Bullshit Barristers

On my way to the Marblehead Transfer Station (aka Town Dump) this morning with Ryan, he made a comment about what assholes the "Barristers" at Starbucks are.
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Man... did he hit the nail on the head!
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On average, the Starbucks people who sell you coffee are rude and smug. Not sure why.
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Is it because they resent you because of the station in life that they presently find themselves? They really don't seem to do much. For the Bold Medium that I buy, they just fill up the cup. I have to put the Splenda and Half and Half in by myself.

BTW, I simply refuse to call the size Vente, or Tall. That's just plain stupid.
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Maybe being forced to call a "medium" a "Vente" all day long brings out the asshole in you. I guess I have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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The bottom line is that I like Starbucks coffee. I know that some people call it "Tarbucks", I still prefer it over Dunkin Donuts. But the people at Dunkin Donuts are way better that the Starbucks asshole barristers.
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Now... is everybody who works there an Asshole??? Of course not!..... just the majority.

Tuna Lips said...

Sounds ta me like homo anxiety. Folks dont much give a rat's arse fer where ye gits yer joe.

Peep of the Week - Week 6

This is the longest that I've not posted to this Blog in 2 1/2 years.
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Either I'm a slacker.... or I haven't had a life for the last 2 1/2 years.
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Regardless, the reason that I haven't posted is personal and none of your God-Damn business. So piss off.

ANNOUNCING.....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the sixth week of 2009

Denise Kearns
Peter Howard
Jeff Gold
Jim Lundgren
Ricardo Sousa
Kate Rugman

I'll be back on the routine soon... if that will make you freaking happy.

Dory Draw

It was 55 degrees today. Almost warm enough to get me back out to the garage to resurrect the Marblehead Gunning Dory. I think that I will stick to plan, though, and build the work bench first.
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Sometime during my travels this week, I'll stop by Home Depot and pick up the best piece of 4x8 maple plywood that I can pull from the stack. The plywood top gets the nod over the butcherblock because of the lack of movement when I trim the top with either solid maple or solid mahogany with dovetailed corners. I'll rip it in half and double it to provide the bulk and weight that a work bench requires, and will cut it to a six foot length.
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I'm afraid that the solid butcherblock would cause movement along the width of the top that would cause the dovetail trim to separate.
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I've also decided to keep the top on a 24" width more or less rather than the 30" that I originally planned. I want to be able to easily reach over the width of the bench.
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The bench won't be rushed, but I hope to finish it before spring draws me back to getting serious with the Dory again.

A Bit Pretentious

So today I ran into someone who told me supposedly what I was thinking, and why I should not be thinking it.
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That's pretty cool.
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I don't even know what the hell I'm thinking most of the time, but this Know-It-All has the fascinating insight to tell me what I think and why I'm wrong to think it.
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So, you invent what I think, and then condemn me for thinking it......
A foolproof argument.
Holy Shit!
I wish I was that smart.
Katie Couric could do no better.

Supply Trip

Peeps.
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I have a strong recommendation for you.
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Never go to lunch on a Fri. afternoon... have four beers and two scotches... then decide it might be a good idea to go to Costco for a little supply run.
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On my way home, I definitely had a bad case of buyer's remorse.
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• Not sure why I needed a 30 pack of Red Bull.
• Ten bucks worth of TUMS antacid tablets seemed a bit much.
• The ten pack of uniball pens was entirely unnecessary.
• An additional pair of jeans made no sense at all.
• Forty dollars for Gillette Fusion razor blades was questionable.

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But at least I had the good sense to buy twelve paper towel rolls, 24 rolls of toilet paper and three sets of leather work gloves. Not to mention the 55 packets of Quaker Instant Oatmeal and the 4 lbs of salted butter.
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There was more stuff... but I'm too embarrassed to tell you what it was.
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Four beers and two scotches.... cost me $400 bucks at Costco.

LMR

Finally got the courage to get a run in on the Nordic Track treadmill. Only 1.5 miles, but it's a start. Part of the Lean and Mean Routine.

POTW Week 5

Every once in a while, you get blessed with the chance to see where you really stand in life. The times that try men's souls.... so to speak.

Fortunately, these times don't occur often, but when they do, you have to recognize the blessing.

Announcing...

Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the fifth week of 2009.

Jeremy Johnson
Doug Maxfield
Chuck Jellison
Joanne Nestor
Frank Wetmore
Carol Kenner

Normally, I wouldn't give a hint why, but none of these were annoying... all inspirational.

Yes ... I Know.

If you're wondering if I know....
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I do know.
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So Freaking What!!!!
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You can take your Brady Bunch, Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It to Beaver Bullshit and stick it up your Ass.
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This is the HOME of the BRAVE.... not some pussified version of Wannabee Land. This is the shit that builds character. Shortly we'll see who has it, and who doesn't.

Time Constraints

It wasn't so long ago when Nanepashemet Telecom was in the sales and marketing mode. I vastly prefer the operating mode, but it has put my time at a premium.

Archrival said...

If you had gone to a pedigreed academy... like Shrewsbury High School, you'd have better learned how to manage your time, so that you could utter such wisdom as "Vidi, Vici, Veni"
I saw, I conquered, I came... Here in the Sunshine State of FL, where they finally learned to count Chad's, I bask in the sunshine while my contemporaries struggle in their day to day pursuits... Dodging snowflakes. My only concerns are political...will I drift left or right... though most drives are down the middle !

Must have hit a nerve with Joe Collins, my Archrival who is a proud graduate of Shrewsbury High School. Nothing personal Joe....
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....but your knowledge of Latin is lacking for an alumni of such a prestigious academy. The translation of Julius Caesar's comments about Gaul is "I came, I saw, I conquered". You completely misconscrewed it.

Tuna Lips said...

I likes to go swimmin' with bowlegged women and swims between they legs, swim between they legs, o' swim between they legs . . .

Taxes Again

I hate Tax Season.
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It reminds me that we are not close to being free in this country. We are lulled to sleep and let the government confiscate a huge amount of our productivity. By far, my largest anxiety is the power of the IRS to swoop in, pronounce you guilty, confiscate your bank accounts and leave you in a hapless state to try to defend yourself after you have been pillaged.
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If you think I'm exaggerating.... I'm not even a little bit. Been there, and I hope you never will be.
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So that's my annual tax bitch.
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In a few weeks, I will have fed the Monster again, and have forgotten about this gross inequity for a little while.

Lean and Mean

OK the basement is completed. Mike and Stevie Lewis helped me move the Cybex down from Mike's room. So now there is no excuse but to rev up the exercise routine and start getting lean and mean. I'm already mean, so I have to start really working on the lean part.

POTW Week 4

So I get this email with all sorts of attitude from my friend, Pat Piscatelli, about missing the POTW Selection.
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Patrick...."Et tu Brute!"
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Pat knows Latin and is classically educated as a former street kid from Taft School, so he knows exactly what I am saying to him.
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But for you other boneheads, it is a quote from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". And it stands for... "Why did you stick the freaking knife in me Brutus? I thought you were my freaking friend!"
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It's sad that I have to explain everything. And you really have no excuse. I read Shakespeare at Lynn English High School, not some hoity-toity, pedigreed academy like Shrewsbury High or something.
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Anyway...
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Announcing...
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 4th week of 2009.

The Lift Ticket Lady at Mount Cranmore
Mike Nestor
Pat Piscatelli
Bob Brown
Ric Hudson
Diane Feinstein

Ironically, I was down by Taft School in Connecticut on Thurs. pulling permits for Nanepashemet Telecom, which caused Piscatelli to miss his precious POTW Selection post.

Cold, yet Hot

This morning when I left North Conway for Marblehead, it was -11 degrees Fahrenheit. That's freaking MINUS ELEVEN!!! Which is cold, even for a mountain of a man like me.
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Can't say that it slowed me down though. After a quick stop in Marblehead to check email and prepare some documents, it was off to Maynard, then Sturbridge in a hectic search for Nanepashemet paypoints. Elsier was wielding his way through Rhode Island, and we had Rockland, Maine covered... among other things.
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The weather is cold... but Nanepashemet remains sizzling hot.

Tuna Lips said...

I rekomends you keep your woolies on and a flagon of antifreeze on the bench seat of yer vehicle.

I have a comment on some of yer spectatin' in days of past. Its plenty cold here in Skinny Smoke Holler, and I recreate my evenings on my sofa (that is what thems in france call a couch) watchin' tv. Since I spliced in my neighbors cable, I gets some primo channels, all fer nothin' but a tip of the cap on my mornin' jaunt.

Likes I says, I am watchin the pay fer it shows, and this "Rome" serial youse was so high on comes streakin' in. I am all for edifying myself, so I settle in with my flagon of mead and barrel of pork rinds. scene 1, some hussy gives this other hussy, as a sort of house warming present, a hatchet faced mute with a dork as big as ole Sugarfoots, tied down like a bronc. She goes on to say "large penis is a most gracious gift, don't youse think?" Great Caesar's Testicles, what the hell is this nonsense? These Eyetalian's, what was goin' on there? I means, I can appreciate a good public execution, and I likes lions at the circus that come through town, but what in the hell happened here? I am all for the lady folk sharin' a recipe for butter cookies and sending over a roast chicken to say "welcomes to the trailer park", but who in the hell gets to sending over a chattel with a pecker like a Louisville Slugger? Quites a leap, them hollywood pinkos is taking with the legacy of them no good pope lovin' garlic breathin' ginnies.

Cruising at Cranmore

Mike and I killed it on the slopes of Cranmore Mountain yesterday. Just scorched every trail. I must have hit top speeds of over 20MPH.
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Plus it was only after I paid for lift tickets when I was told that you got a discount if you were over 65 years of age.
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The ticket lady said that I easily could have faked it.... Bitch.
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It was cold though. This morning the thermometer showed -9 degrees Fahrenheit in North Conway.

Nanepashemet Peep of the Week- Week 3 - 2009

I've been taking a bit of deserved criticism about the lack of POTW selections this year. But I basically don't care if you are pissed off. I've got a wicked good excuse and absolutely no need to tell you what it is.

Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 3rd week of 2009.

Susan Raich
Katie Couric
Michelle Obama
Katelyn Nestor
Gail Johnson
Caroline Kennedy

An all Female selection.... it wasn't planned, it just worked out that way

Obamarama

They are putting Barack Obama on a pretty high pedestal.... but, pretty soon the speeches will end and the policy begins.
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He is definitely the leader that the country needs. Soon we'll see if he is the commander and administrator that will truly ensure his greatness.
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I am sincerely happy for the people of color who are so emotional over the success of this man. One can only imagine the deep rooted feelings of a people who have been so persecuted over the course of American history to see one of their own rise to the top of the pile.
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Dr. King's Dream is realized. And that on it's own is something to cherish and celebrate.
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A new world is born. Let's see how quick it reaches maturity.

Tuna Lips said...

Sounds likes someone has been sniffin' pixie dust and gotten all gay. Jephimany candlemas, whats next, a sewin' bee with the women's tea clatch? Will, Nathan, dont be gay. Ise pullin fer ye!

Inauguration Invite

I feel so bad for the Good Morning America idiots, Robin and Diane.
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They are actually having involuntary orgasms on camera as they coo and gush over the inauguration details.
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How embarrassing for them!!!!
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Speaking of the Obama Inauguration, I didn't get invited so I'm not going.
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Shocked???
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So am I.
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I didn't even get offered a job in the Obama administration, which is a major faux pas on Barach's part.
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Doesn't he realize the contributions that could be made in a plethora of places by the Nanepashemet Blogmaster???? It is such a blotched opportunity for the hapless Democrats.

Pisc said...

It all seems pretty gay, the inauguration hoo ha. I am supporting Barry, no sour grapes, but the whole media event over what is a sober transition of significant earth bound power, that is somewhat, well, friggin' gay.

On a happier note, Al Qaeda camp in Algiers was closed recently due to an outbreak of the bubonic plauge. Apparently, some Taliban types spent time there and may have carried it back to their cave in the hills. God's power is awesome. Allāhu Akbar!

Latin

Illegitimi Non Carborundum
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That's Latin for "Don't let the Bastards Get You Down."
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Good advise to repeat to myself because I keep running into assholes who have various interests in seeing the good guys lose a couple of steps. They won't get us down.

Tuna Lips said...

ease up there, Rambo, and grab yourself some couch, get to spectatin' the American Idolizer programmin'. There is an Almighty, if this dirn't prove it, well, I am not my sister's uncle.

No Respite

I am still completely straight out. Nanepashemet Telecom is sizzling hot in the midst of this economic downturn.
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Go figure.
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To my detractors who predicted that my business would fail, ...and you know who you are, ....you were woefully off of the mark. But I'm so God Damned busy that I can't take any satisfaction from it.
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I will pick up the pace with this pathetic Blog, but not today or tomorrow.

Focus of Attention

Peeps -
Sorry about the post lapse.
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This house fire has taken a lot more attention that I had anticipated, and a number of other issues popped up that I don't want to tell you about.
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It's funny.
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Usually I feel like I'm getting screwed by business or finance, but that side of the equation is holding up well. It's a whole bunch of other abnormalities that has demanded my focus.
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This too shall pass.
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Looking forward to returning to peace and harmony.