tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71428352433331321612012-01-21T09:10:57.171-07:00A sometimes Tall Tale of a couple and their furry children as they set out to take over a Motel or Bed & Breakfast and achieve their dreams. Along the way, they'll rant, rate, read and rave about books, restaurants, photography, movies, dogs, cats, and pretty much everything else.Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05925777569861854546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142835243333132161.post-5431180567715035202012-01-17T14:37:00.002-07:002012-01-17T14:37:23.452-07:00

All sites in the ROUS world will go dark in protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills. Click on the black bar and get angry. This should not happen in a free world. Period. The ROUS FAMILY -           

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Now Playing -  Body Of An American by The Pogues Life -      My Life indeed. I've been a slacker this year, at least in regards to posting. Less than a post a week and not nearly spaced out that way. No reading updates or tracking... missed an entire vacation with family picture post to say nothing of our own adventures and mishaps. But that's gonna change. I'm not making any

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Note: This "game" is recommended for adults. However, if you choose to ignore our recommendation and play this "game" with children, please draw the line at three year olds. After all, in addition to a tickle wand and fuzzy cuffs, there is a choking hazard.

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Customer- Excuse me, which one of these angry birds is most popular in high school?In my head - Gee, I don't know, 55 year old woman in skinny jeans with a tramp stamp. The red one looks like a jock, so probably that one. But after high school, I'd put my bets on the blue one. He looks like he would do well in the world of post school business. Red will end up blowing his acl, lose his

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I have to question one of those things as a selling point...

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Now Playing -  Always Something by Cage The Elephant Life -    Well, I should have called my last post "Knock On Wood" cause just a few days later, my wife calls me from work - Her car has a leaking tire. Grr. I've kind of suspected that we'd have to get her car new tires soon, they weren't exactly new when we bought the car two years ago, and we've put a lot of miles on little Bluebelle

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Breakfast at Dysarts! Half order of corned beef, raspberry white chocolate muffin, molasses toast and home fries. Awesome.

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Too bad it would be little more than A hemorrhoid cushion for my dogs..

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This is an awesome Kit Kat bar. though the suggestion to try again is odd. Should I be trying for something in my Kit Kat experiences? This was posted from my phone in an attempt to find a way to post more often... We'll see if it works.

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Now Playing -  Hold You In My Arms by Ray Lamontagne Life - But, as they say, I'm bending. We moved in here a few months ago, and at the time, we were doing well financially. We'd paid off a few bills and started making headway on our big credit card. But moving was expensive. Apart from a loan for the down payment, we had to buy a mower, home improvement supplies, hook up fees, heating

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Now Playing -  I Put A Spell On You by Screamin' Jay Hawkins Life - After a weekend of work and a few touch-ups, our cute little shed out front that was mostly a dog kennel is becoming a retreat for me... and the dogs. So now it's a Dog/Kris Kennel. Yay! The shed was delivered and installed a month or so ago, and a few weeks after that I installed a simple window. I used it a few times, but

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Life -   The only flat part of our previous yard can be seen past the sleeping dog.    We got a new yard with our new town, a lot flatter than our last yard, but bigger and presenting more challenges in a lot of ways. Our old place was technically about the same size of property, but it was filled with bushes, trees, garages and sheds and whole swathes of land that didn't need to be mowed.

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Life -    I've been pretty offline lately. My work has been... complicated and has taken up a lot more of my life than usual and by the time I get home, I scarcely have the energy to make dinner and read a book for a bit. But today was a day off with my wife and we made a go at it. We got up early and ate breakfast. We relaxed for a bit (Played with the dog, read, fell asleep in the chair.

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Life -   Man.. I need a vacation.  Things are getting better here in the ROUS household, but we are still struggling to catch up and get some sort of rythym in our lives. To that end, we've finally started organizing our house from the move, I broke down and got a ride-on lawn mower (more on that in a different post) we survived a hurricane and I started cooking Mexican food. Sadly, I have

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Now Playing -    Gloria by Michael Franti & Spearhead Life -      Ooo-Da-Lolly! I last blogged here about a month and a half ago. My wife and I were living in Topsham, Maine, I was working in Augusta and my wife was working at a poorly run hotel in Brunswick. We lived in a 94 trailer that were renting on a hilly 3/4 acre in the middle of the woods about 3 miles from town. (If a Target

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This summer has been incredibly full, overflowing, really. I'd planned to keep things scheduled out on my various blogs and merely have them post as they came along, keeping every one up to date and fresh. Then we started spending every day off in Bangor, trying to find a place to live. We found a place and then had to find a place to put it. But now, finally, we own a nice little used trailer

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Now Playing -  Mr. Sandman by The Puppini Sisters Life -    Grrr. We were so looking forward to moving into a place of our own. The numbers looked good, the realtor... used trailer salesman...sales representative..?  Anyway, David said everything looked good. Then he calls us and asks if we have check stubs proving the rental of the house in Idaho. No, we do not. My mom pays the mortgage

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Now Playing -  Let There Be Drums by Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band  A gorgeous visitor on our screen door the other night....The east has so many bugs, most of them annoying and bitey, but this Luna Moth, which was almost the size of my hand is a clear highlight!I love its antennas! He hung out for most of the next day and was gone by nightfall. The ROUS FAMILY -     

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Now Playing -  Nighthawks by Motion Pictures Life -      Trash in the East is an interesting thing. Back home, every week, you'd take your bags of garbage to the curb, a couple of burly men would pull up in a truck and take them away. That was pretty much the extent of the experience. Eventually, the towns bought a pile of big green or blue plastic containers and instead of bags, you'd

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 Aww, look at the cute brothers, hanging out together.... Then Pooka decides to get playful....And Ludo shows Pooka his Satanic Hellhound Face.... Pooka decides napping would be a wiser alternative.The ROUS FAMILY -           

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Now Playing -  I'm Yours (Live) by Jason Mraz Pastry from Bolley's Famous Franks Life -   A few weeks ago, I was contacted by my district manager and asked if I would be interested in transferring up to the Bangor area of Maine. We had lost or were going to lose a few managers up there and he felt that ultimately, even discounting that, they could benefit from my experience with the

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Everyone else can debate this all you want, but my mom was the best mom ever. Still is. By herself, she worked full time, went to school and raised two very decent young kids. Money was always tight, but love and learning wasn't and I genuinely feel blessed to have grown up the way we did. I have virtually no pictures of her out here (I'd started to digitally convert all of our old family albums

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Now Playing -  No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley Life - A fountain and an awesome old church in a park by Augusta.    Last week, we drove up to the Bangor area for a few reasons. One - we just really wanted to get out of town for a while. Two - We'd never been, and we were told that the Northern part of Maine would suit us well. Three - They need managers up there, and there's a slightly

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Now Playing -    Slack Key Lullaby by Ledward Kaapana Life -   Strontium   This was Strontium, my second Honda Element. A gorgeous shade of green, I really loved that rig. (Look how little Pooka is in that photo!) He took up all over the west, from barren stretches of Eastern Montana to the sopping wet beaches of Oregon and Washington. We set up a pretty effective camping method inside

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Now Playing -    She's So Fine by The Bodeans Life -   My adoring fans.    So, though I'm now a Self-published author, with all of the fame and acclaim that comes with it, (None) I still have time to think about how I could be doing things better, or at least more effciently. Since a few months ago, when I split my blog off into a few factions, it's been a lot easier to post, and

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My new and improved cover. This is very exciting. As of right now, my kids book, The Whispering Ferns, is available on eBook from Smashwords! and Barnes & Noble! It should be available shortly on Amazon too, it just takes a bit longer to appear on the sites than I'd suspected. (One of the many things I've learned about self-publishing a book - Be Prepared and Be Patient!) I'm not doing a lot

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Now Playing -   So Dam Funky by Hot Chocolate Life -      I'd intended to post some sort of clever, writing related post here leading up to the release of The Whispering Ferns, but we kind of decided on a spur of the moment road trip to Bangor and Acadia National Park tomorrow, my only day off before the release. So tough cookies. On the bright side, I should have some pretty pictures and

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Two years ago....   I decided to write a Childrens Novel.    The Whispering Ferns is a story about an eleven year old boy named Smith that is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the tiny fishing village of Moonstone Bay, Washington while his mom heads to South America to look for his missing father. Smith is nervous about spending time in this closed off little town, but thanks to his

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Now Playing -   Marilyn  by Dan Bern Life -   This last week was a pretty good one here in the ROUS house!    Lindsay's wisdom teeth pain has finally receded to the point that she's essentially off of the ibuprofen and with the exception of needing her filling shaved off a bit,, she's back to normal. Which also good news for our diets, as I can start cooking real food for the both of us

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Now Playing -     Whispering Grass by The Ink Spots Life -      It's been a vaguely eventful week or so here at the ROUS house. Spring has finally arrived in a slightly long-term form. The snow is starting to melt into rivulets of cold water washing out my driveway and out back, we can start to spot signs that there is indeed grass back there somewhere beneath the arctic floes. Yesterday,

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If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that I like to read a lot. Though I dropped the ball on the last quarter in 2010, I usually post an update every three months of what books I read that quarter. (Actually, looking back, I haven't posted an update since the second quarter of 2010.. my bad!) Anyway, here's The List. Comments after! COOL CACHE by Patricia Smiley 292pgs, 2/5

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Now Playing -   Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams by Frankie Laine Life -     Two days ago, as I sat in my car talking to my wife on my lunch break, I looked down at the handy dandy temperature gauge thingy and was a bit shocked. I knew it was nice out, but that thing claimed it was almost 70 degrees out. SEVENTY! This is almost twice the temperature from the day before. Welcome to spring baby!

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I have wanted the Lego version of the Death Star for a very long time. I love Legos, Star Wars and audaciously sized things, so it's a perfect fit, but the price has always been quite daunting. $400, regardless of the awesomeness it brings, is a lot of galactic credits. So finally, after paying down some bills, I convinced my gorgeous and brilliant wife to let me buy it. So I recruited some tiny

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Now Playing -     Ease Back by Amos Lee Life -    A combination of snow, sleet, more and more snow, warm and cold weather.. That's been the last few months. Which has resulted in an accumulation of very firmly packed snow topping out at over two feet in a lot of places in our yard. Our driveway, which gets plowed and scraped and sprayed with sand has suffered too. In some places, the ice on

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Now Playing -   I'm Getting Sentimental Over You by The Ink Spots Life -  A year in the northeast. Roughly a year ago, we left our world in the West behind and flew out to Maine. Neither of us had ever been here before, in all honestly, I can't say Id ever really even given the state much thought. But we were ripe for a change and my company was actively seeking experienced managers to head

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Now Playing -     Hang On St. Christopher by Tom Waits Life -   This post was inspired by Randy and Steve's comments from my last post.    Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with romantic gestures and the idea of a day dedicated to your loved ones. I just have a great dislike for the modern version of Valentine's Day. It's crass and ugly and utterly fake. If I could, every year I

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Now Playing -     Storytime by Nick Cave Life -      Linz has had a few dentist appointments this week, the first to get a few x-rays and general condition, and they found two small cavities, as well as four horribly impacted wisdom teeth. So yesterday she had the fillings done and will get the wisdom teeth out in a month. While she was getting drilled, I decided to go and get some wood

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Now Playing -   The Blood Of The Lamb  by Billy Bragg Life -      Life... It's been four things. Snow, Pharmacy Technician training, our upcoming books and the death of my grandma. Unfortunately, most of these things have kind of made a big dogpile all together and for a while, I was very overwhelmed. I was staying up until 4 or 5 in the morning, staggering to bed for a few hours of

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 Memories Of Grandma-   Grandpa and Grandma on one of their first dates.  I lost my grandmother on Sunday. She had a stroke and passed away a few days later. She was 94. At first this didn't seem to affect me, emotionally. I thought it would, but I didnt feel that different for some reason. Then all at once, for no apparent reason, it really hit home and everything else around me seemed

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Now Playing -     So Glad You're Mine by Elvis Presley Life -      My life, for the last week or so has been consumed with worry and stress. My grandma suffered a massive stroke a few nights back and has since been in hospice care. She hasn't come out of it and is only slightly responsive to things around her. She, along with all of my family, is in Idaho, three thousand miles away. I knew

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Now Playing -   I Will Survive  by The Puppini Sisters Life -      The other night, at 3am, while I was straining to concentrate on my PTCB studies, I decided that I needed a cookie. But not just any cookie. I needed the motivation that comes from a hot, crispy-chewy-scrumptious cookie that can only come from cooking the thing yourself. So I hopped over to AllRecipes and found a basic

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Now Playing -   Lorena by Bob Schneider Sassafras has a slight Sasquatch infestation. Life -    Man, just when I thought we'd gotten a lot of snow, we got a lot more snow. This morning, we got over a foot on top of the crusty, ice covered foot that we already had. I spent a good chunk of today fighting my way through it trying to free up my vehicles but eventually gave up, much to my

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Now Playing -     Wonderful Life by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Life -    Not a lot to report here. We got hit with that gnarly storm, which dumped around a foot of snow on us, then quit. Which to me is pretty wimpy in some ways. Yeah, it was rough while it was coming down, but compared to the wind and storms, with the bitter cold and ice underlying it all that we got in Idaho, it was

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Now Playing -     Off The Map by Guy Clark Life -    Now, this is more like it! After nearly a year, our quest has finally come to a satisfactory conclusion! No, we haven't bought a little motel to run and no, we haven't gotten agents or sold our books, but we did  find good Mexican food in Maine! It's been a challenge, far harder than we'd have ever imagined! Every one we found or had

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Man, it's been a while! In case anyone noticed, I took December off out here in the internet, concentrating on work and not going crazy because of work. But 2011 is here now, a year full of promise and plans. I'll update here later with some details but I'm really looking forward to the new year, with books being finished, projects ramping up and more of New England to discover! I've also started

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It's been two years since we sent out Christmas cards and so much has happened since then! 2009 was filled with a bit of disappointment as our plans to take over and run a motel on the Washington coast fell through and we found ourselves temporarily setting aside our dreams while we regroup and work towards it in the future. Kris also had a physical setback in December of 2009, shattering his arm

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Now Playing -     Wonderful Christmastime by Barenaked Ladies   Life -    Man, it's very hard to get excited about the holidays when you commute for an hour and a half every day, work ten hours a day and are required for your job to work six days a week through Christmas. That leaves me roughly twelve hours to eat, sleep, clean, shower, get ready for work and find the spirit of Christmas.

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Now Playing -      Only The Young by Brandon Flowers   Life -    My life can be summed up by one simple word - SICK. After years of confidently prancing around amongst the sick and infirm customers of Idaho, my carefully cultivated immunity to common bugs has let me down out here in Maine, where there are new, wicked strains. For the last few days I've been suffering from a sore throat,

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Now Playing -   Ain't No Reason  by Brett Dennen Life -  This has been our first Autumn in a state that actually has something close to the actual definition of that season, and it's been intriguing. Growing up in Idaho, Autumn was a very different season. Things would typically stay hot until late August, with temperatures ranging between 80 and 100 degrees during the day, and dropping to

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Now Playing -   Tango 'Till They're Sore by Tom Waits Life -  I bought some cozy red plaid fuzzy slippers. That is the sole highlight of an otherwise craptastic week. Here's hoping next week goes much, much better. On the bright side, it is very nice being able to walk bravely through puddles of dog drool, rather than dodging around them like a frightened rabbit. (Rabbits have a

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Now Playing - Sleep  by Meiko Life -  Every year they do it. Somehow. Authors worldwide spend thirty days, the month of November, writing a book for National Novel Writing Month. Fifty Thousand Words. That's right around 1,700 a day. Which isn't too bad when you look at it from a day to day standpoint, but when you suddenly miss a day because you worked a 10 hour shift and drove 70 minutes

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Now Playing -   Old Cape Cod  by The Puppini Sisters IMPORTANT SITE UPDATE:  This Is Not A Test. After much debate and reflection, I've decided to stop doing reviews on ROUS. I started this blog as a way to keep my family and friends informed with my life, and to track my families myriad attempts to get a motel, become published authors, lose weight, pay down debt... etc etc...  Then I started

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Reviews Of Unusual Size Movies NIGHT OF THE DEMONS Directed by Adam Gierasch 2009, 93 mins, Rated R   Re: A group of rowdy college-ish aged kids throw a party at an old Loisiana mansion. When the cops roust 'em, a select seven, mostly played by people in their late thirties of questionable acting ability, manage to get locked in. They play spin the bottle, get it on and get

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Now Playing - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy  by The Puppini Sisters Life -  Well, I had planned on being more regular with my posts... I spent the last week in Belfast, ME, setting up a new store and immediately derailed a few things. My roommate was a great guy, but MAN did he snore! ANd not just a heavy sawing, that I could have handled, this was a jittery, hodge-podge of sounds. Anything from a

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Now Playing - The Big Fish by Danny Elfman LIFE -  We went "Leaf Peeping" to the North of Augusta yesterday. There's not much better than wandering around a cemetery in perfect autumn weather with your loved one. Not in my book, anyway. Beautiful! I will also have a new sculpture available on Deeply Dapper tonight, the first in my line of "Trapped Tikis" Check it out! Tomorrow, I'm heading to

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Reviews Of Unusual Size   Books   PATIENT ZERO   by Jonathan Maberry 2009, 421 pages, paperback   Re: A zombie book by the new modern master of the undead.  Jonathan Maberry has written a few books on zombies now, including a "nonfiction" examination of them, this military style thriller and a young adult novel. He must like the staggering suckers, and he does a great job writing about

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Now Playing -    Supernaturally by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Life -  We now take a break from our regularly scheduled recap of my vacation to catch up on some book reviews. (Primarily because I just realized that it was time for my quarterly review of reading and I'm VERY behind on my reviews.)   Reviews Of Unusual Size Books THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler 1939, 139 pages, e-book

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Now Playing -   One Day by Chris Isaak Life -  We chose the ideal way to start off our vacation with Lindsay's parents on Monday morning. Rich has always prided himself on his backyard. It's fenced in and private, with plenty of shade trees and a lush little garden, plenty of decks and places to relax. And in recent years, he's started feedinging and watching birds. He gets a huge number

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Now Playing -  Metropolitan Glide by Tom WaitsLife -  For the last week and a half, we've had a virtual parade of visitors here. First, our friend Jen for a few days, visiting us on a side trip while she was in Cape Cod with her aunt. Before we'd even put the cushions back on the couch, Lindsay's parents arrived from Idaho for a week, and halfway through that, her sister Marissa joined us. I

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I've decided to try something a little different with my reviews from now on. I'm going to keep the "numbered" format of my previous reviews, but incorporate the ROUS initials of my site and make the format a bit more open to reviewing other types of things, like restaurants and the like. Let me know what you think! Reviews Of Unusual SizeRestaurants RED'S EATSMain St. & Water St., Wiscasset,

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I've spent most of the day cleaning the house and napping. Days off are the best. Now I plan to sculpt something, watch a movie and read. A couple of days ago, I won an award, and as part of the deal, you're supposed to pass that on to fifteen equally enjoyable and deserving blogs that you've recently discovered. As it turns out, with the exception of those I started following because of her

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Now Playing - Marty Robbins - The Strawberry Roan Life -  Pooka, his head looking deceptively small and Clover, cuddling Pook's paw. I was planning to wait and update my blog on Thursday, when I have a day off, especially after I hurt my finger at work - A box went rogue and sliced my right index finger under the nail about a half inch deep. Which is indeed just a papercut when you think

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Now Playing - Swans (life after death) by The Islands Life -  Believe it or not, but tomorrow seems to have slid a few days to the right on the calendar. Hard to believe, eh? I've been busy and more to the point, a bit overwhelmed! In the last few weeks, I've worked an average of  60 hours a week at work, plus an hour commute time every day. Then, when I get home, I've dove headlong into my

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Sorry I've been absent. Between work, which has been as busy as ever a new venture for some extra $$ and this nasty summer cold I've contracted, it seems like all I do is sweat, sleep and work. I'll be back tomorrow with a new blog though!

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Ahh, Boothbay Harbor. Every time I think I've given up on Maine entirely, we stumble across something just cute enough, or goofy, or cool enough to make my hopes stay alive. A rare 1/2 blue lobster We visited the Boothbay area, which is about an hour to the Northeast of us this last Thursday, to celebrate my birthday. Our tentative plan was to visit the aquarium, spend most of the morning

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Old age aint no place for sissies. - Bette Davis I turned 32 today. It's kind of odd to think back to ten or fifteen years ago and what I had planned to do with my life, and how, really, none of those plans or dreams are even the same now. I mean, I've wanted to be a professional artist or author in some capacity since I was a child, but at 23 I don't think I would have ever imagined I'd be

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Work. And that's about it. For the last week, my life has been my job and nothing but. My "boss" was on vacation, which was all right, the store runs smoother when he's gone anyway, but it does mean my work load is increased, then one of my fellow managers lost her kitten in a really tragic way, so I had to work a 12 hour shift unexpectedly and after an evening of staying up WAY too late. Then,

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Now Playing - Ka Huila Wai by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Life -  Moo.  Yesterday, Lindsay and I attended the  156th annual Topsham Fair. Growing up, going to the fair was always a kind of bittersweet event for me. It was fun, I loved the carnival rides and the exotic foods and the animals, but it also meant that summer was almost over. That another break had passed with a few camping trips as the

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Now Playing - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   Life -  Ahh, days off, why do you have to end? For the last few weeks, we've been fortunate enough for our days off to fall on the same two days. It's been really nice. We've built a porch, made some fun little trips, worked in the house a bit. In the next few, that'll change a little, my boss is going out of town, so my

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Now Playing - Ain't Got So Far To Go By David Byrne Life -  When we moved to Maine, I had an image of Maine in my head. Compiled largely of  sourceless assumption and a chapter in a Bill Bryson book, I'd pictured a rugged country with rocky shores and simple people, eking out a living by plucking skittery crustaceans from the sea while wearing a yellow slicker. Maybe relaxing in the evenings on

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Now Playing - Crickets in the forest behind my house Life - One of these times, I'm going to get to spend my days off doing absolutely nothing and going nowhere. But for now, I'll have to be content spending it creating a nice little oasis for us to spend the evenings. AA dragonfly on the inside of the screen We finally finished the painting on our back porch last night (sort of. We actually

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Now Playing - 40 Dogs (Romeo & Juliet) by Bob Schneider Life - Man. Work sucks. Which is funny, because I don't particularly hate my job, but every day the last couple of weeks has left me feeling burnt to a crisp. Dealing with upset customers, training a new manager, losing an old manager, picking up the slack from my current main manager, employees leaving, quitting, angry because of my boss,

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         Reviews Of Unusual Size           Some short reviews today, I need to catch up on things! Books 5 Things About... THE SPLIT (AKA THE SEVENTH) by Richard Stark 1966, 168 pages, e-book 1 - The Seventh Parker novel. He also goes after his cut of a take that was stolen from him. His seventh of the take, coincidentally. 2 - Parker is dogged by a villain a little too convenient and

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Now Playing - The Day The World Went Away by Nine Inch Nails Life -   Belfast, seen from the bridge. Ahh, Belfast. Not as wonderful as it could have been, but not as bad as I'd feared. We started the day out bright and early, getting on the road by 9-ish (Which isn't really that early for us, but for a road trip it was early - we always seem to have myriad little tasks those mornings that keep

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Now Playing - Nothin' But A Good Time by Poison Life -  My wife and I both have the day off tomorrow, for the first time in a bit, so we've decided to take a road trip! They're building a new store to the North in Belfast, so I figured we should head up there and check out the area. Not that I have any delusions of getting the store as a manager, but I like to keep up to date with the new

Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05925777569861854546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142835243333132161.post-45395896382616546692010-07-06T09:59:00.002-06:002010-07-06T14:40:40.314-06:00

I totally forgot that, with the arrival of July, a new quarter has begun! I can't believe 2010 is half over already. Thanks to Tabitha, over at Writer Musings for keeping me on task. She's set a goal of 100 books in 2010, and has a great blog, too. Well, I called it last quarter, I read less books this time around. I think part of it was work. I was promoted to Executive Assistant Manager at

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Now Playing - Modern Guilt by Beck Life -   I've always gotten a kick out of the Fourth Of July, partially because it was the only holiday anywhere near my birthday, but it wasn't a holiday that I got too into. I never went out and bought $300 in fireworks, or rushed out to the reservation to buy the illegal ones they sold, but I did enjoy the day. We'd usually track down some grassy knoll to

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Now Playing - Trash by Bob Schneider Life -  I hope this isn't the case for all of mankind, but man did it seem like most people I talked to had bad days yesterday. Mine wasn't anything remarkably bad, just a lot of stuff on top of each other. I had to get lobsters again, nothing new there, but my manager, who I suspect can't decide whether he likes me or feels like I was brought in because

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Orbie is back... and insane. I should point out that he cleaned off my hard drive before downloading the seasons. I hope no one wanted to see our wedding photos again!

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Now Playing - Clocks by Coldplay Life -  It's been a while, hasn't it?  I've been pretty occupied with work and nonsense lately, sorry about those waiting for updates on my thrilling life, or other videos from my roommate, Orbie. (Who should have a new one up Monday)  I'm assuming those people exist... Nothing too important to report. Still no sign of the ratdog, nor have I seen the mysterious

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Now Playing - King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-Yo by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Life -  I just lit my toaster oven on fire. Apparently, leaving the foil you cooked some oiled up taters on the night before in the oven while pre-heating it is a poor idea. With an oily, stinky, foggy, nasty result. But I think my oven is still fine. Crappy cheap frozen taquitos from work for dinner, comin atcha! (

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Now Playing - The Devil's Dance Floor by Flogging Molly Life - Not a lot going on here, just work, work and a little bit of work on the side. I did take my photo clerk with me on my last lobster pickup, which was a fun change from  my usual monotonous drive out to the co-op and back. We also stopped and looked at some puppies in a shop, where they had a Sharpei-Pug mix. Man, that's a goofy

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Now Playing - Meet Me Halfway by The Black Eyed Peas Life -  We celebrated Ludo's fourth birthday yesterday. We took him to the pet store and let him drag me around to meet all of the other dogs, paraded him around on a walk and bought him a bag of rawhides. I think he liked it. We usually buy him a new collar for his birthday, but his older one was still in pretty good shape, so we went with

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Now Playing - You Run Away by Barenaked Ladies Life -  Today is how a day off should be. Especially when you consider it was kind of a work-related trip. We sell live Maine lobsters at work, the only drug store in the nation to do so, and I've kind of become the Lobster Manager by default, dealing with the tank, keeping us in stock, etc... And one of the best/worst parts is actually obtaining

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Now Playing - My wife is watching The Truth About Cats and Dogs behind me on her computer so I guess... that. Life -  Yesterday, when I got home from work and went to make some delicious dinner, I found our propane tank empty and gas stove inoperable. Now, I got that puppy filled around three months ago, and only use it for the one burner on the stove, roughly every other day. I've never had

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REVIEWS OF UNUSUAL SIZE BOOKS 5 THINGS ABOUT... CUT, PASTE, KILLby Marshall Karp2010, 296 pages, ARC 1 - This is the fourth book featuring the detective duo Lomax and Biggs. This time, they find themselves caught up in the crimes of a serial killer that believes they are righting society's wrongs, killing those that deserve it. At each scene the killer leaves an intricate scrapbook about the

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And blog titles are generic. But it has been. The weather is nice, work, though hectic and filled with long hours has been pretty rewarding, and things are finally starting to stabilize out here in Maine. We have some new friends that love our flowering bush out back...  I wrestled ten escaped lobsters in the back of Stormalong when they managed to stage a jailbreak en route to work.... My

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I finally got some replacement sculpting supplies out here. I can't wait to start creating some horrible monstrosities again! For now, Off to work.

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I finally finished mowing my lawn today. Now the other half needs it again. Sigh. Updating my blog via text because my laptop is too hot to hold tonight. SLAHIS

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Tomorrow, my little brother goes under the knife, for what he has termed the "William Wallace". It's a fairly common procedure, and from all I've read, everything looks golden. It should restore him from the posture of an ancient man and make his life back to mostly normal. It better. For months, he's been wracked with pain, unable to function happily, or even move in some cases. It took them a

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Back in the day, when I was just finishing up The Whispering Ferns for the Delacorte Press contest, I was contacted by an agent out of the blue. She said that my story looked intriguing and that, when it was ready and after the contest deadline had been passed, she would be willing to consider my manuscript. Now, any agent saying this would have been great enough, but this came from a

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REVIEWS OF UNUSUAL SIZEA million books! Give or take. It's been far too long since I've updated my reading list and reviews on here. I'm not sure why. If I'd just write the dang review right after I read it, I wouldn't have such a daunting pile of books in front of me! Onward! BOOKS 5 THINGS ABOUT... TANNER'S TWELVE SWINGERS by Lawrence Block 1999, 272 pages 1 -   The third book in the

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I've been away for a while.. again, and lots of news to share, hopefully tomorrow. But today, I'd like to encourage anyone that can to support my good friends Thom and Blair as they embark on a charity fundraiser for the 2010 AIDs/Lifecycle event that they will be riding in next month. This is a little late notice, all donations need to be in before June 6th, but if anyone is interested in

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Growing up and to this day, nothing in this world can bring warmth to my heart, make a smile appear on my face and make the day seem a little less bleak than a artfully assembled pile of foam rubber, felt and magic. The Muppets have always been something special, especially for me. It was a tradition in my home to sit back and let their special brand of hilarity engulf you. Life seemed easier

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I had intended to write a blog updating my book reviews, but I've read nine or ten since my last update and it's FAR too late for that now, even writing REVIEWS OF UNUSUAL SIZE, so they'll have to wait. I could write about our trip to Auburn last week too, where we ate some awesome food and wandered in the rain outside fo the second largest church in the East, but the pictures are on the camera,

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From the carcasses of thousands of green monsters. I spent the day beheading the little beasties and I still have over half the lawn to mow. Having an acre and a half of hilly... hill, littered with stealth monoliths is not pleasant on lawn mowing day.

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When cooking french fries in the oven, line the cookie sheet with a piece of aluminum foil that you have wrinkled up, then loosely flattened back out. This will help the fries cook and brown more evenly and they come off easier as well! Yes, I am indeed too lazy to write a real post tonight.

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Life - Friday was a good day, in fact, it might have even been a great day! And this is on a Friday that we went shopping at Wal-Mart, something that we never enjoy. We started out simple, a couple of bagels and some coffee, both of us finally off work. We hit a few stores nearby, the Target for an air conditioner, Goodwill for random stuff, Home Depot  had parts for a light table I was building,

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