JB & Barry Unscripted :: Building Moxie Has a Quincentenary OR . . . Building Moxie’s 500th Post

The family and I have taken in recent years to alternating our summer vacation between Hilton Head Island, SC and Rehoboth Beach, DE.  This year, and you may know from my last post – 106 Yard Press and Sponsors, we were in Delaware.  Each town, state of course has its own feel, complete with its own set of things to do.  And some day, maybe, I’ll be able to wiggle enough time to provide coverage on these things … maybe, idk, </DREAM>.

One unique thing that vacationing in DE affords for me is the opportunity to visit, face to face, my sometimes all-too-silent, silent partner (ha!) Barry Morgan.  Barry happens to live not too far (about 30 minutes) from the Beach at Rehoboth.  (Actually he lives closer to, and as I learned on this trip …only a few minutes off of, Fenwick Island, MD.)

After a little discussion, it was decided that I would run over to Barry’s house. The day I chose to pop in (Thursday) Barry had been working to reorganize and reoptimize his tool shed.  It sits only a number of feet off his 19^th century converted schoolhouse.  I bring that up mainly because it was the location in which we decided to shoot this little video (our first together and actually addressing the camera).  A BMoxie Summit, if you will, that would become a tag team on Building Moxie’s 500^th post.  A milestone we reached rather quietly a few weeks back.

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A couple things of note: this shed happened to be the location of a podcast series that Barry had dabbled with a little ways back, entitled the Sounding Board — and yes, he hopes to revisit.  It was a little humid the evening we met, and despite Barry’s warnings, I chose to allow the shed’s shop fan to keep running.  (For me, and after only a few seconds, I feel it is just washed into background noise.)

The video, edited down, contains sections on: Barry’s Business (Junction Home Services), New Tools, Sponsors & Visits (including shouts to Genie & DAP), Music, Branding, the Paranormal, Barry’s (All Denim) Wardrobe (& How He Holsters Tools), the Existential, the BIG Questions, Aging Gracefully &  . . .

And of course you won’t devote 12 minutes to it, so I am sure I don’t have to worry about any grief I might get for whatever you might see.   And it really wasn’t until that week that I realized (also checking in, on the radio, with Mark & Theresa of @MyFixItUpLife – 32:00) –  how nasally/how stuffy I am, and how much I need to practice my annunciation. ha! </SelfConsciousness>.

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In Other News & Views

As this posts, I am heading out the door to hop a flight for Boston, and then on to the Portland, Maine region.  I will be visiting the fine folks at Thos. Moser, now celebrating 40 years, you know, of making fine, fabulous furniture.

This effectively completes part 2 of bucket list item #162 = Visit Both Portlands in the Same Year.  (ha! kidding. But I did go to Portland, Oregon earlier in the year.)

In all seriousness though, I am excited to have been invited to tag along with a group from Baltimore’s St. Timothy’s School.  The School has commissioned Moser to build some their library’s tables (I believe).  Thos. Moser is having them up (and me too) as part of a special session for their Customer in Residence program (and more on this, I am sure).

Thanks for reading, and Yes! the 106 Yard Scholarship Fund is right on track and still due to kick next week.

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I’ll leave you with one of Barry’s personal favorites, and fitting for our tool shed discussion (Okay, maybe for building furniture too).  Tom Waits‘ What’s He Building … also included in Barry’s post, In the Neighborhood.

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Oh and this one too. Another fav of Barry’s.  He turned me onto it the night we met >> Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr.

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Enjoy! ~jb