Although it would seem to be the doldrums of summer, this week is shaping up with a decent amount of activity for Nanepashemet Telecom. A zoning hearing in Western Mass tonight, customer meetings throughout the week and a couple of bids due.
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Thursday we will be at the "My Brother's Table" benefit at the Nahant Country Club.
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So even though there will be no kicking ass, there will be no kicking back either. And this week will include consecutive workout days 8 to 15.
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Plus the Grandkids will be around, which always makes everything better.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Habit Forming
Day 7 of consecutive workouts. The first six on the Cybex and today a 4 1/2 mi. row in the Tender. Maybe a habit is forming. Course travel is always the thing that screws up a nice routine like this, and I didn't travel hardly at all last week. The challenge will be if I can maintain the habit when the schedule gets all twisted.
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And no. I haven't weighed myself. That will come on the 100th consecutive day, which will be December 12, 2009. I am feeling a lot better, stronger even, after only one week. That is what's important. Not some number on a scale.
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But I'd love to leave the Clydesdale class and be weighing in somewhere south of 200 lbs. by then.
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And no. I haven't weighed myself. That will come on the 100th consecutive day, which will be December 12, 2009. I am feeling a lot better, stronger even, after only one week. That is what's important. Not some number on a scale.
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But I'd love to leave the Clydesdale class and be weighing in somewhere south of 200 lbs. by then.
Perspective
Last evening, before cocktails, Lou Panakio made the following observation.
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"If you wanted to kill the Nestor's, not only would you have to kill them, ... you'd have to nail the coffin shut."
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Kind words from a dear friend. Lou knows from experience that we know how to take the hits.
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But let's put this into perspective.
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Those of you who have seen your kids go to Iraq in harm's way have it way worse.... Those of you who have seen love ones pass on with debilitating diseases have it way worse.... I can go on, but you get the picture.
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Life always offers challenges. Most of the time, these are endured quietly and relatively privately. Just because ours went loudly public, doesn't mean it is worse than the hits that all of us have to take from time to time. So don't feel compelled to tell us how bad you feel for us. We appreciate it, but there are those of you who have it far worse.
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"If you wanted to kill the Nestor's, not only would you have to kill them, ... you'd have to nail the coffin shut."
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Kind words from a dear friend. Lou knows from experience that we know how to take the hits.
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But let's put this into perspective.
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Those of you who have seen your kids go to Iraq in harm's way have it way worse.... Those of you who have seen love ones pass on with debilitating diseases have it way worse.... I can go on, but you get the picture.
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Life always offers challenges. Most of the time, these are endured quietly and relatively privately. Just because ours went loudly public, doesn't mean it is worse than the hits that all of us have to take from time to time. So don't feel compelled to tell us how bad you feel for us. We appreciate it, but there are those of you who have it far worse.
Gorilla Glue
Yesterday was a big push for the garage projects.~
After a run to Moynihan Lumber, I had all the meranti mahogany needed for Katelyn's Adirondack Chair as well as a nice 10' Redwood 2x6 which I cu
t into three pieces and glued into a panel which will be the carving base for a sign to be placed at the Nanepashemet Peabody Warehouse.~
I also bought a 16 oz bottle of Gorilla Glue, which is an expanding polyurethane based, waterproof glue which I have been curious to try.
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So when I got back to the garage, I bandsawed all of the Adirondack pieces, and assembled the meranti legs for the Workbench.
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The Gorilla Glue was easy to use, set up quickly and expanded through the tenon and mortise joints nicely. It is supposed to cure to a very strong bond.
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My plan is combine the legs into the base this morning, and start the assembly of the Adirondack Chair. This will take some time, because of all of the sanding and routing prior to joining the pieces together. I could have bought a nice cha
ir for Kate much cheaper, so I'm going to take my time on this to make it as perfect as possible.~
BTW, at the Crawford get together last night, Dale Johnson aka "Buck" asked me if this Blog took a lot of my time. Naturally, I kept my cool. I mean, does it take a long time to breathe... Dale/Buck ???
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I'm thinking it was Buck who came up with such an annoying question.... not my friend, Dale.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
POTW Week 31
Day 5 came and went has I logged another burn on the Cybex for the fifth consecutive day.
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No Biggie.
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But I can feel the Buffness starting to reassert.
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As you know, an accurate desciption of me as always been "Rough, Tough, Hard to Bluff and Damn Good Looking."
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Nowhere there does it state that I am Buff. But I might have to add that soon.
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Announcing...
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 31st Week of 2009
Jeremy Johnson
Meaghan Bruett
Sarah Crawford
Brian O' Donnell
Emily Ingardia
Jeff Middleton
Maybe I'll take a break from the Cybex and rev up the Treadmill for Day 6.
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No Biggie.
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But I can feel the Buffness starting to reassert.
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As you know, an accurate desciption of me as always been "Rough, Tough, Hard to Bluff and Damn Good Looking."
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Nowhere there does it state that I am Buff. But I might have to add that soon.
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Announcing...
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 31st Week of 2009
Jeremy Johnson
Meaghan Bruett
Sarah Crawford
Brian O' Donnell
Emily Ingardia
Jeff Middleton
Maybe I'll take a break from the Cybex and rev up the Treadmill for Day 6.
Slammer
The Nestor Siblings reeled in a 45 lb, 50 inch Stripped Bass this morning, shortly after arriving to Stellwagen Bank.
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Although it would have fed the whole cookout at Crawford's this evening, this fish is still happily swimming in Massachusetts Bay due to the Federal prohibition of taking strippers in the Stellwagen National Sanctuary.
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Still no tuna though.
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So maybe I'll stick to the Snap Dogs at the cookout. About 5 or 6 with mustard and relish in a massive bout of eating to relieve stress.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Railroad
I feel bad about the treatment received by Dan Grabauskas, the MBTA General Manager, by the Deval Patrick administration, as they are moving to fire him and are highlighting his six figure severance package.
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I never met him, but I marveled at his turnaround of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, when he ran that bureaucratic morass. He changed the processes and completely reversed the culture in that agency which was formerly insulting and totally unresponsive to the public.
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Don't know the details surrounding the issues at the Mass Bay Transportation Agency, but I know that they have ejected Grabauskas due to "lack of focus". Naturally the media stooges are honing in on his severance package and Patrick chimes in to say it is excessive. This is political pandering because he is simply legally entitled to it.
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If you can railroad somebody because of "lack of focus", then Deval Patrick should be in the front of that line.
Tuna Lips said...
Howdy, there Boomer, Ise back from vacatin' the double wide on a trip to ole El Paso, where I wuz meetin' with some bizness relations from across the Rio Grande. Good timin' on my part, there was plenty of fiestasization and senoritas to serenade. About a fortnight back, I stumbled through the woods to find the the yellow tape marked "DEA" around my mobile hacienda, indicated the jig was about to be up. So much for teachin' basic pharmaceuticals to the local youth. But I digressify. I hi-tailed it from that vicinity, and headed down in ol' Mexico, where we-ins had us a plenty good time, re-fryin' beans and schemin' on this and that. No moss on me, I got outta Dodge, and set up shop right quick. Got me a new gal, since Miss Pudding went down as a material witnesser. Yes, Marguerite, she got a nose like Gonzo from that Muppet tv show, and can she cook, when she aint passed out. I sent message to Shoo Fly to come on down. We will gringofy my new hancienda. And if he is still courting that truck drivin' Sheryl, we can stage a wrasslin' match with her and "Large Marge", these here Mexicans love that wrasslin'. Make us a few peso, work the crowd a bit.See, I am cut from the molds of the great American Entrepreneurs, like Andrew Carnegie and Kernel Sanders.And like General Doug MacArchie, I shall return. Just lammin' it for a spell.. . . Hey! Marge, you get your mitts offa that bottle . . that is my tekeeler!
Pisco said...
Republican Appointee. An easy sacrifice. Patrick needs to look like he is doing something other than playing governor of the Commonwealth. He recently got a puppy. And he is having hip surgery next month. And that about sums it up. The guy is a lightweight. Lot of them out there these days.
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I never met him, but I marveled at his turnaround of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, when he ran that bureaucratic morass. He changed the processes and completely reversed the culture in that agency which was formerly insulting and totally unresponsive to the public.
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Don't know the details surrounding the issues at the Mass Bay Transportation Agency, but I know that they have ejected Grabauskas due to "lack of focus". Naturally the media stooges are honing in on his severance package and Patrick chimes in to say it is excessive. This is political pandering because he is simply legally entitled to it.
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If you can railroad somebody because of "lack of focus", then Deval Patrick should be in the front of that line.
Tuna Lips said...
Howdy, there Boomer, Ise back from vacatin' the double wide on a trip to ole El Paso, where I wuz meetin' with some bizness relations from across the Rio Grande. Good timin' on my part, there was plenty of fiestasization and senoritas to serenade. About a fortnight back, I stumbled through the woods to find the the yellow tape marked "DEA" around my mobile hacienda, indicated the jig was about to be up. So much for teachin' basic pharmaceuticals to the local youth. But I digressify. I hi-tailed it from that vicinity, and headed down in ol' Mexico, where we-ins had us a plenty good time, re-fryin' beans and schemin' on this and that. No moss on me, I got outta Dodge, and set up shop right quick. Got me a new gal, since Miss Pudding went down as a material witnesser. Yes, Marguerite, she got a nose like Gonzo from that Muppet tv show, and can she cook, when she aint passed out. I sent message to Shoo Fly to come on down. We will gringofy my new hancienda. And if he is still courting that truck drivin' Sheryl, we can stage a wrasslin' match with her and "Large Marge", these here Mexicans love that wrasslin'. Make us a few peso, work the crowd a bit.See, I am cut from the molds of the great American Entrepreneurs, like Andrew Carnegie and Kernel Sanders.And like General Doug MacArchie, I shall return. Just lammin' it for a spell.. . . Hey! Marge, you get your mitts offa that bottle . . that is my tekeeler!
Pisco said...
Republican Appointee. An easy sacrifice. Patrick needs to look like he is doing something other than playing governor of the Commonwealth. He recently got a puppy. And he is having hip surgery next month. And that about sums it up. The guy is a lightweight. Lot of them out there these days.
Trials
For all of the Peeps who were with us in Boston yesterday.... thank you. We love you and will never forget your support. Things didn't turn out for the best, but it could have been much worse, and we are grateful for that.
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So we all will get by this next test, will keep traveling the path together, and will continue to help each other unconditionally. We'll have some additional tough trials, but the best is yet to come, and it will.
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So we all will get by this next test, will keep traveling the path together, and will continue to help each other unconditionally. We'll have some additional tough trials, but the best is yet to come, and it will.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Nanepashemet Wrath
We heard from good authority that Catherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy is a she-bitch.
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Sorry Catherine.
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But if you disrespect a Nanepashemet Peep, no matter how hot you are, you will be taken down.
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And you screwed with the wrong Nanepashemet Peep.
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So you're going to have to deal with the consequences.
Justice
Despite my positive thinking, whe really got screwed today. Madoof style.
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So we'll deal with this, and persevere. But let one muthafuka cross me in the next few days and it will be shit storm deluxe.
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So we'll deal with this, and persevere. But let one muthafuka cross me in the next few days and it will be shit storm deluxe.
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Time for Celebration
Today is a big day, and I'm looking forward to seeing a number of you in Boston this afternoon.
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But it is also DAY 4 of my consecutive streak of workouts, and I'll put a number of miles on the Cybex before I take my shower this morning and suit up for the stressful event.
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I've already predicted a positive outcome and remain confident. But we will play any hand that is dealt to us, make the most of it, and proceed with the celebration of life and friends.
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But it is also DAY 4 of my consecutive streak of workouts, and I'll put a number of miles on the Cybex before I take my shower this morning and suit up for the stressful event.
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I've already predicted a positive outcome and remain confident. But we will play any hand that is dealt to us, make the most of it, and proceed with the celebration of life and friends.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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