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Ya, this is really me.
Ya, this is really me.
Friday, September 8, 2006
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Anniversary HNT
This past weekend Lori and I celebrated our "Sixth Month Anniversary". We met for the first time on March 4, 2006. Monday, September 4th was the actual anniversary date, but we celebrated all weekend. Here's a picture of Lori and me on our first date.
Friday night we went out to dinner for Italian food. Then we came home, showered and watched DVDs and snuggled in bed until we fell a sleep about 2:30 am.
Saturday I cooked breakfast (eggs over easy and fried SPAM) and we spent the day shopping and watched some more movies until we fell a sleep.
Sunday we went to "Bradstock XIII".
Bradstock is was day of music, food, friends and free soda, bottled water and beer. The festival’s "focus (is) on our environment and a determination to raise funds from the party to be given away to area organizations”. The event started at 10:AM and ran until 10:00 PM that night. They had two stages for the bands set up side-by-side. They started playing at 10:00 AM and a new band started every hour, so the music was non-stop. Since it was Sunday, the beer didn’t start being served until noon, but was free and all you could drink. There were six different beers from a local microbrewery, the Blue Point Brewery. The best part was I met some friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and Lori and I were invited by my friend Scott, his wife and friends to sit with them. I worked with Scott at my last job and we became good friends.
We had a great time and left about 8:30 PM. Here are some pictures we took at Bradstock.
When we got home, we ate the leftovers from Friday night’s dinner, watched some “adult” movies and snuggled until we fell a sleep. I have a copy of this so we watched it first.
Monday we went out to breakfast at Lori's favorite diner and then recreated our first date. Lori thought of doing this.
In the afternoon, we went to the movies at the same movie theater I took her too on our first date.
The first time we when to the movies we saw “Firewall” with Harrison Ford.
This time we saw “Snakes On a Plane”.
Both really good movies.
After the movie we went to Kenny’s Pub. That is the place I’ve told you so much about in my old posts. Kenny’s went out of business so we couldn’t go inside, but we still went there.
On the way to Kenny's, we stopped at a liquor store and bought a couple of shots of something so we could toast to Kenny’s and our anniversary.
Then I drove over to Kenny’s. We sat on a bench out front and made our toast.
Six months ago we ate dinner at Kenny’s, but since it was closed, we had to go somewhere else for dinner. Lori wanted to have the same thing we had on our first date; hamburgers, but this time with raw onion. We went to Ruby Tuesday for “Alpine Swiss Burgers: Peppercorn-seasoned burger topped with Swiss cheese and fresh sautéed Portobello mushroom slices”. I drank beer and Lori had Jack & Coke.
When we finished dinner, we went home. We couldn’t end the date like we did that first date, because….. well…… never mind. Let me just say we couldn’t. We did lie in bed close together cuddling and watched a movie until we fell a sleep.
Tuesday morning Lori left for work about 8:00 AM and will spend the rest of the week at to her place.
Another jam packed weekend for Tony & Lori, huh?
The fun continues this coming weekend. Friday afternoon we are taking the ferry over to Connecticut and visiting Lori’s brother and her parents. This is one of the weekends Lori and her brother go to one of those big fairs up where he lives. We will be at her brother’s place until Monday morning and then drive over to Rhode Island and visit her parents. We’ll take the ferry back to Greenport here on Long Island Monday afternoon.
Friday night we went out to dinner for Italian food. Then we came home, showered and watched DVDs and snuggled in bed until we fell a sleep about 2:30 am.
Saturday I cooked breakfast (eggs over easy and fried SPAM) and we spent the day shopping and watched some more movies until we fell a sleep.
Sunday we went to "Bradstock XIII".
Bradstock is was day of music, food, friends and free soda, bottled water and beer. The festival’s "focus (is) on our environment and a determination to raise funds from the party to be given away to area organizations”. The event started at 10:AM and ran until 10:00 PM that night. They had two stages for the bands set up side-by-side. They started playing at 10:00 AM and a new band started every hour, so the music was non-stop. Since it was Sunday, the beer didn’t start being served until noon, but was free and all you could drink. There were six different beers from a local microbrewery, the Blue Point Brewery. The best part was I met some friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and Lori and I were invited by my friend Scott, his wife and friends to sit with them. I worked with Scott at my last job and we became good friends.
We had a great time and left about 8:30 PM. Here are some pictures we took at Bradstock.
When we got home, we ate the leftovers from Friday night’s dinner, watched some “adult” movies and snuggled until we fell a sleep. I have a copy of this so we watched it first.
Monday we went out to breakfast at Lori's favorite diner and then recreated our first date. Lori thought of doing this.
In the afternoon, we went to the movies at the same movie theater I took her too on our first date.
The first time we when to the movies we saw “Firewall” with Harrison Ford.
This time we saw “Snakes On a Plane”.
Both really good movies.
After the movie we went to Kenny’s Pub. That is the place I’ve told you so much about in my old posts. Kenny’s went out of business so we couldn’t go inside, but we still went there.
On the way to Kenny's, we stopped at a liquor store and bought a couple of shots of something so we could toast to Kenny’s and our anniversary.
Then I drove over to Kenny’s. We sat on a bench out front and made our toast.
Six months ago we ate dinner at Kenny’s, but since it was closed, we had to go somewhere else for dinner. Lori wanted to have the same thing we had on our first date; hamburgers, but this time with raw onion. We went to Ruby Tuesday for “Alpine Swiss Burgers: Peppercorn-seasoned burger topped with Swiss cheese and fresh sautéed Portobello mushroom slices”. I drank beer and Lori had Jack & Coke.
When we finished dinner, we went home. We couldn’t end the date like we did that first date, because….. well…… never mind. Let me just say we couldn’t. We did lie in bed close together cuddling and watched a movie until we fell a sleep.
Tuesday morning Lori left for work about 8:00 AM and will spend the rest of the week at to her place.
Another jam packed weekend for Tony & Lori, huh?
The fun continues this coming weekend. Friday afternoon we are taking the ferry over to Connecticut and visiting Lori’s brother and her parents. This is one of the weekends Lori and her brother go to one of those big fairs up where he lives. We will be at her brother’s place until Monday morning and then drive over to Rhode Island and visit her parents. We’ll take the ferry back to Greenport here on Long Island Monday afternoon.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Bathroom Flood Update
Last Friday, the drain in the sink in my bathroom clogged. Since I used to work for a plumber, I knew exactly what to do (or so I thought).
At first the sink was just draining VERY slowly, so I took a plunger to it. That only made the problem worse and the sink stopped draining all together. So I poured some drain opener down the drain to see if that would clear the clog.
I waited for about an hour, but the sink wasn't draining. So I decided to run a snake down the drain and see if that would clear the clog. Low and behold, that worked and the sink drained very quickly. I was happy that I solved the problem.
I proceeded to clean up the mess in the sink and washed up when I was done in that same sink. I dried my hands then turned to leave the bathroom. I looked down and saw there was water all over the floor. I saw it was coming out of the bottom of the vanity.
I opened the vanity doors and low and behold, there was chemical laden water all over the place. I looked closer and saw water still leaking out of the pipe from the sink. You know the pipe, the u-shaped trap right under the sink drain.
I took the two large bath towels Brian and I use and put them on the floor to soak up the yucky water.
I then went into the pantry and got one of the large 50-gallon garbage bags I have and laid on the bathroom floor over the towels.
I then removed everything from under the sink and placed it either in the sink (I closed the drain first) or on the floor next to the vanity.
I placed a container under the leaking pipe and used a roll of paper towels to soak up the rest of the water in the vanity. (Don't worry, I put on rubber gloves first)
Then I got a pipe wrench and removed the pipes under the sink.
I looked at the trap and being plumber trained, I saw that the snake I used to try and clear the drain had punctured a hole in the trap.
(NOTE: Never use an electrical snake to clear a drain or the same thing may happen to you)
My training also assisted me in evaluating why the sink didn't drain. The pipes I removed from under the sink were clogged with hair and other equally disgusting foreign matter.
I cleaned out the pipe and took them up to the local hardware store to get replacements.
Then back to the house to install the new pipes. Don't they look pretty?
That's not the end of the story.
Once I put in the new pipes I ran some water in the sink and found out the sink was still clogged.
WTF do I do now????!!!!!
I know!!!!!
Ask Google what to do!!!!
Which I did.
I taped over the sink overflow, and plunged like crazy.
Nothing.
I repeated the plunging.
Still no luck.
I plunged like a mo-fo!!!!
That worked and the sink drained just fine.
The moral to this story?
If you have a clogged drain, either tape over the sink drain and plunge like a mo-fo and see if that works...
AND
...don't ask me, cause I have no idea what the right thing to do is. I thought I knew what to do and just made things worse.
OH SHIT!!!!!
I just realized I tossed the wet towels down the basement stairs on Friday so I could put them in the wash and they are still there!!!!!
Oh yeah, one more thing, don't ask me about doing laundry either.
At first the sink was just draining VERY slowly, so I took a plunger to it. That only made the problem worse and the sink stopped draining all together. So I poured some drain opener down the drain to see if that would clear the clog.
I waited for about an hour, but the sink wasn't draining. So I decided to run a snake down the drain and see if that would clear the clog. Low and behold, that worked and the sink drained very quickly. I was happy that I solved the problem.
I proceeded to clean up the mess in the sink and washed up when I was done in that same sink. I dried my hands then turned to leave the bathroom. I looked down and saw there was water all over the floor. I saw it was coming out of the bottom of the vanity.
I opened the vanity doors and low and behold, there was chemical laden water all over the place. I looked closer and saw water still leaking out of the pipe from the sink. You know the pipe, the u-shaped trap right under the sink drain.
I took the two large bath towels Brian and I use and put them on the floor to soak up the yucky water.
I then went into the pantry and got one of the large 50-gallon garbage bags I have and laid on the bathroom floor over the towels.
I then removed everything from under the sink and placed it either in the sink (I closed the drain first) or on the floor next to the vanity.
I placed a container under the leaking pipe and used a roll of paper towels to soak up the rest of the water in the vanity. (Don't worry, I put on rubber gloves first)
Then I got a pipe wrench and removed the pipes under the sink.
I looked at the trap and being plumber trained, I saw that the snake I used to try and clear the drain had punctured a hole in the trap.
(NOTE: Never use an electrical snake to clear a drain or the same thing may happen to you)
My training also assisted me in evaluating why the sink didn't drain. The pipes I removed from under the sink were clogged with hair and other equally disgusting foreign matter.
I cleaned out the pipe and took them up to the local hardware store to get replacements.
Then back to the house to install the new pipes. Don't they look pretty?
That's not the end of the story.
Once I put in the new pipes I ran some water in the sink and found out the sink was still clogged.
WTF do I do now????!!!!!
I know!!!!!
Ask Google what to do!!!!
Which I did.
I taped over the sink overflow, and plunged like crazy.
Nothing.
I repeated the plunging.
Still no luck.
I plunged like a mo-fo!!!!
That worked and the sink drained just fine.
The moral to this story?
If you have a clogged drain, either tape over the sink drain and plunge like a mo-fo and see if that works...
AND
...don't ask me, cause I have no idea what the right thing to do is. I thought I knew what to do and just made things worse.
OH SHIT!!!!!
I just realized I tossed the wet towels down the basement stairs on Friday so I could put them in the wash and they are still there!!!!!
Oh yeah, one more thing, don't ask me about doing laundry either.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Labor Day Theme
Our Half-Nekkid Thursday master, Os, asked that we post photographic evidence of our daily work commute, because those of us who live in the United States celebrated Labor Day yesterday. To accommodate those of us that are retired and fuck off everyday like I do, he asked us to show what your daily routine might be.
That's pretty easy for me. I pretty much do the same thing everyday and love every second of not working anymore. Did I mention that I'm retired now?
I usually sleep until about 11:00 am, today was noon. I sleep here. (No, I never make my bed)
I usually lay in bed watching TV for a while and then make my way to a place I call the library.
Once I've finished doing what I have to do in the library, I make my way to the kitchen and put on a pot of coffee. (This coffee maker is cool. I can steam milk with it for cappuccino)
While the coffee is brewing, I go into the place I call the "Blue Room" (I call it that cause it's painted blue) and turn on the computer so it's ready for "work". I don't really do any actual work anymore cause I'm retired. Spending my day on the computer is as close to work as I come now.
Once the coffee is ready, I make a cup and sit down in front of the computer reading emails, blogging, doing research on the Internet and stuff like that.
About 4:00 PM each day I celebrate Happy Hour with a gin & tonic.
That's pretty much how I spend each weekday "working" now that I'm retired and don't have to go to work anymore and can fuck off pretty much as much as I want to.
Did I mention that I'm retired now and fuck off most weekdays now?
That's pretty easy for me. I pretty much do the same thing everyday and love every second of not working anymore. Did I mention that I'm retired now?
I usually sleep until about 11:00 am, today was noon. I sleep here. (No, I never make my bed)
I usually lay in bed watching TV for a while and then make my way to a place I call the library.
Once I've finished doing what I have to do in the library, I make my way to the kitchen and put on a pot of coffee. (This coffee maker is cool. I can steam milk with it for cappuccino)
While the coffee is brewing, I go into the place I call the "Blue Room" (I call it that cause it's painted blue) and turn on the computer so it's ready for "work". I don't really do any actual work anymore cause I'm retired. Spending my day on the computer is as close to work as I come now.
Once the coffee is ready, I make a cup and sit down in front of the computer reading emails, blogging, doing research on the Internet and stuff like that.
About 4:00 PM each day I celebrate Happy Hour with a gin & tonic.
That's pretty much how I spend each weekday "working" now that I'm retired and don't have to go to work anymore and can fuck off pretty much as much as I want to.
Did I mention that I'm retired now and fuck off most weekdays now?
Friday, September 1, 2006
SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
THE DRAIN PIPE BUSTED UNDER MY BATHROOM SINK AND THE BATHROOM IS A FUCKING MESS!!!!!!
So, how is your day?
So, how is your day?
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Waiting for Dinner HNT
This picture was taken at "Jerry & the Mermaid" in Riverhead the weekend we went to the Polish Festival.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Nigerian Spammer - Part 12
I've been letting my Good Partner Willy wait. I guess he's getting impatient, because I received this email from him.
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Dear Willy,
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Hi Barr Ibru,
This is not Milburn but his brother Jed. Milburn got his self arrested so he axed me to send you this here email and tell you know he has been arrested so that is why he ain't get back to you in a while. It ain't sereous trouble but he are hasin trouble with the law rite now. He says to tell you he will get back to you as soon as he can. If you need to axe him somthin let me know and I tell him. He should be out a jail by the end a the week so hang in thar okay?
Jed
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Willy repied to Jed's email with this.
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Nice to know Willy is concerned and that he isn't giving up. LOL!!!
You know what I was thinking? Guess that 7-day time limit for me to open the bank account wasn't a firm requirement, huh?
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Dear Willy,
Hope you have seen my mail ,I expect you to act fast as time is not on our side .I called you immediately before sending this particular mail and a lady picked up the phone and told me that there is none by the name Milburn.
Please you can call me ,or you give to me your direct line .
thanks .
Willy
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The poor guy is having trouble keeping his aliases straight, because he addressed this one to Willy. Since my alias is Milburn and not Willy, I replied to his email with this.
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I'm sorry, but I think you sent this to the wrong person. My name is not Willy.
I'm only replying to this email because of the urgent tone of the message.
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I didn't get a reply to that email, but got this one a couple of days later.
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I thought about how to reply for a couple of days before I sent this email out.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The poor guy is having trouble keeping his aliases straight, because he addressed this one to Willy. Since my alias is Milburn and not Willy, I replied to his email with this.
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I'm sorry, but I think you sent this to the wrong person. My name is not Willy.
I'm only replying to this email because of the urgent tone of the message.
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I didn't get a reply to that email, but got this one a couple of days later.
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Dear Good Partner,
What seem to be the problem opening the account with the Bank of America?Its been long i heard from you ,like i said earlier i called you but a lady picked up the phone and said there was none by your name .
Please i need to know the situation of things ,Keep me updated .thanks a lot .
Barr William Ibru
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Hi Barr Ibru,
This is not Milburn but his brother Jed. Milburn got his self arrested so he axed me to send you this here email and tell you know he has been arrested so that is why he ain't get back to you in a while. It ain't sereous trouble but he are hasin trouble with the law rite now. He says to tell you he will get back to you as soon as he can. If you need to axe him somthin let me know and I tell him. He should be out a jail by the end a the week so hang in thar okay?
Jed
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Willy repied to Jed's email with this.
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Hello,
I am very sorry to hear this,well hope you can handle the trouble?Let me know the situation of things.Do tell him i called to find out what the problem is,and that immediately he gets out he should let me know .
Extend my greetings to him.
Best regards .
Barr William Ibru~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nice to know Willy is concerned and that he isn't giving up. LOL!!!
You know what I was thinking? Guess that 7-day time limit for me to open the bank account wasn't a firm requirement, huh?
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