The CranBlog

Latest upgrade

Scott — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:34:33 +0000

Updated the site to WordPress version 3.0

Hell freezes over!

Scott — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:16:49 +0000

Tuna finally got a FaceBook account. Huzzah!

Yeah, that’s right. You know who you are….I see you lurking in here.

Congratulations on the passage of health care reform

Scott — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:19:48 +0000

And with it, ensuring that Barack Obama is a lame duck for the remaining two years of his one-term presidency.

Come November, we’re going to party like it’s 1994!

Added a PayPal button to one of my websites

Scott — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:19:59 +0000

Had to go back through the Mists Of Time to recall some old-school HTML code.

Ugh. It’s that time again.

Scott — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:57:31 +0000

I wonder if Denny’s still has that free-meal thing going on.

Congratulations to Scott Brown!

Scott — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:31:12 +0000

Washington, can you hear us NOW???

The Super*Shed…..so it begins

Scott — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:31:58 +0000

After three years of saving and planning, the first official step in constructing my 12×20 shed has begun. V&M Construction will be arriving today to dig a 26x27x1 hole and filling it with gravel. This will be the base for the concrete pad in the spring (the extra width is for an overhang).

Google Blogger

Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:30:48 +0000

For the most part, I love all things Google, but the Blogger really sucks compared to WordPress.

No, I wanted to print out the entire month, not just the first three posts. Oh, I see, you don’t have that feature.

Rented a DR Brush Mower over the weekend

Scott — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:14:58 +0000

Feel like I’ve been hit by a truck today.

Shrewd business practices in this economy

Scott — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:58:46 +0000

Economy tanks
Fail to show up and/or return phone calls, creating illusion you are much too busy to deal with such trivial things as “customers”
????
PROFITS!

Called G&E Excavation of Cornish, Maine to give me an estimate on a gravel base for my shed. The guy said he’d be at my house Monday night at 6:00 p.m. He never showed up.

Called V&M Construction of Gorham, Maine. He actually came out, and mailed me an estimate of $1425. I had a question, left a voicemail on Friday, a voicemail on Tuesday, and finally left a voicemail on Wednesday telling him basically, “Hey thanks for playing, but you lose”.

UPDATE: Called Scott Dugas Excavation today and got an estimate of $2350, which as everyone knows is awfully close to $1425. What’s the deal, you got gold dust in that gravel or something?

UPDATE: Left a message with Gorham Ground Works, they never called back. I’m sensing a trend here.

UPDATE: V&M called back, guy said there was a family emergency and he forgot to change his message, so I decided to give him a 2nd chance.