working 90-100 hours a week for the past four months. and thus tired, pissed off and generally socially unacceptable.
oh, wait, I was always those last three…
doc… state surf team in November…
great to hear from you !
[the other ben [benny1] was asking after you on the “where’s leeDD ??” thread , too !]
"work less , surf more " [if possible]
cheers
ben
Hey Doc,
Aren’t you a builder? Construction must be good up in New England.
Actually ( having a free evening tonight) I got out of construction, at long last, this spring. Hated it when I was running a crew for The Old Man at 16 ( and juggling that with going to high school) and hated it every day since. So, I spent the summer running a fish market and running a surf shop.
Typical day: go in at 8 AM to open the market (seven days a week ) , out of there at 9:50 or so to open the shop ( and deliver fish on the way) shop til about 5:30 (seven days a week) , shoot to the market ( and fish restaurant ) and stay there 'til around 11 PM (five nights a week) . Adds up to a little over 100 hours in a week. Also adds up to Uncle Doc being a very tired boy of 52.
Such is life in a seaside resort, for those who live there.
The funny thing is, I went to a blood drive in early August. They take your blood pressure, your temperature and then the blood, then ya get a cookie. My blood pressure is typically 140-and-change over 90-and-change: borderline hypertensive for a guy my age…but they clocked it at 121/78 then, after my morning liter of coffee and chainsmoking, and after paying my taxes which was a bit more than I really wanted to pay. Apparently I’m thriving on this stuff. Though I have lost 20 lbs since May. And I wasn’t by any means fat then.
And now the surf shop has closed, maybe permanently…have in 39 years there, by the way… and I am cutting down to around 60-70 hours a week ( 9AM-11PM five days a week) and I am trying to figure out what I am gonna do with all that spare time. That’s 'til around November, then I have a two page, typed single spaced, project list for winter, while collecting unemployment. And an aquaculture business to get off the ground ( growing shellfish) and a clambake biz to do the same thing with.
Then, back to the market in April ( we are expanding it and the restaurant ) and …well, there we go again.
Lifes a damned carnival, ain’t it…
doc…
Hi Doc
Good to hear from you ,post when you can…
Ray
Um…woa. Y’know how you hear those stories about people who got it rough and you think WOW, I’m lucky things are so good, and so on.
Well, right now I’m thinking, WOW, I’m not very busy at all. Dang! That’s one heck of a schedule. Glad to hear you’re cutting back to a measly 70 hours, wink, wink.
Congratulations on being out of construction. I know it can be great to be a builder and see the fruit of your labor and all, plus sometimes it doesn’t pay that bad, but it can also be a hard way to go. Seems like around 50 is when it really starts to hurt.
Best of luck on all your new ventures. A guy with your yankee enginuity, ought to do just fine.
Waves to you.
John… there is 168 hours in a week… I’d expect no less than at least 120 from you… pick up the ball mate! 
Ant
(chuckling ) …well, yes. dropped some weight, proved to myself that I am still in something like shape.
So, I am looking forward to going kinda backwards this winter. Fishing offshore, in the North Atlantic, in winter. What I used to do, before I got thinking I was old and weak. As my late father used to say, if ya can do it, you can walk down the dock and know you are a better man than anybody you see.
Been there, did that in my 20s and my 30s. Now for my 50s. Living the dichotomy…
doc…
Well, that sounds like quite a test for your new, youthful physique. Plus, now you’ve got the whole wisdom over youth, work smarter not harder, thing going for you.
Update us this winter after your hands have recovered and you can type again (snicker).
Cheers.