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Wednesday, 10-16-24: I now know what Zonolite
is, and I wish I did not have to know this. https://retrotec.com/blog/post/zolonite-asbestos-attic-insulation Basically zonolite is a lightweight insulation that has asbestos in it. From the article: "Zonolite is the trademarked name of a type of loose-fill, heat-expanded vermiculite insulation sold between the 1940s and 1990s that was manufactured by W.R. Grace & Company. Although no one knows exactly how much of this product is out there, Cottingham says that the estimates range from 1 to 30 million U.S. Homes. Most of the articles I've read cite the upper end of that range, since Zonolite commanded about 75 percent of the world Vermiculite insulation market during the decades it was being sold. Unlike some other products, Zonolite was never meant to contain asbestos. However it was mined from Grace's asbestos-contaminated mine in Libby, Montana, a site the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to clean up the for almost 20 years now. Although most Zonolite has an asbestos content of less than
1%—which puts it below the EPA's threshold of an asbestos-containing
material—it's still quite dangerous. According to asbestos.com the
asbestos in Zonolite is an amphibole form known as tremolite which some
studies suggest could be 10 times more dangerous than the white asbestos
used by most manufacturers. That last sentence holds the most weight with my loser-ass because I was dealing with it today for about a half-hour before I felt like it was above my pay-grade and I quit. It didn't pass my "sniff-test" and I just didn't think I should be messing with it without doing more research. This is what prompted my ass to action in the first-place: I posted that yesterday, and the article I posted above has a picture: ^ZONOLITE! The stuff I was briefly dealing with today EXACTLY fits that
description and image. Like, a perfect 100% match. What a bunch of crap!
I did wear a mask and gloves, but I bailed pretty quickly after I felt
like I needed to reassess the entire situation. What really concerns me
is this statement from the article: OMG THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SEEING TODAY. THAT SHIT WAS INCREDIBLY LIGHT AND IT TURNED TO DUST ASAP. It is in the attic, but that dust is very fine and I was concerned it could permeate into the main house where my own 3-year old grandson lives along with his parents and his 7-month pregnant mother. No fuckin' way, I'm out like a fat kid in dodge ball. I am not an asbestos remediator, and if there had only been a very small amount I would have handled it like a boss. However, there is more than I expected by quite a bit. It's not the entire attic, but it's probably 6" deep and over 50 or 60 square feet so nope. Time to call in a remediation company and deal with it as we may. Asbestos sucks ass, but it's a solvable problem. Hell, almost every problem can be solved with enough precious... precious money. Unfortuantely we have a limited supply of that right now. What amazes me is how long that property has been a part of my life with no one at all ever knowing about it. I knew Jay and his family very well back in the 2000s and they never mentioned it. I bought the place from them in 2010 and never noticed (not that I would have looked there as it's in a very obscure spot.) I sold the house to Dillon and Debbie in 2021 and they had is professionally inspected with no one saying or seeing anything. Now this?! At first was upset with the current inspector, but now that I've read more I think that inspector got it right, big-time. Shame on anyone else who may have inspected the place in years past because it's pretty obviously zololite. What a bunch of crap! Another funny ironic twist. I used to own stock in WR Grace, the company that owned the asbestos-filled mine out in Montana. All I wanna know is why? Why did that have to happen? I'll throw on a $20 suit you can buy at Lowe's and I'll go get that crap out of there, I don't fuckin' care if I die from asbestos lung. I've had a great life and am fine with dying anytime. However, I can't put Dillon, Debbie, and the kids at risk. I don't think I can seal off the attic the right way in order to keep the dust from seeping into the downstairs. A little dust, even a microscopic amount, could be harmful and F that. If the house was vacant I would totally go get rid of it, but they still live there. Maybe we can stick them in a hotel for a couple days, but really I need to get a professional in there. My life is such a shit-show. I don't even know how I handle it. This bootleg site that almost no one ever reads helps, but it's only a drop in the bucket these days because most days I'm too busy to even write about my failing life. What a bunch of crap! I have it on channel 1928, Alan Parson's Project Eye in the Sky. Catchy song! They are ripping out some great tunes tonight so far. In other news that is less ridiculous, the people who want to buy Mad Kat came today for another meeting and they still seem to be all-in. Good because fuck that place. Seriously. It is going to take a long time for me to recover from that shit-show life decision, and I may never fully come back from it. There's still a 50% chance it ruins my marriage, we shall see. I'm up here trying to undo my terrible life-decisions whereas Jason gets to go into the woods on one of his many beautiful parcels of land and get this done yesterday: ^I'm not jealous, I'm happy for him. I failed so badly at life that I can't even go deer hunting yet and my entire season might be pwned. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! If I don't fix my fucked-life in the next few months I won't make it
long into 2025. This is fuckin' bullshit, epic fail, and what a bunch
of crap all rolled into one and there is only one person to blame for
it all: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, 10-15-24: Too much to possibly write
down in 20 minutes. Whose fault is all of this?! (Guy looks in the mirror.) Today was a whirlwind, but I mostly kept it on lockdown. I started off at the restaurant for a couple hours balancing the books, paying a couple bills, finishing cleaning the fryers and some other kitchen stuff, and receiving the usual Tuesday morning delivery. Kat would have helped, but she was at an important medical appointment. I left the restaurant at 1000 with just enough time to get onto a roof before Chris and Mike showed up to help in what was their final day on that 3-week job-site. We finished the last peak-shingle around noon just as one of Jason's Fusion AV guys was arriving at the restaurant to do some work so I hurried to go meet him. Cleaning up and taking down the staging at 19 Gilmore (roof job across the street from the restaurant) took a while, too. Here is the roof now: ^I still have to shingle the rear little spot above the cellar door, but that will be simple as compared to everything else. I'm thinking I can rip that out in under two hours including some cleanup. Maybe? Hopefully! I had to get a piece of aluminum trim reinstalled as well. I have a photo of the back-side: I was leaning my dumb-ass over the side with Mike holding my leg from the higher roof above hahaha. It really didn't feel unsafe because I had jacks and planks stationed on the roof along that edge, but it was far from the safest thing I've ever done and I'm sure an OSHA inspector would have had issues with everything about it. I wasn't going to do that trim because I thought it was gone, but Gavin saved a piece and Dillon found the other piece and it was required in order for them to sell the house. It probably blew off last year during one of our many huge storms that ravaged the area. After I dealt with the restaurant again for the second time of the day I had to return a lot of the staging that I had rented, and traffic sucked. A lot. Then I needed to stop by Treats Falls so he could sign a permit for a soon-to-be garage then I had to meet Ben so he could fix some "Double tap" breaker bullshit also at 19 Gilmore. After that it was off to the restaurant and then a tax client who always does an extension (Oct 15 deadline for extensions.) Finally I was able to come home, but I had a little more work to do on the computer earlier this evening. That's too much in one day, but I did pull it off like a boss. It seems certain we are going to be selling the restaurant to a husband and wife team, but we don't have an official contract in place just yet. They did their liquor license today so that means they're all-in because who would do that just for fun? Especially not for $910! We meet with them tomorrow and, if needed, Thursday. We do expect a legal contract ASAP and the delay was on our end when I didn't get them the list of things we are keeping before the weekend and yesterday was a bootleg holiday so I'm guessing most lawyers took the day off. Fucking Columbus Day. What a worthless bunch of crap holiday! It's not even Columbus Day anymore because people in general suck. Indegenous People's Day hahahahaaha! FUCKING TERRIBLE NAME FOR A LAME HOLIDAY. It's probably the worst holiday of the entire year, but President's Day is also dumb shit. Our house is on the market as of yesterday. So far only one showing is scheduled so that is a tad concerning, but who knows maybe the one showing will be all it takes. I'd like to have a few more, but each showing means we have to leave with the dogs so that sucks. A lot. We don't HAVE to leave, but we should leave as that seems to be protocol for these things. I joked with Jody earlier that I've sold all kinds of properties, but I've never sold one I've lived in. OMG WOW! That truly does amaze me. I have to go back over to 19 Gilmore tomorrow morning to look for what isn't likely to be but maybe could be asbestos insulation in the attic. The home "inspector" reported it as this: ^HEY NINCOMPOOP HOW ABOUT YOU HAVE IT ACTUALLY TESTED INSTEAD OF MAKING SHIT UP?! WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! I went up there and looked a couple days ago and mostly what I saw was fiberglass insulation. I'm not an expert, but after two decades in the property remodeling business I sort-of have my finger on the pulse of these things. Dillon and Debbie had the place inspected three years ago before I sold it to them and that report never mentioned any such thing. The real estate game sure can be a joke. Even the "Double Tap" breaker thing is totally bootleg. Ben told me today it's more safe to have a double-tap breaker than to splice into one, as long as the wires for the double-tap are the same gauge. These home inspectors are a joke, too. Some are good, but some have no business attempting to assess problems with a building. Once they officially sell their house we can move out to Chemo Pond Rd. We went there again a few days ago and I took a bunch of pictures that I won't post now due to not having enough precious... precious time. I am concerned a bank will send someone out to look at the place before the loan closes and flag it hard for stupid shit like this: ^FAIL UNSAFE DECK. A closer look at that header: ^OMG THAT IS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN CARPENTRY OF A DECK. WHAT A STUPID BUNCH OF CRAP! ALL I WANNA KNOW IS WHY? WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT WILL HOLD PEOPLE?! IT WON'T. ^Yeah, banks are gonna love that one. Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg site, I'm done. Fin. Hopefully I can update again before the end of the month! ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sunday, 10-06-24: Beyond exhausted. Listing tomorrow! I worked 17 friggin' hours yesterday OMG! I went to the restaurant at 0800 to get the event room ready for a 1200-1500 party and I just stayed because it was busy enough were my help was needed. I ended up working the afternoon event, a nice group from the class of 1969 at a local school. Wow! After that party ended I had to get ready for another evening party and I was stuck there until around 1830. I was able to go home to shovel in a little food, see my awesome wife, and take a shower before I went right back for the night. I finally got home for good around 0145. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! This crazy schedule is untenable long-term. It's totally exhausting all the time. Sales were fantastic yesterday so that helped keep me motivated. Thankfully I got most of today off and we celebrated Damon's 3rd birthday here at the house earlier. That kid is funny. Dillon and Debbie have a daughter on the way with a due-date of Dec 9 so we're hoping to be done with the restaurant by then. Will it happen? Hard to say, but I'm cautiously optimistic it can. I'm going to get more clarity on that tomorrow. I have a lot to do tomorrow, but I don't think it's an overwhelming amount. I need to sit at the desk and do some office-work. If all goes as I hope and expect we will know 100% for sure that we are selling the restaurant. We have a verbal agreement but nothing official as a written contract. We also plan to list this house for sale. Kat already started packing! I was surprised when I came home from work for that brief 45-minute evening break and saw photos, posters, and movies off the living room shelves and stowed neatly in boxes. We get plenty of boxes from all our restaurant deliveries and we'll need a lot of them. It looks like we have a closing date for moving to Eddington. Dillon and Debbie have their house under contract (finally!) with a closing date of Nov 8, the same day we can close on the Eddington properties. It was a little tense waiting for Dillon and Debbie to sell their house since the market is not a feeding-frenzy anymore like it has been in the very recent past. They listed for $215k, had showings and no offers, dropped to $209k and had showings and an offer for $206k with $6k towards closing costs so really theyre selling for around $215k. It's the same house I paid $75k for back in 2020 and sold to them for $131k just three years ago. Wow! The amount of work I have to do for the rest of the year is almost unbelievable. Somehow we have to sell the restaurant, sell our house, move to Eddington (and help Dillon, Debbie, and Katherine along the way as we are all going to live there) and remodel the Eddington property to what it needs to be through the winter. Oh, I have to find an office to lease if I want to keep the tax business going and at some point rifle and muzzle-loader seasons for deer hunting will come and go and I might miss out. Selling the restaurant and moving > going deer hunting. It pains me to write that, but it's the truth. This lifestyle is going to destroy me so making the change I need to make, we need to make, is my top priority at all times. I have to get that fuckin' restaurant out of my life and bring new surroundings and a new aura/location/vibe into my worthless life. Kat is VERY heartbroken about selling and most likely losing the restaurant. I feel like she needs to get the place out of her life because it's killing her as well with the long hours and arduous physical work. Not even including the stress of money and for her dealing with the borderline retards whom we have on-staff. I know I'm not supposed so use the term RETARD anymore, but this is my bootleg site so if you don't like it you can gggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt oooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttttttttttttttt! _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Friday, 10-04-24: I'm friggin' beat. Nov 1 possibly? The weather today was all kinds of fall-in-Maine-unusual. Started off with a heavy fog and some very light drizzle soaking everything. I still worked on the roof from roughly 0730-0815 until I helped receive the usual Friday restaurant delivery. After that delivery it was back to the roof (thankfully only across the street) where things were still wet but starting to dry out. I'd say by 1030 it was dry and even when it was wet I was in a relatively safe spot with planks below me and all the staging. I finished the west side around 1130 then took a lunch break: If I had help today we could have taken down all the staging, but that will have to wait until Tuesday next week. I'll be busy this weekend with the restaurant and we get some rain tomorrow morning and more rain Monday into Tuesday morning. Not epic deluge rains, but enough to cause issues inside that house if I didn't get it covered. After lunch I had the back east side to do and by then the sun was out and we briefly hit 70 degrees hahaha. I had my shirt off and was sweating quite a bit for the first hour or so early PM. I knew I wouldn't 100% finish it and that's okay as long as I could get the underlayment up to the peak to keep the rain OUTSIDE of the house. I was wasted like Doc-J and 8-Ball from Full Metal Jacket by around 1600 yet I had to forge on just a little longer to get it all secured. Right around then a sea breeze kicked up, it got ten degrees colder and the sun disappeared, and there were a couple gnarly gusts of wind that sent my tarpaper flying. What a bunch of crap! I'll take wet and no wind over dry and windy any day when trying to do a roof. (Not pouring rain wet of course.) Let's hope this underlayment doesn't come off in the next three days until I can get back there to finish the shingles to the peak. I'm thinking I can get that roof done next week Tues PM-Friday, but we'll see. A lot of that depends on how much help I get. Chris and Mike (my helpers this week) were BEAT so I don't blame them for not working with me today since they both work a full shift at the restaurant and are there now. Speaking of the restaurant, that place is really busy at the 2300 hour. I could go down now and get the event room ready for two events tomorrow, but I think I'll bivouac soon and just do it in the morning. I did help at the restaurant for what was a very busy dinner-rush earlier. I was there about 2.5 hours and then it slowed down enough were I could leave. I needed to leave anyway because my bootleg body was starting its shutdown phase. Seems stupid, but I think I was getting ready to pass the hell out. I hadn't eaten anything since 1145 and I was busting it all PM and buring precious... precious energy all day. We've been going back and forth with our potential buyers for the restaurant and I met with them for 1.5 hours yesterday around midday. They made a new updated offer that doesn't suck as much as their first offer, but it still sucks a little. I think their lawyer is drawing up an official offer for our review, but we'll see. I'm sure nothing will move forward with the place until Monday next week. I'm ready to sell, and if we stick to our informal agreement they will own the place November 1st, I'll work there some for a while to get them set up, and then I'm out like a fat kid in dodge ball and I can't wait to be 100% out of there. It's too much for me and I need to go back to the basics in life. I can't lift weights, go for a jog, or play racquetball this weekend because I'm friggin' BEAT. I don't think I should be doing roofing anymore when I get past this one, but we'll see. I'll make fair money from doing this one so that helps. It's "only" 16 square, but it's not easy. Funny I'm doing it on the house I owned for 11 years AHAHAHA. Right in my old neighborhood as well were I've had some unbelievable memories. The family who lived in the house I'm roofing called the cops on us 17-18 years ago after we were having a "steel chair" wrestling match in the street in the middle of the night. What a bunch of crap! We totally deserved it and I felt badly the next day. They apologized for calling the cops because we were friendly with them, but at the time they totally did the right thing since their kids were mortified. HAHAHAHAHA. It's weird not being at the restaurant at this time on a Friday night. That event room needs to be cleaned and set up for two parties tomorrow, but it's early so I can rack out in a few minutes and get up at a decent time tomorrow and go set it up. I don't think it will take more than an hour. Wow, in 4 weeks we won't own Mad Kat anymore if things go as planned. That would be AWESOME and I will be very sad if this potential and likely deal falls through. I need this to happen for my own sanity. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, 10-02-24: Roof, roof, roof. Also,
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money).
That back side still looks like that today and I took the picture yesterday around midday. What a bunch of crap! However, the main roof west side is really getting done. Here it was yesterday around midday: Huge section of old roof removed by Mike. I have two occasional helpers, Chris and his dad, Mike. Mike is in his mid-60s but that guy can WORK. Chris is a good worker as well, but he hurt his shoulder (old nagging injury from the past) so he's more limited. When I had them help last week the first day we didn't have a good rythm because I needed to know their strengths and weaknesses on the job-site and now I know that so the past two days we've gotten A LOT done. Here is that same west side earlier today before I went to the dump, to Lowe's for more supplies, and then quit for the day around 1645: I worked for a total of about 7.25 hours today there inluding two supply and dump trips. Chris and Mike put in 4.5 hours each and we ripped it out. Got more staging, and that staging makes a HUGE difference in our favor. When we're done I'll have $300 in staging rental cost as well as a few hours setting it up and breaking it down, but once in place it makes us fly doing the roofing. We got half that entire 5-square roof section shingles in about 3 hours today oh Jesus hell ya! (not including time stripping it down and prepping.) I'll have most of that side done tomorrow, most of the east back side done Friday (the first photo) and next week if there's not too much rain I'll finish the last and most difficult east side. That staging will probably save 10 man-hours, 3 guys, per side so it was worth the investment and I should have done that on prior roof jobs in the past. Live and learn! It's also 10x safer and makes for many less trips up and down the ladder. I put on Pet Shop Boys Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) and hopefully there are opportunites for us in the near future not necessarily to make lots of money but to recoup bad money we fucked away by opening a restaurant. The potential buyers for the place were there this evening for trivia where my awesome wife was crushing it as host. I went down for a bit to take care of some paperwork and get Q4 files in place; we have a meeting with the potential buyers tomorrow at 1230 that will *hopefully* bear non-rotten fruit. It will be our second meeting with them in a week so things are getting serious. Other opportunities include selling this house and moving to Eddington, but first Dillon and Debbie have to sell their house. Yes, the same house I used to own when I was a slumlord and the very same house I'm shingling now. Wow! They had a few showings but no offers at $215,000 so Jody advised they drop it to $209,000 they had two new showings and now it's under contract as of about an hour ago. Oh Jesus, hell ya! All our plans hinge on them selling that house so we can sell our house and move. They have to sell first becuse we won't get a loan thanks to all the losses on our taxes from the restaurant. I've never defaulted on a payment and I have a great credit score (I think?) but banks see losses on taxes and they run for the hills. What a bunch of crap! I am enjoying doing that roof, but holy crap roofing is WORK. It reminds me of blueberry raking to a point. When I do roofing all day I'm not lifting weights or doing other excersise like racquetball or jogging. I probably could go for a jog, I did Monday, but F that most days it beats me up including yesterday and today. It's a GREAT workout and I even have a little better tan now so that's a huge win. Fantastic weather also helps, but next week that changes and more rain is expected. So in a perfect scenario by this time next week we'll have Mad Kat under contract to sell, Dillon and Debbie will be solid in a closing date to sell their house and we'll have our house for sale and maybe have showings scheduled. I won't have that roof done, but I'll be close. I would have the roof done, but we have some rainy days in the forecast. The other work I have at Treats Falls might also be moving forward, but for now it's on pause because, get this, his expected tenant might die. OMG! I feel badly for the guy because he is funny and I like him. Weird setup that I would never do, but it works for them. They have a home health business so in various sections of their house they have basically a nursing home setup. The interior work I did was going to lead them to a tenant who would pay quite a lot to live there and recceive 24-7 care, meals, etc. However, two days before he was going to move in he had to go to the ER and have his foot amputated. Noooooo! Now it seems he might not even live so that's really sad. I spent all this time, they spent a lot of precious... precious money getting it ready and now it seems unlikely to happen at all. I'm just the carpenter and I don't have a dog in that fight, but it does suck for them. All work there is on pause until I hear from him and that's fine with me as I've been busy doing a roof, trying to sell a restaurant, and still trying to keep that restaurant going including TONS of work on weekends there. Pet Shop Boys What Have I Done (to Deserve This?) Today we were shingling that roof mid-afternoon and this song came on BIG 104.7 and it was fucking awesome. It motivated my loser-ass and I needed it because I was getting a little worn down and I was right at the edge of the roof. If I fell what would have caught me? Hopefully a cast-iron stink-pipe (right side lower part in the last photo) and if not that the electrical wires. Chris and Mike think I'm crazy up on that roof because I don't give a fuck. I'll crawl my ass all over that thing including right to the edges because for some weird reason heights don't scare me. What does scare me? RUNNING OUT OF FUCKIN' MONEY! Thankfully we won't be doing that. Maybe? Hopefully!
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