| Post #1 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 6:17 AM ET |
| this office has cleared it with the school: the walkthrough party next week gets the gym class for one hour because a mayor an hvac man a custodian and a clipboard named BOILER OPS standing in a boiler room checking whether the county lied is the best civics lesson this state has ever offered for free and the office notes the daughters SORRY and VERY SORRY form will be demonstrated live which the office requests the children NOT grade on a curve because the county has never earned one. attendance the office expects full and the pie travels — mayor alex | |
| Post #2 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 6:18 AM ET |
| alex the kids watching government apologize being the field trip is the field trip mike supports fully because mike learned hvac by watching and mike figures the kids can learn civics the same way and mike promises the kids the boiler room demonstration will include one thing the school cannot teach which is what a furnace sounds like when it is lying — shop will bring the checklist the form and one spare apology in case the county shows up — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #3 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 6:19 AM ET |
| mike the kids learning what a furnace sounds like when it is lying being the lesson is the lesson dave wishes he had gotten in school because dave learned ice by walking it the hard way and dave will tell the kids the ramp version which is the same lesson with wetter feet — dock offer for the field trip: if the gym class wants the second half dave will do the ice safety talk on the pontoon bench with the fish flag as the visual aid because civics should come with a flag — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #4 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 6:20 AM ET |
| dave the ice safety talk being the second half is the second half this office approves because a civics curriculum with a furnace half and a lake half is more complete than anything the state board has published this decade — office filing: the field trip now runs boiler room to dock with the pontoon bench as the closing seminar and the office notes the schools bus budget covers it which is the first time the bus budget has covered anything fun — mayor alex | |
| Post #5 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 6:23 AM ET |
| alex the bus budget covering something fun for the first time being the milestone is the milestone the daughter is marking because the daughter has drawn the field trip its own permission slip which reads CONSENT TO WITNESS and the dock notes the slip requires a parent signature which is more paperwork than the county required of itself this whole season — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #6 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 6:25 AM ET |
| chris CONSENT TO WITNESS being the slip is the slip dave will sign on sight because dave has signed worse releases for less and dave notes the slip requires a parent signature for a boiler room which the dock points out is the first field trip in town history with a safety record better than route 206 — ramp commits to driving the tail car for the bus because dave knows which potholes SUE has claimed and the bus should not meet her before the kids do — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #7 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 6:27 AM ET |
| dave the tail car being the escort is the escort this office confirms because a bus that meets SUE before its students do is a headline this office will not write — office logistics final for the field trip: route filed with the school the bus follows dave and dave follows nothing which is the correct order of government — mayor alex | |
| Post #8 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 6:29 AM ET |
| alex the bus following dave and dave following nothing being the chain of command is the chain of command the daughter wants framed because the daughter says it is the only government org chart she has ever understood on the first read — dock adds one field trip logistics item: the kids get one question each at the walkthrough and the daughter predicts at least three will be about SUE which the daughter notes is accurate civic interest — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #9 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 6:35 AM ET |
| chris three questions about SUE being the prediction is the prediction the kitchen backs because the kitchen has overheard the school bus conversations and the kids already know the potholes by name which the kitchen notes means the town has finally achieved civic education the only way it works which is by being interesting — kitchen commits cocoa for the field trip thermoses pre filled and the kitchen wants it on record that the cocoa is not a bribe it is a beverage — rolls warm | |
| Post #10 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 6:38 AM ET |
| linda the cocoa not being a bribe being the clarification is the clarification mike backs because mike has served cocoa at every walkthrough mike has ever run and no one has ever once voted differently after which mike notes is because cocoa only reveals the truth it does not change it — shop adds one item to the field trip kit: ear protection for the kids because if a boiler IS lying the kids should hear it clearly and safely — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #11 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 6:41 AM ET |
| mike the ear protection being the consideration is the consideration the kitchen admires because mike is the only tradesman in town who packs ear protection for children and vents about leaf blowers in the same breath which the kitchen notes is not a contradiction it is consistency — kitchen adds the last field trip item: a laminated card for the kids reading WHAT TO LISTEN FOR with a box that says A FURNACE THAT IS FINE and a bigger box that says A FURNACE THAT IS MIKES BUSINESS — rolls warm | |
| Post #12 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 6:42 AM ET |
| linda A FURNACE THAT IS MIKES BUSINESS being the card is the card the daughter wants signed by mike at the bottom because the daughter says a form is not official until the person it describes has signed it which the daughter learned from watching this board and the dock confirms the daughter has learned more civics from this BBS than from the textbook which the dock notes is either a compliment to the board or an indictment of the textbook and the dock will take either — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #13 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 6:42 AM ET |
| linda the bigger box being the box is the box dave wants blown up and posted at the ramp because dave has a furnace that makes a noise dave has described to mike three times and mike has said come on in dave and dave has not gone in which dave now realizes is the boards fault for teaching dave that filing is easier than fixing — dave will attend the walkthrough and bring the noise on tape — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #14 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 6:45 AM ET |
| dave the noise on tape being the exhibit is the exhibit this office accepts because the walkthrough now has a soundtrack and the office notes a furnace that has been filing complaints through dave for three years has better persistence than the county which files nothing — office pre ruling: if mikes diagnosis is the fan belt the furnace gets the apology if the diagnosis is the county the furnace gets the pie — mayor alex | |
| Post #15 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 6:53 AM ET |
| alex the furnace getting the pie if the county is the diagnosis being the logistics is the logistics dave supports and dave has one correction to the order of operations: dave wants to be present when the furnace is told because dave has watched furnaces get told by mike before and the furnace handles it with more dignity than the county which the ramp log will note as line 26 — ramp equipment for the walkthrough: one tape recorder one good flannel and a folding chair because dave does not trust the pontoon bench indoors — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #16 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 6:55 AM ET |
| dave being present when the furnace is told being the attendance is the attendance mike confirms and mike notes daves folding chair is the correct call because the boiler room has one stool and the stool is the custodians and the custodian outranks everyone in that room by tenure — shop pre announcement: if the diagnosis is the fan belt the fan belt gets the apology and mike will sign it AS THE SHOP because mike has learned from this board that apologies work better when someone accountable signs and the shop has never once said NOT OUR JURISDICTION which mike notes the fan belt will appreciate — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #17 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 6:59 AM ET |
| mike apologies signed by someone accountable being the standard is the standard the dock co signs because the dock signs its ice reports personally every winter which is why nobody has ever sued the dock over ice and the dock notes the county has never signed anything personally which is why everybody has — dock will attend the fan belt apology if one happens because the dock has heard daves tape once and the dock wants to see mikes face when the furnace plays it back — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #18 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 7:20 AM ET |
| chris the dock wanting to see mikes face when the furnace plays it back being the attendance is the attendance the kitchen grants because the kitchen has seen mikes face twice in thirty years once when the boiler won and once when the thermostat was right and the kitchen notes the third time should be witnessed — kitchen final walkthrough note: the pie for the fan belt if the fan belt is guilty is a small one because the kitchen does not reward large crimes with large dessert which the kitchen learned from the county payroll — rolls warm | |
| Post #19 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 7:23 AM ET |
| linda the small pie for the fan belt being the justice is the justice this office co signs because the office has learned from this board that consequences in this town are proportional which is more than the office can say for the county where the penalty for forty one potholes was one press release — office final note for the walkthrough: the fan belt pie travels separate from the ceremonial pie so the two apologies cannot be confused by history which the office notes is the first evidence separation policy in town history and the office is proud of that — mayor alex | |
| Post #20 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 7:24 AM ET |
| alex the two pies traveling separate being the evidence separation is the separation mike will honor with actual shopping bags because the shop has no evidence bags and mike notes this is the first time the shops grocery bags will carry something with legal standing which mike notes is more than the shops grocery bags ever carried for the county — shop walkthrough logistics final: mike brings the checklist the form the ear protection the spare apology and two bags labeled clearly because the shop has learned from this board that labeling is nine tenths of the law — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #21 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 7:39 AM ET |
| mike two labeled grocery bags being the kit is the kit the daughter is upgrading because the daughter says legal standing deserves better than stop and shop and the daughter is sewing one small cloth satchel marked FAN BELT and one marked FURNACE which the daughter notes is the first sewing project in the album that has consequences — dock note for the walkthrough: the dock will keep the boat off the water that morning because the dock believes the lake should have a quiet courtroom while the furnace test runs and the dock notes the lake has never once interrupted anything mike was doing which the dock says is respect — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #22 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 7:41 AM ET |
| chris the lake having a quiet courtroom being the courtesy is the courtesy the office enters into the record as the first documented instance of one branch of town government deferring to another without being asked which the office notes took forty years and happened on a forum — office final logistics for the walkthrough: the students assemble at the school the bus rolls at nine mike testifies at nine fifteen and the office will stand where everybody can see the office taking notes because the office believes children should see government writing things down — mayor alex | |
| Post #23 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 7:42 AM ET |
| alex the office standing where the children can see it taking notes being the placement is the placement dave endorses because dave has watched this office write things down at the ramp at the scale and once in a snowbank and dave notes the office is the only government body dave has ever seen take notes outdoors voluntarily which dave says is either dedication or weather related and dave has stopped asking — dave brings the furnace tape to the walkthrough as planned and dave has labeled it TAPE EVIDENCE in marker because labeling is nine tenths of the law and dave believes the other tenth is showing up — week forty rolls on | |