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I mentioned it to my wife and son in a group text with a big "Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!". My wife replied, "Yes, I saw that." Then my son replied, "yeah people have been talking about it." Very nonchalant. As if I had instead said, "We had deer tracks in the lawn again." Like, "Meh, yup." I don't get why they didn't say anything if they already knew?!
 
I went to Cambridge Sunday to get most of my son's stuff from his dorm and saw the big backup on 93N for the ramp to 95N (to the ocean). I told my wife "a lot of people heading to beach." She said, "Already? Are you sure?"

Yup.... ^^
 
sadchild said:
I went to Cambridge Sunday to get most of my son's stuff from his dorm and saw the big backup on 93N for the ramp to 95N (to the ocean). I told my wife "a lot of people heading to beach." She said, "Already? Are you sure?"

Yup.... ^^
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Mrs. Scotch took her clients' dog to the beach yesterday (for a walk), just because it was too hot inland. Also, it was the last day for dogs on the beach in the daytime in York. And it was high tide, yet the beach was packed with people, lining the top of the beach (the rest of the beach was under water). I guess a lot of people got the same idea.
 
Let's take a look at what Hectic's neighbors are up to:



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Woman offers shocking excuse as she's jailed for boyfriend's torture

Martina Esqueda, 29, of Toledo, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for ordering her boyfriends to beat her other boyfriend Austyn McClellan in 2025.
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This story is amazing!

I have no idea how something that looks like she should live under a bridge and force people to solve a riddle in order to cross can get a husband and 4 BOYFRIENDS to not only all fuck her but also do her bidding and beat up a guys for weeks in a motel room over an offence she just made up about him doing!

It is truly amazing.

This chick is amazing!

I watched that video when it came out a year ago and it's fun to see the conclusion to these wacky stories.
 
News from Toledo ....



Multiple people shot near festival in Toledo, Ohio, police seek suspects​


Police are searching for suspects after multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio.

"Many victims" were transported to medical facilities, said police, who didn't provide further details on the injuries or how many people were shot.

Authorities also didn't provide any details about what may have set off the shooting.

City police responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5:30 p.m. ET and found multiple shooting victims, the police department said in a statement.
 
It wasn't me......as far as you know.......

We used to live in that neighborhood. It's a mix of really nice Victorian homes that people put a lot into renovating, and a bunch of sketchy places that people need to renovate. I lived about 2 blocks from where the shooting happened. It's sad that this happened.
 
HecticArt said:
It wasn't me......as far as you know.......

We used to live in that neighborhood. It's a mix of really nice Victorian homes that people put a lot into renovating, and a bunch of sketchy places that people need to renovate. I lived about 2 blocks from where the shooting happened. It's sad that this happened.
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Good to know you were neither a victim nor the shooter.
 
I know a number of people that live in the neighborhood and are active with the festival, and a lot of others that go to it.
I hadn't heard anything, so I assume that they are all OK.

I was a tour guide for one of the mansions a number of years ago. It's the former home of Edward Drummond Libbey, He was a pioneer in the glass industry and started Libbey Glass.
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I know I'm just about a month late to this joke but.......

HecticArt said:
I was a tour guide for one of the mansions a number of years ago. It's the former home of Edward Drummond Libbey, He was a pioneer in the glass industry and started Libbey Glass.
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You were a tour guide of Scotch's house? He only began building it like 9 years ago.

scotchandcigar said:
I figured this would be the appropriate thread to post this in.

So we have finally hit the point, where I'm confident that plans for construction of our new house are going forward. We bought the land on the southern Maine coast back in 2015, sold our New Hampshire home in 2016, and have been renting in Massachusetts.

We worked with a surveyor and septic designer to locate the septic system, and map out the elevations of the property. As it turns out, everything that follows hinges on the location of the septic design.

We started contracting with a post & beam design company last fall. They led us to our local builder. We've had the basic idea for the design (below) since the 1st of the year. Since then, we've been working with a bank on financing, the builder on developing the build list, and the post & beam company on finalizing the frame structure. The builder is the general contractor (GC), so he gets the excavator, as well as all the other subs.

The main structure of the house is post & beam. It's a basic rectangle with a simple roof. The builder will attach the garage and master bedroom areas to the P&B. The advantage of P&B is that there are no load-bearing interior walls, so the layout can be very flexible and open. The main living area will be open to the 2nd story roof.

We didn't want a house that's just a bunch of box-shaped rooms. And we want the ability to have single-floor living. The upstairs will have a loft (overlooking the great room), a bedroom with bath (for our daughter), and an office area/ guest room. The master bedroom is on the 1st floor, as is the garage, porch, and deck. The basement has a partial walkout, where I can put the mower, and maybe have a game room.

It's an expensive endeavor; we've exceeded our maximum anticipated budget by 25%. But our only option was to scrap the whole thing, sell the land, and just buy somebody's house. Short of that, there are not many ways to make a custom-built house cheaper. If we were to scale-down to bottom-grade design and construction, we'd save maybe 10-15%, and have something no better than just buying a pre-built house. There's no way to have someone build 1 of something, and have it cost the same as 1 of 100. Having said that, I've also realized that any new construction - even in a big development - is comparable in cost to what we're doing. But what we're getting is a hell of a lot better than those cookie-cutter communities.

We're at the cul-de-sac of a very secluded, established neighborhood. We're not looking out at any other houses; we have several acres, leading to a watershed protection zone. So here's some of the engineering drawings of the design, and a google street-view of our lot.

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Despite my mocking, I thought being an architect was a pretty good gig, sorry to hear you had to moonlight there for a while man.
 
JHDK said:
I know I'm just about a month late to this joke but.......



You were a tour guide of Scotch's house? He only began building it like 9 years ago.



Despite my mocking, I thought being an architect was a pretty good gig, sorry to hear you had to moonlight there for a while man.
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You really dug deep for this one. And the house is quite compact, not mansion-like at all.
 
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