(Last updated: 7-26-2025)

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Saturday, 7-26-25: Raking starts tomorrow and I have a lot to do. I should eat more.
I was telling Gavin last week I feel like this is the first year in seemingly forever where I won't be rushing to get ready for blueberry raking, and now that I'm within 24 hours of leaving for a week of raking I feel like I still have a lot to do. Borderline too much to do. What a bunch of crap! Thankfully I don't have a restaurant to deal with and no apartment buildings to worry about while I'm gone, and that hasn't happened since 20+ years ago maybe since the first time I ever raked for Cliff. Back then I still needed to get approved for vacation from work. (taking vacation to go work more = yup that's how we roll sometimes.) Now that I am my own boss no vacation time is needed!

I'm starting this bootleg update that no one will ever read at 0730 today. I'm sure I won't finish it until later because we have friends coming over in about an hour to help do some work around the house and I do need to start digging out old shorts, shirts, socks, shoes, whatever else I can find that relates to blueberry raking. It's been two years since we've gone and we moved so my stuff is everywhere. What a bunch of crap! I need to find the rest of the camping stuff as well as pack and load the truck, but I can't load the truck yet not until I head into Bangor to finish packing up the tax office and putting most of that in storage. I also need to stop by Lowe's for a few supplies so I can finish a section of the downstairs, and I have to mow and weedwack. Lots to do!

Thankfully today will be a perfect weather-day. Lots of sun, low 80s, not humid. Weather looks decent enough for raking with only some T-storms possible later Tues. Might be a little warm Monday and Tuesday in the field, but no 90+ degrees expected and later this week another front is expected to drop humidity and keep temps in the 70s. Oh Jesus, hell ya! 70s and not humid is perfect for raking, especially if we have clouds and a breeze. Asking for all that might be greedy, though hehe. The most important thing for raking is to have a decent crop so there are actual blueberries, and lots of them, to harvest.

We rake into 27-pound totes (boxes) so my goal is to rake 333 boxes to make at least $2000. If I can do 400 boxes that would be awesome as it would make me $2400 and that "extra" $400 pays for food, ice, gas, the cost of camping, etc. There is no way to forecast what I'll actually do because there are too many variables. Not only does the quality of the crop matter but also my health and the weather play a factor. I might blow out a forearm on day one and be toast, We might have a heat wave next week that slows things to nearly a halt, we could get some rainouts, just hard to say for sure. This will be my first year of raking where I haven't used a gym in 9 or 10 months so in theory I should be in worse shape than I was a couple years ago. However, all the carpentry, jogging, yoga, and occasional racquetball have gotten me into what I think and hope will be decent shape for raking.

I weighed myself for the first time possibly all year but in at least many, many months, and I came in at only 140. OMG I NEED TO EAT MORE! If I drop below 140 I think that's too light and raking normally burns a bazillion calories so I definitely need to eat more. However, I don't have a huge appetite anymore so I'll have to be more mindful to get enough calories. I'm fine being only 140, but no lower. I think 145 is probably ideal, but I dunno SINCE I NEVER GO TO A DOCTOR WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!

We wrapped up at that garage job yesterday after working a few hours in the heat and humidity. It was probably "only" low 80s, but the humidity was awful. Then we got a huge rain shower midday that flooded out a little lower area right where the power cord was and the charger so oops there. No damage, the GFCI tripped, and the "flooding" wasn't really a flood it was just a HUGE puddle on the lower level, but that is just the dirt driveway part so no worries and it did drain away quickly. We got more siding on:

We framed an interior wall upstairs and I realized I have one wall section out of square. The thing must have leaned when we were doing the roof rafters becasue I did have it straight like a boss. What a bunch of crap! I'm a little annoyed with myself for it, but hopefully the homeowner won't notice because fixing it now would be all but impossible. Thankfully when you look at it from the ground you can't even tell it's not perfectly square. I did have a shit foundation to work with and I think the back corner did settle a couple inches as I build onto it so the frost wall foundation must not go deep enough or it has the wrong base. I dunno, but it's not that bad and I think everything will still be okay. Maybe? Hopefully!

Alright turds, all two of you who read this trash-heap of a site, I need to go start working, packing, and getting shit done so I an spend a little quality time with my awesome wife before I leave tomorrow around 0700. I'll rake for 2-3 hours tomorrow, just enough to warm up the muscles and see the field, then I'm gonna visit my family and later tomorrow meet up with Gavin and Mic Mac to set up camp for a week. I'm not sure I'll stay down there for the whole week; I'll probably come home midweek for an overnight to hang out with Kat and resupply. That all depends on the crop, the weather, etc. It's seems almost certain this is my final bootleg update for July, 2025, though. Goonies never say die!

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Saturday, 7-19-25: Marriage is barely worth it.
I love my wife, she's amazing, but sometimes I wish I was single again. I don't want to be single so I can go and pokerize chicks who are not my wife, F that, I just need a little more peace, quiet, and respect gods damn it. Today is a prime example of that. I worked a lot. A LOT. It's Saturday and it should be a day off so all I wanna know is why? Why is my loser-ass working 10 hours?! Even going for a jog was a challenge but gods damn it I made time for it. I sucked at it and I lost the power cord to my little bootleg GPs watch weeks ago so I dunno how fast I am, but the only real and truly correct answer is I AM SLOW. What a bunch of crap! Oh, as an added bonus, deer, horse, and moose-flies now go with me when I jog and they randomly try to eat my soul. What an additional bunch of crap!

So not only am I bad at jogging these days but also I get chewed up by bugs when I do go. Thankfully they mostly don't eat me, but today I inhaled one and had to spit it out and I killed another one as it tried to bore into my growing bald-spot. I don't have a true bald spot yet, but the sooner the better I don't give a fuck if my hair falls out because I'm old. Vanity is for pussies! If my wife hauls on me because I'm going bald that's fine I miss being single 50% of the time anyway. My life sucks less than it did last year at this time, but it sucks more than it did 20 or 30 years ago. My best life was around 20 years ago and since then it's been a gradual decline. What a bunch of crap!

I worked on the downstairs a lot today. A lot. Then we hung out and did some karaoke in the new room downstairs that isn't 100% done yet. I didn't do any karaoke, I was enjoying just sitting there and doing nothing, but then for the second week in a row my wife wanted me to record her singning. Sure thing no prob! However, when it becomes my job then it's a problem. I recoreded her doing a few songs last week and I recorded three this week. She wanted me to do another one and I said this was my last one because I don't want to anymore and she got all pissed off because that's what wommens do and it sucks. A lot.

HEY WIFE DON'T ASK ME TO RECORD YOU FOR HALF THE NIGHT WHEN YOU SING WE ALL KNOW YOU ARE A GREAT SINGER AND IT GOES ON YOUTUBE OR WHATEVER BUT CAN I PLEASE JUST SIT THERE AND DRINK? RECORDING IS LIKE WORK I HAVE TO FOCUS AND GET IT RIGHT AND THAT'S FINE FOR 5-15 MINUTES ONCE A WEEK BUT DON'T ABUSE MY ASS WHEN I WORK 7 FUCKIN DAYS A WEEK AND AM BURNING OUT AND JUST WANT TO SIT IN THE CHAIR AND LISTEN TO SOME MUSIC AND DRINK SOME BOOZE AND RELAX?!

I'll say it right now. Roughly 20 years ago my life was at its best and ever since then it's been a slow decline on the average. There are ups and downs, but the general trend is worse. Most of that is my own gods damned fault, but COVID did have a lot to do with it. That stupid fucking pandemic that didn't really even kill as many people as they say fucked me up and I'll never really recover from it, ever. Hell, the COVID itself fucked me up and I'm worse off for it. Either Covid or the dumbass vaccines that made things worse for many people probably including my loser ass. But hey a lot of people at J & J and the other one (Pfzier?) made billions so good for them... I guess.

Okay this helps me not want to die. I'm ripping out 80 tunes before I rack out with my crack out. Of course it was Def Leppard at first, but then it was Crowded House and now Ric Ocasek (The Cars) Emotion in Motion. I guess this is one of his solo songs and not really with the Cars, but either way it's great and I would be content forever just stuck in the 80s not only for music but also for movies. Missing out on all the great 70s and early 90s songs would suck, but I'd find a way to cope by playing more Pole Position and Super Mario Bros III.

I wish my life sucked less than it does now. I am thankful that, on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being the worst I've been "promoted" from a 1 back in December (borderline suicidal just read the bootleg archives none of that was a joke) up to maybe a 5. I am hopeful when I can finish work on this house things will be better, but this gods damned house is going to take 2 more years to finish. What a bunch of crap!

The downstairs is coming along really well. Today I was frustrated because I was just all over the place trying to work on stuff while also helping my wife, mowing the lawn, going to the dump, etc. When I finish this corner that will be a relief:

Blueberry raking is in one week so whatever I don't finish on the house will have to wait until mid-August at the soonest.

Oh hey, YouTube plays Starship Sara. This song is so amazing, and I won't harp on it because I've written it before and probably even just a few months ago. Sara was my one who got away, but not really because I would have 100% blown it with her way back 25 years ago. We had a great chemistry, but I wasn't ready. Hell I'll be 50 in a few months and I'm BARELY qualified to have a wife. I can 100% guarantee if Kat and I had met back when I was 25 years old I would have fould MULTIPE ways to emotionally blow it. I wouldn't have blown it by beating her up or by cheating on her, but I probably would have chosen to play AOEII instead of pokerizing. Hehehehe.

^I really miss playing AOE II with Gavin and some random "friends" online. I'd love to play again, but it seems unlikely. When was my last game ever of AOE II? I'd guess 2013, but possibly I played in early 2014 before I met my awesome wife who I do love even though women are nuts and I'm better off without them. However, I am 100% heterosexual so women will always be a part of my life or I sould say one woman, MY WIFE, because it her and I ever do split (unlikely) then my pathetic ass is doing one of two things. Most likely I am getting TRASHED, shitfaced drunk, and freezing myself to death. Or I'll just be single for a bit and play old NES and SNES video games (80s/90s) and drink a lot until I die. There is no option that leads to me being with another chick.

Tina Turner, Beyond Thunderdome. Man I got kinda drunk but I think (I hope!) I hit the sweet-spot and wake up A-ok. I had two Allen's coffee brandy and milk and then three Deep Eddy Lemon with lemonade. Gotta love the lemon-drop as a full drink! I haven't have that drink since last year so it was great. Those drinks were over the span of probably 5 hours, though.

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Friday, 7-18-25: Siding and a floor.
It's been a pretty good week, and the weather was fantastic today so that's a bonus. Sunny, 70s most of the day, NOT HUMID. Earlier in the week we had some hot and humid days. Dew point at 70 = what a bunch of crap! Dew point at 50 = chef's kiss. Wednesday was very hot and humid so we got an early-ish start on that garage job for the morning. I decided working in the shade was the only decent option with sun and a forecast high temp of 90. Little to no wind as well. I found siding in-stock at Lowe's in a blue color the homeowner really likes and we started that:

^My helper doing all the work while I stand around hehe. We also got a door installed before we quit for the day, and over the past couple days I've done a little more siding, prep, cleanup, and another door working there by myself. My helper will be back a couple days next week and then it's off for blueberry raking.

I tried to put in some good time working here at our house, especially on the downstairs, and now it's really close to done. I put in a few hours down there earlier today and both my awesome wife and I worked down there this evening for a bit after supper. Yesterday I finished a large section of the floor:

^Hi Groot. The dogs like to hang out with me down there, especially on hot days, and we only recently started letting them down there because it was too scattered and dirty from all the work going on before then. I got the last little bit of sheetrock installed and mudded earlier; the bottom far wall in the photo will be 7/16 OSB and white paneling the entire wall. I have a lot of trim left to do as well, and about 100 square feet of ceiling, walls, and floor still needs to be done. Thankfully most of that area I plan to box in overhead plumbing so I might get that done this weekend. Maybe? Hopefully!

I'm going to the dump and to Lowe's tomorrow then I plan to stay here and work all day. I'll work mostly indoors downstairs, but I do plan to get outside for a bit because the forecast is for another fantastic summer day. Low humidity and high temp near 80. Sunday weather isn't looking good, but we plan to play racquetball and I can work downstairs where weather is not a problem.

I really need to get my tax office packed up. I was going to go this past week and start, but F that. I'll work on it midweek next week and I don't think it will take long. I still have tax clients so when I meet with them I'll be dropping down to a more limited plan where I can get an office for the day 5 days each month for a set monthly price. I'll do that unitl I find a "real" office and I don't really need a "real" office until January next year.

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Sunday, 7-13-25: The All-Star break begins. Raking in two weeks.
The MLB All-Star break sucks. A lot. I haven't watched a baseball all-star game in forever, and I don't see myself watching one again. No "real" baseball games until Friday. What a bunch of crap! Hey, the Red Sox won today for their 10th consecutive win. How cool is that?! 1.5 weeks ago most people, myself included, thought this season was a bust. Who knows it might still be a bust if they suck after this break. The Sox are 53-45 and close to the same record as the Yankees, and that is amazing since about a month ago the Yankees were WAY ahead of everyone. The Yankees suck lately and I will take that all day every day! The Blue Jays are in 1st place in the AL East by a bit, but the Sox and Yankees are close. The Red Sox were in last place in April hahaha.

I started the floor downstairs today. Oh Jesus, hell ya! It was a good weekend not too hot not too cold, but we didn't do anything epic. I lost to Deno and Gavin yesterday morning at racquetball (I usually lose no worries it was still fun) and then I worked on the house the rest of the day. My awesome wife designed some really neat shelves for downstairs. Not sure how well they show here:

They are little decorative wooden storage-things she stained and installed the lights in. She put in quite a bit of work and the end result is fantastic.

We had a few drinks last night, but I didn't get hungover and I worked downstairs a lot of today. I also went for a 2-mile jog and mowed. I had some tax research to do and some blue siding decisions to finalize for this huge garage job. The roofing part of that job is 99.9% done now and we will finish that tomorrow.

^Final section from a few days ago. We had a couple GREAT weather-days for it with temps in the 70s and more clouds than sun.

^I just have a few more cap shingles to install. I ran out and had to buy more what a bunch of crap! Oh well not my money, but I try to be frugal for the homeowner. Thankfully I found a bag of damaged cap shingles at Lowe's for half price. Works great because half the bag is ruined but I only need a few, maybe 1/4 of the bag.

I placed a huge $3930 order at Home Depot Friday before I came home to work on the house. Windows, doors, and a bit of lumber for that garage. The homeowner increased his budget so I can throw more precious... precious money at it and I can afford my helper, Daniel, a bit more as well. He's a great worker and I'm lucky to have him even if it is only for 5-10 hours a week. He actually shingled most of that roof I just did the edges and around the stink-pipe.

I've been trying to reserve our usual campsite for blueberry raking that starts in just a couple weeks, but no one calls me back. What a bunch of crap! In the owner's defense last week was July 4, a huge camping week, and someone also died in Crawford Pond near the campground. It's a private pond with no public access and the chick was murdered, it's labeled as a homicide, so that is all-bad. She went paddleboarding and never made it back alive. What a bunch of crap! Very sad, too.

I texted with Cliff to get permission for Daniel to come try raking. Not sure he will actually go raking, but he asked about it and I told him I'd get him permission. Cliff thinks it's going to be a good crop and he's normally very coy about these things so that's encouraging. Gavin and I are planning to camp out for a week (if we can get that campsite!) and do the usual. I feel ready to go physically, at least as much as humanly possible for a guy almost 50 years old. I'm VERY tan, more than than ever for this time of year, and that's a plus. The carpentry, yoga, racquetball, and jogging also has me in MUCH better shape than I was in a few months ago so that's also a plus. I'm not saying I'm in GREAT shape, but I'm doing pretty good.

On Wednesday I drove down to Waterville to help Phil and his family load up for their impending move to Alaska. His driveway:

I brought my dump-trailer so I could haul some furniture to a friend's house for Phil and at the end of the day I hauled off a bunch of crap. (Actual garbage hehehe) It was a long day but a good day, bittersweet because I won't see them again for most likely a long time, could be years. Phil was gracious enough to give me a couple chairs, little recliners, for the downstairs hangout/karaoke room. So far they seem perfect for down there.

Alright turds, all two of you who read this bootleg site. I'm gonna bivouac so I can get a good, early start tomorrow back at that garage. Tuesday and Wednesday get HOT so I'll work more here at our place and then back to that garage job for Thurs and Fri. Oh, I also have to start packing up the tax office. Never a dull moment!

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Saturday, 7-05-25: A good, tame party.
We spent our first ever Independence Day at our new place in Eddington. We put in a lot of work in the months, weeks, and even days trying to get the place ready to host our friends and family for our usual July 4th party. Some parties we had in the past were pretty big with over 40 people coming, but yesterday we had maybe 20 including us. Hey, great! I'd rather have a smaller party than a giant shit-show. More people = more stupidity.

None of us were stupid yesterday. We didn't overdo it on the drinking, but we did get boozed up. I drank about the perfect amount because I woke up with no hangover. Even better, the party ended a tad before midnight so that's early for us. Oh Jesus, hell ya! We get get a few rain showers yesterday PM just as people were showing up. What a bunch of crap! They didn't last that long and things were nice and dry by the time we got a fire going. The high temp yesterday was "only" around 73 so that's fantastic. Was a little crisp last night, but not cold and just right for the fire.

Icehouse, Electric Blue, great 80s song plays. If you don't like this song I hate you. I probably hate you anyway, but I'll hate you a little more.

We pulled it off and got the downstairs functional for the party. Oh Jesus, hell ya! I worked on it for a few hours before the party and my awesome wife helped organize and clean down there. We ended up with a nice setup considering how unfinished the space still is. I worked on it some today before I played racquetball and I'll work on it more tomorrow. I was gonna go help Phil and his family load up for a move to Alaska, but they aren't ready for me just yet so I'll go one day during the week. Tomorrow looks to be 90 degrees outside again so it will be a good day to work downstairs.

^Had some help from Dillon and Travis getting this badass sign hung up. Get this, the new owners of our old space wanted it gone so one of our good friends rescued it before that could happen. It was all covered in spraypaint yet he and his girlfriend spend hours, literally hours, cleaning it up and bringing it back to life. They even borrowed a huge trailer and brought it to us! It was about 21 feet long until we cut the Coca Cola part off. Yes, that was the original sign in front of our once-thriving restaurant.

Hard to believe blueberry raking is only about 3 weeks away. Gavin said Cliff said the berries look good, but there is no real way to know how things will end up when you're still 3 weeks from the harvest. It is encouraging to hear Cliff say they look good! I always get excited to go raking because I have mental problems, but this year feels different. I don't get as excited to go as I did 15-20 years ago because my body is aging and it's more arduous to do for my ass than it was back in the day. Plus I have a wife now and I do miss her when I'm gone raking.

Between now and raking I need to pack up my tax office and drop down to a more mobil setup. I had a tax client a couple days ago and I have to go to the tax office again early to midweek next week. I also need to finish some more of that big garage to include what I *hope* will be a decent start on some windows, doors, and siding. I brought some old staging that I dug out from this property down to that garage job today on the way to pick up Gavin for Rball. I plan to set up some scaffholding for at least one area, assuming the old bootleg stuff left here to us from the prior owner isn't too rusted and/or mismatched to be useful.

It's time to rack out. Going to bed before 2200 on a Saturday?! Yes, I am old hehe. We stayed up pretty late last night so crashing out earlier tonight is a win. I felt great today, no hangover at all, so that's another win. Small wins are stacking up these past couple weeks so maybe that means my life won't suck so much ass anyore...

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Wednesday, 7-02-25: Downstairs photos, chickens moving outside.
It was another very busy today, no shock there. However, we did get an earlier-than-usual start when at 0619 a HUGE dump truck rolled in along with our tree contractors. No worries we were already awake, but I did expect them at 0700. They spent about 1.5 hours cleaning up the brush and debris then, just as they left, our Tick Sniper Dan showed up to spray around the property for ticks again. He sprayed maybe 5 weeks ago and the result was fantastic. Before he came we were INFESTED with ticks, but after most of them disappeared.

DISAPPEAR, SCUMBAG TICKS! We probably didn't need him to spray, but better to err on the side of caution with the grandkids here and with my own awesome wife already having lyme and other tick diseases. Before Dan sprayed for ticks I was in the bushes pulling dead brush for the dump truck load and I didn't get one tick on me. Oh Jesus, hell ya!

After tick-Dan was done I had to head into town for a meeting with the lawyer regarding stuff from last year when we had the restaurant. We're not in trouble, we hired the laywer, and I can't write the specifics on this bootleg site that no one ever reads... just in case I write something that blows everything all to hell.

The laywer meeting was really quick then it was a stop at Paradis for a few groceries and back home to sand and mud an area downstairs. After that I went outside to work on the nearly-done chicken coop. Man it was HUMID today. My wife was soaked in sweat from also working outside, and she rarely sweats. She also did some weedwacking while I did some mowing and then it was time to clean up and head back into town for a tax meeting with a new client. Busy day!

I took the new 395-Rt 9 extension road to the tax office and that was glorious. Well except for the part where I was stuck behind someone going 50MPH in the 55MPH area. What a bunch of crap! Surprisingly there are no passing lanes on the new 5-mile stretch of road but there is one long straight stretch and there was no incoming traffic so I passed their slow-ass. It is 10.9 miles to the tax office one-was and it's a 13-minute drive now. Before the new road it was about the same distance, but it took closer to 18-20 minutes based on traffic lights and time of day. Wow! I've used the new road a few other times since it opened last Friday. That road is part of the reason I wanted to live here because access just got a lot better. A LOT.

I got home, shovelled in some grub, then Kat and I went downstairs to organize this shit-show that I created during the course of my carpentry:

About an hour later and she had it looking like this:

All I wanna know is why? Why can't I do that?! I try to organize and I take forever and lose my train of thought. I can build an entire friggin' house with no engineered plans because I see it in my head, but I can't organize a room. What a bunch of crap! She did that in one hour and I would have needed an entire day because I would have to stop every 15 minutes and do something else.

Normally Kat would be watching baby Dylan during the week, but this holiday week is unusual. Damon's daycare closed all week so Kat watched both kids Monday and yesterday and Dillon took some extra time off from work today and tomorrow (holiday Friday.) How in the hell can a daycare place just close for a week?! I understand if you dump your kid off at a neighbor's bootleg daycare house and the neighbor is going on vacation, but Damon goes to a place in a strip mall with multiple employees. Fuckin' daycare. I'm glad I never reproduced!

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Tuesday, 7-01-25: Bye trees, bye riding lawn mower, Def Leppard is here.
Looks like we will have contractors here every day this week except for Friday the 4th. Yesterday was the disappearing-tree mission because we've had a row of white pines needing to go away forever and a couple ash (I think?) trees growing stupid-close to the back of the house. They got going on a hot morning:

^At first we used my dump-trailer for the badass chipper to blow everything into, but the guys found a more efficient way.

A few hours later:

^Oh Jesus hell ya! Sadly there is tree debris all over the place so they have to come back Thursday to clean it all up. I help back some of their pay just in case they didn't come back, and that would be a bunch of crap because it would take us hours, literally hours, to deal with the aftermath.

Having those trees gone really opens the place up. There are some anemic-looking apple trees there that should now get unlimited sun and get healthier. I won't hunt under them because they're too close to the houses, but just having them there will be nice. We still see LOTS of deer here including a doe and small "Bambi" with her quite often.

We also had Jake here both yesterday and today doing some electrical work. It's mostly stuff I can handle, but I'm short on precious... precious time and that sucks. A lot. I still feel incredibly overwhelmed with the amount of work this place still needs whereas at the same time it is very rewaring to see things come together. That downstairs has really been a lot of work and it's not even close to done. We still plan to use the downstairs on the 4th in only 3 days for karaoke, but it won't be finished. No floor, no trim, part of the ceiling unfinished, and part of the walls not up. What a bunch of crap! Oh well it doesn't have to be fancy for a bunch of drunks. We're not even having a big party maybe 15 people total will be here including us.

About 10 days ago I let Katherine run the bootleg, used riding lawn mower that I bought for $500 and about a half hour after she mowed the thing started making an awful whining sound when the mower was engaged. Turns out we have a broken blade. Noooooo! I'm not mad at her because I easily could have done the same thing. I never really cared for that mower anyway so today I bought trailer-ramps, I loaded it up, and I brought it back to the guy and got a different one for only $100 more. (He delivered the first one to us.) Plus he serviced all our other stuff including two push-mowers and the awesome weedwacker-thing that Dad loaned to us. The "new" riding lawn mower is still old, but it's more smooth and I like the controls better. If it lasts us the rest of this season I'll call it a win.

Def Leppard is at the Bangor Waterfront right now and I'm here writing on this bootleg site that almost no one will ever read. Why am I not at the concert-venue watching my all-time favorite band? I lost the desire years ago to go to concerts. Not saying I'll never go to one again, but I've already seen Def Leppard live and I'm sure I wrote all about it and about how pissed my girlfriend at the time, Kelly, was at me for getting so drunk. Epic fail me! Beers are something like $15 at the venue and that is just ridiculous. Nope, I'm better off staying home and working on the house both downstairs and the chicken coop as well as mowing with our old-new riding mower.

I did play Def Leppard's Hysteria on YouTube so I'm not totally bailing on my favorite band. Plus 100.3 WKIT did a Def Leppard Rock Block earlier.

I won't work much this week on that garage job. I actually have a lot to do for the rest of this week. A LOT. I have tax clients needing my ass still and this place is endless with the work. I did put in 3 hours this morning at Treats Falls, but I just don't have the time or the weather to do the final 4.5-square section of roof this week. Tomorrow I have a 1000 meeting with our lawyer and then it's home for 3 or so hours to work then back to town this time to the tax office. Thankfully the Rt 9 - 395 connector road opened last Friday so getting to the tax office will be much faster. However, I only have that office for another 4 weeks since I chose not to renew. After that where will I end up for the tax business? Still very unclear. Most likely I'll drop down to a plan where I can use the facility 5 days a week. I won't have a dedicated office, but I can be somewhat portable and bring a smaller printer and my laptop computer. Maybe? Hopefully!

Jason and Holly rented their usual lake house in Jefferson and wanted me to come like I have in many recent years, but I can't because I'm just too busy. It's sad we hauled on the restaurant and I still can't whittle my "to do" list down fast enough. I probably won't get down to the ol' homestead until the very end of this month for Hawke's birthday party and blueberry raking. His birthday is the 25th and raking starts the 28th so I'll have to figure out those logistics soon. I really don't want to make two separate trips, but that might be my only option.

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