Gesture of Appreciation

The prism in the window put this rainbow right on my Washburn WD10ADE acoustical electrical guitar this morning.
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I think it could be a sign that the Universe appreciates the late night stylings that I wield from this ax.
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Or maybe not.

July Stripers

It's been a productive fishing season so far this summer as I've cleaned three keepers so far, including these two that Will and Ryan caught (Will's first) and one landed by future son-in-law, Brady Boyle.  Will reeled in his by himself and said he got really tired.   Hopefully, many more to come for him.

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Jubilation for Juicing

Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor

We bought this cool new juicer from Amazon and are moving into a regime of juicing fruits and vegetables everyday.  Cutting down on carbs too, but nothing to excess.  After a bit of intestinal disruption, the immediate result is an increase in energy and an overall sense of feeling good.

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And I've found that when you break down and have that burger or pizza, you feel fuller much faster and don't tend to gorge yourself.  It's as though your stomach has constricted.  So you don't loathe yourself for falling off the wagon.   You just eat less and enjoy it when you stray.

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For the time being, we plan to juice in the morning and afternoon and have a meat and vegetable dinner.  In August, we'll go for another multi-day juice only detox fast.

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With Kate's wedding on the way in September, it should be easy to keep this program in tow ... and then we can measure the weight loss effects.

Stay Classy San Diego

A key reason to question the media.

Environmentally Policed

So we are out at Halfway Rock yesterday, fishing for bait and having a good time, when we are pulled over by the Environmental Police who needed to board.  Checked for registration, life preservers, flares, fire extinguishers and fishing licenses.  With seven people on board, we had only six life preservers, so they wrote us up with a $100 fine.
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Even with floatable cushions.  We were short a few salt water fishing licenses and confessed this, yet we had two on board along with a lobstering permit.
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So we absolutely met the spirit and intent of the laws that they were seeking to enforce and portrayed no public nuisance of threat whatsoever.   No other boats were in hearing range.
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I guess we looked like we were having too much fun on a Saturday afternoon.  The nice officers spent about 20 minutes checking out our drivers licenses on the internet and writing the citation.
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Land of the Free?   Give me a break.
Definitely Home of the Brave though.
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Juice for Life

Coming up Short

We only made it half way into our three day juice fast, because of the deep fried striped bass chunks that we made of Ryan and Will's Keeper Catch.
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I find no shame in that.
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You try holding off from a plate of fresh stripped bass.   Breaded and deep fried to a crisp golden brown.
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There's no way.
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So today, we decided to juice in the morning and throughout the afternoon, then eat healthy for the evening meal.
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That's a regime I can live with.... and we'll see how it fares in the weight loss battle.  But I'm not going to weigh myself everyday.   That just causes a downer if the scale is not cooperating, and who needs to judge everyday anyway.  
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Maybe this way, I can extend this into a long term habit.

POTW Week 27

It's been quite a heat wave in Boston this week.  Thank God for Tommy O's pool. 
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ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 27th Week of 2013

Kelsey O'Shea
Nathaniel Clarke
Annebelle McBurney
Will Nestor
Diana Gonzalez Leon
Jessica Rincon

Will be rowing in the Harbor in the Herreshoff Columbia Tender sometime today.

Juice Fast - Day 2

Joanne and I are on the second day of our 3 day juice fast.
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This time we used the recipes in the BluePrint Cleanse, rather than buy the juices at retail, which would have amounted to about $350.00.  I figure that I bought less than two hundred bucks worth of fruit and vegetables, and juiced them in my Hamilton Beach Juicer, yielding 36, 16oz Mason jars worth of fresh juice.
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I didn't do the cashew milk for this go around, and have been substituting the lemonade instead.   All of the juices taste fine as much as I'm concerned.   Joanne doesn't care for the Green juice.
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Joanne has had some issues with the regime, but I've been ok, although this morning I'm a bit hungry.  In the afternoon, Ryan wants to grill the Striped Bass that he and Grandson Will caught yesterday, and that will be tempting to ditch this gig, but I'm trying to tough it our until tomorrow night.
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Recipes
Green Juice	5 Ribs of Celery
Green Juice	1 Cucumber, Halved
Green Juice	2 Large Green Apples of Your Choice
Green Juice	3 Kale leafs
Green Juice	1 Ounce of Lemon juice
Green Juice	1 Handful of Parsley
Green Juice	3 Romaine leafs
Green Juice	1 Handful of Spinach
PAM Juice	A Third of 1 Pineappple
PAM Juice	2 Large Green Apples of Your Choice
PAM Juice	A few pinches of Mint
Lemonade	14 ounces of Filtered Water
Lemonade	3-4 juiced medium Lemons
Lemonade	A few Dashes of Cayenne Pepper
Lemonade	1 Tablespoon of Agave Nectar
CAB Juice	1 Green Apple of Your Choice
CAB Juice	2 Beet, with the greens left on
CAB Juice	3 Large Carrots
CAB Juice	1 and 1/2 Tablespoon of Ginger
CAB Juice	A 1/2 ounce of Lemon Juice
Cashew Milk	4-5 ounces of Raw Cashews
Cashew Milk	16 ounces of Filtered water
Cashew Milk	1 Tablespoon of Agave Nectar
Cashew Milk	1 teaspoon of Cinnamon (ground)
Cashew Milk	1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Will's First Keeper

Obamian Boondoggle

When our POTUS closed the White House, which is owned by us, BTW, I wondered whether he had made a real rookie move and screwed himself on the hypocrisies when he took his family on his extensive and expensive taxpayer funded vacations.
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But he seems to be too arrogant to be embarrassed by this.  And the First Lady, Michele, is freaking oblivious.

Path to Success

For the past three days, I've been suffering from ocular migranes.   Maybe suffering is a little dramatic..... enduring might be a better word.
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Even though we, at Nanepashemet Telcom, are wicked good at what we do, there still is a bit of stress when we are starting a new job.... What are the stumbling points?  Where are the risks?  What are the customer expectations?  Will the customer be realistic or a HardAss?
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The reason we think about these things is because we have been burnt by all of them in the past.  One thing that is unacceptable at Nanepashemet is failure.   We don't lose money, and we don't fail.    But that doesn't mean that we won't resign the account if it looks like either of these outcomes cannot be avoided.
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In order to be successful, you have to have a path to success.   At the beginning of the project, that path is not always clear.
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So I think that these ocular migranes are the result of stress as we roll out this big job.
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Soon to be eliminated as the path clears up.