Modes of Behavior

I was talking to my friend, Bill Hillegas, this morning, and he told me that he that only has two operating modes.... an easy going, accomodating, generous and open mode.... and a demanding, take no prisoners, cross me and I will relentlessly drill you mode.
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And there is no in between for him.
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One of the reasons Bill and I have remained close is that we have a lot of the same emotions and seem to think alike.
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I know exactly what he means.
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It's always tough when people see you in the first mode, decide you are a push over, and wonder why the shit storm has started as they witness the next mode.
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That can be a problem...

Tuna Lips said...Mar 23, 2012 04:27 PM

I got the same approach with the all too common "I am an entertainer" thinking stripper types.

Sorry in Advance

Peeps....
This is going to come as a total shock to you....
But I have a real weakness.
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I try to be easy going and accomodating to people, but if I think I am being taken for granted...and then taken advantage of.... I turn into a real prick. 
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Like a take no prisoners... prick.
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Like a spare no expense, who gives a shit... prick.
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Like a tenacious, never give up, balls to the walls... prick.
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Like a non-stop, full speed til it's done.... prick.
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Like a whatever name you want to call me, you're probably right , but I could care less ... prick.
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Plus... like the stupid Irishman that I am... after it's all over, I still carry the grudge... prick.
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Just ask the folks that I have worked with.   Half of them like me, and the other half thinks  I'm a real prick.

The Path Not Taken

Ran into my old friend. Atty. Tom Egan yesterday.
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Tom was one of my lawyers skatey-eight years ago when I was the Executive Director of the Lynn Housing Authority.  Our paths have intertwined many times since then, and I'm always amazed at the tremendous memory that Tom has of those days which now seem so long ago.
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My route has been pretty circuitous since those old Housing Authority days, but Tom seems to have kept the course pretty steady in the property management field, and is really on his game.
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Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in real estate... after the public housing stint, I had a great position as Executive VP of Crowninshield Management....but I set sail out of the safe harbors.
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You can't look back.  Doesn't do you an ounce of good.

Cut the Bull

Being a Mountain of a Man sometimes means that you have to put up with the Bullshit.   The worse kind of Bullshit is when the assholes who are Bullshitting actually believe their own Bullshit, and expect you to fill your plate with a heaping helpful.
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Gets really tedious when they think you will buy it, just because they've sold it to themselves.
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Years ago, the wise man said, "Money Talks, Bullshit Walks."  He was right.
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As I've explained to you Peeps before... when someone tells you that "My Word is My Bond"... rest assured that you are about to be lied to.   Truthful people have no need to ladle out this kind of Bullshit.
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So cut the Bullshit.

Yardwork

As the temps soared into the 60's today, Ryan got the hots to do some landscaping so we followed his lead and kicked ass in the yard until 3:30PM when rigormortis set in for me.   Beers on the deck cured any discomfort, and the yard looks freaking great.
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Brian Stanton dropped by and downed a few with us.   It was a great afternoon.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'll be having a few Guinness Stouts today to commemorate St. Patrick's Day... a day when Irish celebrate being Irish, and everyone else wishes they were Irish too.
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There is something about the Irish way of thinking, the way they can turn a phrase, their habit of answering a question with another question, the vibrancy of their music, their dark and long standing grudges, their stories that go on and on without a clear ending....
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Not sure where the phrase..."Luck of the Irish" comes from.  There is a lot of unlucky shit in the history of the Irish.   But the ability of these people to overcome adversity and achieve success has been a documented circumstance time after time.   Some people might term this as Luck.
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The Irish have a reputation for fist fighting.   This photo of my grandson, Ethan Nestor, has nothing to do with anything... but I thought I'd insert it into this post anyway.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Lá Shona Naomh Pádraig ar

Purposefully Pounding Palin

Last night, I took a little time from the salt mine routine to watch "Game Change", the HBO film about Sarah Palin's Vice Presidency candidacy.
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Julienne Moore played Palin and the film producers made her up to look remarkably like the real thing.   Moore also seemed to nail her voice and characteristics.
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And Woody Harrelson, playing a McCain Chief Political Advisor must have said half a dozen times that the Katie Couric interview was "Fair".   Ya Right...I'm sure the real McCain Campaign took it that way.   Don't get me started on the evil Couric.
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Naturally, Sarah was portrayed as a dumb incompetent..... stupider than a lump of hardened modeling clay.
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 I didn't buy it.
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She was the Governor of a State with an 80% approval rating among her electorate.   Seems like the Liberals must be pretty biased toward Alaskans.
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Note to Liberals.... BIAS IS BAD.  Eskimos are people too!
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However, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.   Moore was totally hot playing the sizzling Hot Sarah.  That made up for all of the mind control liberal bullshit.

A Pause for Prince

This guy, Clovis Prince, just got sentenced to 30 years in prison for bank fraud.

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The news is making a lot of waves in the wireless telecom world because Clovis was well known in the industry for inserting his company in front of major tier one contractors and carriers in a slimey scheme to have those major players hire all contractors through his company, thus giving them a checkbox that showed the number of resources from a "minority company."

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Now he says his harsh sentencing was racially motivated.  He should know.  That guy has a whole deck of race cards and has used all 52.

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I got to know him because my boss at General Dynamics was particularly smittened by Clovis and had attended industry functions sponsored by him.   My boss was big on preaching ethics, but otherwise, not too honest, which is another story.

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Prince and I sat on a panel discussion during a conference in Las Vegas once.  I was sitting next to him, waiting for him to conclude his opening remarks and thinking about what I was going to say to the sparse auditorium audience, when Clovis mentioned that he had been in the wireless industry for 30 years.   That threw my thought process completely off, because the freaking industry was only 15 years old at the time.  As I recall, my opening remarks did not seem to evoke much interest from the audience.

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I'm pretty sure that Prince recognized my disdain, and always looked at me sideways and called me "Nestor"   after that, while he continued to kiss my boss's ass.

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I'm not really surprised at his demise.  I'm sure my old ethical Boss will deny ever meeting him.

Anonymous Wild Bill Said....Mar 15, 2012 07:42 PM

Well you can send a prayer message to Clovis through this web site.
http://www.clovisprince.com/Guest-Book.html
Messages will be sent to Clovis monthly. He will read them providing Bubba ain't taking up all his time.

Aquaponic Revival

I've been thinking of reviving my Aquaponics project that I scoped out a few years ago.  There is something really cool about raising fish and vegetables in a interactive organic system.... plus it could come in handy if I survive the Mayan end of days.

The standard fish is Tilapia, but I'd love to stock the tank with Bass.
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Must be spring fever.

1. Doug Said...Mar 15, 2012 06:31 AM

   Bass are surprisingly interactive pets...Rip Bassford; 2000-2006.
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   Tuna Lips Said....Mar 15, 2012 08:54 AM

   Looks somefin' like the rig ole Shoo Fly had back in North Memphis days, fer growin' reefer indoors, outside of pryin' eyes and such. Ended up torchin' halfa block of triple deckers. He had to split town right quick, bench warrants, you get the picture.
   
   Ole Shoo. Never was much good with jackin' 'lectricity offa the neighbors meter.
   
   
   

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Believe

The astrology web page that I've read every year for the past dozen years or so, www.cainer.com by the Brit, Jonathan Cainer, says that good things are supposed to happen to me this week.... because of the Grand Trine... where Jupiter, Venus and Pluto are geometrically lining up in some significant fashion.
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Yet I still came up short in the big proposal that I put together last week.
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WTF Jonathan!!!!
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You better have a good reason for this slam because I can't see the good in it whatsoever!
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Not that I believed in this Horoscope Bullshit in the past... but now I really don't believe in it..... unless things get super good pretty fast.

Pisc  said....Mar 12, 2012 06:30 PM

this is from Marilyn, the Inuit woman character on the Now old show Northern Exposure:

There was a warrior who had a fine stallion. Everyone said how lucky he was to have such a horse.
"Maybe" he said.
One day the stallion ran off. The people said the warrior was unlucky.
"Maybe" he said.
The next day the stallion returned, leading a string of fine ponies. The people said it was very lucky.
"Maybe" the warrior said.
Later, the warrior's son was thrown from one of the ponies and broke his leg. The people said it was unlucky.
"Maybe" the warrior said.
The next week, the chief lead a war party against another tribe. Many young men were killed. But, because of his broken leg, the warrior's son was left behind, and so was spared. 

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Thanks Pisc.  Somehow I feel like the guy in this kayak.  Sometimes you shouldn't be on the water.

POTW Week 10 - 2012

Jill Lewis mentioned this afternoon that I seemed to have fallen off of the wagon with the Peep of the Week Selections for awhile.
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An astute observation from the attractive Stevie Lewis Trophy Wife.
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This pathetic Blog is over five year's old, and I used to have quite a streak in making the POTW selections week after week.  I never felt like it was an obligation, but was an enjoyable weekly pastime.
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Yes... I know that some of you have a pathological obsession to seeing the weekly Blog feature.... but that's your freaking problem.  I can't be responsible for the escalation of reading this irrelevant ranting into a full bore addiction... like hoarding, shoplifting, or nymphomania.
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Next thing you know, they'll be coming up with a medical term to codify the condition... something like Nanepashementia Syndrome.

ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 10th week of 2012.


Jill Lewis
Phoebe Crawford
Emily Ingardia
Sue Sue Raiche
Al Watts
Scott Brown

I can't be held responsible.

Divas Drop By

These two divas - Emily Angardia and Katelyn Nestor - will be dropping by tomorrow along with other fortunate Peeps for a little birthday celebration for Kate.

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I'm sure I'll do or say something wrong and get immediately screeched at.... but I'm really looking forward to it.