(Last updated: 10-15-2026)

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Thursday: 10-15-26: Where will the tax office go?
It's looking more and more likely that my ass is not going to be able to keep the tax office where it is now. The landlord doesn't give a shit, and since I've partnered up with the tattoo place next door (we share the electric and Internet, and there is no easy way to separate the electric meter into my own space) their problems are my problems. Two of their four heat pumps are epic fail, and when they run the sink it leaks onto the floor. The landlord is like Morla the Ancient One from The Neverending Story:

^Hahahaha! Oh wait, it's really not funny. However, since my life is a toilet it is funny because that's what happens to my dumb ass now.

So code enforcement had to get involved, that chewed up more precious... precious time, and they not only sent him a letter but they also included it in an email. I really didn't think the ~75-year old landlord knew how to email, but get this, I got looped into an email thread from code and this is what he wrote back to them:

"Just shut the unit down until I can inspect please,Thx.

Sent from my iPhone"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG ALL I WANNA KNOW IS WHY? WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THAT TO THE LOCAL CODE OFFICE?! HE IS INSANAE! Wait, he uses an iphone?! Does he have "fuck you" money so he can afford to be petty and vindictive? I know he's pissed off that code got called in, but dude you rented a space that is the definition of epic fail, at least mechanically. I feel like a total asshole because I was doing showings there and I had no idea about these problems. Hell, it took a couple months to even realize the plumbing was pwned because it's a slow leak, very slow.

So the landlord told code to just shut the entire space down, and that is sad. Thankfully code will not be doing that hahaha. I guess the landlord plans to rip out the plumbing so it won't leak, fine no prob there, but what about the heat? The next tenant will need heat. Hell, I will need heat! I don't need plumbing, but the tattoo place does so he can wash up after each appointment. He really got screwed over and that pisses me off.

I can install a baseboard heater for my little 200 square-foot office, but since I'm attached to that other bigger space I don't think it will work out. The landlord will throw my dumb ass out anyway. It's not a today or a tomorrow problem, but come December I'll need to figure something out.

I finished my last tax-extension client today. This year I had more tax stuff to do than I've ever had for mid-October, and as I grow the business that will continue to be the case. It's not a bad thing because extra precious... precious money trickles in. I've also had some other clients with misc. stuff like IRA to ROTH conversions, business stuff to review, etc. Half of it is remote without in-person meetings needed, and some of it is just gearing up for early 2027 when tax forms come in. I have a couple meetings scheduled for next week already, but I don't feel overwhelmed by it and I still have plenty of time to do the carpentry.

Kat has helped with that garage job, and she did some mudding and taping yesterday. That really helped move things along, and now there isn't much more sheetrock left to install. Here is how it looks as of earlier today:

The rear part not in the photo is done. The entire front upper left side is ready for paing and ceiling trim. Oh Jesus, hell ya! If I worked there an entire 8-hour day I could get the rest of th sheetrock installed, but F that I'm good for 4-5 hours most days then I have other things to do like working on this apartment and the tax office. I want that garage done by Nov 1, and I'm on track for it. Maybe? Hopefully! The roughly 750 square foot ceiling only needs about 70 more square feet of sheetrock installed, and I have the staging, strapping, and insulation mostly in place so I can get that done relatively quickly.

I'll have other work to do there in November, but nothing compared to installing sheetrock in that huge structure. The homeowner always seems to find extra work for my ass so we will see how it goes. I'm running out of decent weather to do this stuff, including my own unfinished apartment. I've been insulating here at this place and on Monday Jake did a bunch of rough-in wiring and I got the two kitchen windows installed so that makes a noticeable difference as far as heat loss. Flimsy storm windows suck when it's cold outside! This place doesn't stay super-warm, but I can run a space heater and it doesn't get too cold in here.. yet.

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Saturday: 10-10-26: My second update of the day because... why not? Damn the archives, wow, June, 2024.
I already updated this shit-show, pathetic excuse for a website once today, but I'm not done writing. I was looking back at the archives of this bootleg site that two people ever read and I just randomly clicked on June, 2024. I don't know why I chose that month and year, I just did after some coffee brandy, Captain Morgan, and now Tito's. That's probably a very unwise mix of booze, but I didn't put them all in the same glass hehehe. That's 3.5 hours of drinking a little of this and a little of that, really not as much as you'd think overall but probably one too many, and soon I am going to bivouac.

So June of 2024 is quite revealing. I never knew how truly fucked-up my life has been until I just read this from June 8, 2024:

"I decided today that I'm done owning a restaurnt. I can't quit now without losing all the money I ever earned in my ENTIRE FUCKIN LIFE but soon enough I'm checked out. Hell, I'm checked out of my own marriage I've tried to divorce my wife a few times but I never got the job done. Opening that restaurant was really dumb. I knew it was dumb at the time as well, but I suck. I never got to that next level, and that's okay because I got far enough. If I die right now hey I don't care I've had a good enough life.

All I wanna know is why? Why at our age does a birthday even matter? I know it's a good way to break up the monotony of everyday life, but birthdays aren't really worth celebrating when you're 48 or 49. I don't even want anyone to know when I have a birthday because I don't want that spotlight.

I was reading an old jornal of my life earlier, and it honestly makes me hate my current life even more. I think I was happier in 1998 and early 1999 working at Aubuchon Hardware for Roger at $6 per hour than I am now. However, I don't even get paid at the restaraunt I make zero dollars. What a bunch of crap!

THIS IS MY FUCKIN LIFE:

^IT'S A BUTT-CHEEK FROM LEGACY OF THE WIZARD OMG THAT IS MY LIFE, AN 8-BIT ASSHOLE."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! "That's my life, an 8-bit asshole." should be a quote of the month at some point hahahaha!

That butt-cheek that is really supposed to be an 8-bit loaf of bread makes me laugh more than I should laugh hahahahaha! I should go watch Legacy of the Wizard on Youtube before I pass out. Since I'm too poor and cheap to buy the ad-free version I'll have to suffer through a few Troy Jackson and Susan Collins political ads. Voting for Troy seems like a really dumb idea, but Collins is a horse ready for the glue-factory and Chinese meat-market so what the hell do I know?

It's kinda sad how much I hated my life in 2024, too. I really forgot about that because all the suck has sort-of vortexed into my normal existence on this planet. Other June, 2024 updates were not good as well. What a bunch of crap! I'm glad I have this turd-heap site so I can read some past stuff and get a better perspective on my entire life on this planet, well at least since 20 years ago or whenever I decided to make an Interweb blog that makes me look bad. What a bunch of crap!

^Oh well, at least 80s stuff cheers me up. If you don't know what that is then you need to ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttttttttttt oooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttttttttttttttttttt! If you only know what half of it is that doesn't count either and it's time to DISAPPEAR, SCUMBAG.

Are the best years of my worthless life already in the past? I think that's at least 50% possible. What a bunch of crap! Hey, on a positive note, I've discovered all kinds of awesome old music so far this year thanks mostly to YouTube. Oh, I read a book, too. Other than that it's all-bad...

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Saturday: 10-10-26: Old people making great music. Am I getting evicted? You cannot buy a stupid TV anymore fuck my life!
I was working at that huge garage job yesterday, 100.3WKIT was on, and a song came on that sounded awesome. I had no idea what it was and I thank the gods who do not exist the radio DJ chick said it was called Thunder Love by what sounded like "Crossbone Sully." I jotted it down on my shopping list along with things like strapping, 1/2" sheetrock, 5/8" sheetrock, etc. I was gonna look up the song last night, but I was tired so I just bivouaced instead and now here I am writing a bootleg update that two people will ever read.

Turns out the song is actually by a group called Crossbone Skully. WHAT A STUPID FUCKING NAME FOR A BAND. I guess maybe they're not a real band, but a supergroup or something like that? I found it on YouTube because everything is on YouTube, and the guitarist from Def Leppard, Phil Collen, has a huge influence on the song and probably the band as well. A guitarist from Alice Copper is also in the song, and it opens with a hot chick in a Def Leppard shirt:

^She should be wearing a Hysteria shirt, but I'm totally fine with the Pyromania shirt because that is probably their second-best album. I dunno, Adrenalize is awesome as well...

This catchy song was only released a couple months ago so it's new. AWESOME. It's nice knowing not all new music is ten pounds of crap stuffed into a five-pound bag hehehe. Greta Van Fleet has a couple catchy songs, Nickleback has one called Bones from a Crow (or something like that) that is decent, Five Finger Death Punch has one that's not all-bad, but most of the new music can kiss my hairy ass. It's sad when I drive all the way across Canada, have no radio station that plays music over 50% of the time, and I hear awesome 80s stuff that I didn't know from bands Honeymoon Suite and probably Helix before I hear any good new music. Canada radio stations > anything we have here.

100.3WKIT doesn't always play good music, but they play all kinds of different stuff and I'm glad they didn't go out of business a couple years ago when Stephen King decided not to own the station anymore. Every once in a while I hear something awesome on that station that either I've never heard before or I didn't know existed, and without 100.3 WKIT I bet I never would have heard of Phil Collen's little side-band called Crossbone Skully. Stupid name, great song, and who cares about the band name because honestly Def Leppard is a really dumb band name as well. Two of my favorite all-times bands have really dumb names. Ratt is a dumbass band name, too. THEY STILL MAKE GREAT MUSIC.

The guys in this Crossbone Skully band must be a combined 200+ years old, but at least they were smart enough to throw some hot chicks in there. I don't give a shit who is in the video because I just want to listen to good music, and normally I'm stuck in the 80s for that so bigtime bonus here.

In other news, I guess my new tax office will be in the rear-view in the near future. I hope not because I kinda like it there, but the landlord is a fuckin' DINK so no sense putting up with that bullshit for long. I partnered up with a husband and wife who own a tattoo place, and I really like them. I think they are honest and fair people, and Rob likes John Carpenter movies and has the best playlists for music you could ever hope for. We co-rent a space with two separate office areas, and it could be a fantastic fit if my life wasn't a burning dumpster. Sadly the landlord is a broken human, more broken than most, and that is unacceptable considering all the plazas he owns. I knew the landlord was terrible, but this one is awful by any standard.

So we thought we were all set a few months ago when we got set up. Rob had his area, I had mine, works well enough. We are surrounded by churches so doing business on Sunday mornings is about impossible unless you want to hear loud god bullshit music (I DO NOT WANT THAT), but we both never have customers on Sunday mornings so who cares? He needs a sink on his side and he doesn't use it much, but after a couple months he was wondering why water would appear on the floor a little here and there. I had no idea, could not figure it out, so Bruce looked at it and determined the up-flush tank is faulty and leaks. Therefore when you run water this happens:

^Normally the water isn't that bad, but Bruce ran the hell out of the water so he could find that leak. I called the landlord that day, and he basically said too bad not his problem. Oh, two of the four heat pumps don't work either so come mid-winter there won't be enough heat. OMG WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

Since the landlord said he didn't care... whether or not he cared we had to get code enforcement to come and issue citations. Landlord got that citation when I was driving the U-Haul in Ontario, Canada, so he called me breathing fire. We had to play some phone-tag, but when I finally talked to his loser-ass he basically said "I'm not doing business with people who report me to code so get the fuck out and I'll rent to someone else." I told him I'd make sure no one rented from his ass, and he hung up.

LANDLORD RENTED A SPACE WITH BAD PLUMBING AND NOT ENOUGH HEAT AND HE DOES NOT CARE. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

^I can only talk to the landlord scumlord for about two minutes on a call before he hangs up because he is the worst human of all-time on the phone so of course he hung up, and really there was nothing more to say that day anyway. I told him his space was fucked, he said he didn't care, game over.

^LANDLORD HAS THIS ATTITUDE ABOUT HIS ENTIRE PLAZA. He's about as old as Morla the Ancient One, too. What a bunch of crap! I should watch that movie again because I hate my life 50% of the time and it would cheer me up. I should watch the Three Stooges, too. Shemp is funny, but the ones with Curly are the best. The golfing one = epic hilarity. I should go find that on YouTube soon because I'm sure it's there. Maybe? Hopefully! I have it on DVD, but probably not anymore because I lost my way in this world and I don't know how to hook up a DVD.

Oh man, get this. My TV died on Sunday, a spare TV from the restaurant that almost ruined my life, and that thing was living on borrowed time so I knew it would check out on my dumb ass and that's exactly what happened. I was hoping to limp aloong with it for a few more months since I don't even watch that much TV, but nope that's not how my life in the 2020s happens so The Nothing took it away like it once took away the beautiful lake from the Rock Biters in the North in The Neverending Story.

No prob, I'll just to go Best Buy and get another one. I had to go to Bangor anyway to pick up my bathroom vanity and sink from Home Depot, it was early enough Sunday morning traffic wasn't bad yet (fuck you mall area on a weekend PM it's always crowded there.) I didn't want to spend $300 on a TV (put it on the credit card, deal with it later), but I didn't want to NOT have a TV because I like to watch it some so I figured I'd get another Samsung since Spectrum guys set my remote up for Samsung and I'm too dumb, way too dumb, to put it to a different brand. I was gonna buy a 50" Samsung for $249 (I looked on their website before I went), but there was no one in the TV area at all. ZERO EMPLOYEES. I almost left with no TV because I don't need one that badly, but I saw a pile of Samsung 55" TVs in the aisle for $299 so I just grabbed one of those. Piece of cake, right? Extra 5" in size can't hurt, right? I dunno ask the ladies that one hehehe.

Since my life is this I knew in the back of my mind I was screwed, but better to make an effort than to just give up, right?

^I SUCK AT LIFE.

This fucking TV, and this fucking world. I think I'm done with it soon fuck you Social Security I won't be collecting because I won't make it that long so I should cheat more on my taxes so I don't even pay into it anymore. Sadly I just paid in over $4,000 to it this year so it's too late now what a bunch of crap! Got epic losses from the restaurant but still gotta pay 15.3% to Medicare and Social Security?! Yup I'm a nincompoop.

So you can't buy a "stupid' TV anymore. I guess? This fucking thing is a "smart" TV that probably has enough AI installed to monitor my dumb ass and put me in for an IRS audit since I said I don't wanna pay into Social Security anymore. For the record I didn't say I refuse to pay, I just said I didn't want to hehehe. You hook it up and there is Samsung online and you cannot get the TV to do anything if you don't put it on the Interweb. Maybe you can, but I don't know how. What a bunch of crap! then it has apps and pretty soon I'm watching some bootleg Samsung TV shit when all I need is HDMI 1 for the cable box because yes, I have a cable box not one of those fuck-tarded Xumo little square petrified turd things that sucks ASS. I had to scan a QR code, it was all-bad, I'm pretty much done with this world.

Oh, get this, my $200 per month cable package comes with streaming stuff that I don't know how to use. HAHAHAHA! I get emails and two days ago I got a text that basically said "You're a fucking retard for not using any streaming stuff that we included in your package." HEY DINKS I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE ANY OF THIS SHIT YOU MAKE IT SEEM EASY TO LOG INTO DISNEY PLUS AND WATCH STAR WARS BUT I DO NOT WANT TO WATCH THE NEW STAR WARS ANYWAY BECAUSE MOST OF THEM SUCK EVEN THOUGH THE MANDOLORIAN WASN'T HALF BAD DESPITE THE FACT YOU MARKETING ASSHOLES MADE BABY YODA SO KIDS WOULD BUY THE DOLL.

WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

I would watch Moana 2 on Disney because part one was great, but I don't know how to do that so nevermind. I'll just rip out mostly old music, get half drunk, and freeze because my apartment does not have heat yet. I was supposed to have this place a lot more done by now, but I am a piece of shit see the FAIL TROPHY above I 100% deserve that. I'm so fuckin' buried with work it's not even funny. I need to find one of these and hop in with a bottle of Allen's Coffee Brandy:

The End. Fin.

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Thursday: 10-08-26: A roof repair at my old building.
I keep telling myself I should stop doing roofing stuff because it seems to be more physically taxing each time I do it. However, every year most years I find my dumb, worthless ass up on a roof and that happened today. Thankfully it was only for a few hours doing a repair, and it was the building I used to own and live in. HAHAHAHA! Good ol' Allen Rd coming back to haunt me like a turd in the life punch-bowl.

^Guy sells all his rental properties yet still works on them? My life is still a burning dumpster, but it's not all-bad I will made a decent pay for the work. I tried to do a really good job for the owners, and the weather was great for half of it. Half my life sucks and the other half is just day by day so I guess that about fits, right?

The roof shingles are 20+ years old, and I paid around $6500 back in April, 2006 to have that roof re-shingled. 30-year arcitectural, but who gets the full life-span of a roof in Maine? I guess if conditions are ideal, perfect venting, not the case in any building I've ever owned or worked on. Winds must have blown shingles off near the peak in the past, and finally the tarpaper gave out. Current owner half-baked solution? Go into the attic and spray-foam upwards AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. THAT WILL NEVER WORK! I can't dump on him too much, though. That seems like something I would have tried 20 years ago before I accidentally learned carpentry stuff hehehe.

^Missing shingles and that yellow is the spray-foam that does not work at all because it's not designed to waterproof stuff. At least they tried, better than a lot of landlords around here. It was still a TERRIBLE solution, though.

We had rain this morning for a bit then a couple light showers so I worked at that garage job all morning, and by midday weather had improved so I had lunch and went to Lowe's for a bundle of roof shingles, cap shingles, roof caulk, and a small container of roofing nails. I have roof nails, but I bought longer ones that would bite better and that was only 6 bucks so why not? It's their money well-spent. The cap shingles are now $79. What a bunch of crap! Oh well, not my money, but it still seems damn expensive I guess oil prices and inflation are to blame. Thanks, Trump. Inflation isn't really Trump's fault, but the oil bullshit sure is. I'd rather see Iran have a nuke if I can get cheap petroleum products. Iran probably already has a nuke anyway. What a bunch of crap!

I was making great progress when off to the west the sky started to look all-bad, I could see the rain streaks in the sky, and I heard a rumble of thunder. I don't care if I get struck by lightning on a roof, but getting all wet would suck worse. Forecast was 15% chance of a shower hahaha. This ain't 15% anymore:

^Bye bye 67 and sunny. Hello rain shower. Thankfully it passed by in only about a half hour so I got my dumb ass back up there. It was still wet, but I could mostly safely walk the ridge so I never felt like I was gonna fall off. I guess no one ever feels like they are going to fall off a roof until they do, though.

^Impossible to color-match 20-year old shingles, but I came close. From the ground you can't really tell the difference. The existing cap shingles are in hard shape, but the rest of the roof seems mostly okay.

It was weird working on my old building. They told me to go into the shed to look for grey siding since I have a couple pieces of that to replace, but there was none. That shed still looks close to how I left it a few years ago, too. I left them a lot of stuff that might be useful to them, and most of it is still sitting there in that shed hahaha. I didn't feel a sense of loss, though. No part of me wanted to own the place again. To me it's just a chance to earn a few bucks, a local job that I can handle, thanks very much that will get me .005% closer to paying off all my debt. Sadly I just did that math to verify that, and it's pretty close. What a bunch of crap! .005% is a friggin joke, but enough of those strung together will start to add up. Maybe? Hopefully! The job only took me an afternoon anyway including going to Lowe's for supplies and getting up there to assess and make a plan.

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Wednesday: 10-07-26: The Alaska trip, taxes, too much work = better than no work.
I don't think I've written much about the final part of my epic 15-day disappearance from Maine, the Alaska part. The first 2.5 days was the fun trip to Cape Cod, the second 8 days was the 4500-mile drive across Canada and into Alaska, and the final 4.5 days were spent actually in Alaska. Where did I leave off? Guy looks at his last bootleg update that no one ever reads...

Oh, Winnipeg so we are still in Canada for a couple days here before we reach the USA again. Winnipeg SUCKED. We got there pretty late because of the U-Haul trailer flat tire, and we ended up near downtown in a hotel that had a PARKING GARAGE. OMG ALL I WANNA KNOW IS WHY? WHY DO I GOTTA BE IN A BIG CITY IN A HUGE TRUCK WITH NO PLACE TO PARK?! I had to put the thing in some under-construction bank parking lot area next to the hotel, and that was a huge challenge to navigate. The only way out was to cross 4 lanes of traffic on a busy road so I left at 0630 before traffic got bad so I could get the hell out of that city and meet up with the rest of the gang at a huge truck stop/gas station north of the city. I backed the trailer into the building there, too. What a bunch of crap! Oh well I didn't see any damage and I'm guessing it's not on camera anywhere. Maybe? Hopefully!

Most of the next day was driving in Saskatchewan, mostly flat wheat land and it was cool seeing all the huge farm equipment, silos, etc. We almost survived Saskatoon, but I took a wrong turn when 16W turned into 16E and I had to do a sketchy turn-around again right at rush hour. What a bunch of crap! I screwed up a bit outside of Edmonton as well so I was 0-4 when it comes to the bigger cities we went through in Canada. Gods damn it! Eventually we made it far enough north and into British Columbia to be on the ALCAN (Alaska-Canada highway) and parts of that were totally amazing. We had to stop for wildlife a few times including once for a herd of bison:

^Atlas on the dashboard, old-school, no GPS. Phil tried to put GPS on my phone, but come on we all know how I roll with that stuff. We saw lots of bears, caribou, sheep, deer, moose, etc.

Some of the terrain on that ALCAN was incredibly steep. 8-9% grades, and it stayed that way off and on for the final 3 days. Not all the time, but enough to turn the drive into a "white-knuckle" experience. That U-Haul was HEAVY, too. Probably too heavy based on how it handled empty vs. full. Thankfully the thing had engine brakes or my carcass would still be getting eaten by crows and bears in a ravine somewhere in the Yukon. For some of the uphills I felt like you could walk faster than I drove hehehe.

The Alcan turned to total trash on the very western part of Canada, too. HUGE potholes, slow-going, and then in Alaska there were still bad parts of the road and huge uphill and downhill grades. You know the Alcan isn't going to be great when a part of the thing goes around DESTRUCTION BAY. Finally we arrived in Anchorage Monday PM and we stayed with good friends of Phil and Danielle, really great people who made me feel very welcome. Their friends have two kids so all four kids played hard, and one day this was 4-year old Arlo:

^HAHAHAHAHAHA! He was bivouaced hard on those steps hahahaha! We unloaded the U-Haul Tuesday, Phil and Danielle secured a rental 3BR house in nearby Palmer the next day, and I helped them get set up. One day in Anchorage before we went to Palmer (friends house is in Anchorage) it was 36 and rainly with wet snow when I heard a lawn mower fire up. I couldn't believe it until I saw it:

^OMG HARDCORE!

One evening when we were driving to a restaurant a big bull moose was following a cow and he stopped traffic for a minute, common there from what they say:

Oh my last day there, Friday, Phil took the kids and I up to the hills above Palmer, not far from their 3BR rental home, and they had a couple inches of snow. Beautiful with amazing views:

^Phil and Arlo. That road was closed at a gate below since they are gearing up for winter there, and Amos and I were ahead a little playing in the snow some along the way. Amos totally looked like an escaped convict:

^HAHAHAHAHAHA! That kid is so smart, but he can be a real asshole at times. We got along well. Phil, dressing your kids in prison attire?! That actually is a snow suit they got at a store in Alaska, though.

So overall the trip was 50% good and 50% less-than-good. The long days of driving and having their barking dog, Rossi, in the hotel room with me were the worst parts. Getting turned around the wrong way or in tough areas in cities was awful, too. Oddly enough the blown trailer tire wasn't bad at all because the weather was good and U-Haul took great care of us by sending a local repair shop. We had to wait a couple hours for the fix, but better to have it happen on a sunny 65-degree day in a place where we had cell signal vs. at night in the rain or snow with no cell service at all. The U-Haul truck really did great, especially once I got to know it. I talked to it a lot. A LOT. Hey, 50% of the time there was no radio what a bunch of crap!

Alaska is BEAUTIFUL. I would go back to visit, but I would fly not drive hehehe.

As a nice bonus, a couple of the radio stations I did get along the way were awesome. One Thunder Bay station played a cool Helix song I didn't know so I wrote it down and played it on Youtube. Then outside of Saskatoon I heard a song I didn't know, but I remembered enough to find it. Honeymoon Suite, Burning in Love. Cheesy epic 80s video, really catchy song. I guess that's me right now because I still love Kat, but being by myself is better. The video isn't exactly a masterpiece and I'm sure the budget was really low. I'm surprised it had a video at all, bonus there!

I've gotten a lot done at that garage job in the three days I've worked there since my return. Bonus for me Kat helped yestereday and today. I have tax clients to finish, and I just FINALLY filed our own taxes today. We owed the IRS $4476 what a bunch of crap! Thankfully I had pre-paid $2000 last April so we "only" had to pay $2276 today. I used to have my stuff dialed-in, but my life is this right now so I didn't know I had even paid $2000 nearly 6 months ago:

^I am embarrassed to say I 100% forgot that I had given the IRS $2000 with our extension. What a bunch of crap! Thanfully I had it noted in the software file, and I couldn't believe it so I had to go into the bank account to verify the money actually came out. I suck!

Over the next few days I have to spend some more precious... precious time in the tax office, and I have barely done anything on this unfinished apartment and I won't be able to do much here until this weekend because I'm always busy. I didn't want to take on any more carpentry work, but the owners of my old building across the street asked if I can do a roof repair so that will take up half of tomorrow. I'd say I have too much work, but my dumb, worthless ass is still substantially in debt and that roof repair should be easy. Maybe? Hopefully! I turned down another roof-repair job a couple days ago because it's a couple towns over, that one might be more involved, and I'm too short on precious... precious time before real winter arrives. I'm not screwing around on a roof in winter again. Been there, done that, will probably do it again in the future but am actively trying NOT to do that.

I might be getting evicted from the tax office so I need to have a little spare precious... precious time available for when and if that happens. We have the worst landlord of all-time. More on that in the updates to come later this week or month...

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Saturday: 10-03-26: FINALLY HOME OMG.
I am wiped out, but I'm home and being back home is glorious. I've been looking forward to this for a couple weeks, but the trip was worth it. First was 2.5 days on Cape Cod, second was 8 days of driving aross Canada to Alaska, and third was spending a few days in Alaska once we finally arrived. Alaska is BEAUTIFUL. Would I ever want to live there? I dunno, but it seems unlikely because there is too much winter and winter sucks. A lot. There was snow while I was there. What a bunch of crap!

Thankfully the flights home today were very easy. I took a "Redeye" from Anchorage yesterday, departure time 2115 from ANC to ORD (Chicago) then onto another plane to Portland and a 2-hour drive back to Brewer, home around 1400. I did sleep a little on both flights, but not enough. You cannot get enough sleep when you fly economy on a plane. First-class maybe? I dunno that's way above my pay-grade. Probably not even then because there are announcements and bumps and other people making noise, the usual on a flight. I used to enjoy flying, but it sucks now. Too much work going through TSA/security and too many dumb misc. fees. Too many people as well. Chicago was really busy when I arrived at 0600. It's a huge airport, though.

So I haven't even flown in about 7 years. What a bunch of crap! What has changed about flying since then? You don't have to take your shoes off at security anymore so that's a win. I guess "Airplane Mode" on cellphones is obsolete because no one seemed to care... whether or not they cared about putting phones on airplane mode when we were taking off, flying, and landing. I never heard the staff say "Put your phones on airplane mode" either. I put mine on that setting a lot so I don't have to deal with people hehehe.

It's eye-opening how technology rules people's lives these days. I have my little bootleg crossword puzzle book and everyone around me is on their phones or tablets. Even in Alaska it's all about hand-free driving and talking, GPS, and technology. Kids get tablets (not all the time thankfully), and I can see why AI is going to kill us all in the future. It seems people totally depend on it, more-so than I even thought. What a bunch of crap! Phil and Danielle's 8-year old son knew how to download some stuff into a Nintendo Switch while I was there, and it's funny but sad at the same time. That boy is SMART, but he can be a handful at times so I have a funny photo of him in an orange snowsuit that makes him look like an escaped convict. He also said something way too wise for his age-group that made me break down laughing when it was time for his school lesson (home-schooled for now.) He was in a pissy mood and he said "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." when he didn't want to do his math problems and I lost my shit. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry Phil and Danielle, but that is not only incredible for an 8-year old, but it actually was used in the right context HAHAHAHAHA! He did do his math, and he got most if not all of them right from what I could tell. Quote of the month from an 8-year old confirmed.

Speaking of a bunch of crap, I can see why Uber is putting the taxi business under in a hurry. I do not know how to use Uber, and I don't want to learn, so I was glad to see a little taxi area at the Portland airport. I had to go a few miles to get my truck from Phil's brother's house, and the taxi guy was a fucking nincompoop. He spoke broken English so we didn't talk much, and we had left the airport before he asked my ass to put the address where I wanted to go into his phone. OMG REALLY?! He seriously handed my dumb ass his phone and asked me to plug in the address while he was driving. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! He did a totally illegal U-turn when he got it wrong, too. That's just retarded. DO NOT ASK THE TECHNOLOGY-LAGGARD TO USE YOUR PHONE GODS DAMN IT.

I guess I should figure out Uber after that shit-show, but nevermind because this is the first time in forever where I needed a taxi/ride to somewhere that I couldn't take care of myself. I wonder if Uber would have been easier, but downloading the app and trying to use it would have ended in epic fail so nevermind.

I was really tired on the drive home, but I made it with some caffiene, snacks, chewing gum, and rolling the window down some. Helped Frank 106.9FM played a lot of cool 80s songs until I lost the station along the way. I did sleep a bit over two hours mid-late PM and I'll bivouac again soon even though it's fairly early. It's not quite 2000 here, but in my pea-brain I guess it's 1600 if I'm still on Alaska time (4-hour difference.)

This Alaska trip was quite arduous at times, but the last few days weren't too bad. Driving across Canada was EPIC, and that UHaul must have been at its max if not slightly overloaded because once I drove it when it was empty it handled 10-times better. The first day totally sucked in Quebec when I ended up in downtown Montreal. What a bunch of crap! Then I was low on fuel so we had to stop at a gas station that was NOT built for a 26-foot uHaul with a 12-foot trailer. I almost destroyed a gas pump trying to get out of that one. Quebec has some beautiful spots, but fuck that place it's mostly French and we never truly felt welcome there. The border crossing itself SUCKED. The Canada border agents gave us a really hard time and tore through a lot of the stuff in the trailer and U-Haul. What a bunch of crap! They treated me kinda like a criminal and I really didn't think I was getting across. They pulled my file and asked about some dumb $250 fine from 20 years ago and about a case that was dismissed, and they seemed to think we were loaded with drugs and guns. EPIC FAIL. They treated Danielle like crap, too.

Oh, to make matters worse one guy in their checkpoint-station seemed to not understand why we were driving through Canada and not in America until Seattle before we turned north. HEY GUY YOU CANNOT JUST DRIVE TO SEATTLE THEN UP TO ANCHORAGE WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! He pointed at their map on the wall like I'm a friggin' retard. I am kind-of dumb, but our route made perfect sense and we stayed 7 nights total in Canadian hotels, two rooms each night, plus we bought a ton of fuel plus food, etc. You'd think they would want our dollars, but maybe the Trump tariff bullshit made them salty? Trump is a dick for how he has treated Canada because, other than Quebec, that place is quite awesome.

We drove an average of around 600 miles a day, and on day two we had to stay at this bootleg sketchy hotel:

^Yeah, that's their sign hahaha! Hearst, Ontario. All the other hotels where weirdly sold out so we got that one, and people were sitting in folding chairs outside their rooms smoking. Canadian rural ghetto? Get this, when we got checked in someshetchy-looking guy came out of our rooms so we thought we were booked into wrong rooms. Turns out he was just "unlocking" them for us. Um, what?! Oh well the front clerk was friendly and we were only there a night. I thought we might get robbed and/or shanked, but we did not. My room key stopped working because I guess (so they said) the battery on the door died, but I didn't plan to go in and out of the room so no worries.

Day 3 of the trip across Canada started well enough and there was some beautiful foggy areas at times early morning:

^Thankfully that mist didn't have monsters like the Stephen King mist did...

We drove near Thunder Bay, and that was a great view across part of Lake Superior, and then we were heading towards Winnipeg when this happened:

^TRAILER-TIRE FAIL WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! I drove about 30 miles like that before a passer-by flagged my dumb ass down to tell me about it hahahahahaha! That tire was well beyond flat, it was just gone. The truck and trailer never felt like it handled differently so I had no idea because I couldn't see those tires in the mirror. We were on a relatively desolate stretch of road, but we had cell service and they had bought the extra warranty stuff from UHaul so it all worked out great. We had to wait about 2.5 hours, but the weather was good and all things considered it could have been a lot worse.

Sadly that did set us back enough so we had a LONG day driving to Winnipeg, and we ended up in a hotel near downtown. That hotel had a parking garage so all I wanna know it why? Why did we have to go there when a HUGE UHaul cannot possibly fit into a parking garage? I had to do some really sketchy shit in a city of 850,000 people and thank the gods who do not exist I can back a trailer. More on that next time right now I'm just done and it's bedtime again soon because my worthless ass is tired and very-much sleep deprived...

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