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Since May, I have been building another house on my property for my daughter and family.  I'm the general contractor and have hired subs.  I'm so damm sick of dealing with people issues, especially those that involve addiction and substance abuse, the curse of the trades.  Three of my (6) subs have either crystal meth (2) or drink (1)PROBLEMS .  Now, this makes for missed deadlines, spoiled materials, late or absent workers, SHITTY, SHODDY WORK, etc, etc.  You get the picture.  This is the second house I've built in 3 years and in the interval the class of workers has gone down although because of a contentious neighbor I've hired all  licensed contractors, all on the books etc.  These guys are twice as bad as the outlaws.

So this fukin weekend I'll be cleaning up after the dry wall guys and just holding my ass until these guys are outa my hair.

Oh, Sunday I am going to take the dog out for a beach walk.
aloha from Kauai....

alohapolitics.com

by Keone Michaels on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 02:03:21 PM EST
Alright!  Something other than bullshit American politics.  Not really Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy stuff but at least it's something different.

So how's life in Hawaii, other than the drug/booze situation?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 02:09:52 PM EST
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aloha keone!

so sorry you had to go through that.

my friends still living there in hawaii tell me about the meth epedemic, it sounds absolutely heartbreaking- :(

i hope you have a chance to go down to hanalei or secrets beach and chill, after the cleanup.

so nice to see you pop in.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 03:17:57 PM EST
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Ha, I'll help, unless you're in the US (the DHS scare the crap out of me).

My only substance abuse problem is alcohol and the abuse only occurs if you offer me american budweiser.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 06:42:21 AM EST
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