic Lagavulin Rule)
Sharon Horne
Jeff Previte
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This morning, I'm bringing Grandson Will out for a row in Marblehead Harbor on the Herreshoff Columbia Tender.... which will be far more enjoyable that hitting a dimpled spheroid badly and ackwardly for 18 miserable holes.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Computer Time Warp

Yesterday, around 4:00PM, I came to the conclusion that the multitude of spread sheets that I have been using to track work for our largest customer were not going to cut it anymore.
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Too many cells to cover, too much cutting and pasting, and overall, a chore to quickly tie into the specific information that we seem to need on a moment's notice.
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Lucky for me that I'm a Mountain of a Man who happens to come equipped with an abundance of database programming ability dating back to the old dBase II days.
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So I dusted off my copy of Microsoft Access 2007, cranked it into the CD drive and within an hour, I was deeply into the programming mode.  So deeply in fact, that when I came up for air and checked the clock, it was 12:05AM.
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I am not shitting you... I had one of those time warps as I wrestled to get all of my project records organized slickly in an my Access database.  Not elegant by any means, but the time warp paid off.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Bearing Down on the Present

Peeps...
I've been experimenting lately about the here and now... about how if you really want your future to improve, you should focus doggedly on the present... not regret what might have happened in the past... or worry about what might happen in the future.
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So far this week, it has worked pretty well.  New customer possibilities have been pouring in, and bills are getting paid.
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Now that I'm entering the latter part of my middle aged Mountain of a Man life, I have a huge advantage over you younger peeps..... experience.   I no longer have to project how things should work out... most all of the shit that I encounter now, I've seen before.   And I know how these things end up.
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For years I worried about what might happen, and how to prevent it from happening.   And even though some really bad shit actually happened. we didn't fall into the great abyss.   Things happened to abate the worse, and we worked through the rest.
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Somebody told me years ago that things are never as bad as they seem, nor are they as good as they seem.  That's pretty much how things have worked out.  Excessive worrying never solved anything.
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Yesterday, Ryan told me that he handled his ordeal with a lot of false positives.   So be it.  It got us through, and now that's in the rear view mirror.
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And what is ahead is the present.
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That's where I hope to be for here on in.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A New Watercooler

I remember when I used to work in a big corporate setting.... how I would get bored sitting in my office and head out into the corridor for a bit of respite with whoever was at the water cooler at the time.
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That little ten minute sojourn would take the edge off of the tedium and then it would be back to emails and spreadsheets again.
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Working in a home office has it's benefits, but the trip for a glass of water offers no substantial relief from the tedium.  But now, I have a better alternative.
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Facebook has become the new watercooler for cyper types like myself who can work from home but miss the interraction with employees.   Between Facebook and Skype, you always have a chance to goof off and take a break from time to time.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Cool Morning Reflection

First cool morning in September - portending change in the seasons. 
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Change denotes renewal, hope and improvement.
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Most people fear change.  We are born with a primal insecurity because no matter what we do, we will ultimately experience a final demise as we depart this life.  All of our strivings, hopes and aspirations eventually must incorporate this mortality.
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The only logic is to seize the present.  Live fully today, moment by moment.  The past is over... and has laid the foundation for your present...for better or worse.  The future is unfathomable, and your focus in controlling the outcome is a foolish endeavor that is beyond your ultimate capacity.
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But you can bask in the convergence of the past with the future... the present.  It is the only place that offers the joy and happiness that we strive for in this life.  The religious masters tell us that joy is the natural order of the universe.....  Happy little atoms and planets humming and rotating joyfully along.
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All we need to do is to focus on the cacophony of the present moment to squeeze our share of joy out of this life.

Matthew 6:26  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

So let change envelope you as you experience the constancy of the present.
Don't Worry, Be Happy.




 

Saturday, September 08, 2012

POTW Week 36

Heading to Essex for some Fried Clams this evening with Tommy O and Linda O' Shea.   Someday soon, science will proclaim that platters of fried clams, fries and onion rings  are essential to maintaining a healthly life for overweight white guys like me.
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Until then, we will lead the way in consuming copious amounts of these tasty bi-valve mollusks that taste so good when breaded, deep fried, and served with a little salt and pepper, ketchup and tartar sauce.
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Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 36th Week of 2012

Denise Kearns
Deval Patrick
Liz Kelleher
Peter Lojko
Christos Laganos
Jim Lundgren

Tommy is going to pick up Joanne and I after he finishes his pedicure... but that's another story altogether.

Friday, September 07, 2012

Three Jamesons

Peeps... I'm feeling a little mellow tonight.
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Went down to the BYC and had two Jamesons, plus one more together with dinner with my favorite wife, Joanne.  Joanne is the mother of my three kids and is really handy to have around.... among other things.   She is my life partner, and when I die, my life insurance policy will go to her.  But enough of the romantic stuff.
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Tomorrow, it will be a big push in the morning to get the railings up on Tommy O's classic Nanepashemet Deck, then we will probably take a harbor cruise out on the WhaleEye.  The end of the boating season will be here before we know it, and the WhaleEye has hardly gotten a workout in, so we'll have to get some time in there.
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Sometime before the weekend is over, we have to attend to some tax details at Nanepashemet Telecom, and also hope to share a beer with some of the kids if they drop by.
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In the meantime, I powerwashed the pram and will be stripping off the nasty Wireless Tower Weatherproof that I used as gunwale bumpers..... A big mistake as the weatherproofing material never cured and remained sticky and messy.
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My new theory is to use the PVC bending tool that we bought for the Hartford job, and bend some PVC to use as Pram bumpers.  At least the PVC won't rub off on the neighboring boats causing a lot of pissed off complaints to the Harbormaster.
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Probably won't get to all of this shit this weekend... but at least we are past the three Jameson milestone

Presidential Boast

Lots of rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention about President Obama taking down Osama Bin Ladin.
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Mr. President.... to paraphrase your admonition to the nation's business owners.... "You didn't kill Osama... somebody else did."
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I'll give you credit for not phucking it up though.

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Pram Rescue

Today, I finally got around to getting the my Pram which the Marblehead HarborMaster had towed to a mooring at Riverhead Beach.   Seems that the wireless connector weatherproofing that I used as gunwale bumpers was rubbing off on neighoring prams on the Village Wharf rings, but that's a whole other story that I'll maybe tell you later.
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I put the Tender down the ramp from the trailer, then roped it off with a square knot on the ramp pier piling.  Then I pulled the F-150 up the ramp and parked the trailer.  When I got out of the truck and headed down the ramp, the Tender was rapidly drifting into the Harbor.
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Wrong Knot.
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I figured that the water to the Tender would only be waist deep and was surprized when I was quickly up to my neck holding my iPhone high in my left hand.  Then swimiming hard to reach the Tender and tow it back to the Ramp in my best Lifesaving sidestroke.
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I figured that this was the only phucked up episode that I was to encounter on this little chore.
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Wrong, Kemosabe.
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I got back to the shore and this nice elderly couple asked if I wanted them to watch my Tender while I went for some dry clothes.  I declined the kind offer and set out get into the Tender and row out the the Pram which was about 50 yards out on the mooring.
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When I got to the Pram, it was filled with a green slimy, rainwater residue which was a result of the thunderstorm downpours that we experienced over the last few days.  Amazing how heavy a pram full of water is.
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To make a long and increasingly  boring story short, I finally got the Pram into the back of the F-150 with the help of a by-stander from Castine, Maine who had a lot of cool stuff to tell me about wooden boats.... especially the designs that John Gardner had published. 
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I guess this story doesn't have much of a punch line.  But that's your problem.  What do you want me to do????  Make up some fantastic freaking ending?????
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Publish your own Blog if you think this shit is easy.

Embarassed in Boston



How the Hell does this guy continue to get elected as Mayor of Boston?  He must be the balls at constituent services because otherwise, he is such an embarrassment with his lockstep liberal outcries and mumbling messages.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Close to the Border


Great Stuff, but the debate is how do we continue to pay for this?
That's what the Dems seem to ignore.
Money doesn't grow on trees and it doesn't come from the Government.
It comes from the taxes that we bear.  And we are getting closer to the Border of this.

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

No Spew, No Hurl

The MSNBC Talking Heads, especially Rachel Madow, seem to have taken their blood  pressure medicine and a low dose of Valium tonight as the Democratic National Convention debuts tonight.
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In a much calmer demeanor from how we saw them last week covering the Republicans, these objective journalists are now telling us like it is... or specifically.... how they want us to believe.  They are completely happy and thoroughly transformed as they bask in Leftest rhetoric of the Democrats.
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But don't take my word for it... you have to see this disengenuous act as it is and form your own opinion.   Tune in to these Whackjobs.  It only hurts for a while and is worth it to see for yourself.  
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I would suggest that you go to C-Span first, then change the channel to MSNBC.   That way, when you feel the vomit start to surge, you can hit the "Last" button, which will automatically switch to C-Span and you will actually see what is happening at the Convention.   The urge to spew will subside.
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Course you'll still be watching these "Progressives" but at least you won't hurl all over the couch.
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Peeps... I hate to admit it, but it takes all kinds to make the world turn.  As much as I want government to get the hell out of the way so that I can take care of myself and my family, there are those who have no freaking idea of how to do it for themselves, and need a helping hand from us in the form of the Government.
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You just have to guard against the extremists on both sides.  And these MSNBC ideologues are a great example of the type you have to guard against.

Debate Without Hate

One of the great things about this great country is that we are able to express our opinions and back our candidates without the fear of physical reprisals.
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There has never been a forced exchange of power based upon election results here.  We debate fiercely, sometimes in bad taste, and sometimes in an irritating fashion.  But despite the vigor and rancor, Americans are tolerant of each other, and supportive of the will of the majority.
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I may not understand the logic of your support for a particular candidate... I may even get annoyed and vocal about your exclaimations and rhetoric... but I ultimately support your right to make a choice.
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Even if you want a fake Indian to be your Senator.
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So this season, we will again see the amazing American system of tolerance of others, freedom of speech, and debate without hate.
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If Obama gets re-elected, we may not understand it, we may not like it, but we will tacitly support it.

Monday, September 03, 2012

Channeling

Harvey Rowe, Lisa Panakio Rowe, and Superpeep Maria Rowen came by  for dinner tonight on the deck.  Maria brought some incredible crab stuffed mushrooms, and we did our best with the lemon pepper chicken breasts on the grill with some garden salads.
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I had one or three Dark and Stormies and listened to Harvey's incredible story of his friend, Kim Garbarino's swim across the English Channel this month.  Harvey worked the boat politics while Craig Lewin did the in the water coaching as Kim Garabino braved fifty seven degree water to swim the 22 mi. channel in over 13 hours.
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Harvey's rendition of the effort was spellbinding as Kim completed the feat after wishing to quit after the initial six hours.  It was absolutely a mind over matter accomplishment.
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It was a great trip to London for Harvey and his team and I'm really happy for their success.

Fitting It In

It's Labor Day.... traditional end of Summer.  Always a bittersweet holiday, as you look at the summer that slipped away and all of the stuff that you wanted to do... then life's obligations get in the way, and the summer is over.
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Once again this summer, the fish and lobsters around Salem Sound received a major stay of execution, as my activities drew me away from a vigorous pursuit. 
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But if the truth be known, we soon will be entering into my favorite season of this great New England region... Autumn.   It's warm enough to do a ton of stuff outside, and cool enough to be comfortable doing it.  The only problem is that business usually gets crazy as we enter the last quarter of the year, as my corporate customers contemplate the boxes that must be checked for bonuses to be awarded.
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Someday, after I make a business score, I will retire.   Then fish will die, boats will be built, books will be written, banjos will be played, and grandkids will get spoiled. 
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Until then, I just have to fit this stuff in.

Sunday, September 02, 2012

POTW Week 35

For the third time this summer, you Peeps have come through with the ultimate gesture of class and sophistication.... we have an automatic Peep of the Week selection.
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This week it was Tommy O who presented me with a bottle of the King of Scotch... 16 year old Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch Whiskey.
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 I really appreciate the gesture since I had just polished off the bottle that Brady Boyle had judiciously submitted at the occasion of asking to marry my daughter.  And the bottle that Nathaniel Clarke brought over when he introduced us to Katarina Simundic hardly lasted that evening....
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So Tommy kept me from the ackward circumstance of not having the King in the liquor cabinet inventory.

ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 35th Week of 2012.

Tommy O' Shea (Automatic Lagavulin Rule)
Will Nestor
Kyle Raiche
Liz Kelleher
Wayne Webster
Ann Romney

Can you imagine the shame of having to buy a bottle of the King for myself?