(Last updated: 4-29-2025)

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Tuesday, 4-29-25: Chickens, allergies, trash, Celtics, etc.
We bought 6 chickens on Saturday. They're tiny little birds who are staying in their enclosed paradise in our kitchen:

^They need it around 95 degrees so we have a heat-lamp on them and holy crap they are SMALL. We have about a month to get an outdoor coop made for them because they grow up fast and no way are adult chickens living inside this place.

Why chickens? Besides the obvious we will have a lot of eggs they eat ticks and we have a HUGE tick problem here. Those little life skid-marks are everywhere on this property including on me, the pets, and the grandkids the past couple days. What a bunch of crap! We have a perfect breeding ground for them with our overgrown property. Thankfully that will change soon when we have bush-hogging done. Today I also cut back some brush and trees near the house. The best way to fight ticks is to clear the property and get animals that eat ticks. Like chickens!

We have six little chicken nuggets and at least 4 of them are egg-laying hens. The other two are unknown now because I guess chicks appear unisex. My awesome wife wanted two ducks as well, but she agreed we weren't really ready for both at the same time since neither one of us have owned farm animals before. We went back to Tractor Supply Sunday but the ducks were all sold out so my wife treated me like shit for a while. What a bunch of crap! She was all pissed off that we didn't get them Saturday, but she was the one who agreed maybe we shouldn't bite off more than we can chew. Last thing either of us wanted was a bunch of dead birds over the weekend.

The weekend sucked. Neither one of us felt very well, I was definitely a bit sick with a head-cold, and the weather was ten pounds of shit stuffed into a five-pound bag. A cool and VERY rainy weekend meant no outdoor work. What a bunch of crap! I was going to replace the stairs leading to the downstairs, but I just didn't feel well enough and I wanted better outside weather so I have an area to do my cuts and prep. I did already cut the stringers so fingers crossed I got that right.

We've had AWESOME weather the past couple days with lots of sun and temps in the low 70s. Oh Jesus hell ya! Sadly that has come with everything springing to life and allergy season has begun for me. I got hit HARD from pollens and shit today. I actually had to take an allergy pill in the morning and one before supper. Gods damn it! I worked outside a lot and already have a base-tan forming so that's a win. Brewer "Spring Cleanup" is this week today through Saturday so I'm planning to make at least 3 trips with trash to their landfill. Even though we live in Eddington now I still have a Brewer ID and Eddington residents can use the Brewer dump anyway since Eddington doesn't have its own town dump.

I also started this fence at the property where I'm doing the garage:

The homeowner wants a vinyl fence and we'll get rid of that old chain-link fence. I've never installed a vinyl fence before! This homeowner has me doing all kinds of crazy stuff over the years. Sometimes I have to tell him no, but usually I pull it off. It was the owner's idea to use those metal poles for a base because he has a tool that pounds them into the ground. Fuck that digging 13 holes, pouring concrete, etc. That would take forever and give me bad tennis elbow. I'd do it if I have to, but his idea seems to work ok. Took me a few minutes to get a rythm, but yesterday I got dialed in before I quit.

I didn't work there much today, just did some cleanup, because code had some concerns after a neighbor complained about setbacks and whatnot. Code already approved the job last fall but the second floor seemed to be in question. Code says we can go up to 35 feet high and we should "only" be 26 or so at the peak.

The Celtics were playing poorly but the took a huge lead in the 3rd quarter so it looks like they will beat the Orlando Magic tonight at the TD Garden in Boston and win the first-round playoff series 4 games to 1. Great! The Celtics are now up 101-75 with less than 7 minutes left in the game so I think it's a 99.9% chance they win. Good thing becasue I'm getting tired and it's almost 2300. Past my usual bedtime; I won't stay up for the last minutes of the game if the lead stays this large for another few minutes because it'll be over.

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Wednesday, 4-23-25: Celtics win, my update deletes, garage photos.
Well that SUCKS. I had about two paragraphs written on this bootleg site that almost no one will ever read and then I accidentally closed it out and it didn't save. What a bunch of crap! I ain't writing it all over again so here are the bullet-points:

The Celtics won game 2 of the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Red Sox lost and are 14-12 on the season. I worked half a day at the tax office and half a day doing carpentry today. Having two jobs is great until I have to do a lot of both at the same time. I worked about 3.5 hours in the tax office this morning as well as the same yesterday. Some heavy-hitting last-minute clients have trickled in, but that does make me more precious... precious money.

I was able to do a small siding repair for a neighbor of the garage job before I worked on this:

^Second floor coming soon. I have to cut off the eave on the existing roof so prep on the left side will take a while. Putting up those 2x6x7 walls (technically 86" high) are super-easy when compared to the 2x8x14 walls we had to erect last fall. I'd have a lot more of that second-floor framed, but the owner has be doing side stuff quite often. I had to do some trim and install this wall-heater that might burn their house down one day:

^Curtains should not be near there, I told the guy this, so we'll see how it goes. His smoke alarms work great so that's a win for him at least.

I guess Friday I'm not working on that garage because he wants a fence. Great more job security for me! I won't work there tomorrow because I'm going down to Warren to visit my family. I haven't seem them since Jason's birthday mid-January over three months ago.

The view from the second-floor of that garage out over the Penobscot River is fantastic. It's a gorgeuos spot:

He plans to have a deck on that corner facing the river and that's EXACTLY what I'd do if I owned that place. However, he wants the deck to be angled with a roof-overhang. I'd want that as well. That creates a lot of extra work and math. A LOT. It will increase my pay since I bill hourly, but it will increase my odds of doing something dumb. If I can pull it off it will be absolutely beautiful. I'll get Gavin over there with me for some of it because he is REALLY good at putting decks on like what this garage-job will need. There will also be a small porch on the driveway-side so this is tons of work still. I don't think this one will be 100% done before the end of 2026 unless he suddenly ups his budget in a huge hurry.

I do think I can get it all framed up, roof done, trim, siding, windows, and doors. He wants it to look done from the outside even if the inside isn't even started, and he wants it done before snow-season late fall this year. As long as he can afford it all I can certainly make that happen. Maybe? Hopefully!

I had one of my tax clients ask me if I could remodel their bathroom this year. I said I'm booked until 2026 and it's true. Holy crap I'm still so busy AFTER tax season and after we hauled on the restaurant. What a bunch of crap!

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Sunday, 4-20-25: Anniversary, Easter, and Wrestlemania weekend comes to an end. THIS SONG RULES.
For the second time in my life I am listening to an Ah Ha song not called Take on Me. This one is a real gem, and I can't believe I didn't know what it was until three days ago. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WITH ALL THE 80s MUSIC I LISTEN TO?! All I wanna know is why? Why does this one not get air-time on the radio?

^Singer-guy hits his triceps in the gym hehehe. If you don't like this song then I hate you. I probably hate you anyway, but I'll hate you a little more.

My awesome wife and I went down to Portland for a good chunk of yesterday, and we had a very nice 10-year wedding anniversary day together. We went to some rock and gem show that was really busy, too busy really, but we found some cool stuff to buy. We had to get the Panda Express food in the mall because that's her favorite and I think it's really good, too. Not a huge Asian-food fan, but I can tolerate it on occasion and Panda Express represents their best.

The weather was decent as well, high temp in the 70s down there. Some rain up here, not too much, and we hardly had any on the drive to and from. Up here wasn't bad when we got home and I'd guess it was still in the 60s around suppertime. We ordered a pizza from the fantastic local Eddington Store just up the road and we watched night one of WWE WRESTLEMANIA before it was time to rack out. We watched half of night 2 before she bivouaced, and I will rack out shortly as well. We will finish Wrestlemania tomorrow. Some good matches, some mediocre ones, the usual spectacle.

We fuckin' lost power here today for 6 hours. OMG! A strong front plowed through and winds got over 50MPH in spots. At 0545 down came a tree just up the road and bye bye precious... precious juice for the entire neighborhood and street. It was VERY windy all day, but the sun kept the temps well into the 40s so it never got too cold in here. I didn't really mind not having power, but I felt bad for Kat because she was planning a big Easter meal at 1300 (plus a big breakfast) and that plan went to shit with no power. She did make a GREAT meal and we ate around 1530. Power came back on around 1245, I think...

I had enough battery-power in my DeWalt tools that I use A LOT and there was plenty of daylight so I worked downstairs for several hours earlier. I wasn't planning to do much work, but what else was there to do with no electricity? Read a book, but I won't be doing that when I still have half a house to put together before the year ends. I used to read quite a bit and now I don't. What a bunch of crap!

We spent too much money this weekend, but how many times will we celebrate a 10-year wedding anniversary? The only answer is NEVER AGAIN IN LIFE. Did we need a $200 bongo and $150 worth of concrete statues from a neat place in Carmel? $100+ worth of rocks and gems? Yup, we did that! It's really cheap when we consider a vacation, though. I thought it would have been cool to fly out to Vegas for Wrestlemania night 2 together, but the price and timing weren't coming together for us. Tomorrow my awesome wife has to watch both kids since Damon's daycare is closed. They just randomly close at times and they still charge the full price. What a bunch of crap!

We do need to take a trip this fall, do something fun. During the drive to Portland yesterday we talked about going out west again, maybe this time Utah to see Zion and that surrounding area? I dunno yet and before we fly anywhere we need to get this "REAL ID" crap going. Can't use my passport that expired 5+ years ago hahahahaha! Epic failer there for my ass.

The other news worth noting is the new restaurant in our former spot. We sold them all the equipment in early Febraury and they finally got the place open under a new banner, grand open yesterday. I've heard a lot of negative feedback, but I'm not shitting on them here because when we first opened Mad Kat just over 4 years ago we barely knew what we were doing as well and I'm sure a lot of people thought we sucked ass out of the gate. We eventually figured it out... until we didn't. Well I knew what to do, but I stopped caring because I was considering being dead instead. What a bunch of crap! I write that like it was a long time in the past, but it was only a few months ago. It seems like much longer than that, though. I guess resetting your life will alter time-perceptions some. That and getting old...

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Thursday, 4-17-25: Not time to bivouac yet but soon. An anniversary and more carpentry stuff.
It's just after 2100 so it's too soon to rack out with my crack out. My awesome wife went to sleep already because she wasn't feeling 100%. Hope she's better tomorrow and certainly good-to-go Saturday or our 10-year wedding anniversary. Weather looks good, warmest day of the year thus far at 67, and we'll likely go down to Portland for the day. I'm looking forward to taking an actual day off with my wife for the first time in 2025. We have had days off this year, but the focus is always working on the house all day (which I mostly enjoy by the way since it's our home.)

Bruce came today and got our little laundry room and half-bath hooked up. He also tied in the ice-maker for the fridge that I haven't even tried to use yet hahaha epic fail. We've just been doing the ice old-school like when we were kids using trays with water and freezing them. I don't mind doing that at all, but in the warmer months I'll use a lot more ice for my drinks (NOT ALWAYS BOOZE) so the convenience is nice and the plumbing was right there to tie into. I could have done it myself, ,but I need to motivate my ass as much as possible on this area of the downstairs:

Obviously the prior owner planned to keep the downstairs as a garage and storage, maybe a workshop, but we want it to be Kat's epic badass music area / hangout room / karaoke lounge so it needs sheetrock, a ceiling, flooring, trim, the usual. The garage door will be replaced with a slider and I'm just waiting for a decent-weather day to get on that. We have to rework the stairs and a couple windows and a door as well so it's probably not getting done until June. What a bunch of crap!

Bruce and Kevin were here all morning and before that I met our plow guy to talk about possible bush-hogging for our yard. I was able to get to Treats Falls for only an hour to do a second coat of mud before it was time to scoot over to the tax office to work on some stuff. I still have a few hours of work to do in the tax office, but I probably won't get to it until Tuesday afternoon. I want to work outside tomorrow and Monday since the forecast looks decent for both days. Party cloudy around 60 = YES PLEASE.

I have to be careful working on that garage job. I mean I don't want to fall off and get mangled when I'm 23-26 feet in the air, but I need to be careful I don't carry too much of a balance for the owner. He's never stiffed me, but getting too far in the financial hole is not going to work for us. I found out today he owes Bruce quite a bit of money and that is not cool since I introduced the two of them about 1.5 years ago so that makes me look bad. This guy needs to get square with Bruce or else it's not fair to Bruce if I keep working over there. Plus the same thing could happen to me. What a bunch of crap!

I'm not trying to take a verbal dump all over the guy for whom I'm contracting. I don't know the full story and it's not directly my business. I just know Bruce is a good plumber who is fair to work with and who costs a lot for sure, but less than any plumber from the Yellow Pages. (Or these days from a GOOGLE search hehehe.) It's worth checking the competition before you bitch about prices...

HOLY CRAP THIS SONG ABSOLUTELY RULES! I have YouTube playing 80s music and a really catchy tune just came on. The singer's voice seemed familiar, but wow was I wrong. This is Ah Ha Living a Boy's Adventure Tale. All I wanna know is why? Why have I never heard this amazing song before?! God bless the Interweb and Spectrum channel 1928 to help mine out the rare beautiful 80s song I don't know.

I guess I'm done now. I should be working on final restaurant numbers for legal-work, but I'd rather bivouac and get a fresh start on everything tomorrow.

Oh wow, another fantastic song I've never heard comes on called Dominion by Mother Russia. HAHAHA COOL BAND NAME. Or is the song Mother Russia and the band Dominion? Hell I don't even know if this is from the 80s but it's really catchy! YouTube is crushing it tonight and I don't even know what I did to steer it in this direction. DO WANT MOAR.

Oh wow after a Google search and a closer look it turns out I was off by a lot. The band is Sisters of Mercy and the song is called Dominion / Mother Russia from 1985. I knew this had to be an 80s song!

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Wednesday, 4-16-25: Doesn't feel like the end of tax season.
Tax season ended yesterday as the April 15 filing deadline came and went, but it's not really done yet for my loser-ass. I have a lot of clients on extension, more than ever, I have stuff to work on tomorrow PM as well as a final meeting, and I just booked a May 12 meeting with clients. However, my season is mostly done and I'd comfortably say 95% of it is in the rear-view. Maybe? Hopefully!

I didn't have a crazy-long day yesterday in the office for the deadline. At about 1600 I put the last few on extension as planned and hit the road. Last-minute people aren't getting me late into the night, F that. I actually didn't even arrive in the office until close to noon because I had other morning obligations including a meeting at the garge job. Now I have interior work to do there and he wants a fence as well. JOB SECURITY! He wants the garage second floor done and he wants it to look finished from the outside by the time snow flies late this coming fall/early winter. I can do that, but he needs to pony up the precious... precious money it will take. At his current financial pace I won't be done until 2027 over there on that garage hahaha. That's fine with me because I have plenty of other work I can do here at our house. However, the work I do here at our place costs money whereas the work I do on that garage makes us money so I need a good balance so we don't go broke again like we almost did with that stupid gods damn restaurant.

^Part of my work today was dealing with this massive opening that I hope and *think* isn't a load-bearing wall he opened up. He has tenants there now who are probably 180 combined years old (very elderly husband and wife at least that's my guess) so it sucks trying to do that and not make a mess of their living space. He did move them to another section/unit while I worked or else it would have been impossible for me. All I wanna know is why? Why is this outlet like that? I told him I'm no Sparkie and he knows this so I shall do my best with what I have. Switch for the light in the middle of the trim? Seems like it's happening so we don't have to open up more walls and do junction boxes hahaha.

^GHETTO! I might have done the same thing hehehe.

The vibe for today was off. Things didn't really fall into place seamlessly like I hoped they would, but I did get to lose to Deno at racquetball before I came home. I have the place to myself because Kat is at an evening appointment and she should be home soon. I like having the place to myself and it should happen more often. She might be home now, not sure, but I'll scoot off this bootleg thing anyway because I have other things to do. I feel like I'm behind schedule already on all my other work. What a bunch of crap! Bruce comes to do more plumbing here tomorrow.

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Saturday, 4-12-25: Planning my after-tax season work.
The official tax-filing deadline is Tuesday, only 3 days away, and I'm done with 95% (or more) of my tax work for the season. Oh Jesus, hell ya! I have a few left to finish and a couple still to start that came in last-minute, but my final full day of work in the office for all of 2025 happened yesterday when I had a few client meetings and I worked from roughly 0900-1700 doing taxes. I had 4 different meetings and other emails and phone calls, remote clients to finish, etc. It was a nice revenue day as well.

I did work about 4 hours in the tax office today and then I played cutthroat racquetball against Gavin and Mike. They were good games, great exercise. I also texted with Cliff and talked to Gavin about blueberry raking and it seems very likely we are going to give it one more run this summer. Wow! Cliff is probably 75 years old so I don't know how much more gas he has in his tank for it. I don't even know how much gas I have in the tank for it! We keep thinking we're not doing it anymore and then it ends up happening. I'm actually looking forward to it and if the season is even half as good as it was two years ago the pay will be decent. If the crop compares at all to the one we had two years ago we should make GREAT money. Maybe? Hopefully!

Raking is always the very end of July and into August so what will I do for precious... precious money between now and then? Carpentry! I placed a big order for two separate deliveries from Home Depot. One comes here Tuesday with some supplies and one goes to that garage job-site Wednesday with more supplies. The carpentry here at our house won't pay the bills, quite the opposite, but it's necessary and I already planned to not make any money for half this year so I can put this place together. That garage job will be a nice supplemental income source as will blueberry raking. Who knows, Jason might need me to sub for him a little here and there as well and maybe some other stuff will come up that I actually want to do. No drug deals or sex for money, though hehehe. That's just not how I roll.

Hopefully the last half of this month features a lot of decent weather because the first half has been an absolute disaster. We've had a couple marginal days like Thursday when it was sunny, but we didn't even hit 50 Thursday even with a lot of sun. This weekend is this piece of shit as well:

We actually had some wet snow earlier and more wet snow might fall tomorrow. Big coastal low just spinning itself out over the Gulf of Maine bringing cold and wet weather all weekend. What a bunch of crap! Oh well I'd rather have the trash-weather now during tax season and better weather when I can work outside more. I should have a nice tan by the end of next month, if not sooner, because I have a lot of exterior work to do. A lot.

Tomorrow I plan to work on the house all day. I made a tentative plan for the downstairs and I can begin some of that prep and framing before I get a skid of 34 sheets of 1/2" 4x10 sheetrock delivered in a few days. The downstairs will need sheetrock just about everywhere and that will use up a ton of precious... precious time. Thankfully we can do drop-ceilings down there so I won't have to do the dreaded ceiling mud and tape that I absolutely can't stand to do.

On bad-weather days I have plenty of interior work to do downstairs and on good-weather days I have plenty of work to do outside not only at that garage job but also here. I want to build an attached garage here as well as a badass new deck so I'm hopeful I can pull that off by late spring, especially the deck, so we can enjoy it for the warmer months. We do have a deck off the kithen, but it's kinda bootleg and won't get any sun so I don't think I'll spend a lot of time on that one. It'll be a great place for the grill and maybe the outdoor table for summer meals where we won't roast in the sun, though. I dunno, it's all theory because we haven't even lived here on a day where we've seen 60 degrees yet. Gods damn winter!

I recorded most of the Red Sox vs. White Sox game from earlier and it's 2-2 in the 8th in Chicago. The White Sox were TERRIBLE last year, but so were the Red Sox what a bunch of crap! Sadly the Red Sox are only 7-8 for the season but the season is only 10% over so that doesn't matter very much... yet. The Celtics are going to the playoffs starting next week and they comfortably locked up the #2 seed in the Eastern Confrence. I haven't even watched much of them lately because these last few games of their season are a waste since the end result wouldn't change their playoff seeding. They have a great team again this year, but not as good as Cleveland. Playoffs are like the start of a new mini-season, though. I'm looking forward to watching at least a few of those NBA playoff games and I'll have a lot more precious... precous time to do so since tax season will be over.

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Sunday, 4-06-25: Another really good weekend comes to a close.
It'll be time to bivouac soon, I have the Red Sox on and they are winning again so that's a bonus. I don't watch the Sox that much, but I'll try to check in more often this season. The game actually started a couple hours ago, but I am watching a recording of it and the Sox just took a 6-1 lead in the 2nd inning awesome! The Red Sox started the season with a win, they lost 4 in a row, and now they've won 4 in a row and if they win this one that'll be 6-4 on the season. They made some roster changes in the off-season and, at least in theory, have a better team this year than they've had in a long time. We shall see...

I didn't have any tax clients this weekend and we got a lot of productive work done at the house. We had a nice family dinner last night, I played racquetball yesterday and went for a 2-mile jog/walk (but mostly jog) earlier today, and there isn't anything major to complain about. Oh, I realized the dogs like to eat deer shit and there is a lot of that around the property. What a bunch of crap! When I put them out they seem to find the nearest pile and start eating it even when it's right in front of me. OMG REALLY?!

I am happy we have so many deer droppings around the property because that means there are plenty of deer living in the area and who knows, maybe one of them will end up in our freezer later this year. We've seen them a few times so that'a always awesome. Sadly I don't know how to break the dogs of their turd-eating ways. Hell, they sometimes eat each other's poop. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP STOP EATING THE CRAP.

Tiger Lily will be 9 and Groot will be 8 this year so I guess there is no hope of stopping them from at least trying. Sucks I have to babysit their asses every time I want to let them out of the corral-area so they can play in our spacious yard. Sucks we have to worry about ticks already, too. No ticks these past few days, but we've see a few on them recently gods damn it.

I filed our taxes a few days ago and this is the result:

Our taxable income hasn't even hit the standard deduction the past two years due to the restaurant (epic failer!) but I gotta pay self-employment tax for my income from doing taxes. The tax business has had a really good year so far and I should exceed my revenue goal by a decent amount. I have 1.5 more weeks of that before the April 15 deadline comes and goes and I can focus more on carpentry both here at the house and at that garage I started last fall. We also have a 10-year wedding anniversary to look forward to shortly after tax season ends.

Our TV entertainment center is almost done now thanks to my awesome wife being really good at the staining and polyurethane finish-work. Here it is as of yesterday before she sanded and stained the top part:

^We had that electric fireplace on last night for atmosphere and it was really amazing. We probably won't use it for heat, but the decorative mode alone makes it a very worthy addition to our home.

Today I did a bunch of trim work up here in our living room and entry before I removed some useless framing around the stairs leading up to our living room and kitchen. The stairs we have now suck because they're too steep with not enough tread per step. We have a 7.75" rise with only an 8.25" tread. What a bunch of crap! I don't have the head-room for a true 7x11 code-standard step, but I think I can get closer to 7.5 and 9.5. The extra 1.25" per tread will make a big difference. Maybe? Hopefully!

Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg site, I'm gonna rack out. Goonies never say die!

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Tuesday, 4-01-25: No jokes on April Fool's Day.
I have an easy day of work today, this first day of April and "April Fool's" day. No in-person tax clients, and I really don't have to go to the office today. However, I will stop in for a couple hours to work on some stuff just so the rest of my week doesn't get too jammed up. I should finish our own taxes soon, too. Our taxes are a joke since we're poor because we opened a restaurant. What a bunch of crap!

There are only a couple weeks left of my usual tax season since the deadline to file is actually April 15th this year, the first year in probably a decade where the deadline is not extended due to COVID, storms, a weekend, or a holiday. I will still have a few clients after the deadline because I always do, but not too many.

The tax business took in over $10,000 last month. OMG AWESOME! March was a monster month for the tax business and I easily surpassed my prior best ever month that was likely closer to $6000. It's not all profit because I have rent, software, other programs, ink, paper, the usual. I also pay a bit in credit-card fees since a lot of my clients pay with plastic. The business has definitely grown and this will be my best ever year doing taxes from an income perspective. I lost a few clients, I always do, but I gained even more and I gained some good business clients that generate more precious... precious money than the simple ones. I like doing the easy taxes, but it takes a lot of them to make good money. Sometimes keeping the really easy ones pays well in the long-run when they refer others to me and when their lives change and they have more complexities arise.

Work has been coming along nicely at the house, and since I'm only working 20-30 hours a week lately on the tax side of things I have time to keep making progress on all the carpentry. On Saturday I didn't do much because we had a small gathering Friday night, only a few people, but it was fun and one of our friends got wasted like Doc-J and 8-Ball from Full Metal Jacket so she was passed out on the couch for a while the next morning. I had some drinks, but I didn't have a hangover because I haven't overdone it at all with the booze since we've lived here and since... many months ago maybe our July 4th party last year?

It was fun having our very first little gathering here, and it will be great when we can have a bigger space for it all including what will be better weather for being outdoors. The weather lately has been terrible with below-normal cold and some winter-like days thrown in. We had a really cold weekend with temps in the 20s and 30s and some snow and freezing rain both days last weekend. What a bunch of crap! Nothing needing plowing or causing power outages, but more nusiance stuff. Yesterday was cool and rainy and today is cool, cloudy, and windy so far.

We did have a few decent-weather days last month so I did a few short jogs outdoors, 7.5 total miles over 5 different days so not impressive at all. I suck at jogging even on perfect-weather days so it gets all-bad on the borderline-weather days. I generally avoid going when it's not at least in the mid-40s since the cold gets into my lungs and makes me stuffy after. Does that make me a pussy?! Hopefully for next winter I'll have the treadmill set up along with a fully-functional badass gym. The gym is still a long way away, perhaps not until the summer, because I have too much else to work on. Oh well I'll do yoga, play racquetball, and jog more. So far this year my exercise routine has been a shit-show as we adapt to our new life in Eddington. What a bunch of crap!

Ticks are out now and that is becoming a huge problem. We've pulled some off the dogs and found engorged dead ones around the house. Our overgrown yard is a haven for ticks and the dogs love to play all through it. It's made me not want to take them outside over the past few days, but I still have let them out to run around at least a little. We have a corral-area for them to use to do their business, but giving them space to roam is important. We did treat them with repellant, but that stuff doesn't 100% solve the problem.

My awesome wife said chickens eat ticks so maybe we get some of them this spring? I dunno how to care for a chicken but it can't be that hard, right? Get them a coop and food and voila then we could have eggs as well as nuggets!

Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg site, I'm gonna get my worthless ass to work now and maybe do some yoga first. It's a slow start to the day can't believe it's already 0945 and I haven't accomplished jack shit other than writing my worthless thoughts on here and doing a little tax reading in between surfing the web for a bit. I use my old-ass computer less now that we are here in Eddington because I don't feel like I need it as much. Plus I use the computer a lot when I'm doing taxes and I get sick of looking at a computer screen.

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