My life and my home are in an uproar. I go to work 10 hours a night, comute a further 1.5 hours then come home don gloves, a resperator, gogles, and a hard hat and go back to the daily task of demolishing the inner walls of my home. I have demolished four plaster and ferro-cement walls by hand, with the help of a 30 pound sledge hammer and a pry ( Read more... )

I took a day off from work this last Thursday and drove to Gilford NH to my friends log home with a view of Lake Winnapasakie to spend the weekend skiing. We hung around in the early evening and after dinner both retired early (no later than 9PM). I had been up 24 hours by then. The next morning Dave, Eric, Steve and myself drove the 8 minutes over ( Read more... )

Upon arrival at meeting for worship this morning (I am Quaker), I was greeted at the door with the news that a young couple from my meeting who were expecting their second child gave birth to a baby girl. Her name was Tigris, but sadly she died about 14 hours later from some sort of fluid blockage of her lungs. The meeting naturally was subdued as ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and my first thought was to wonder whatever happened to my "best friend" Eleanor who I last spoke with two weeks prior to Thanksgiving. Eleanor, I am guessing has had some sort of emotional meltdown, the specifics of which I am not privy to (unfortunately) because I am that much more worried about her for not knowing the ( Read more... )