The Lighthouse, Wednesday March 18

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Murdock was in a cheery good mood today. He'd spent all day yesterday watching TV and munching on the free cereal.

It was a wonder he didn't have a sugar hangover, really.

Work seemed to be going well on the lighthouse. Definitely a noticable improvement over the condition it used to be in.

Bouncing along, Murdock skipped from one job to another, humming and whistling and sometimes even singing as he went.

...perhaps someone was still hopped up on sugar.

(oh so very open!)

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[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"I think we'll be able to start on the tower by mid may." Tully said, after inspecting the house."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He'd been so lost in his own little world that he hadn't noticed Tully at first.

"Oh hey!" he grinned. "I can't wait to start on that. That's the most fun part!"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"You've done it before?" Tully grinned back.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He stopped what he was doing and his expression truly did say, "Did what?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Restored a light tower."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Had he? Not that he could recall.

"Uh, no not really. This would be a first. Restored other stuff though."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"What sort of stuff?"

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, there was a checklist.

"Let's see," he started going through fingers, "helped fix up a diner, built a meetin' house for a religious group, fixed up a fishin' boat, did some work on a bed an' breakfast, some fixin' up at a hotel ... dude, you'd like that one. Nice beach hotel, nice beach, nice ocean," he grinned, "nice girls in bikinis."

"Uh, what else? Oh yah, repaired a chinese restaurant after it was torn up by some Tong guys, a soft drink bottlin' plant, helped fix up an old apartment building, turned an old warehouse into a homeless mission ... and that's not includin' anything we did with vehicles."

Yah, the team had done quite a lot in their line of work. Including taking out the bad guys, of course.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Tully whistled in amazement. "Damn, I'm glad I hired you."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"Jack of all trades, master of none," he chuckled. "An' I don't think much of it as work as somethin' interestin' to do. Can't stand to be idle for a long time, know what I mean?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"I do." Tully nodded. Though he didn't mind being idle for certain lengths of time. "You sound like the kind of guy who wouldn't have trouble finding work."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He just glanced at Tully. "Oh, you have no idea."

The whole insanity thing puts a limit on a lot of things.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Me I've been a shrimp boat sailor, a rancher, a fishing guide, an assistant archeologist, a crewman on a schooner, and a lighthouse keeper. Also a fugitive."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

That last caught his interest.

"A fugitive? Really? What for?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"I don't know all of the charges. Assault, attempted murder probably. Though the only thing I was guilty of was throwing my boss' massage table out the window and decking her assistant. Well that and I guess resisting arrest."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Boy, there was a story for sure.

"Why'd you do that for? I mean, what the heck did they do?"

Tully didn't seem like the kind of guy to go off over nothing.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Well Thelma, that's the lady who's table I threw out, was kind of a psychotic control freak. I think she was less pissed about what I did, than she was the fact that I quit. She bought the cattle ranch I'd lived and worked at most of my life and tried to turn it into a poodle ranch. That she was going to dye pink. Her and her assistant just had these...attitudes that really, really grated."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"A poodle ranch? That does sound crazy."

"What kind of attitudes? Like the 'get what they want no matter what or who gets in the way'?"

Murdock was fimiliar with those. And he didn't like them one bit.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Something like that. Thought that came later. At the time it was like, just assuming I was going to go along with them because I was an employee and a redneck besides."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"How come you didn't buy the place?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

Tully laughed. "Yeah right. I could barely afford to keep Mr. Twain fed and housed."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Ooops.

"Oh. Sorry dude. I didn't even think about that."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Sokay. I'm pretty sure Thelma wouldn't have sold it to anyone anyway. She's a psychopathic control freak."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"Don't rightly sound like anyone I'd like."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"I don't think she's someone most people would like."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"Well, it sucks but I'll admit you're a cool guy to have round. All her loss, right?" he grinned.

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"And now that she had to drop the charges she can't even send bounty hunters after me." he laughed.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

There was a sudden scowl. "Bounty hunters ain't no fun. Trust me on that."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I know." Tully agreed.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"You been chased by 'em before?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Ever hear of the Stillton Brothers?"

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Murdock had to think for a minute. Wasn't those bozos that had snagged him.

"Can't say that I have. They catch up with you?"

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"A few times. I managed to get out of dodge each time though. I've had the good luck to make very good friends."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He grinned. "Oh yah, friends are great for that. Seems we do got a few things in common."

"I got picked up by some bounty hunters once, figured they could use me to get to my buddies." He smirked. "They got more than they bargained for."

[cowboy-sailor.livejournal.com]

"Don't you love it when that happens to the bad guys. The look on the Stilltons the second time they caught up to me was priceless."

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I can imagine. Those bozos thought they had us between a rock an' a hard place, next thing they knew, it was lights out for 'em."

"Too bad we couldn't stick around to see their faces when the MPs collected 'em. That woulda been a hoot."