(Last updated: 6-13-2025)

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Welcome to my crappy website. It truly is a bootleg bunch of crap, but I don't care. Not at all. I'm not doing it just to entertain you scumbags; I'm doing it because writing is fun but I am too lazy to actually write a real book. Don't laugh because I'm serious.

If you want to know who the hell I am and why I spent my hard-earned $18.17 to register this domain and to share my thoughts with the world then you can click here to find out. I have no update schedule so if you don't like it then you can ggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttt oooooooouuuuuuuuttttttttttttttt!

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Friday, 6-13-25: Sox-Yanks.
For the first time in weeks I'm watching more than 5 minutes of the Red Sox. Tonight it's Sox-Yankees at Fenway. The Sox had a 1-0 lead in the 9th until Aaron Judge came to the plate and smashed a big-league home run way over the "Green Monster." Now it's still tied 1-1 going in the 10th inning. What a bunch of crap! Aaron Judge is a machine, part-cyborg, not really but man can he hit. A couple years ago he hit 62 home runs and that's a non-steriod record. Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire have higher seaon totals, but they are all heavily connected to the steroid era from 2.5 decades ago, give or take.

I'm not a huge baseball fan anymore, but how can you root for the Yankees in any game? I am still a Red Sox fan and holy JESUS THE RED SOX JUST WALKED IT OFF IN THE BOTTOM OF THE 10TH WITH A SHOT OFF THAT GREEN MONSTER THAT IS BADASS! Thank you, Carlos Navarrez. (Not even sure I spelled his name right what a bunch of crap!)

I'll watch a bit of the Pacers-Thunder game 4 NBA finals before I bivouac. The Thunder had the best record in th NBA and are the #1 seed and favored to win it all, but the Pacers are killing it in these playoffs and have a 2 games to 1 series lead. I might not make it to the end of the game because I'll rack out soon. Too bad the Celtics washed out of the playoffs like a turd washes down a toilet. Gods damn it!

I worked on this for the morning today with my helper Daniel. I had to buy ten bags of concrete at Lowe's and that's not even enough. I knew it wouldn't be, but it at least got me a start. It was nice having a helper to bear some of the work-load. I can mix up a bag of cement easily enough, but doing ten of them gets tiring. Plus we had to move some plywood and shingles top-side so we're set up for Monday morning. The shingles in the photo are just to keep the form from failing. Can't have the concrete blowing out because it does get heavy in a hurry.

That is going to be a roughly 15 cubic foot 4x4 station for the homeowner's pool pump and related accessories. I did "cheat" and put a few cubic feet of our driveway gravel mix in the back bottom because it doesn't need to be 11 solid inches of concrete. The homeowner was going to have a floor for the garage poured this year, but it's not in the budget and right now it's not mission-critical. Plus finding a good contractor who does good concrete work is not easy. I still haven't even gotten a quote for a slab I want here for a garage. What a bunch of crap!

I helped my awesome wife move the ducks and chickens downstairs earlier. It's really nice NOT having them in our kitchen/dining room anymore. I don't hate them, but they should not live in a kitchen. It was fine when they were barely the size of an egg, but as they grew it became more and more difficult to manage them. Soon they'll be going outside in their respective coops.

Speaking of the downstairs, I didn't get any work done down there today because I got fed up and started organizing my stuff. For the first time in well over a year, maybe two years, I cleaned out the back of my truck. I waste far too much precious... precious time looking for my stuff and after not knowing where either of my two jig-saws were I just couldn't take it anymore. Oh, I also can't find my two favorite Dewalt drills but I know they are here because they were in the truck at noon. What a bunch of crap!

There was not a jig-saw in the back of the truck. Too bad because I thought I had one there hehe. I did find an old one left here from the prior owner, but it doesn't work with my blades. I need to find one tomorrow so I can finish Dad's shooting bench for Father's Day Sunday.

I've put a tremendous amount of work in on the soon-to-be downstairs hangout area. Here it is as of a couple days ago:

^Still looks incredibly incomplete, but a huge wall section is ready for paint and soon I'll have that entire half of the space ready for a drop-ceiling. I can do those suspended (or drop) ceilings quickly. We've also had new stairs for a few weeks and I thought most of my electrical was done until I had to burn precious... precious time today trying to figure out why the lights down there stopped working. Not the bulbs, definitely electrical. Probably a loose connection somewhere, but I couldn't find it so I quit.

Speaking of quitting, I am going to call it a day here shortly and rack out with my crack out. I'll work on the house all day tomorrow and go down to the ol' homestead Sunday for Father's Day. I might play racquetball tomorrow, but probably not because I haven't even texted the guys and no one texted me. I'd actually be totally fine with just staying here, doing some yoga, working on the house, and taking a short PM break for a jog. Weather looks good upper 60s to around 70 both days, not humid, and no rain. If we get no rain it will be the first precip-free weekend since winter. What a bunch of crap!

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Thursday, 6-12-25: Coops, sheetrock, roof, riots.
People have been rioting in parts of LA in response to Trump's agressive push to kick illegal immigrants out of the counrty. I can't imaging ever living there or in any big city, but especially LA. How many riots have happened in that overpopulated part of the world in my lifetime? At least a few. The one I remember most was Rodney King, a black man beaten (to death?) by cops many, many years ago. People sometimes just take to the street and cause mayhem out there. What a bunch of crap!

I stayed here at the house today to work on a few things. Bruce and Kevin came this morning to hook up Dillon and Debbie's water softner, and we also had a hose spigot installed on the other side of the house near what will soon be the chicken and ducks coop areas. I started working indoors for about 1.5 hours on sheetrock sanding downstairs before I headed outside to work on this:

^The area for the ducks is mostly done now, but the chicken area is probably a little less than 50% done. I put in 3-4 total hours on that coop area before it was time for a mid-afternoon jog and then working for about an hour on a new shooting bench for dad. I think the bench is at least half-done, but I'm not certain. I probably could have fiished it today, but F that I need a break before supper.

The ducks will live on the left side, the chickens will live in the middle, and there will be room leftover for an outdoor cat area on the right side. I enjoy working on the pet areas, but I wish I didn't have 50 other things going on at the same time. I still have the occasional tax client who needs me, we have endless yard work left to do, and this garage uses up precious... precious time each week:

I busted out a big roof section both Monday and yesterday there for a total of only 9 hours. On Monday I needed to install trip and drip-edge before I rolled out some ice and water shield, and I started a few of the shingles Monday. Yesterday I did about 2-3 hours of shingles before I fiished down below in the shade shoring up some supports and cross-bracing. The thing is plenty strong now, but adding some extra can't hurt and should help with code for when they come look again.

I have a great tan now. Oh Jesus, hell ya! I think I'm already about blueberry-raking tan and that is rare for me. Lots of outdoor work and lots more to come before most of the work is indoors come early and late fall. I have 15-16 more square of roofing to do before more trim, windows, doors, siding, etc. Plus I still want to build a garage here at some point before it gets too cold, but that is looking less likely to happen since I'm just too busy elsewhere all the time. What a bunch of crap!

Next time I update this bootleg site that only two of you will ever read I'll have to post updated photos of the downstairs. That's been a lot of sheetrock work. A lot. However, I have a big section of it ready for paint now so that might happen this weekend...

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Saturday, 6-07-25: Birthdays, ducks, garage, etc.
Today is my father's 76th birthday and Thursday was my awesome wife's 50th birthday. I'll call Dad later today, and I'll go visit on Father's Day next Sunday. Kat and I spent most of Thursday together celebrating her milestone birthday; I took the day off from working and it was a nice day. Got very hot here close to 90 with later PM thunderstorms so it was a perfect day to not work on that huge garage. We went down closer to the coast where it was ten degrees cooler so the heat wasn't opressive. We first went to 1A Relics, a cool antique store on the outskirts of Ellsworth. From there was a jaunt down Route 1 to Searsport for a nice lunch, back through Bucksport to walk the waterfront, then back to home before we went out later to Mack's for some bootleg karaoke.

I did work an hour on Kat's birthday, but it was only downstairs doing some mudding and sanding. I really want to get that downstairs done this month, but it's a lot more work and I have to also balance that garage job as well as finishing the coop for the ducks and starting the coop for the chickens. I also want to build Dad a new shooting bench for his birthday/Father's Day, but I can't remember where I put the measurements for the rotting-out bench he has now. Maybe I'll find it or maybe there are numbers online for what would be a standard size...

My plan was to build Dad two new shooting benches last fall, but once the restaurant sale fell apart it was game over for our asses and back to work 80 hours a week. What a bunch of crap! I definitenty don't miss that crazy-ass schedule. It's only 0644 and I've been up 45 minutes and ready to go. My awesome wife just got up so I need to scoot off this bootleg site that almost no one will ever read to help her clean the ducks and chickens' cages. It's a whole routine that takes close to an hour. What a bunch of crap! The ducks should be moving outside tomorrow so that will be a win. They are so big now they are nasty to have in the kitchen. Not their fault of course, but we don't need that in our friggin' kitchen. Plus the dogs like to eat whatever duck-turds they can reach from the edge of the cage. Nooooooooo! The ducks will sometimes drop a deuce that lands within reach for the dogs, but the chickens keep their shit in their cage... for now.

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Tuesday, 6-03-25: Things don't suck this week as much as they did last week.
We had another dumpster-fire weather pattern this past weekend with rain, drizzle, and cooler temps. (I think there wouldn't have actually been a dumpster fire with all the rain of course.) It was the tenth weekend in a row with rain around here, or so they say on the news. It really feels like all damn year what a bunch of crap!

The rain Saturday didn't really bother me, though. I worked indoors all day on the downstairs finishing sheetrock install and mudding/taping. I've spent some time over the past few days doing more mud and tape, but yesterday and today I worked outside more than I worked inside. The garage-job was yesterday and I have a couple photos from Friday:

^I had a helper for the first time all year there Friday. My helpers from last year also worked for us at the restaurant, but I heard they moved out of state and I don't want them back anyway. I enjoyed working with them, a father and son, but they quit on the restaurant one week before we were scheduled to close anyway for good and that really hurt us. A lot.

On Friday we got part of that roof actually sheathed. Oh Jesus, hell ya! Tomorrow we'll get most of the remaining rafters in place and a few more pieces of plywood top-side. Shingling probably won't be until mid-late month because after we sheath the entire roof I need to install some trim and do a little more other prep. Shingles should go quickly on that 12-3 basic roof. Maybe? Hopefully!

^You can see my helper up there. He's a friend, a really good guy, and his chick worked for us at the restaurant and was one of our best employees. We still hang out with them from time to time including last Saturday night when we went to the new Mack's Restaurant and Tavern that opened in our failed spot. That place... I had to sign legal stuff so I guess I can't really say, but F that only two people ever come here because this site is a bootleg piece of shit. Their 1-star Google reviews are very telling. I actually felt badly for them on Saturday because we did have a good time, but there were maybe 10 customers there all night INCLUDING US OMG WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! On our bad Saturdays there with Mad Kat we'd still get 4 or 5 times that many.

The problem with the new restaurant is they have no real brand. They don't know who they are or what they are as a business. Simply opening as a RESTAURANT isn't enough here. What's the theme? There's no decor and it's drab inside. We had posters and other decor related to our music theme. That ended up being a popular place with a huge following. Can they do the same? Right now it's not looking good for many more reasons than what I already wrote.

The ducks are HUGE now so thankfully we almost have their coop-area ready. If all goes as planned we will move them outside Saturday. Chickens will stay in with us for a bit more; they are also growing very quickly. Revielle every morning for my awesome wife is 0500 so she can start cleaning their cages and the entire kitchen. I usually get up a tad after her and help. I don't want to get up at 0500, F that! However, sometimes I do get up that early when I rack out early. Light comes in before 0500 this time of year even with dark curtains and I actually like it because it tells me to gear up for a productive day. Then half the time I fall back to sleep what a bunch of crap! It's rare I sleep past 0600 on weekdays, though.

^We do have 6 chickens, but the other three were out of the frame. The ducks and chickens were about the same size when we first got them and wow the ducks just grow so quickly. I took that picture Friday and I think the ducks doubled in size since then as well!

The weather today was a 10. I went for a 2-mile jog before lunch, but I walked some as usual. I've had a right calf strain for over a week, but these past couple days it's improved a lot. It really didn't bother me too much during the jog what bothered me more is how much of a pussy I am. I get so out of breath now my cardio is embarassing. What a bunch of crap! Hey, I did jog over 1.5 miles of the 2-miles so that's better than nothing. I am a little less sore than I was last week so maybe my bootleg body is making the needed adjustments (I could just say I'm getting in better shape.) It's a small step forward, but I do notice and appreciate it.

I need to take some pictures of the downstairs area. I actually have a big area almost ready for paint, but it's only about 1/4 of the entire space. I'm certainly over 25% done with the remodel in that spacious room, but I'm under 50%. I don't think I can finish it before the end of this month like I want to do. 27 days left in the month, who knows, but the odds of my not finishing it are above the last two percentages I just posted COMBINED. What a bunch of crap!

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