Peeps...
This morning, your MOAM was feeling a little frisky so I put on the sweats and took the three mile run down to Grace Oliver's Beach and back.
That is something that I never thought I would blog about again, Then, after our White Mountain ride for Honduras where I was too crippled to get off of the bike, Wayne Webster turned me on to his Chiropractor, Dr. Ralph Palumbo, and bada bing,,,,, no more leg main, no more knee pain, no more back pain.... and I just finished a non-stop three mile run.
I have no idea what he did, but he ended up prescribing me a pair of inner sole orthodics that I wear every day now. I remember how shitty I recently felt as late as just before Christmas walking from the Parking Garage to Boston City Hall in Government Center.
On Friday, I made the same walk, and actually enjoyed the stroll. Plus I got most of my permits approved, which has nothing to do with Dr. Palombo, but I'm just saying. Apparently my feet were causing my body to be out of alignment, and the orthodics fixes it. Dr. Palombo also pokes and jabs a bit here and there, which I don't understand... but he can poke away for all I care.... within reason.
Ironically, the good Dr. would be pissed at me if he found out that I went for a run. He wants me to avoid any rash movement.
But when the spirit moves you, you have to respond. Course, I barely was able to pass some female powerwalkers down by Peaches Point, And I probably overly paid attention to my heart pounding away in my chest cavity.
But WTF. I ran three miles. The MOAM is back!
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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Multitude of Morons Amidst Us.
Peeps...
A Mountain of a Man has to be able to handle disappointment once in awhile..... to be able to move on when things don't flow his way.
So it is now that the Pats are not advancing to the SuperBowl. Do you see me whining, or moping around in a funk of despair???? Hell no. It's just freaking football. If they won every year, it wouldn't feel so good next year... when they take the league by storm and pummel everyone in Brady's righteous path.
Now, I'm gearing up for the Presidential Primaries.... with the Iowa Caucuses just days away. The race that I'm most interested in is the Democratic contest where I hope that Bernie Sanders embarrasses and demoralizes the evil, corrupt, and generally disgusting H. When you lay out the shit she has put down in a career of duplicity and corruption, it is so hard to discern why anyone with a conscience could lay down their vote.
Scientifically, the percentage of people who vote for H will be the exact percentage of immoral morons who don't care about truth and think that H will line their pockets or worse. We will then know the multitude of morons amidst us. And there is some value to that.
H is about to get beat by a 75 year old Socialist who has been serving Kool Aide to Kollege Kids for his entire professional career. She couldn't pick a more vulnerable opponent, and he is kicking her ass.
Even though the Patriots lost.... there is a God after all.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Pats Pizza Prep
Lots of anticipation here in Marblehead for the Patriots Game in Denver at 3:05PM this afternoon. Both the Patriots and the Broncos are 12 and 4 this season, and another classic Brady v. Manning quarterback duel is in store. The victor advances to the Super Bowl two weeks from now.
The MOAM is doing his part to insure a PATS win.
We'll be making Pizza on the Breville Pizza oven complemented with Ribs and stuffed baked potatoes. No possibility of running out of beer and wine either. Sammys in abundance.
With everything on the line, you can't take any chances. I want to leave it all on the field.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Priorities
That Bernie Sanders ad featuring the Simon and Garfunkle song "Gone to Look for America" is very powerful. It creates a wistful emotion of hope and is a nice association piece for the old Hippy candidate.
Good for him. He will only draw from the people who "feel" and vote with their hearts. If you give any other rational thought to his candidacy, you can't lend serious support.
But if this is what it takes to level the evil Hillary... then I'm on the Bernie bandwagon.
Dealing with a crazy Socialist for a few years would be a lot better than seeing the wave of corruption wash over the Federal Government with the Clinton Syndicate in the White House. The overall priority is to defeat H, preferable with a Conservative, but otherwise with anyone else
Regardless, the important thing this weekend is seeing whether the Patriots can prevail over the Broncos for the AFC Championship in Denver. Let's keep our priorites straight.
Good for him. He will only draw from the people who "feel" and vote with their hearts. If you give any other rational thought to his candidacy, you can't lend serious support.
But if this is what it takes to level the evil Hillary... then I'm on the Bernie bandwagon.
Dealing with a crazy Socialist for a few years would be a lot better than seeing the wave of corruption wash over the Federal Government with the Clinton Syndicate in the White House. The overall priority is to defeat H, preferable with a Conservative, but otherwise with anyone else
Regardless, the important thing this weekend is seeing whether the Patriots can prevail over the Broncos for the AFC Championship in Denver. Let's keep our priorites straight.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Toning Down the Rhetoric
Peeps....
In less than eleven months, the United States will have chosen a new President.
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Your MOAM has ranted long and hard on this topic for quite a while now... mostly about the inadequacies of the Democratic front runner, Hillary Clinton.
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Now, Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Mayor of Burlington, VT., is taking her down and has a lot of naive Dems singing the praises of his plans for doling out free stuff and redistributing wealth from the makers to the takers.
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Peeps... Socialism doesn't work. If I have to spell this out to you, don't bother to read this pathetic blog anymore. When you sap personal initiative, and personal responsibility...then productivity goes down the shit chute and nothing works properly anymore.
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I'm not going to rant further about Bernie. He's a 75 year old whack job who has made a career out of selling sugar to college kids, and if you want a sugar rush, there is little I can do for you.
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A few days ago on Facebook, an old friend of mine told me to "relax" after he caught me in a ranting frenzy about Hillary being a Criminal and Bernie being a Commie. It was good advice. There is no sense flapping your cyber-lips over stuff that should be readily apparent to you. So I'm cool with toning down the rhetoric for the time being.
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But I personally would like to see a Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders contest for POTUS.
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It would be a classic battle between Capitalist and Communist ideology. And so many of my Lefty friends are petrified of a Trump victory, and the staightforward policies that he would engender.
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Does this mean that the Nanepashemet Nod is going to Trump???
No Nod ... yet. There is a lot of ground between now and November....
In less than eleven months, the United States will have chosen a new President.
~
Your MOAM has ranted long and hard on this topic for quite a while now... mostly about the inadequacies of the Democratic front runner, Hillary Clinton.
~
Now, Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Mayor of Burlington, VT., is taking her down and has a lot of naive Dems singing the praises of his plans for doling out free stuff and redistributing wealth from the makers to the takers.
~
Peeps... Socialism doesn't work. If I have to spell this out to you, don't bother to read this pathetic blog anymore. When you sap personal initiative, and personal responsibility...then productivity goes down the shit chute and nothing works properly anymore.
~
I'm not going to rant further about Bernie. He's a 75 year old whack job who has made a career out of selling sugar to college kids, and if you want a sugar rush, there is little I can do for you.
~
A few days ago on Facebook, an old friend of mine told me to "relax" after he caught me in a ranting frenzy about Hillary being a Criminal and Bernie being a Commie. It was good advice. There is no sense flapping your cyber-lips over stuff that should be readily apparent to you. So I'm cool with toning down the rhetoric for the time being.
~
But I personally would like to see a Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders contest for POTUS.
~
It would be a classic battle between Capitalist and Communist ideology. And so many of my Lefty friends are petrified of a Trump victory, and the staightforward policies that he would engender.
~
Does this mean that the Nanepashemet Nod is going to Trump???
No Nod ... yet. There is a lot of ground between now and November....
In the pursuit of learning,
every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao,
every day something is dropped.
Less and less is done
until non-action is achieved.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
The world is ruled by
letting things take their course.
It cannot be ruled by interfering.
every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao,
every day something is dropped.
Less and less is done
until non-action is achieved.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
The world is ruled by
letting things take their course.
It cannot be ruled by interfering.
~ Lao Tsu ~
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Pages in the Book
Time flies when you are having fun.
These are my boys from college, Joe Collins and Bob Towne. We could do some damage at UMASS Amherst on the weekends in those days, I remember it like it was yesterday... but it was quite a few yesterdays ago.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Thursday, January 07, 2016
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Winning Powerball
Powerball is up to a $240 Million take home jackpot this Wednesday, so I'm going to spend $4 for two tickets.
There is a pretty good chance that I won't win, but even so, I've taken the time to prepare what I will do if my ticket turns out to have all of the numbers.
I'd hate to be in a situation where I get caught winning a couple hundred million and I haven't figured out where I would put it.
Course, the first step would be to hire accountants, financial advisers, lawyers and security guards. And it would be cool if I could keep the publicity to a minimum, but that is probably not the deal. So I definitely would go dark for a couple of months, to make sure that everybody wasn't bothering the crap out of me.
And while I would be doing a lot to make my family and close friends take the glint off of their personal financial situations, I would be very cognizant of the need to avoid transforming people that I care about into entitled assholes.
So there would be a little bit of personal relationship fallout. Naturally, I would be establishing education trusts, paying off people's mortgages and other stuff, but there would be strings attached and hurdles to get over before people could get their hands on the money. Personal responsibility boobytraps to make sure that a sense of self reliance was still intact.
During the euphoric first year or so, I would develop a dream home on some ocean front acreage in New England and also buy a Caribbean Island vacation home.
In business, I would capitalize Nanepashemet Telecom and get it to a point where our expertise and services are not hampered by financial constraints, without regard to the bottom line for a few years.
And I would do some cool real estate development projects. as well as start up aquaponics, solar, and boat building businesses.
But a good part of the deal would be to find philanthropic subjects to invest in. I would like to find people who a have a strong sense of personal responsibility, and help them to fast forward their business and service visions.
There are quite a number of other things that I don't want to disclose to you.... $240 million goes a long way.
I've got it all down on an Excel spreadsheet.
There is a pretty good chance that I won't win, but even so, I've taken the time to prepare what I will do if my ticket turns out to have all of the numbers.
I'd hate to be in a situation where I get caught winning a couple hundred million and I haven't figured out where I would put it.
Course, the first step would be to hire accountants, financial advisers, lawyers and security guards. And it would be cool if I could keep the publicity to a minimum, but that is probably not the deal. So I definitely would go dark for a couple of months, to make sure that everybody wasn't bothering the crap out of me.
And while I would be doing a lot to make my family and close friends take the glint off of their personal financial situations, I would be very cognizant of the need to avoid transforming people that I care about into entitled assholes.
So there would be a little bit of personal relationship fallout. Naturally, I would be establishing education trusts, paying off people's mortgages and other stuff, but there would be strings attached and hurdles to get over before people could get their hands on the money. Personal responsibility boobytraps to make sure that a sense of self reliance was still intact.
During the euphoric first year or so, I would develop a dream home on some ocean front acreage in New England and also buy a Caribbean Island vacation home.
In business, I would capitalize Nanepashemet Telecom and get it to a point where our expertise and services are not hampered by financial constraints, without regard to the bottom line for a few years.
And I would do some cool real estate development projects. as well as start up aquaponics, solar, and boat building businesses.
But a good part of the deal would be to find philanthropic subjects to invest in. I would like to find people who a have a strong sense of personal responsibility, and help them to fast forward their business and service visions.
There are quite a number of other things that I don't want to disclose to you.... $240 million goes a long way.
I've got it all down on an Excel spreadsheet.
Friday, January 01, 2016
Peep of the Year - 2016
Tom McMahon ~ 2007
Lauren Rathbone ~ 2008
Michael "Murph" Murphy ~ 2009
Jeremy Johnson ~ 2010
Tommy O'Shea ~ 2011
Kerry D'Orio ~ 2012
Brady Boyle ~ 2013
Kim Nestor ~ 2014
Pam Nestor ~ 2015
What do these names mean to you, Peeps?
Aficionados of this Pathetic Blog will note that the beginning of the year is a sacred time for those whose lives require frequent reaffirmation from your Mountain of a Man. It is a time of reflection, inspiration, hope, mixed with ample portions of nausea and disgust.
The above revered individuals achieved what few of you could ever aspire to in the last nine years. They met the requisite criteria.... the ultimate standards required to be named to a position of Honor/Distain.... the coveted/dreaded Peep of the Year (POTY)
How, you ask, does a MOAM make such a momentous choice?Over the the years, the criteria has remained religiously consistent.
The successful/lacking candidate must be....
This year... the tenth year for which this controversial award has been bestowed.... the Nanepashemet Peep of the Year is....
Nathaniel Clarke.
Nathaniel is in for a powerful life changing year, as previous POTY's can attest. Join me in wishing him the very best as he wields the POTY Power throughout 2016.
Lauren Rathbone ~ 2008
Michael "Murph" Murphy ~ 2009
Jeremy Johnson ~ 2010
Tommy O'Shea ~ 2011
Kerry D'Orio ~ 2012
Brady Boyle ~ 2013
Kim Nestor ~ 2014
Pam Nestor ~ 2015
What do these names mean to you, Peeps?
Aficionados of this Pathetic Blog will note that the beginning of the year is a sacred time for those whose lives require frequent reaffirmation from your Mountain of a Man. It is a time of reflection, inspiration, hope, mixed with ample portions of nausea and disgust.
The above revered individuals achieved what few of you could ever aspire to in the last nine years. They met the requisite criteria.... the ultimate standards required to be named to a position of Honor/Distain.... the coveted/dreaded Peep of the Year (POTY)
How, you ask, does a MOAM make such a momentous choice?Over the the years, the criteria has remained religiously consistent.
The successful/lacking candidate must be....
- Either annoying or inspirational.
- Cannot be dead.
- Cannot be an animal.
- And the case of the POTY - A case of Lagavulin given to me prior to this moment would have been an automatic. (The Peep of the Week Auomatic is given after only a single bottle gift of the King of Scotch.
This year... the tenth year for which this controversial award has been bestowed.... the Nanepashemet Peep of the Year is....
Nathaniel Clarke.
Nathaniel is in for a powerful life changing year, as previous POTY's can attest. Join me in wishing him the very best as he wields the POTY Power throughout 2016.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Merry Day
It was a nice Christmas.
Christmas is such a time marker. You remember all of the things that you did on this day throughout your life. Memories of you as a little kid, as a young adult, as a new parent, and now as a grandparent come crashing through, without much of a sorting.
It is a day of mixed emotions.... thinking of times in your life that are changed forever, and people as well as pets, who have left for another dimension. My father died on Christmas Day. I always relive that event on Dec. 25th also. I remember that it was so cold that day, that the wine that my mother had in her trunk was frozen when she brought it into our house in Lynn.
This year was the opposite. You could have had Christmas Dinner outside on the Marblehead deck. It was uncomfortably warm. I'm grateful that my Liberal friends didn't start in with a "Global Warming" chorus. I like to drop the political rants around the Holidays. There will be many times ahead to resume that debate.
Traditions have changed over the years. They have to as families change, and people move to different locations for their homes. We started some new ones this year that I hope will continue.
When I was kid, I was always so excited about the Christmas presents that I was about to get. The big change now is that I appreciate gifts that I receive, but the greatest joy is in seeing the people you love open the presents that you have given. This year, it was jewelry for the daughters, Kreg tools for the sons, and Kindle Tablets for the grandkids. Will and Ethan checked out with their Kindles.... there was no more conversation as they lapsed into an online game focus.
The star of the day for me was someone that I didn't even know last Christmas.... my 11 month old Grandson Connor. His joy to be around people spread pure joy to everyone that he was around.
My brother, Jamie, was in the Hospital in Florida, and calls to him and my mother made me feel sad that their Christmas was not exactly tidings of comfort and joy. My new year's hope is for health for them soon.
Joanne again served the fifteen people at our Christmas Dinner table with incredible culinary skill and Bam and Bampy seemed to enjoy the Fixings as they have for many years now.
In some ways, this Christmas seems to be a landmark shift. With our kids all happily married and building traditions around their homes and growing extended families. The circle of life seems to be in full swing this year.
I hope that all of you Peeps enjoyed the day.... and that the mixture of memories and emotions have left you on the up side. Looking forward to wishing you a Happy New Year.
Christmas is such a time marker. You remember all of the things that you did on this day throughout your life. Memories of you as a little kid, as a young adult, as a new parent, and now as a grandparent come crashing through, without much of a sorting.
It is a day of mixed emotions.... thinking of times in your life that are changed forever, and people as well as pets, who have left for another dimension. My father died on Christmas Day. I always relive that event on Dec. 25th also. I remember that it was so cold that day, that the wine that my mother had in her trunk was frozen when she brought it into our house in Lynn.
This year was the opposite. You could have had Christmas Dinner outside on the Marblehead deck. It was uncomfortably warm. I'm grateful that my Liberal friends didn't start in with a "Global Warming" chorus. I like to drop the political rants around the Holidays. There will be many times ahead to resume that debate.
Traditions have changed over the years. They have to as families change, and people move to different locations for their homes. We started some new ones this year that I hope will continue.
When I was kid, I was always so excited about the Christmas presents that I was about to get. The big change now is that I appreciate gifts that I receive, but the greatest joy is in seeing the people you love open the presents that you have given. This year, it was jewelry for the daughters, Kreg tools for the sons, and Kindle Tablets for the grandkids. Will and Ethan checked out with their Kindles.... there was no more conversation as they lapsed into an online game focus.
The star of the day for me was someone that I didn't even know last Christmas.... my 11 month old Grandson Connor. His joy to be around people spread pure joy to everyone that he was around.
My brother, Jamie, was in the Hospital in Florida, and calls to him and my mother made me feel sad that their Christmas was not exactly tidings of comfort and joy. My new year's hope is for health for them soon.
Joanne again served the fifteen people at our Christmas Dinner table with incredible culinary skill and Bam and Bampy seemed to enjoy the Fixings as they have for many years now.
In some ways, this Christmas seems to be a landmark shift. With our kids all happily married and building traditions around their homes and growing extended families. The circle of life seems to be in full swing this year.
I hope that all of you Peeps enjoyed the day.... and that the mixture of memories and emotions have left you on the up side. Looking forward to wishing you a Happy New Year.
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