Heading out with the Grandkids for some FreshAyer this morning.
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As weird as it sounds, this is always a fun trip that we look forward to. Ryan always has new stuff to tell us, and seems to know more about Marblehead than we do thanks to all of the people who visit and email him, and he has indepth knowledge in the fields that he has been reading. He is in unbelieveable shape and holds the camp record for fastest lap around the track.
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It's a no win system that ultimately the taxpayer pays for. Makes no sense and I can think of many ways to change it for the better.
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But....the kids are always thrilled to see him and he's the same. If the weather is good, everybody is in non-stop motion outside. It makes for a really good time.
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Like I said... pretty weird.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Gardening , Football, and SuperPeeps
We took the grandkids over to Merrimack College today to see Ben Martin's Football team put on an exhibition at alumni day. Scuba Steve and his fetching wife, Jill, were there too.
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Ben is the Offensive Line coach, and he has some big bruisers under his mentoring. Merrimack Football is the official NCAA Football team of the Nanepashemet Blog, so it was an important event.
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Ben taught Grandson Will the three point stance after the game. All in all, a very worthy and enjoyable endeavor for a warm Saturday afternoon.
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I was pretty sore though, due to the events of the morning. Superpeep Brian Butler had asked to borrow the F150 for some dump runs and showed up around 7:15 AM to pick it up. Since I was up anyway, I decided to get some work done on the Appalachia Project in the backyard before I had to shower for the Merrimack event.
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The water table and mud had finally subsided and I raked, weeded and spread grass seed on about 1/3 of the backyard before it was was time to clean up and drive to North Andover. Worked up a nice sweat and maxed my back to the limit. Ethan and Will had a great time watching Ben's team despite their limited attention spans.
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But I was pleasantly surprized when I went to get something in the F150 after we got back. Brian had left a bottle of Black Seal Goslings Rum with a nice thank you note for using the truck. Even though it was entirely unnecessary, it proved once again why Brian bears the coveted title of "Superpeep".
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There are not a heck of a lot of Superpeeps. And you don't often get contact with many of them in the same day. But between Scuba Steve, Jill, Benny, and Brian.... it was one of those days that make everything seem right with the world.
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Ben is the Offensive Line coach, and he has some big bruisers under his mentoring. Merrimack Football is the official NCAA Football team of the Nanepashemet Blog, so it was an important event.
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Ben taught Grandson Will the three point stance after the game. All in all, a very worthy and enjoyable endeavor for a warm Saturday afternoon.
~
I was pretty sore though, due to the events of the morning. Superpeep Brian Butler had asked to borrow the F150 for some dump runs and showed up around 7:15 AM to pick it up. Since I was up anyway, I decided to get some work done on the Appalachia Project in the backyard before I had to shower for the Merrimack event.
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The water table and mud had finally subsided and I raked, weeded and spread grass seed on about 1/3 of the backyard before it was was time to clean up and drive to North Andover. Worked up a nice sweat and maxed my back to the limit. Ethan and Will had a great time watching Ben's team despite their limited attention spans.
~
But I was pleasantly surprized when I went to get something in the F150 after we got back. Brian had left a bottle of Black Seal Goslings Rum with a nice thank you note for using the truck. Even though it was entirely unnecessary, it proved once again why Brian bears the coveted title of "Superpeep".
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There are not a heck of a lot of Superpeeps. And you don't often get contact with many of them in the same day. But between Scuba Steve, Jill, Benny, and Brian.... it was one of those days that make everything seem right with the world.
Grenade Pin
Clammers found cases with 126 grenades in New Bedford. Some were live. They were safely detonated and no one was hurt.
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That reminds me of an old college incident, in James House at UMASS. The Vietnam War was in play, and a crazy vet was visiting his friend in the dorm room next door.
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In those days, a lot of guys would come back from the war, fresh from firefights and other horrific shit that only happened a week or so ago. One day, you are on patrol, firing off your M1 in DaNang at VietCong hell bent on killing you, and the next week you are hanging out on campus at Amherst, MA. I always felt bad for these guys who didn't have a college deferment, and was enrolled in Army ROTC preparing to go myself.
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This guy was really jacked in a lot of ways, and we all were leary of him. It was my freshman year and he used to drill Aaron Boykin and myself when we had our uniforms on to go to ROTC class. But that's another story.
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One day, he came into my room with a grenade in his hand, stuffed it into the hand of my roommate, Jeff Middleton, pulled the pin, and told him to hold the lever, or we would all die. Then he left the room. Jeff and I stood there with a WTF look on our faces.
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After about thirty seconds of standing there stunned, I said to Jeff that we should carefully take the grenade outside, walk it across the athletic fields, and heave it into the woods. Jeff stood there ackwardly holding the thing with his hand clasped on the detonation lever. We were too dazed to be afraid.
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Before we got the plan into action, the crazy vet came back, put the pin back into the grenade, quietly took it with him. and left without a word. We never mentioned it again.... like it never happened.
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I often wonder whether that grenade was live, and what would have happened if it blew up on the edge of the intramural field. My guess is that if it was a dud, the vet wouldn't have come back so soon to take it back. He would have let us sweat a lot longer.
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It's one of the many things in my life that could have gone drastically wrong...... but didn't.... so I'm sitting here blogging today. There is enough stuff that could have gone wrong and did.... but I'm here anyway.
MattyL said...
this blog is the ultra balls.
-- Matthew Lyons
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That reminds me of an old college incident, in James House at UMASS. The Vietnam War was in play, and a crazy vet was visiting his friend in the dorm room next door.
~
In those days, a lot of guys would come back from the war, fresh from firefights and other horrific shit that only happened a week or so ago. One day, you are on patrol, firing off your M1 in DaNang at VietCong hell bent on killing you, and the next week you are hanging out on campus at Amherst, MA. I always felt bad for these guys who didn't have a college deferment, and was enrolled in Army ROTC preparing to go myself.
~
This guy was really jacked in a lot of ways, and we all were leary of him. It was my freshman year and he used to drill Aaron Boykin and myself when we had our uniforms on to go to ROTC class. But that's another story.
~
One day, he came into my room with a grenade in his hand, stuffed it into the hand of my roommate, Jeff Middleton, pulled the pin, and told him to hold the lever, or we would all die. Then he left the room. Jeff and I stood there with a WTF look on our faces.
~
After about thirty seconds of standing there stunned, I said to Jeff that we should carefully take the grenade outside, walk it across the athletic fields, and heave it into the woods. Jeff stood there ackwardly holding the thing with his hand clasped on the detonation lever. We were too dazed to be afraid.
~
Before we got the plan into action, the crazy vet came back, put the pin back into the grenade, quietly took it with him. and left without a word. We never mentioned it again.... like it never happened.
~
I often wonder whether that grenade was live, and what would have happened if it blew up on the edge of the intramural field. My guess is that if it was a dud, the vet wouldn't have come back so soon to take it back. He would have let us sweat a lot longer.
~
It's one of the many things in my life that could have gone drastically wrong...... but didn't.... so I'm sitting here blogging today. There is enough stuff that could have gone wrong and did.... but I'm here anyway.
MattyL said...
this blog is the ultra balls.
-- Matthew Lyons
Friday, April 23, 2010
POTW Week 16
Joanne and I took the afternoon off and headed up to the coast of Southern Maine. A nice drive along the ocean through Kittery, York, Wells and Ogunquit.
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It must be soothing to live on the water like that. Maybe a nice place to retire. But I'll need a to win the lottery or make a score before I can pull that off.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 16th Week of 2010.
Ben Martin
Brian Butler
Wayne Webster
Kelly Light
Jill Phillips
Maria Rowen
Plus it's close to the outlet stores in Kittery.... particularly the Kittery Trading Post which is my favority place to buy fishing tackle.
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It must be soothing to live on the water like that. Maybe a nice place to retire. But I'll need a to win the lottery or make a score before I can pull that off.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 16th Week of 2010.
Ben Martin
Brian Butler
Wayne Webster
Kelly Light
Jill Phillips
Maria Rowen
Plus it's close to the outlet stores in Kittery.... particularly the Kittery Trading Post which is my favority place to buy fishing tackle.
Dropping My Guard
I'm watching some lawyer expert on Good Morning America who sounds pretty smart, but is wearing a bowtie.
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I can't take anybody seriously who wears a bowtie.
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Course I shouldn't be watching Good Morning America anyway, but Diane Vargas is a substitute host, and she hasn't made my skin crawl like some of the other phoney liberal hosts that have been employed on that show. Even though George Stephanopoulos generally aggravates me, somehow I can tolerate him, unless he is in his self righteous, political commentary mode.
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Maybe I'm getting soft.
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I can't take anybody seriously who wears a bowtie.
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Course I shouldn't be watching Good Morning America anyway, but Diane Vargas is a substitute host, and she hasn't made my skin crawl like some of the other phoney liberal hosts that have been employed on that show. Even though George Stephanopoulos generally aggravates me, somehow I can tolerate him, unless he is in his self righteous, political commentary mode.
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Maybe I'm getting soft.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Observation of the Pathetic
People who are completely self absorbed end up to be such users and manipulators.
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Since all of their thoughts and actions are directed to themselves and their own self pity, they unconsciously position everything in their lives in a vain attempt to ingratiate themselves. They always look for others to pity them, and do for them.
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The problem is that it is so transparent. Any idiot can see it except for the self absorbed perpetrators themselves.
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I was just saying.
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Since all of their thoughts and actions are directed to themselves and their own self pity, they unconsciously position everything in their lives in a vain attempt to ingratiate themselves. They always look for others to pity them, and do for them.
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The problem is that it is so transparent. Any idiot can see it except for the self absorbed perpetrators themselves.
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I was just saying.
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In the fine fashion of them Brits and theys court of guvment wearing
wigs and shit, I says harumph! Self absorbin folks is such foneys,
takin' on airs, likes they never snacked on the dead skin fermentin
atwixt they toes, or havin' relashuns with they own kin (the ears on
Charile, the feller tha was buggerin' that cheeky mynx Dianuh but
preferred to pleasurify someone that looked like his mammy, tells me
that ain't nature in action), its galls ole TL.
But I keeps on keepin' on. No sense in takin' to the baser assemblages of humanity.
Happy Birthday Mikey
It's my youngest son, Michael's, 27th birthday today. Seems like only yesterday when he was delivered at the now demolished Lynn Hospital with no complications. A great job by Joanne.
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Mike has met the challenges of youth and is now well along the path of adulthood. He turned out damn good in a lot of ways.
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In case you are doing the math, I was twelve when Michael was conceived. Joanne was thirteen...... We started early.
SRaiche said...
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Mike has met the challenges of youth and is now well along the path of adulthood. He turned out damn good in a lot of ways.
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In case you are doing the math, I was twelve when Michael was conceived. Joanne was thirteen...... We started early.
Happy Birthday Mikey!
Congratulations to the Mountain of a Man and Joanne for raising a wonder addition to the human race.
Sue Sue
Congratulations to the Mountain of a Man and Joanne for raising a wonder addition to the human race.
Sue Sue
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Lull Period
Now that the Democrats have socialized medicine in place.... what next? Seems like kind of a lull out there.
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Our occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is damn quiet. You only hear of something when some poor local twenty year old serviceman gets blown up from time to time.
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The stimulis package and jobs bill is virtually unnoticable and people seem to be silent about the economy. Real Estate looks to be picking up.
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The Tea Party movement is nebulous and unfocused with no leadership outside of maybe Sarah Palin, who is ridiculed everytime she takes a breath.
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I'm not complaining. Something whacky will show up soon enough. A little lull is good for all of us.
pisc said...
Not time to overplay any hand. Job continue to be lost. Real estate is in the shitter, as property continues to lose value in my town (see zillow.com for what is happening in Marblehead). People are actually asking "where is the free health care?" 53% of us pay taxes. When it hits 49%, time to move.
Next year, when the taxes hit, there will be real questions, not about the personality of this man child running the show, but of the principles of the people behind him. He is a surrogate. In 2014, when he is gone, and the newer taxes hit, there will be more questions about what this great experiment has become.
Put your money in Apple. Apple product are, in 2010, the five cent movies of the 1930s.
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Our occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is damn quiet. You only hear of something when some poor local twenty year old serviceman gets blown up from time to time.
~
The stimulis package and jobs bill is virtually unnoticable and people seem to be silent about the economy. Real Estate looks to be picking up.
~
The Tea Party movement is nebulous and unfocused with no leadership outside of maybe Sarah Palin, who is ridiculed everytime she takes a breath.
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I'm not complaining. Something whacky will show up soon enough. A little lull is good for all of us.
pisc said...
Not time to overplay any hand. Job continue to be lost. Real estate is in the shitter, as property continues to lose value in my town (see zillow.com for what is happening in Marblehead). People are actually asking "where is the free health care?" 53% of us pay taxes. When it hits 49%, time to move.
Next year, when the taxes hit, there will be real questions, not about the personality of this man child running the show, but of the principles of the people behind him. He is a surrogate. In 2014, when he is gone, and the newer taxes hit, there will be more questions about what this great experiment has become.
Put your money in Apple. Apple product are, in 2010, the five cent movies of the 1930s.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Fresh Cod
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"J. Do you and Joanne want some Cod?"
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Coming from Mark, you know that this is the fresh stuff..... Codfish happily swimming around in Massachusetts Bay about 48 hours ago with absolutely no indication that they were about to give it up to Mark's superior angling skills.
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Early this morning, just as I was about to power up Nanepashemet Telecom, in walks Mark with a couple of pounds of fresh cod. all skinned, filleted and in a plastic freezer bag.
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Damn... What a class act!
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And they say that Facebook is a waste of time. Fresh cod for dinner.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Never Watch It
Sometimes being a Mountain of a Man means that you have to admit that you enjoy some stuff that isn't exactly manly.
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Like watching "Dancing with the Stars" or something like that.
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Not that I ever watch DWTS.
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Or that I hope that Pamela Anderson makes it to the next round.
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Or that my favorite dance is the Quickstep, followed closely by the ChaChaCha.
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I wouldn't be caught dead watching "Dancing".
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Although, I hope that Jake the Bachelor gets the ax this week big time.
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Like watching "Dancing with the Stars" or something like that.
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Not that I ever watch DWTS.
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Or that I hope that Pamela Anderson makes it to the next round.
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Or that my favorite dance is the Quickstep, followed closely by the ChaChaCha.
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I wouldn't be caught dead watching "Dancing".
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Although, I hope that Jake the Bachelor gets the ax this week big time.
POTW Week 15
I know that I'm late with this.
Deal with it.
Announcing...
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 15th Week of 2010
Lindsey Kepnes
Gil Shaw
The Home Depot Guy Who Tried to Sell me a Pressure Washer
Ryan Nestor
Tina Rhodes
Alex Watts
OK, the reason is that I had a brain fart.... that lasted just about the entire weekend. But I'm back now, so don't screw with me.
Deal with it.
Announcing...
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 15th Week of 2010
Lindsey Kepnes
Gil Shaw
The Home Depot Guy Who Tried to Sell me a Pressure Washer
Ryan Nestor
Tina Rhodes
Alex Watts
OK, the reason is that I had a brain fart.... that lasted just about the entire weekend. But I'm back now, so don't screw with me.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
No Rain Delay
It's another miserable, drizzly, 40 degree day today. Perfect weather to powerwash the pressure treated planking on my deck. That will take me the better part of the morning.
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After that, I promised Mike that I would take some measurements to fabricate a replacement of a sliding door in his South Boston Condo. Those two projects will account for most of the day. In the meantime, I probably should clean up the mess in the kitchen before Joanne gets back from North Conway.
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By tonight, it will be time to settle in, pay some bills, and do some proformas.
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Sunshine would be nice, but it is not required today.
Lauren Rathbone, former POTY said...
We were in North Conway this weekend for the Tuckerman Pentathlon, and I thought I saw Mrs. Nestor downtown when we were driving by. It must have been her. We had 5 inches of snow up there on Saturday.
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After that, I promised Mike that I would take some measurements to fabricate a replacement of a sliding door in his South Boston Condo. Those two projects will account for most of the day. In the meantime, I probably should clean up the mess in the kitchen before Joanne gets back from North Conway.
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By tonight, it will be time to settle in, pay some bills, and do some proformas.
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Sunshine would be nice, but it is not required today.
Lauren Rathbone, former POTY said...
We were in North Conway this weekend for the Tuckerman Pentathlon, and I thought I saw Mrs. Nestor downtown when we were driving by. It must have been her. We had 5 inches of snow up there on Saturday.
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