Wednesday, December 12, 2007
50% Rule
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When I found out the name of said party, I was relieved and somewhat amused.
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Why????
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Because said dipshit party is an asshole that I frankly can't stand.
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Which brings me to the point of this post. If everyone thinks that you are a great person, then you have a problem. Because there are jerks and idiots in this world, and you don't want these morons to think you are cool.
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I'm pretty happy if 50% of my acquaintances like me, and 50% are offended, or better yet, intimidated. Then I know that the good guys are my friends and the assholes are my enemies.
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There is a certain harmony and balance in this.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Joshing and Bending
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Deal with it!!
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Didn't I tell you that I couldn't go to watch the Pats at the Gerry on Sunday because of the week ahead???
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Did you think that I was just joshing you? Did you think I was bending the truth?
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Peeps... I'm only human. Just not the Mountain of a Man that all of you seem to expect sometimes. I have my weaknesses too.... just like you. Well, maybe not as bad as yours, but still freaking significant.
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I did finish that job on the mountain in Claremont, NH today. It was the first time that I had to use a snowmobile at work. Never thought I'd see that day. Tomorrow I'll be in Providence and other cool Rhode Island locations.
BTW. "Always" and "Never" are adverbs that "always" guarantees arguments, and "never" resolves issues.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Gerry Blow Off
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And with the Nanepashemet Telecom week that I am anticipating, I can't risk waking up tomorrow with a heavy head.
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So I'm sorry if I wrecked the Patriots-Steelers game for some of my favorite Peeps by not showing up. They'll get over it.
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BTW, the Pats returned to their dominate style of play... which I had thought was gone after the last two games.
- Piscabo said...
The blogging community laments your attention being diverted from idle chatter of birds and boats, but applauds your recent success and abiding resolve. Had to throw a fifty cent word in if I am going to post.
12:27 PM
- Tuna Lips said...
Victory is mine! In case you wuz wonderin'. I remain superior to all y'all.
2:42 PM
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Gill Bash
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Little Maddie was in intensely cute form, and it was her Grandmother's birthday. Parker Sides and his new girlfriend were there. I forget her name, but I remember what she looked like. Very Attractive. Way to go Parky.
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Many Harpoons were consumed in moderation.
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Joanne couldn't go because she was babysitting Will, who was uncharacteristically fussy.
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A very festive get together.
Successful Striving
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It means that the holiday season will be alot more stressful than usual, because I won't have too much idle time.
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It's funny.... the let down that you get when you have achieved something that you have been striving for. When I was a business director at General Dynamics, the sales people always wanted to have a celebration when we won a big job. But the project managers were always soberly assessing the work effort ahead. I always tended to side with the PMs, even though the sales staff were legitimate in feeling good and resolved about the win. Their work was done.
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I'm psyched though. This is the breakthrough that we have been looking for. We have a chance to go head to head with our competitors and show the customers how this business can be done.
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The rubber is hitting the road. Should be a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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Felice Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo
Friday, December 07, 2007
Skype.com
If you haven't already looked into it, you've got to get Skype. www.skype.com
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It's a VoIP program that lets you place calls from your computer - free from skype to skype accounts and 2 cents per minutes otherwise.
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I needed to do something because my cell phone minutes are getting chewed up early in the month, and the bills are atrocious.
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Now the calls I make when I'm sitting in front of my computer (which in my dynamic, all-business lifestyle is a wicked lot) are not draining on my cell phone account. Plus you can set up an avatar or have video calls as well as instant messaging.
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It should appeal to your inner geek.
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BTW, my Skype account name is "nestor.npmi" for you peeps who are already cool enough to have your own account.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
POTW - Week 49
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Sorry to tarnish your accomplishment, Brett. It still is pretty impressive.
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But you have to admit, it isn't Peep of the Year.
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One of you deviant/over-achievers, pervert/role-models will walk away with the ultimate distinction/humiliation in a few short weeks. Yes it could be you.... so get your affairs together before it is too late.
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Look what happened to Tommy McMahon, the defending 2006 POTY. His life has been a living hell this year.
ANNOUNCING.....
Nanepashemet Peep of the Week for Week 49 of the year 2007
- Dr. Danny Levy
- Dave Bruett
- Mike McLellan
- Sarah Maxfield
- Lauren Rathbone
- Patrick Piscatelli
- Tuna Lips said...
Belated birthday salutation, there, Big Cheese. I wish you a good year, may many a bird alight on yer feeder and leave they droppins' on the vehickles of your enemies.
Speakin' of enemies, lest you pinkos forget, some 66 years past since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was launched by those devilish Jap imps. Sunday morning, too, when proper sorts was attending services. The horror. Never forget, the peaceful Sunday silence broken by the bombs those rice-eating slopes dropped on us unsuspecting like. I weren't there, but I can tells you such a thing is just bad. Like finding a cockroach in yer gumbo or your date has a penis. But we press on, and heed the call to defend our way of life, of affordable footware made by children who need jobs and would be up watching TV all night anyhow, of news ladies with really great tits and the camera crews with sense enough to make that the lead story, of discount cigarettes and sloppy joes, gorcery shopping at the cumby's where you can top off yer tank, pitching shoes and peeing in public, the sweet symphony of domestic negotiations and snarling rottys in the trailer yard, wide open spaces to dump our Arby's wrappers and the like. The list goes on. I'll close here with this thought. I have seen this great land from sea to shining sea. You wear a clean shirt and drawers, you can git somewheres.9:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have "Peep of the year" on my resume. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason I got my job. I think they now regret their decision.
-McMahon9:39 AM
Pleasant Birthday
Turns out that he doesn't scare easily, and the novocaine shots were a bit more painful than usual.
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Then we went to Cafe Italia in Marblehead to celebrate my birthday. Italian food with a numb face. Not a pretty picture.
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But I had a happy birthday anyway, because all of my kids contacted me as well as the Florida relatives. All without incident or provocations.
Warm Thoughts
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Confused
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That reminds me.... I have a recurring dream that I can dunk a basketball.
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Tomorrow I turn 55. My kids are all grown up. My friends are all looking older.
I have a grandson. What the hell is going on??? How the hell did this happen????
Workout at Work
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It has to be healthy working up a sweat doing work. Sadly, we of the 21st century, sitting in front of our computer screens, are losing this health benefit.
First Blast of Winter
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I'm headed to a hilltop cell site in Claremont, NH today. Our subcontractors said that we would need a snowmobile to get up there. Looks like I'll have to break out the ski cap and gloves. Should be a real test for winter clothing.
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Actually, I love the cold weather in December.... but hate it in March.
- Tuna Lips said...
I woked up to hoar frost on my window and my scrotum all retracted like the shell of a terrapin. Sure sign winter has come, my nut sac starts manifestin' that type of behavior.
I told the washer girl that lives in the double-wide two doors down to give my bed dressings a good boil and to light a candle in the room, clear out that livestock stench. Shucks, I get so busy I can't keep the place put together for proper company. Good thing I can see fit to outsource things outside of my core competencies.
Got me a date with the new gal down in receiving, Brenda Pudding, that's right, pudding, like the savory treat. She is on work release, and has a weakness for men with all their limbs and a full likker cabinet. Plans, big plans. I needs to get some salted nuts, pickled eggs, let's see, a tub of oleo, and some sterno burners, in case she wants to take it to the next level. Always prepared, don't need no merit badge when you are a bona fide winner such as myself.10:14 AM
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Everning Notes.
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The end of year telecom push is in full swing. Lots things to rush through.
- CresceNet said...
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11:11 PM
- Tuna Lips said...
I sure hope that is a lady speaking all the francois. Everyone knows that the Frenchies have the best whores. Believe me, you can look it up.
1:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
Who the hell is Pepe Le Pew?
2:59 PM
Monday, December 03, 2007
Monday Night Football
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Mike and Nathaniel drove up from DC to watch the game, and were randomly interviewed by a reporter from the Salem Evening News as they threw a football among the tailgaters.
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How random is that!!!!
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It will be cool if their photos are in the local paper tomorrow.
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Plus, it's time to resume the ass whuppin' on the NFL by our NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!
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I'll check back with you after the game.
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....... Baltimore outplayed them, but the Patriots squeaked by with the win. Certainly not predicted,, but they found a way. Mike said that he a Nate almost got into 15 fights as they blatantly cheered for the Patriots in the Ravens Stadium.
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In the meantime, Ryan almost cleared out the Gerry with a massive fart. I was so proud.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Plain Gunning dory
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Also, I will add sealed compartments with polyurethane foam for sink proofing.
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And of course, there will be provisions made for two Piandetosi Sliding Seat Rowing rigs.
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Not sure if I will modify for sailing with a centerboard. I probably will for future enjoyment by those who care about sailing. So far, that bug hasn't hit me.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Flightless Birds
Thursday, November 29, 2007
POTW - Week 48
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At any rate, I really haven't had an idle moment since Monday morning. That's a good thing as long as the activity is profitable... I mean, ditch diggers are busy too.
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But I have to believe that the action will convert into dollars, otherwise I'll never get that big ass BMW that I've had my eyes on.
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Announcing.....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for week 48 of 2007.
- Barry Lutchen
- Lindsey Kepnes
- Eric Rumpf
- Tom McMahon
- Linda O'Shea
- Brian Butler
It looks like a busy day tomorrow too.
- Tuna Lips said...
Idle hands is the Debbil's workshop, that is what my momma was good for sayin', particularly when she caught me interferin' with myself. I never got that. I would say, "but momma, my hands is busy", whereupon she would throw in my general direction the mason jar she was drinkin' corn spirits from to forget about her existence.
- Anonymous said...
A+ on the Peep of the week selections. Anything that puts me and Lindsey Kepnes together is perfect by me.
J. you gotta check out Tony La Rusa's youtube video from his sobriety test. The whole thing is good but make sure you hear the part where he says the alphabet. It's something special.
-McMahon10:04 AM
2:15 PM
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Dory Stalking
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Not being able to pass, I got out and asked the guy, who was directing the boat trailer into a driveway, if that was a Chamberlain dory and who built it.
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He corrected me by saying that it was a Chamberlain Gunning Dory (like I didn't already know) and that it was built by Thad Danielson of Redd's Pond Boatworks.
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It was planked with four chined planks, painted gray. The lines were straight out of John Gardner's depiction.
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I'm pretty certain that the utilization of cedar strip planks, carefully matched for color and grain and clear varnished, with no hard chine delineation, will make my dory a unique interpretation of a beautiful design.
Tuna Lips Disclosure.
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The Truth is that I'm sworn to secrecy. I simply can't disclose the person that is Tuna Lips. If you know me at all, you know that I can never betray a confidence.
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Yes.... Tuna Lips is a real person, but here is where it gets complicated. Tuna Lips is a guy who is writing in the persona of another guy that we have labeled as Tuna Lips. Does that sound confusing??? It should because it makes my head hurt.
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So, there is the real Tuna Lips, and a guy who writes as if he is Tuna Lips.
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I'm starting to loathe myself.
- Tuna Lips said...
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Like Yahweh (that is the God of the Jew in the old testermint for you ignant types) I am who am. Slow to anger, but you git my hackles out I am gonna bring my wrath upon yerself like one of them fire-breathin' lizards that attacked those sneaky Japs in the movin picture shows. But fear not, I am a gentle type. I knows how to act in polite society. And see, the ladies, they like ole TL. All of 'ems wants to get rutting around with me, their eyes tear up when I breath across they necks, can not control their emotions. Several have lost bodily control, upchucking undigested vittles, so vaclempht they gets near me. In most cases, they could stand to lose a couple pounds, but really, it aint natural. Shoot, the courts have used their broad intercessory powers on occassion, aiming to settle the women folk down by asking me to just stay out of their general quadrant. Its a burden, but I carry on. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I aint no commie, but there is a ring of truismness in that pertaining to my experience.
The Sizzler is havin' an All U can Eat buffet of USDA grade C beef(stored in only the best brine) and creamed corn. Gotta run.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Photogenic Roenick
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It's a good question and naturally I've taken it very seriously.
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As you know, Roenick is extremely photogenic. And he lives for the camera. So there is so much to consider.
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This is a good one. Not sure if it is my favorite.
Going Native
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So am I.
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American Indians have always held a fascination for me, particularly those of the New England area. I think this guy is from a tribe of the mid-west though.
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What a different world it would have been if the Indians had an immunity to European microbes. Maybe the European technological edge would have been lessened if the Indians were more numerous.
The Indians adapted to technology very quickly. The Europeans introduced horses, and the Indians became arguably the greatest equestrians in history. Their dexterity with firearms was also quickly established.
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But they had not adopted the wheel and were still hunter - gatherers when the Europeans arrived with their germs.
- Tuna Lips said...
My pappy's pappy loved them red skins. In fact, thems was the ones, I think the Choctaw or some such tribe, gave him the name "Lips like Tuna Has". Having never seen a tuna in the Oklahoma badlands, the injuns must of had one of them visions. Not surprising them heathens was seein things, as we got our start in the hooch business selling "firewater" to them savages. I say that with all due respect.
11:51 AM
Monday, November 26, 2007
Getting It Done.
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I think it had to do with setting realistic goals and making lists. Also respecting deadlines. Everyday, I set out to get a workout in, but today I made it a point to stop everything at noon and workout for an hour.
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Naturally I didn't get around to it until 1:00 PM, but I still got it in. Working out at lunchtime is probably the key. Nobody returns your calls then, and the exercise curbs your appetite. It would be nice to develop this habit.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Lousy OddsMakers
Calling Towne's Bluff
Remember Bob Towne? My old college roommate who had stayed buff and in shape after all these years?
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He's the one on the far right, and I'm pretty sure that he doesn't think that I have the guts to post these photos of Joe Collins, me and him.
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I don't exactly recall what the three of us are doing in that picture.
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At any rate, Bob..... as you can see, I still don't embarrass easily.
Fa La La
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Now that my kids are grown, Christmas shouldn't be such an expensive ordeal, although I don't think that Katelyn agrees with me.
- Tuna Lips said...
Keepin' the Christmas season simple and about me and the baby Jesus is what I am all about. I have never given a present that someone has not commented on how thoughtful I am. If I had a nickel fer everytime someone said, "its the thought that counts" after I give them a present . . . . . but I digress. I am expecting a fine array of present from my collegues and business relations this yuletide. From Marilyn, the copy center gal who I never fail to compliment (be it her figure, or her pouty lips) to Suzanne (the 50 something office manager whose "juicy" (I am being generous) bottom I smack ever now and then to make her feel good about herself), there should be a bevy of snack baskets, company clothing, and heart felt notes full of longing ("this should sweeten your breath", came with a pack a mints from one admirer) and Christmas cheer.
Crazy Point Spread
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That says that two teams of professional football players are going to take the field, and one team will win by 24 points. I know that you knew that, but it bears repeating because it is such a crazy notion.
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It's been 27 years since an NFL game has been given such a spread.
Tender Fishfinder
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This Humminbird model is supposed to be accurate up to 600 ft. There are other makes and models available - some in color, with GPS functions, and pretty pricy.
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This B&W model seems to have the basics, reasonable resolution, temperature and deth gauges I'm concerned about battery life. It you don't get more than 12 hours, it would be a pain.
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There should be cod and flounder in Marblehead Harbor over the cold months, and this baby could help me catch them.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Affordable Gifts
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I hope to sell 100 of these and raise $20,000 in order to afford suitable gifts for Katelyn during this joyous holiday time of giving..... and Katelyn Getting.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Slow Day
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I doubt it.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Peep of the Week - 47
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I was also very thankful that two special Peeps chose to take an automatic route to the coveted/avoided Peep of the Week designation. If more of you were as considerate as them, this weekly selection process would flow much easier.
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But there was still enough inspiration, annoyance and stupidity to fill out the remaining slots.
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Bob Brown in particular tried to pull a fast one by telling me that a gift of the Prince of Scotch, Talisker, should be an automatic. I agree that Talisker is the freaking balls, but it's still not Lagavulin. I get more annoyed the more I think about it. I better announce the POTW's before I get on overload.
ANNOUNCING......
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for Week 47 of 2007.
- Michael "Murph" Murphy *
- Bobby Wojcik *
- Dale Johnson
- Bob Brown
- Kristen Jellison
- Ginny Hudak
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I'm still pretty upset about the Talisker caper.
Bash Rehash
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There were two automatic POTW selections due to the gift of the king of scotch, Lagavulin, to me.
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That honor went to Bob Wojcik, who obviously is contrite about wrecking my marathon training, and Michael "Murph" Murphy, who has to be in the running for Peep of the Year.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Bash Eve
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That's because the annual Nestor Thanksgiving Eve Bash has grown to have a cult-like, almost religious significance in the life of most of you.
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I don't know why this is. It's like a mystery of faith.
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Anyway, I hope to see as many of you as possible, and please try not to lapse into a state of frenzied hysteria. It's just a day, like any other day.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Party Planning
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The Food menu is shaping up thusly.
- The Best Buffalo Wings in Civilized Society
- White Trash Balls for the Crawford Boys
- Mike Nestor's Renowned Clam Chowder
- Joanne's Gasless Chili
- Salami and Provolone Cardiac Calzone
- Macaroni and Cheese (the staff of Life)
- Fruit and Cheese for the Diet Conscious
- Cucumber and Dill Breads for the less messy preference.
- Various types of Beer and Wine
- Seagrams and Cider
- Lagavulin
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If you come late, you will miss it because the food goes fast.
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Then all that is left is drinking, and loud and obnoxious behavior.
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I can't wait.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Getting Thankful
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There will be no clinking of champagne glasses until the fat lady sings. But she's starting to warm up. It could be a great Thanksgiving Holiday.
Running It Up
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If the Pats really wanted to run up the score, you would have lost by 80 points. Do you really pine to play our 3rd string?
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Belichick should do what he is doing. If your level of execution is excellent, it is wrong to dumb it down in any circumstances.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Gearing up for the Annual Bash
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So if you were thinking of coming to the 2007 Nestor Thanksgiving Eve Bash, the coast is clear.
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Every year we get some Peeps who whine that they were not invited. That is so bogus, because there are no invitations.
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Zazen
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It's 10:22PM on Sunday night. Tom Brady has just thrown his fifth touchdown pass against the Buffalo Bills. We are watching a professional who has attained a concentrated singularity of purpose.
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It is the Tao of Football.
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Please appreciate this. It is not often that you see someone in such command of his craft.
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Brady, like Larry Bird of the Celtics used to do, makes all around him reach a higher level of attainment.
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In the telecast, John Madden and Al Michaels are reduced to praise and conjecture of whether the Patriots are the best team to ever plan the game. The Bills can't be this bad.... the Patriots are just that good.
Patriots Preparation
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Making Hay
Today was a work day. I know that it is Saturday, but "you have to make hay while the sun shines".
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I actually have no idea what this means, but I find myself saying it quite often. I don't know how to make hay, and I have no idea what the sun has to do with it.
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But it sounds pretty official. At any rate, I worked today because there is a ton of stuff to get done at Nanepashemet Telecom.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Government on Steroids
The possibility of Barry Bonds going to jail for lying about steroid use is ludicrous. The prisons couldn't hold all of the athletes, trainers and team officials who are guilty of this.
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Using steroids is stupid, but is it cheating? Does lifting weights give an athlete an unfair advantage? How about jogging? How about cortisone shots?
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I don't condone the use of steroids because it is stupid, not because it is cheating. If Bonds wants to tear apart his future body for a short term career satisfaction, that is his stupid choice.
BTW, looking at Bonds' photos at the beginning of his career and then now is completely bogus. I'm 100 lbs heavier too, and never stuck the juice into my ass cheek. You get old, you get heavier for most of us. Live with it.
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Bonds apparently is a man of low character. That is why he allegedly lied about taking steroids. But to set him up for indictment is a waste of government resources.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
POTW Week 46
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So, given that nice little preamble, I have to admit that I am scared of heights.... really afraid.... like having a sinking fear from my stomach to my scrotum. I can be on a rooftop with a parapet, and no problem. But a flat roof that you can fall off the edges sends me to wanting to assume the fetal position in the middle, as far away from the edges as possible.
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Notice that I said wanting. I resisted the position in actuality
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Not only am I nervous for me, but I can't stand to see anyone else near the edge.
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I know what you're thinking.....
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How can a rough, tough manly man like myself be so freaking fearful???
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It's a mystery to me too. But today, on a rooftop in Providence, RI, I was reduced to a quivering mass of nervous protoplasm. Which reminds me....
ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 46th Week of 2007
- Bill Shanahan
- Jill Phillips
- Emily Buttorf
- Pat Piscatelli
- Sue Roper
- Debby Clarke
Tomorrow, I'll get on another roof.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Mass Movement
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Would you believe it if I told you that I was too busy to Blog?
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Say it ain't So!!!
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But that is the case as Nanepashemet Telecom reaches critical mass. After a while, we will open up and hire, which I swore not to do, but it is getting big fast. Which means I am glued to this keyboard, with a Blog in need and a Dory project waiting for a next step that just keeps getting pushed back.
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Please don't panic. I will find a way to solve this.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Tender Moment
Monday, November 12, 2007
Dory Delays
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And that's just to clear to decks so that we can deal with the big procurement that just walked in the Nanepashemet Telecom door. There will be some major hours processing that. I'm not complaining. This is infinitely better than waiting for the phone to ring, or trying to manufacture opportunities.
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But I'm not the least bit optimistic about finding the time to spend on the Dory. Plus it's starting to be the time to plan on the annual Nestor Thankgiving Eve Bash. Joanne wants to scale it down this year. She says that every year, and every year it always escalates to a blowout.
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What makes this year different? Absolutely nothing. All of you Peeps are invited, and none of you know how to behave.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Pinch Yourself
Cool November Row
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The harbor was pretty empty and most of the boats were hauled. I smashed into a number of moorings, but the Tender seemed oblivious to it.
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It was a pain hauling out on the concrete ramp however, and the strip of naval brass that was epoxied to the keel was ripped off. Luckily I found it on the adjacent beach, and I'll have to screw it back on. The epoxy alone obviously wasn't enough.
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When I finally got the Tender back on the trailer, Abby Bruett showed up and I helped her and Greg haul the Mystic Krewe onto their trailer. Good timing.
Dale Johnson's Nostalgic Fashion Retreat
This is entirely Dale's narrative.
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Last weekend I put an exhaust fan in the ceiling for my wife's grandfather. While my wife's brother and I were fitting the fan in between the joists, we found something under the insulation. What we found was this:
A JC Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often blog fodder just falls in my lap, but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking. I thumbed through it quickly and found my next dining room set, which is apparently made by adding upholstery to old barrels:
Also, I am totally getting this for my bathroom:
There's plenty more home furnishings where those came from, however I'm not going to bore you with that. Instead, I'm going to bore you with something else. The clothes.
The clothes are fantastic.
Here's how to get your ass kicked in elementary school:
Just look at that belt. It's like a boob-job for your pants. He probably needed help just to lift it into place. The belt loops have to be three inches long. And way to pull them up to your armpits, grandpa.
Here's how to get your ass kicked in high school:
This kid looks like he's pretending to be David Soul, who is pretending to be a cop who is pretending to be a pimp that everyone knows is really an undercover cop. Who is pretending to be 15.
Here's how to get your ass kicked on the golf course:
This "all purpose jumpsuit" is, according to the description, equally appropriate for playing golf or simply relaxing around the house. Personally, I can't see wearing this unless you happen to be relaxing around your cell in D-block. Even then, the only reason you should put this thing on is because the warden made you, and as a one-piece, it's slightly more effective as a deterrent against ass-rapery.
Here's how to get your ass kicked pretty much anywhere:
If you look at that picture quickly, it looks like Mr. Bob "No-pants" Saget has his hand in the other guy's pocket. In this case, he doesn't, although you can tell just by looking at them that it's happened - or if it hasn't happened it will. Oh yes. It will. As soon as he puts down his matching coffee cup.
Here's how to get your ass kicked at the beach:
He looks like he's reaching for a gun, but you know it's probably just a bottle of suntan lotion in a holster.
How to get your ass kicked in a meeting:
If you wear this suit and don't sell used cars for a living, I believe you can be fined and face serious repercussions, up to and including termination. Or imprisonment, in which case you'd be forced to wear that orange jumpsuit.
Tommy the Astronomer
Look at the email he sent me.
Hi Jay,
This is making me a little crazy; I have been online looking to see if there were any other chuckleheads who saw this thing.
There are obvious problems with this email. First of all Tom, you were a little crazy long before seeing this so called "fireball" . Second, they are not "chuckleheads"... the proper nomenclature is "Peeps".
Now this is going to cause a whole new rash of hysterical emails. Thanks alot Tommy.
Another Convert
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I introduced Frankie to the virtues of Lagavulin though, so it wasn't all bad.
Dream On
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Normally I would search for the channel changer and find some cool program on the History Channel to try to wake up to, but the channel changer was missing so I decided to drift back off to sleep and pay attention to my dreams.
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Man... Dreams can be so crazy. The way things seem so logical as you are dreaming them, then you wake up and say "How does a volleyball transform into a Cat????" and "Why was I gagged and wearing earmuffs at a company picnic?" and even much weirder stuff that is hard to articulate.
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It is amazing that when you are dreaming, these images and transformations seem perfectly tuned to reality. Then when you wake up and think about it, you say to yourself, "WTF!!!"
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Naturally, a bunch of you wise ass Peeps are going to make stupid remarks of what these images reveal about me. Bring it on!!! If you were so damn well adjusted, you wouldn't be logging on to this rediculous Blog.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Getting into the Holiday Spirit
Further Fart Fun
Friday Forecast
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I don't usually like to work on business during the weekend.... it's healthy to turn away for a two day period. But we have to get all of the small details under wraps as we attack a major procurement that will have a profound effect on our company.
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I know. Once again, the Marblehead Gunning Dory project is fading from view. I obviously haven't forgotten about it, but if I land this business, everything should be moving forward, and I will be able to devote some attention to your precious Dory.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
POTW - Week 45
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Then I went to Dr. Danny Levy's office and had the baby tooth that had been my left front canine for the last half century yanked. I felt sentimental about it and took it home in an envelope. Not that I believe in the tooth fairy or anything. I asked Joanne if she wanted it mounted in a necklace or something, however, she had no real show of enthusiasm.
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Now I have a full size bridge and my mouth feels completely unnatural. Wonder if this will screw up my public speaking ability? At least Scotch tastes the same.
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For the most part, the dentist trip proved to be cathartic after my embarrassing jerk episode.
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..... So now I'm back to normal.
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Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for Week 45 of 2007
- Pete Endras
- Emily Ingardia
- Rebecca May
- Tanya Towne
- Joe Collins
- Tom Faiola
Fart Retort
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It was one of Tuna Lips best comments, though and bears sharing here.
- Tuna Lips said...
Many a night, Shoo Fly and me was hoboin', we'd settled into a tin of baked beans, dash on some catsup, and throw in a piece of salt pork, before an open fire under a starry sky, and we'd fart the William Tell Overture. Tanglewood has nothin to compare.
Its a burden being an artist.
Bird Mystery
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Don't you hate that???
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No worries. I'll solve this mystery soon enough
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Sundance Parents
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It was good input to the business decision that we made last year to move.
A bit full of yourself, big boss man. Nary a word of guidance for this sheppard-less flock. My mammy said pride goeth before youse fall, most often when she stumbled to her knees, having dosed down all that cough syrup to clear up her cold. She got colds all year round. Poor of health, my ma. But strong of wits, as can be seen in her wise sayings and, frankly, her progedy. That being me, and Shoo Fly, but no so much Shoo Fly.
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