(Last updated: 9-30-2025)

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Tuesday, 9-30-25: Back to work on this huge garage.
Last week I only worked 4.5 hours on the huge garage I've been building in Brewer. What a bunch of crap! It was by design so I could focus elsewhere including work on our own house and a trip to the Boston area with friends.

I'm back in my "normal" routine so far this week. Work on that garage around 5 hours, work on the house a bit, maybe go for a jog, take care of the occasional tax client, talk about the restaurant business. (lots regarding Mack's, the new place that came in where we once were, but that's not for tonight.) Last week contractors poured this floor in the garage, and it looks great:

The homeowner wanted me to move a door so I took care of that today. The door was an entry into an area for tenants, but the door has long-since been obsolete. The tenants are a combined 200 years old, a husband and wife couple (as far as I can tell), and they definitely have one foot on a banana peel and one foot in the grave. I had to run the impact a bit, not too much, so I apologied for the noise and the old man was snoring his ass off while The Rifleman played on their TV. I think the wife was racked out as well, but I dunno. I just know I need to be dead before that ever becomes me. I was installing sheetrock in the hole that was the door and I heard that old-ass 60s show and I just wanted to get out of there so I could listen to 100.3 WKIT again instead of the sound of impending death in that tenant-area.

^FOUR DOORS HAHAHAHAHAHA! Plus the garage main overhead door is not installed so there will be 5 friggin' doors in and out of that thing. What a bunch of crap! I am trying like hell to get Overhead Door or PDQ Door to install a real garage door system so I don't have to build barn-style doors that will surely fail. That has yet to be determined...

It's October in a couple hours wow! We will be running out of good weather for working outside and I still have a lot of outdoor work. What a bunch of crap! Thankfully the extended forecast is great. Almost crisp tomorrow at 60 degrees, but we increase from there to the upper 70s Sat, Sun, Mon, and maybe Tues. Might get over 80 one or two of those days OMG. Working outside in October is generally fine, but at times it can get crisp. Mornings are often chilly so I might not get as early of a start as it gets colder. Working outside in November is ore bad than good, and once December hits working outside sucks a bag of ass 99% of the time!

The Red Sox beat the Yankees today in the Wild-Card first round game one. Awesome! The series is very short, best of 3 so 2 wins and you move on. The Yankees are a better team than the Red Sox this year (What a bunch of crap!) so it will be a bit of an upset if the Sox win. One more win in two games is all they need, but the series is in NY so that sucks. A lot.

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Sunday, 9-28-25: Football, etc.
It's time to bivouac soon after another busy weekend. I'm watching a little Sunday Night Football on NBC before I rack out; the Patriots won earlier today and are 2-2 on the season. The Red Sox also won and clinched a Wild Card playoff spot Oh Jesus hell ya! The Red Sox started their season poorly then played very well over a lot of the summer and have been just okay lately.

^Not shown are the last-place Angels in the AL-west and all of the NL. This year the Brewers and Dodgers are the best NL teams and the Rockies were terrible at 43-119 with a -424 run difference, worst of all-time what a bunch of crap for them!

I did some trim work on the house today in between some yoga and a 2-mile walk/jog. We got up to 80 degrees today wow! Near 80 tomorrow, lots of sun and above-average weather in the extended forecast. I also bought more siding for the shed that I started 1.5 months ago and still haven't finished (What a bunch of crap!)

^I need to finish this friggin' thing before the snow flies gods damn it.

Tomorrow it's back to "normal" as I resume work on that garage. I haven't worked on it since Monday last week for two reasons. First, he had concrete guys there pouring a floor so I would have been in the way. Second, I wanted to get some work done at our place and spend some quality time with my awesome wife. We took a trip to the Boston area Friday and yesterday and that was an interesting little trip.

We actually rode down to Mass with our friends, and it was weird being a passenger as it seems I've always been the driver since I was a kid. Not that I can 100% remember all the way back that far, though. We hadn't even left Maine since probably the end of 2019 due to Covid then the restaurant. OMG WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

We actually stayed in Mansfield, Mass a little south and west of Boston. We decided not to even bother going into the heart of Boston so we found a couple local bars that were doing karaoke. We planned to check out both of the bars, but the first one was a lot of fun with a cool vibe so we just stayed there at Hillside Jimmy's. They had a good selection, good staff, and a very neat music theme. The karaoke DJ did a pretty good job as well and as soon as Kat was done singing Janice Joplin the DJ actually asked her if she would sing Dorothy (a newer band) because she would crush it. HAHAHAHA AWESOME! And yes, of course my amazing wife can sing Dorothy we like some of their music.

We all had fun at the bar, but yesterday was arduous at times. No one was too hungover (I didn't drink too much in case I needed to drive) but it took us forever to get going and by the time we checked out of the hotel and got to Salem there were people EVERYWHERE. Kat had a great suggestion to check out Salem, a place neither of us had been before, so we were looking forward to the experience. Sadly we just couldn't find parking so it was aimless for quite a while. What a bunch of crap! We were about to just go home when we found a little spot that had a park and a little museum/display. Then there was some festival-thing we checked out, but I just wanted to go home. There were too many friggin' people in that town gods damn it!

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Friday, 9-19-25: A trip to Warren and another garage photo.
It's 2200, on the dot, and in a former life aboard the USS Carl Vinson that was once "Taps, taps, lights out all hands maintain silence on the decks." However, that was kind-of a joke because I worked nights a lot and in case III it was a lot of shifts not ending until way past taps. My bedtime is pretty soon, probably a half-hour, but we shall see. I had 3 drinks and an edible so pretty soon it's a guarantee I am toast for a bit. 3 drinks didn't really hit me that much because I spaced them out and it's only coffee brandy. I can get drunk from just coffe brandy, but it's pretty rare and it's not happening tonight. Maybe? Hopefully!

I have to go to the ol' homestead tomorrow for a celebration of life for a former neighbor of Mom and Dad's. Frank lived there with his wife and 3 boys before we even moved next door in 1983. (Or 1982?) Frank kept living there until he died there last month. What an AWESOME run at the same place. I can't even imagine living in the same house for 40+ years. Hell, I can't even imagine being alive another 40+ years (25 or so is good enough.) so I'll NEVER live in the same place that long. I don't mind living in different places, though. Breaks up the monotony of everyday life and if my wife is there in whatever different places might befall us then it's all good. Unless it's a nursing home because I don't ever want to live in one of those places. Death > nursing home. 100%.

All things considered Frank was a good neighbor. We played with the boys and went to school together, give or take a bit. Todd and I are class of '93 and I think Shawn and Jason were in the same grade and they are still pretty close friends. Shawn (aka Manktown) is absolutely hilarious and the shit he's done in the past makes me hate life a little less. I was personally never close with Frank, but going to pay respects just feels right. Frank got divorced and remarried and I also went to high school with one of his step-daughgers, Leela. I had a crush on her back in the day for a while, but I was not qualified to be with a chick back then. I'll be 50 years old in two months and I'm barely qualified to be with a chick now what a bunch of crap! Thankfully my awesome wife ostly accepts me despite my 1000 flaws.

Today was the first fall-like day we've had, or so it seems. We still hit 70 for a high temp, but it was crisp and very breezy. Not too much wind to work on the NW (river) side of that huge garage, but close. It wasn't cold and for once I wasn't working in the sun. Tonight we drop to the 30s, only mid-60s tomorrow, and frosty tomorrow night. No problem I'll take it! I bought $300 in pellet-stove duct today so it all goes as planned we will have our pellet stove hooked up this weekend to use as more and more colder weather arrives later this year.

Despite the breeze that wasn't really a problem today it was another beautiful-weather day. I made more good progess on this part of the garage I'm building in Brewer:

^A perfect, beautiful, crisp blue early-fall sky. On Monday I should get some siding installed on that top triangle near the peak. Maybe? Hopefully! Guys are coming Monday to rebar and prep for a huge concrete pour for the floor and driveway so I'll take a couple days off while that concrete sets. Supposedly the pour is Tuesday, but we shall see. I'm not a concrete-guy so I'm not a part of that decision or installation. I did have a guy whom I know give a quote, but the hoeowner found someone cheaper. Sometimes cheaper isn't better so we shall see...

Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg site, I'm out of here it's time to bivouac in a few minutes.

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Wednesday, 9-17-25: South side done, west (back) side next, more perfect weather.
I think this month might set the record for the most amount of fantastic-weather days of all-time. I base that on no facts whatsoever and perfect weather is a subjective term. For me perfect weather is lots of sun with high temps in the 70s and a low temp of around 50. Actually my only minor gripe is all the sun; a few more clouds on some of these days would have been nice. Sun angle is a lot lower than summer so I really don't burn anymore.

I've tried to take advantage of all the nice days by jogging more, but sometimes my breathing is still a problem. I made it 3 miles today with only a little walking at the end up a hill. I still suck at jogging, but I figure going will toughen my loser-ass up. Maybe? Hopefully!

Daniel and I finished the south side of that huge garage on Monday, and as an added bonus he was able to stay to help pull the staging on that side before he had to go. His time working with me on this garage is coming to an end because he will be deployed soon; he's in the Air Force. I might find another helper or I might not, we shall see how it goes. I really only need help getting heavy and bulky supplies up to the 2nd floor. Two sliders (dreading that one) and a bunch of sheetrock come to my immediate mind.

Today I fiished some concrete pillar/additional supports on the inside and moved the scaffolding to the rear so I can get that top area done. It's not a large section, but it will take several hours due to the precision cuts, soffit, edges, trim, etc. If I tried to do that by going up and down the ladder it would have taken 3 times as long and been ten times less safe.

^Those additional supports might not be mission-critical, but I think it's good to have them and code will surely appreciate it.

^The back, river-facing end. Those wooden cross-braces from the structure to the staging are beefy 2x10, give or take, and they are actually really 2" thick so that's a win. I'm only spanning a few feet and everything is VERY secure. Those 2x10 boards were part of the "treasure" left behind by the prior owner of our place. Tons of lumber that he made himself from trees on this very property many years ago.

We started shopping for a newer vehicle for my awesome wife with a trip to Ellsworth yesterday to look at a 2023 GMC Acadia. Only 17,400 miles on it asking price $33,999. Not too shabby compared to other vehicles we saw online. Definitely not the deal of the year, but seemed to have potential. Sadly we ended up leaving by not making a deal when they wouldn't budge on the price and wouldn't budge on only offering a $2000 trade-in for Kat's 2015 GMC Acadia. What a bunch of crap! Her Acadia does need work, but it's worth at least $7000 and even if you deduct $2500 for work it needs that's still a value of $4500. Those are low value numbers as well as high repair numbers for a dealership that doesn't have to actually pay $2500 to fix it. They already have a mechanic crew on payroll so they just have to cover their wholesale cost on parts.

I'm not upset about not getting a newer GMC. It was a nice ride there and back and we had a good meal and laughed and joked around. When we were sitting there we overheard the manager say to another customer "Oh so you want your cake and you want to eat it, too." I looked at Kat and said "That expression makes no sense. Who would want cake and NOT want to eat it?!" It just popped into my pea-brain at that very moment how stupid the expression is so I hope I never use it again in my life.

I WANT ALL THE CAKE GODS DAMN IT AND I WANT TO EAT IT ALL, TOO!

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Friday, 9-12-25: A quiet weekend? Almost lost the ring.
Right now it looks like we'll have a fairly quiet weekend here. Maybe? Hopefully! It's the last weekend for a month or more where we don't really have much on the schedule. In the weeks to come there are various events like birthday parties, weddings, a memorial service, a road trip, etc. Not fully-packed weekends but enough to keep us moving.

I plan to work on the house both tomorrow and Sunday. No racquetball; I am taking the weekend off from playing because for the last 3 weekends I've played I can't get enough precious... precious air so I have sucked. What a bunch of crap! Thankfully my bootleg body is doing better since midweek this week. Wednesday I went for a 2-mile jog and didn't have to walk any of it. Oh Jesus, hell ya! First time I've done that in a long time. Weather was a perfect 10/10 Wedneday, too. Around 70, sunny, not too much wind, and really low dew-point so not humid at all. My pace was probably "only" 8:30-8:45 per mile, but I dunno because I don't wear a watch anymore to track my pace, distance, and time.

I misplaced the charger for my old-ass GPS watch back in June. I probably could find it if I tried, but I don't even care... whether or not I care. Timing my jogs was a fuckin' embarassment and it really has been sad for the past couple years. I walk more now than ever on most of my jogs. What a bunch of crap! Am I washed up for good? I dunno, but the past few days have given me hope. I've actually felt pretty good and I feel bad saying that because my awesome wife is still not feeling well after her nasal surgery.

I did some yoga this morning, I watched a deer walk through the back yard while the ducks and chickens were out and about, I worked on that garage job for a few hours in PERFECT weather, and I went for a 3-mile jog. OMG I WENT 3 MILES AWESOME! I jogged about 2.75 of it before I had to walk. However, the end is uphill and F that running up a hill. Hell, half the time I can barely run down a hill anymore what a bunch of crap!

The last time I went for a 3-mile jog was May 10, 2022. OMG! (I keep spreadsheets hehe.) The last time I jogged 3 miles without having to stop and walk at least a little of it was probably pre-Covid, but I'm not looking at my old records anymore so I'm just guessing.

^I don't have too much left to do on that side, and I think Monday/Tuesday I'll have it done. Daniel will help me Monday so in a perfect world we will be able to get that side done and move the scaffolding to the front. Maybe? Hopefully!

I almost lost my wedding ring today. I was going up the ladder to that first staging when I felt something drop. I thought the smallest piece of vinyl siding that I was carrying or a piece of J-channel fell, but nope I had them all in my arm/hand still. Then I realized right away because I felt it. When my left hand hit the top of the ladder it scraped just enough to flick my wedding ring right off. I wasn't even going fast so it wasn't out of carelessness. It just hit in the exact spot needed to take the ring off when I pulled my hand back off the ladder.

I thought "No problems only solutions (Thanks Bruce) I'll just climb down and pick it up." I thought I heard it bounce off the stack of siding below the ladder so I knew it was close. Too bad it's all lawn there and it's not mowed under the staging so I could not find it at all. What a bunch of crap! HEY GODS WHO DO NOT EXIST I NEED MY WEDDING RING ON MY HAND OR MY WIFE WILL EAT MY SOUL!

I almost immediately had a genius plan: borrow Gavin's nail-finding magnet. Surely it could find my ring, right? I needed to sweep that area for nails anyway because some always fall here and there on a job of this scope and scale. I kept working for a bit until Gavin texted me back. Thankfully he lives only a mile away, easy drive, so I put the ladder away and got the magnet. I got back and IMMEDIATELY saw the ring just laying there probably nestled at the feet of the ladder so I didn't see it when the ladder was in place. Hahahahaha!

Out of curiosity I put the ring on the magnet and... NOTHING. It fell right off because MY WEDDING RING IS NOT MAGNETIC-METAL GODS DAMN IT! Maybe in the ring-world that is normal, I dunno? I wish my ring was a material that attracted to a magnet, but maybe in life that would cause problems, especially around magnets hehe. Of course I told Kat my dumbass story when I got home and she told me the ring is titanuim, which I did know but it was so far in the back of my mind it would not come out of hiding on its own. I guess titanium is too cool for magnets...

So if I hadn't seen the ring there the magnet would not have picked it up and I would have been crawling on my hands and knees all over that spot like a nincompoop. I would have told the homeowner I was off the clock and the neighbor I'm the new lawnmower man hehehe. No just kidding I would have asked them to help me look for it!

Icehouse, Electric Blue. This is such a damn fine song. I had it stuck in my head after I wrote my bootleg update that no one will ever read from 3 days ago.

I guess it's time to bivouac. No sense staying up late when I can wake up early-ish and get to work on this place tomorrow. I was going to watch the Sox-Yankees game and I planned to put it on the DVR, but I searched the usual channels and there was nothing and then I knew what happened. I got fucked over by the streaming services again. NO SPORTS ON STREAMING PLATFORMS PLEASE. Tonight's game was on Apple-Plus. What a bunch of crap! We have a bunch of apples, I have applesauce, but we do not have apple fuckin' TV. I don't give a shit about Apple technology products. The end.

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Tuesday, 9-09-25: Our deer and that garage.
We have so many deer around here it's ridiculous. I actually enjoy seeing them, and I'm sure more often than not we are seeing the same few deer who bed down near the houses.

Oh this is a new one for me, Pet Shop Boys Love Comes Quickly. Really catchy song after the first minute. This YouTube version is 19 minutes long are you kidding me?! A truly great song deserves as much as 8 minutes, but most songs are not truly great and even one of my favorite songs of all-time, Lay it Down by Ratt, should not be 19 friggin' minutes! Sadly Lay it Down is only about 3:20. It should be twice that gods damn it! Best song intro of all-time with that one. Truly perfect guitar riff before the drums and the rest of the song.

The Pet Shop Boys are just great. Some of their stuff sucks ass, but no artist has ever batted 1.000. My favorite band of all-time, Def Leppard, has only probably made stuff I like 50% of the time. What a bunch of crap! That's okay, though. 50 great songs and 50 turd songs still = 50 great songs! I don't know if Def Leppard has 50 great songs I just made that up. However, I bet they do because their 80s and early 90s stuff was pure gold. 12 great songs on Hysteria. (12 for 12), maybe 9 good songs on Pyromania (9 of 10), maybe 8 great songs on Adrenalize... I could go on but I have deer photos!

Yesterday morning around 0700 was a bit crisp, mid-40s and soaking wet from a rainy Sunday. The deer were out back and when the sun crested the house the two skippers laid down right next to each other and ate the foliage. They were there over a half-hour and they didn't even run off when my awesome wife went down to feed the birds. OMG. There are 4 total deer including what I assume are the two mothers.

Tonight around 1800, broad daylight, everyone home:

I just can't get enough of that. It's one of my favorite things about living here. Those deer are probably only 30-40 yards from the house. Very close!

That garage-job might be coming to a slow crawl soon as I near the top-end of what I'm comfortable spending before my next payment comes in. Too bad because this time of year is GREAT for working outside. I'm on the south side so before noon I'm in the shade, sometimes damp from dew and chilly still, and after lunch I'm in direct sun. At first the sun is great, but then it gets a bit hot even at 70 degrees air-temp and no humidity. Not hot like this past summer, but enough to be draining. Hey, I still have an epic tan! Best tan of my life this year and by a lot. The tan will be gone this fall when it gets colder because going to a tanning place = what a bunch of crap!

Morning low temp of 42 and afternoon high temp of 72. Wow! Probably not uncommon for this time of year, though. I put the heat on in the house for 20 minutes this morning because it was a little chilly. Probably could have gone without it, but F that why be cold in your own home? Oh, I know. It's to save precious... precious money!

I'm 145 pounds and very lean. I don't want to get cold in my own friggin house or it sets in and stays with me for quite a while. I actually don't know what I weigh it might only be 140 because that's what it was earlier this year. I think? I don't really know what a bunch of crap!

Oh, I submitted my application to the VA so hopefully they accept my loser-ass so I can get a health-inspection. If they don't accept me I'll have to decide whether to just give up, go buy health insurance, or get a "real" job that offers health insurance. I guess if I bought health insurance it might be cheap since it's income-based and we are poor. However, I hate the Healthcare Marketplace with a passion and that fucking asshole Obama coming up with that. What a bunch of crap!

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Sunday, 9-07-25: Where is my precious... precious air?
This sucks!  I guess I need to get a doctor sooner rather than later, and I do not have one.  I'm fine with just checking out, but that's for pussies at my age so I should at least make an effort.  Right?  I'm having trouble breathing lately, and it's becoming a real problem.  It's happened to me off and on over the past few years, but lately it's been BAD.  I had it very bad for a few days in the spring, I figured it was seasonal allergies, and it sort-of went away for most of the summer.  I say sort-of because it was still there, but it wasn't as bad as it was in the spring and I've gotten used to it.

Over the past few weeks it's been a struggle, especially when I jog and play racquetball.  I've gotten REALLY bad at jogging, and I've done it enough that I should not be this bad.  I'm still in pretty good shape for a guy who will be 50 years old in two months.  I'm not in as good of shape as I was ten years ago, but I'm far from out of shape.  I haven't lifted weights in almost a year, but I've done loads of carpentry and a lot of that carpentry is arduous.  Roofing, siding, humping plywood up to a second floor, setting up scaffolding, up and down ladders, etc.  I've also been playing racquetball and doing a good amount of DDP Yoga as well as jogging so this is unacceptable in every way.

All I wanna know is why?  Why do I gasp for air so much?  I yawn a lot and I feel like there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for my bootleg body.  It's really a weird feeling, and the yawns are not because I'm tired.  I think I yawn a lot because I need more air so my body does a yawn to ask for it.  That last sentence is not based on medical facts at all because I know nothing.  I'm not about to Google my symptoms because I know what will happen.  Some bootleg AI that is only a few years from becoming self-aware and starting WWIII will tell me I have that crap you get when you smoke for 50 years.  Emplhzema? I know I spelled it wrong, but I'm pretty sure I don't have it since I've never smoked.

Not breathing right = what a bunch of crap!  All I wanna know is what's the problem, but finding out will probably suck.  A lot.  I don't even know if the VA will take my loser-ass and I'm too cheap to pay for a bunch of testing. Gods damn it!

^Probably me when I apply to the VA since I won't lie and say I am combat-wounded. Thankfully we are poor so that might help.

The straw that broke the camel's back was attempting to play racquetball today. I didn't drink at all last night and I felt good physically, but once we started playing I could barely breathe and 5 minutes into the first game I was just gasping for air and it cost me bigtime as far as being able to keep up with Mike and Gavin.  Last week the same thing happened to me when I played against Gavin.  It was a decent workout, but I just don't have it anymore and I can't volley worth a shit.  What a bunch of crap!  I'm not even going to play for a bit until I can figure out what the hell is wrong.

Should I blame COVID?  I haven't been the same since that man-made bullshit.  However, that restaurant shit-show happened as well as COVID and that was a skid-stain on my bootleg life that I still have not recovered from.  My life since mid-2020, just over 5 years ago, has been a downhill slide. What a bunch of crap!  Now we are in a better spot and both my awesome wife and I are struggling physically.  Poor Kat had a nasal surgery that has hit her hard.  The surgery was 17 days ago, but she's in more pain that ever.  What a bunch of crap!  She blows her nose and blood clots come out and it makes me feel bad.  The last two surgeries she has had have not gone well for her.

I haven't told anyone how fucked my breathing is because I don't want it to be all about me.  Maybe it's an easy fix anyway?  The last thing I want to do is complain to Kat when she has so many health issues of her own to battle.  I did tell Gavin I might have to take a break from playing until I can figure it out because I feel like I'm just holding the guys back with how poorly I play lately.  Better they play some 1 v 1 without me so they can get a better workout.  I'll miss playing, but what's the point when I'm only 50% most of the time? I hope I can find a path to better breathing so I can be competitive against the guys again because it's been a long time, too long, since we've had epic games that were A+ workouts. For me all summer it's been between a C and a D.  Maybe even throw in an F here and there.  What a bunch of crap!

Enough crying about my failing ass.  In other fails, I watched some of the Patriots game today and that sucked. A lot.  They lost at home to the Raiders earlier and they looked pretty bad in the loss.  What a bunch of crap!  It was nice to be home for the game without a burden of running a restaurant.  Right now I'm watching the Bills vs. Ravens Sunday night game, but it's bedtime soon so I might not even finish watching it before it ends. Staying up until 2330 or so = I don't think so!

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Saturday, 9-06-25: The shed and a generator.
I worked on the shed for a few hours today in between a trip to the dump and Lowe's, and I finally have the thing water-tight even though it's not actually done:

I used synthetic roofing "tarpaper" for the wrap, but who cares it's just a shed. Right? I wouldn't even need that if I was going to use t11 plywood siding, but I think I'll just throw on basic grey, tan, or white siding. I'll let my awesome wife decide what color, but those 3 colors are in-stock and relatively inexpensive as compared to custom colors and whatnot. Vinyl is final!

I also finally ordered this today:

I actually ordered two of them! One for our house and one for Debbie and Dillon's house. We considered getting just one big generator to power both houses, but that's not really possible due to the electrical side of things. It's a Generac 14,000 KWH that we will have to run with propane since natural gas isn't available out here in Eddington. I got my military pricing so each of us "only" paid $4900 with sales tax for the unit itself. It's supposed to arrive for pickup at Lowe's around the 24th, but we shall see. I need to get Fire and Ice and Sparkies out here to hook it all up once it does arrive and I'm sure we will need some add-ons and maybe a slab to set it on. I'm thinking getting it all hooked up will be between $8,000-10,000 per house.

The power goes out a lot here, and in big storms it can stay out for days. Even in Brewer right in town we had some horrible wind storms that took out our power for 2-3 days so out here it will be a lot worse. What a bunch of crap! I thought about solar since we get lots of sun here, but I just can't bring myself to do it yet. Maybe if we were in a higher tax bracket and could take advantage of some expiring tax credits for it I would take a closer look, but we are still poor on paper for this tax year due to the carry-over losses from the restaurant.

I should send the IRS a quarterly payment, though. I haven't done one of those all year and I usually don't, but all my income is from self-employment so I'll have to pay the Social Security and Medicare tax on that income. It not a really huge number, but it doesn't have to be before it gets into the thousands of dollars in tax liability in a hurry. The carpentry side of my income will be higher than it's ever been in the past thanks to the huge garage job in Brewer that is only roughly 50% done. No doubt I'll still be working on it in 2026!

The Patriots play tomorrow at 1300 and I should watch some of the game. They've been TERRIBLE over the past few years so it can't get any worse. Right? Ever since Brady left a few years ago watching the Patriots has been painful. What a bunch of crap! Speaking of painful, the Red Sox are losing by a lot again in AZ so I just turned it off and it's quiet here. I'm not even ripping out tunes! I should get some tunes going, but the silence is sort-of nice and I'll be bivouacing soon. Rain all of tomorrow so I'll play racquetball and work on some tax stuff for clients. I might organize some downstairs as well in what will soon be the gym area. It's still a mess in that room and I need to get on it so I can lift weights again. At my current pace I won't have it done until 2026. What a bunch of crap!

Once my tax business calms down I'll have more precious... precious time to work downstairs. It's only 5-10 or so hours a week for the past couple weeks, but that on top of the garage job and other stuff going on I just haven't worked on the house as much as I wanted to. 5-10 hours a week for the tax business is really a lot for my ass compared to what I've done this time of year in the past. I have two very involved tax situations that have required multiple client meetings and even a trip to the local IRS office with a client last month. I also had to research for a new client and I'm still putting the finishing pieces together for Jason's taxes. I'll be glad when all of that is done and I can focus more on the house and getting ready for deer hunting.

Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg turd of a website, I'm going to chill out for a little but then bivouac. Goonies never say die!

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Friday, 9-05-25: A quiet weekend? Garage photos and the Red Sox.
The Red Sox are playing on the west coast for the next several games and they are in Arizona now against the Diaondbacks. They have been playing very well since the All-Star game and are in good position for a wild-card playoff spot at something like 78-63. Odds of winning the World Series are very slim, but not many people expected them to even be in contention for the playoffs as of the end of June (myself included what a bunch of crap!)

The NFL season also began last night with the Cowboys vs. the Eagles. I watched a little of the game before I bivouaced, and tonight the Chiefs play the Chargers in Brazil, but that one is on YouTube. All I wanna know is why? Why do NFL games have to be exclusively on Youtube? I don't even know how to access that one. Yes I use Youtube on this old-ass Acer computer, but I don't think I can actually watch a football game on it. I probably need to subscribe and F that. I use YouTube for 80s music and the occasional instructional video. Last week I watched a couple videos on how to install Genstone...

I ordered more Genstone for that massive garage job in Brewer (faux stone on the front) and it arrived this afternoon. I'll install some next week, but today we were focused on siding the south side. I have a lot of scaffolding there and that makes a HUGE difference in not only safety but also production. It does take time to set up and break down, but once it's in place I can fly through a section of siding, soffit, trim, etc. Here is how it looked mid-afternoon today:

^I worked on the front top for a few hours yesterday, and today Daniel and I crushed it mostly working on the south side where all the scaffolding is in place. We got a lot of siding installed and we did it safely. No injuries = win.

^Earlier in the week I finished rebuilding what was some shit-show and rotting trim along the eaves there. I still need to metal-wrap it all and I've never done that before, but it's not too hard. Maybe? Hopefully! I can rent a break to bend it properly since the tools I have now don't quite get it done in a way that I like. I can practice on our shed that I should have finished last week but that I've barely worked on at all since mid-month last month. I've just been too busy what a bunch of crap!

The weather was great, near 70 and mostly cloudy, I'll take that all year. Especially after working on that thing when it was 90+ and working on it last winter at 30 degrees and windy. This time of year is the best for working outside. Most of September = fantastic weather and so far this September is off to a great start. Sadly we do have rain coming later tomorrow and most of Sunday, but it's been very dry and we need that rain. We plan to have a quiet weekend here and tomorrow I think I can get the shed waterproof. Maybe? Hopefully!

I "only" worked on that garage 18.25 hours this week. Not much, but it's about my normal based on his budget and my other projects. I still have a few tax clients to finish stuff for, but I did finish one bigger project and I got it in the mail earlier today so that was a relief checking that off the list for now. We had a very comprehensive business plan for something in the works that I don't want to get into here on this bootleg site that almost no one will ever read, but it's important to us so we shall see how that shakes out...

A quiet weekend here will be great so I can get more work done for some tax clients, get the shed water-tight, and just relax some. Maybe play racquetball Sunday and a trip to the dump tomorrow before we get rain. I still have a lot to do. A LOT. I'm hoping things start to turn in my favor as I get some of these heavy-hitting tax clients finished up and make more progress here at our own house. My awesome wife got a lot done today by clearing out one of our two storage units and bringing it all here. If we can get most or all of that in the shed that would be awesome, but I have to actually finish the shed first hehe.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

WHERE THE FUCK IS CHANNEL 1928?! SPECTRUM WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? ALL I WANNA KNOW IS WHY? WHY DID YOU TAKE AWAY THE 1980S CHANNEL YOU MUDDA FUCKAS? Lately I've just put on 80s music on YouTube, but I am not on Youtube I am on the TV and the Red Sox are losing badly so I want 80s music and it is gone. The Nothing came and took it like it took away the beautiful lake from the Rock Biters in the North in The Neverending Story.

WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

I flipped to 1928, 70s music was on, so I hit the GUIDE button and no music channels even show up. Now I am listening to some dog-shit song by "The Chicago Transit Authority" that says 1969 so this is depressing. Chicago has a couple good songs, but nothing from 1969 was good. Guess I'll just turn off the TV and rack out in a few. Maybe if I keep this channel on some good stuff would play because there is a lot of great 70s music, but the 80s are better in every way.

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