Peep of the Week for Week 38

So you all thought that I would forget the POTW selection.
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You Crazy, Kooky, Whacky Bastards!!!
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I'm 100% on my game. Solid as a Rock. Steady as a Priest in the Altar Boy's lockerroom.
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Ok... scratch the last one. But no way could I forget. We've been doing this for over 50 Thursdays in a row. It's become more than a habit... more like a religious ritual. I approach it with the utmost reverence and respect.
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Tired of this Bullshit??? So am I. So here goes....
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Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 38th week of 2007

Tommy McMahon
Mike Nestor
Jay Turner
Bill Hillegas
Eric Gagne
Jill Phillips

These people now join the immortal roster of peeps with their names carved in the permanence of cyberspace. Now I'm getting unnecessarily emotional.

Conflicting Priorities

The Dory constructon has sat, unattended to, for the past few days due to the frenetic pace of Nanepashemet Telecom this week. I'll start the templates for the frames this weekend, but I also have to get some basement tiling in. In the end, the weather looks like fishing might get the nod.
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It's the best time of the year to find a Bluefish or Striper blitz, and I'm way overdue this year.

Lead Eroded

Sox lost. 1 1/2 games in front of the Yankees. Holy Crap! They're ruining my Septemba! !!!

Keeping Pace

Boston is leading 1-0 over Toronto in the fifth inning.
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Jerry Remy running for President of Red Sox Nation is pretty funny.

Baseball is the only game that gives you enough time to let the announcers offer diversions from the action at hand. There is an easy, comfortable pace to the game.
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It was a long day, but we picked up a purchase order from a major company and answered the right questions for another. Just when your confidence starts to waiver, the good stuff gets you optimistic again.
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Tomorrow, we sit down with the Bank to bring order to the action.

Depraved

This is a video of me reading my email. The Blog is really going downhill.

Waterfront Offerings

Land Offerings

Familiar Feeling

I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get worried over the Red Sox. They just lost the second in a row to Toronto, four of their last five, with the Yankees hot on their tail.
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I'm just not comfortable.
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Clay Buchholtz, the rookie no-hitter pitcher, will try to stem the slide tomorrow.

Peep of the Year in Fine Form

Once again, Tom McMahon, our reigning Nanepashemet Peep of the Year, shows why he is worthy of the title.
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Manhandling a poor Yankee fan at Fenway Park.
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Annoying?
Inspiring?
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Both????
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You be the Judge.
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But it again validates the controversial choice.

In McMahon's own words....

"This one was something special. This jerk off ran from next to the sox dugout after Hinske hit a double on Sunday night. He then gave Hinske a pat on the back, took Robinson Cano’s hat, put it on and headed for the outfield. He didn’t make it too far though because even though I was hungover this guy had nothing when he tried to turn on the jets."

Patriots v. Red Sox

Red Sox v. Yankees are on ESPN and the Patriots v. Chargers are on Network TV.
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Thank goodness for cable TV and the "last" button. The commercials won't have a chance as we switch from game to game.
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It will still be a late night though because both games started after 8:00 PM and I have a huge customer meeting tomorrow morning in downtown Boston.
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I suppose I'll do the responsible thing and go to bed before either game is decided.

Lost Lure

The day went as planned.... got some tiling done, got some rowing in.... the only glitch was that when I brought the Tender out to the mouth of the Harbor, about 100 yds. off of the Marblehead Lighthouse, I lost my only lure on the first cast.
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Didn't really bother me, because I was only out to row anyway. But in the future, I'm going to bring a little extra tackle.
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I rowed about a quarter of the way into the Marblehead Channel and picked up some decent wakes and swells. The Tender really is a stable and seaworthy design. I pulled the oars up and floated aimlessly out there for about a half hour or so. Nothing metaphysical or anything, just enjoying the movement of the water in the Channel under the Tender.
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Anybody passing by thought I was fishing anyway, so it probably didn't look so weird.
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But I was just sitting and breathing. It was kind of like when I go fly fishing in the Saco River with my rubber pants on. Just standing there feeling the water pass by.
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On the way back, I stroked the oars fairly vigorously... a decent workout. It will be interesting to do this around mid-November when all but the working lobster boats will have been hauled out of the Harbor.

Basement Projection

Tiling floors always gets me into rigor mortis if I overdo it. So today I quit after three hours, before I got to the staring blankly at the floor stage. Since it's only the basement, there is no crucial time requirement like happens with most tile jobs. So I'll come back later this week and get a little more done.
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I'd love to have this project done by Thanksgiving when Mike gets home again from DC. There are a lot of miscellaneous details since I will be ripping out the existing cabinets and constructing a built in for the HD TV the we foolishly bought before the new flat screen technology was available.
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Can't let the Dory project get stale either.
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Thanksgiving is probably an attainable goal but I'm not promising anything.

Tile Restart

Today I'm going to set the Dory aside and restart the basement tile project. I told Joanne and Katelyn that I was going to work both simultaneously, and it is time to disprove their skeptical reactions.
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There will be a hard stop at 3:00 PM to row the Tender in Marblehead Harbor during high tide.

Lazy Day

This was the extent of the work completed today. A completely wasted, rainy day, trying to shake off the effects of last night's Dark and Stormies and the loss by the Red Sox to the Yankees in the longest 9 inning game on record.
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Most of the day was spent working the kinks out of Outlook 2007 that I have on my new laptop. It has a nice business information system that I'm interested in using for Nanepashemet Telecom.
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The bottom of the Dory has been cut using a jigsaw, with at least 1/4" margin from the final dimension so that it can be hand planed to the line.
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The epoxy glue has to be scraped off both sides and the whole thing sanded smooth, then I'll start to contruct the oak frames, and fit them on the strongback.
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Add an hour to the total for this work. Cumulative 5 hours.