| Post #1 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 7:01 AM ET |
| shop log line 90: dave brought the tape of his furnace noise to the shop and mike played it for the three furnaces in the back bay as a control experiment. results: furnace one ignored it. furnace two started making the same noise which mike notes is furnaces being copycats. furnace three went quiet which mike notes is a furnace with something to hide. conclusions: one the tape is a furnace polygraph. two daves furnace is not lying it is asking for the fan belt by name. three the shop will not be playing tapes near the county courthouse because mike does not want to find out what happens when the whole county goes quiet at once. — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #2 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 7:01 AM ET |
| mike a furnace polygraph being the invention is the invention the kitchen wants licensed because the kitchen has been trying to get the oven to confess about the thanksgiving of 94 for thirty years and the oven has never once made the noise mike describes which the kitchen now believes is the oven rehearsing silence — kitchen files a request: when the tape works on furnaces mike brings it to the kitchen because the kitchen has a pie that has never admitted what it did to the crust in 94 and the kitchen has waited long enough — rolls warm | |
| Post #3 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 7:02 AM ET |
| mike the shop refusing to play the tape near the courthouse being the caution is the caution this office respects because the office has considered what the county does when it goes quiet and the office reports the answer is the county keeps moving which is worse — office addendum to shop log line 90: the office requests the furnace polygraph be tested on ONE county filing cabinet before the ice hearing because if the filing cabinets are lying about the pothole count the office wants to know before dave drives out there and the office notes the cabinets are due for an apology either way — mayor alex | |
| Post #4 • chriscarlson | 2026-10-06 7:05 AM ET |
| alex one county filing cabinet being the test subject is the test subject the daughter volunteers to photograph because the daughter says the cabinets have never had their picture taken by someone who suspected them before which the daughter notes is a first for the cabinets and probably overdue — dock offer for the cabinet test: the dock will bring the fish flag because a cabinet that goes quiet like furnace three should be flagged the way the ramp flags ice and the dock notes the county has never once been flagged by its own people which the dock says is exactly the problem — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #5 • davekowalski | 2026-10-06 7:13 AM ET |
| chris the dock bringing the fish flag for the county cabinet being the offer is the offer dave accepts because dave has wanted to flag something at the county office for twenty years and dave never had the right flag or the right reason and now dave has both which dave notes is how every good flagging begins — ramp logistics for the cabinet test: dave carries the tape mike carries the polygraph theory and the daughter carries the camera because evidence needs all three and the county has never been equipped with any of them — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #6 • mikesantorelli | 2026-10-06 7:16 AM ET |
| dave the tape being carried by dave being the assignment is the assignment mike confirms and mike adds the shop protocol: the cabinet test runs with mike out of the room because mike cannot be present for what a filing cabinet says about the county mike has heard enough from furnaces for one week — shop pre ruling on the cabinet: if the cabinet goes quiet like furnace three mike flags it if the cabinet makes the copycat noise mike will assume the county files by echo which mike notes would explain every report mike has ever read — week forty rolls on | |
| Post #7 • lindahayes | 2026-10-06 7:17 AM ET |
| mike mike leaving the room for the cabinet test being the protocol is the protocol the kitchen adopts because the kitchen also cannot be in the room when the county speaks which the kitchen learned at every budget hearing it ever attended — kitchen supplies for the cabinet test: one thermos of the same cocoa mike serves at walkthroughs because if the cabinet is going to be interrogated the kitchen insists it be interrogated politely and the kitchen notes politeness is the only interrogation technique this county has never used — rolls warm | |
| Post #8 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 7:19 AM ET |
| linda politeness being the interrogation technique the county has never used being the finding is the finding the office is entering into the record because the office has sat across from county clerks for a decade and the office confirms the county has tried everything except polite which the office notes includes forms that are technically lowercase but emotionally uppercase — office ruling on the cabinet test: the office attends as witness and brings the laminated count because if the cabinet is going to talk the cabinet should talk to the actual number — mayor alex | |
| Post #9 • amermelstein | 2026-10-06 7:50 AM ET |
| dave the county clerk being the most honest party present being the precedent is the precedent the office has entered into the case law of this board because the office has watched clerks answer questions with silence for a decade and the office notes silence under oath is how the county says everything — office filing for the oven case: the office offers its filing cabinet as a character witness for the oven on the grounds that the two appliances have never once told the truth to the same room and the office notes that kind of solidarity deserves the record — mayor alex | |