So about this new Dirty Gig … As mentioned previously, this is the second assignment in New Zealand in the aftermath of yet another earthquake. My colleagues and I are working in a secure storage facility that pretty much had its salad tossed. It is a pretty good gig … getting paid for a hard […]

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I don’t understand it. How did I become … this? The early years were decent. I worked hard, “I helped little old ladies cross the street” … but somehow, now, I really need to join a support group. I have become a moron magnet.

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At the time I left Boston, the plan was for me to return.  That has changed.  So this blog closes that chapter.  Bummer … In this heightened security era, of course I was at Boston’s Logan International Airport a couple of hours before my flight … and yes, I fired one up.  A laptop, not […]

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A funny thing happened to me on the way to the tollbooth. Let me lay the foundation … For the last two months in Boston and the surrounding boroughs, i Have worked on about a dozen disaster jobs — large commercial to small residential job sites. In that time, I have driven or ridden in […]

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WARNING: This blog contains explicit subject matter that may travel beyond the boundaries of good taste … And it is like really, really long! Engage at your own risk. I have never been the sort to announce my own birthday — especially in the workplace. I mean … you never know what someone might do […]

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I heard a definition of Folk Art once that explained it as an attempt, by someone who is not formally trained in art, to create art — regardless.  Ha!  Guilty as charged.  I have been known to muck around with some art, yet no one has ever accused me of being very educated.  My creed: […]

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Two of my readers tell me they prefer the “Blogs About Nothing” on this Website. Well … lately I haven’t “had nothing” on my mind. I search newspapers and Websites for meaningless topics — looking for nothingness. Most of the stuff nearly qualifies. Then the other day, I got lucky. I tuned in to a […]

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If you are a blogger, sometimes there is a tendency to write a little more colorful than “old school” journalists. Sometimes zany is appropriate. Other times — such as covering football during bowl season — one should keep a stiff upper lip. Ha … I struggle with that. This is the third bowl season for […]

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Recently I noticed that a friend on Facebook encouraged (forced) her child to watch the real “True Grit” with the real cowboy, John Wayne, before the youngster would be allowed to see the remake of “True Grit.” While I am thinking about it, “Hey Hollywood, have you really run out of ideas … really?” I […]

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What did they call yesterday? Wasn’t it “Small Business Saturday” or something like that, a round two of shopping — wedged in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday? By the way, I for one hate the term “Black Friday” when associated with the official retail beginning of the Christmas Holidays. I mean … the term […]

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