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  • Taking a six year old fishing is a great way to wind up a weekend.
    • Half the work is to get Boo to sit still long enough to watch his bobber.  I was successful for about 30 seconds on several occasions.
    • We got a couple of bites, and about half of my casts had to be pulled back in immediately because the doughball I put on the hook kept on going in a ballistic arc after the hook stopped moving forward.
  • You know you’ve given up when you’re happy to drive to the farmers’ hardware store 20 minutes from the house so that your wife can look at galvanized steel tubs.
    • Apparently one of our goldfish ponds is going to be replaced with a redneck water feature.
  • Baby pigs are very cute.  Almost cute enough for me to buy one and bring it home.
    • Yes, I got “The Look”.
    • I was going to name it “Bacon”, so we’d all win out in the end.  But would she listen?
  • I should have put a sign at the entrance to my cube today. It would have saved a lot of time by reading:
    • Yes, I went to a conference in Las Vegas.  No, I did not gamble in the casinos.  Nope, not one bit.  No, I did not see any hookers.  No, I did not see any shows.  Yes, I spent all day, every day walking around the conference and attending meetings.  Yes, the food was good.  No, I did not stay at one of the hotels on The Strip.  No, I did not go to see Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon.  Yes, I am a disappointment for not going out and having fun until the wee hours of the night.
  • If I ever need to know if I have a role in my team, all I need to do is go away for a few days, then measure the amount of work that piles up in my absence.
  • If Moonshine was to try to get any more comfortable sleeping on our couch last night, he would have needed a beer and the remote.

4 Comments

  1. TinCan Assassin's avatar

    Meh. I lived at the Grand Canyon for 13 years. It’s just a big ditch.

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      I hiked down the south rim when I was young and spry, and it was really pretty. But unless I’m going on a trip just to visit the Canyon, I’ll do something else.

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  2. oldnfo's avatar

    oldnfo

     /  May 13, 2014

    Heh, at least the folks ‘I’ work with know not to ask me those questions anymore… 🙂

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    • HMC(FMF)'s avatar

      HMC(FMF)

       /  May 13, 2014

      Thats because its a given with sailors… 😉

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