Category Archives: Personal

Hail and farewell, Furry Beast.

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

I lost an old friend this month. Terry McCutchen, AKA “The Furry Beast”. I’ll willing to bet that the average intelligence of the country dropped a point when he passed away. While I was putting together the Tank post (proceeding) … Continue reading →

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I’d like to invite Nemo to a fish fry. Updated with photos.

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

Three hundred plus foot driveway, sixty foot turnaround in back, plus my neighbors walk and parking spaces: done with a balky (POS) snowthrower from GD Lowes. Three hours. No photos or further posts until I soak a bit… Doug says: … Continue reading →

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Wind, Blow me!

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

Winds knock out power to thousands on South Shore Hurricane-force winds blew down trees, limbs and power lines across the South Shore in the predawn hours today, closing numerous streets and cutting power to thousands of local customers. The Blue … Continue reading →

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Can I buy you lunch?

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Against Compassion “Compassion can never be made compulsory and cash-flow positive at the same time.” Over at American Digest, an archived post from 2009 but re-opened for new (Obie 2nd term) comments.  It resurrected an old memory. It’s been a … Continue reading →

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Smokie the Bare…

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

And now a few words about home (mandated) smoke detectors. The suspect As I’m sure everyone is aware there is an unwritten law that all smoke detector batteries will fail in the middle of the night, never in the afternoon … Continue reading →

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Wow! India, really?

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

Today for the first time another country, other than America, topped my viewers total. India. I really wish I was getting more comments, I’d like to know what the draw was and how they found this site. In any case, … Continue reading →

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, DVD. UPDATED (Oct 30th).

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

There are some marketing people that need to be recognized for their efforts and clever wit. The best way to reward them would be, I think, to lower them head first into a vat of boiling movie “butter”. Well, they … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Boat Adventure.

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

Well, that’s embarrassing. I think I’ve mentioned I have more than one kayak, the yellow one (Pungo 120) is a single seater with some internal storage and is considered a general purpose kayak. It doesn’t do well on the ocean … Continue reading →

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Meet Herbie…

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

Remember I was talking about my amazing Tomato Plant lately? I’ve now christened it, The Monster. (The tomato plant is on the right) This guy is an  over-achiever. Out in back, the first color of Fall…

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Click Kayaking for the non-political stuff…

Posted on July 22, 2012 by

Welcome! If anyone would rather not wade through the political posts, click on “photos“ or “kayaking“ on the sidebar… By the by, since I don’t self-host this blog, some videos stop working when the link is broken. Do me a … Continue reading →

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