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My karma ran over your dogma [Aug. 14th, 2009|09:11 am]
[Current Location |Bath, Maine]
[mood | worried]
[music |Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men]

I just hit a golden retriever.

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Listening [Jul. 11th, 2009|02:47 pm]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | contemplative]
[music |Love, Reign O'er Me - The Who]

I took a front row seat at Giant Steps to watch the tide surge in this afternoon. A salt and spray sea breeze cooled me as I listened to the slow roar of eternal surf. A dark slate blue and bright aquamarine ocean churned to white foam heaved against the sun-warmed brown and grey granite under a haze blue sky streaked with alto-cirrus.

Giant Steps
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John Winslow [Jul. 9th, 2009|01:47 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | sad]
[music |Into the Mystic - Van Morrison]

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I’ve just learned my friend John Winslow died of a heart attack. He’s survived by his wife, Lisa, and two daughters, Boo and Sophie. John also had two daughters, Victoria and Gabriel, from a previous marriage. John and Lisa’s infant son, Bennett, died soon after birth. I met John’s brother Miles once, and their parents too. They all seemed very nice.

John and I served together in Boston, along with a crew of miscreants I still talk about (here). I remember John fondly for his cheerful energy and genuine friendship.
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Ahmadinejad [Jun. 17th, 2009|03:47 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | predatory]
[music |Rock The Casbah - The Clash]

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"Sheer intimidation, and it worked" - Story

FWIW: I've three thoughts and no answers:
1. We'd contact with the Iranian military during our deployments to the Persian Gulf. Iranian military personnel conducted themselves professionally. We also had contact with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC were armed thugs.

2. Might makes right. I am hoping for the best while fearing the worst for Iranians.

3. "Repression can only live off fear. But is fear enough to remove need, thirst for justice, intelligence, reason, idealism...? Relying on intimidation, the reactionaries forget that they will cause more indignation, more hatred, more thirst for martyrdom than real fear. They only intimidate the weak; they exasperate the best forces and temper the resolution of the strongest."
~Victor Serge.
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Maine-Sex Marriage [May. 7th, 2009|02:47 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | pleased]
[music |Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye]

I’m wicked stoked for Maine.

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Yesterday Maine legalized same-sex marriage (story).

Those obsessed with inflicting their faith upon us will likely mount a referendum effort to overturn this law. I'm hope their referendum fails.

I know my vote: I stand for Liberty and Justice for all.

The way I see it every gay man and his lover are two less fellows I have to compete with for all the women. Go, be gay! Maybe then I'll get a date...
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Jimmy 1964-2009 [May. 3rd, 2009|04:47 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | sad]
[music |Into The Mystic - Van Morrison]

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My step-brother Jimmy died Thursday morning. He had a brain tumor. He was 44.

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Sisyphus II [Apr. 28th, 2009|05:47 pm]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | contemplative]
[music |Working Class Hero - Green Day]

I was Sisyphus again.

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Jack's Boxing Class [Apr. 24th, 2009|06:40 pm]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | thoughtful]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

Jack's Boxing Class
By Seamus M. McCarthy, Times Record Staff
22 April 2009

Bath - Almost 80, Jack's days in the boxing ring are long gone. All that's left are memories, and the lessons learned when those memories were earned the hard way.

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Before the Internet [Feb. 26th, 2009|04:59 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | calm]
[music |Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin]

TotalFarkette Gadian asked "Describe your pre-internet life" here.

I answered:
Work meant physical work before the internet came, at least for me. Work produced tangible results: a heavy object was moved from one place to another, a structure was built, a unit repaired, or an area cleared. Things that were dirty were made clean. Things that were clean were made dirty (usually me and my clothes).

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Sisyphus I [Feb. 24th, 2009|04:59 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | calm]
[music |Secure Yourself - Indigo Girls]

I pushed a couple of cars today.

Apparently that’s what I do.

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Benchmark [Jan. 18th, 2009|01:47 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | satisfied]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

A new recovering benchmark:
Bench Press: 315lbs.
Body Weight: 252lbs.
My hand is sore.

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Braced for Impact [Jan. 7th, 2009|01:59 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | calm]
[music |People C'mon - Delta Spirit]

I wonder what, if anything, Ningnong the Elephant felt when he saved a little girl during the great tsunami?

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Merry Christmas [Dec. 25th, 2008|01:59 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | tired]
[music |So This Is Christmas? - John Lennon]

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They Hurt You At Home & They Hit You At School [Dec. 15th, 2008|03:47 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | amused]
[music |Working Class Hero - Green Day]

Well, I’ve picked up another dingbat - check out [info]steathhozer’s comment to Odd Observations.

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Advice I've absorbed: [Dec. 11th, 2008|12:59 am]
[Current Location |Harpswell Cove]
[mood | calm]
[music |Father & Son - Cat Stevens]

Boxing maxim: "Kill the body, the head will fall."

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Benchmark [Dec. 7th, 2008|03:47 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

A new recovering benchmark:
Bench Press: 295lbs.
Body Weight: 249lbs.
My boxing coach, Jack, says I’m pushing my broken arm too hard.

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Odd Observations [Dec. 2nd, 2008|03:38 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | calm]
[music |Working Class Hero - Green Day]

Okay, that was odd.

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Benchmark [Nov. 30th, 2008|02:47 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | calm]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

A new recovering benchmark:
Bench Press: 290lbs.
Body Weight: 248lbs.
I’m not very sensitive, am I?

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Benchmark [Nov. 23rd, 2008|04:47 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | calm]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

A new recovering benchmark:
Bench Press: 285lbs.
Body Weight: 249lbs.
I benched four reps at two-hundred eighty five pounds. That was my first benchmark too, from three years ago. For you movie buffs, 285 pounds is what Sean MaGuire played by Robin Williams could bench press in 1997’s Good Will Hunting.

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Speed Bag Meditation [Nov. 19th, 2008|02:59 am]
[Current Location |Merrymeeting]
[mood | calm]
[music |All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers]

I’m getting well again. I was working my speed bag tonight, producing a steady cadence fellow boxer Sita recognized. She’s was taking a gymnastics course with her small daughter, Kaylee.

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