Looters. Good to see, people out getting stuff done.
The path of destruction: It is interesting.
The trend, even though I am avoiding watching the news: De-funding the police. Yeah, that will go on for a couple of weeks. Stupid. Just absolutely stupid. Like umpiring, there should be more police, not less.
The hatred of the Confederacy, interesting. It is part of our past. So, they lost the Civil War. What they stood for means nothing?? Some great American’s were Confederate soldiers. NASCAR. Really? NASCAR is redneck and southern. Unreal. But, again, whatever. Joe Biden got in. He wants to rename every facility named after any Confederate. So much for respecting where we came from. The guy is a complete moron. That’s the best they could do? Trump’s reelected.
Comical to me; Turning in looters, these people turn on their own to make money. A deputy friend of mine told me about it. I don’t have any comment on who the people are. Mostly: They’re all losers I hope I never deal with myself. One of the best ones I saw: You are arrested for looting, you lose your social benefits. That might impact looting?
Worse yet, if you ask me, decisions that will bankrupt America before too long. Giving everything for free, to people who aren’t adding anything to the system: I’m an Economist. Incentives and disincentives. It has become a country of disincentives. They have put me on a different Indifference Curve. My Economist professors will understand. But, the looters and “protesters”, they don’t care what I think. To me: Reelecting Trump is a start. He is everything people want. A non-politician running the country. It’s good stuff. Hate him? OK. But why? Because he’s wealthy? Because he doesn’t care if you hate him?? I am only partially curious. The fact that he got elected tells me, he’s reelected. The Trump haters are going to have to whine for five more years. Doh!! Personally: I don’t really care. I have my ideas on what’s best for America and, I would hope it works out that way. But it may not. If Joe Biden is president, I won’t be putting any more money in the stock market. Neither will all these other guys I know. That’s not good.
Tying flies. Another 50 for people to buy. Make more than I do on the teasers. Like the teasers, I just don’t have the buyers. When I do, it will be good. The pompano fly will resume after I buy more gold. I have been tying a lot of whites, with flash. A single tungsten bead per fly. Pompano teasers: Two beads for weight. No hurry: I have enough to sell for a while. But, in free time, I’ll keep tying. I get ahead enough; I can step away from the vice.
Were you sexually abused while in the Boy Scouts?? I never joined. I beat a few of them up. One, trying to show me a knot he learned, wasn’t really good at it so I showed him how to do it. Tied him to the flag pole really good. I got in some trouble for that one.
Stay six feet apart. Tough to have sex that way. My argument is: If you don’t have the virus, do you really need to wear the mask??
I remain unimpressed with this virus.
You have a dog or a cat, good for you. It is too much a celebration for some of you. It’s an animal. How great it has a home but it doesn’t make you better than I am. Not naming names It doesn’t matter. But 10,000 dollars on a pet’s medical care. Wow. If that’s your thing, OK. But my father had a phrase for it: “Time for a new dog.” I will be so wealthy; I can pay it. But I won’t. When it is time for an animal to pass into the afterworld, that’s what shall happen.
Middle June: Summer is here. To me, it is good that the rainy season has returned. Should get into the afternoon thunderstorms like clockwork. Oh, when they miss my house: So disappointing. Then, there will be a week when it rains here every day and the others don’t get it. So be it.
The power of the pen: I can write whatever I want. I got sued once. That one was funny. Disappeared faster than I actually wanted it to. I wanted it to hit the headlines. But, alas, people don’t want to go head to head with the former umpire. Again: Whatever. The Professional Baseball Umpire. There are 400 of you I thought would have ordered it already and haven’t. So is life I guess. $17 gets it to your door. Overall, sales have been good. Again: Sales could have been great. Whatever. Procrastinators, I’m sure some of you just “haven’t done it yet.” Again, whatever. After baseball ended, people wanted me to run for political office. Wasn’t interested. At all. Looking at the news and listening to the people we have in “office”, had I listened and done what people wanted: I’d be in there. And things would be better. Is it too late? In my opinion, yes, because I’m still not interested.
The number of things left to write about is limited. I’ve done nearly everything. Capmel.com is a huge website. Imagine if I was getting the other guys to write features. That has been all me. John Veil, occasionally. I’ll still try to grow it but my own contributions will be the blog and occasional features. I do three reports and one forecast once a month. In the olden days I updated these twice a month. The blog, I add to a file when I think of things. Save it. When it gets three pages long, I publish. This one, currently at a page and a half. So, another four days and it will publish again.
Kym and Mary at sunrise. On the way out, huge turtle. Manatees. We get there and a 400-pound shark has a stingray pinned to the bottom and its tail is three feet out of the water. A fish spooked that had to be 15 pounds. Didn’t see it well enough to know what it was. Not the best of tides but they caught their fish. Mary, the biggest. Action wasn’t the best it could be but it wasn’t dead either. Now, some down time for a while. On the way home from fishing, did a little daydreaming. Wham! Smoked like three of the orange cones on the side of the road. A first. Never done anything like that before. Too many cars behind me to pull over to put them back up. They probably have to do it regularly anyway. It made a little bit of noise.
The bar reopened, something to do. Three owners. I’ve been talking to the one. I’ve been feeding her ideas. I think she might talk to the others and use some of my input. They have done a little. Still no new signage which to me, the most important for “getting business.” Anyway, I’ve been going in early so there’s fewer people around. I have yet to meet the night bartender “Gigi.” They are short staffed. I pitched bringing Kendall back. She would fill some shifts and she’s a good one.
I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or post. They can however, use my enemies’ stuff. And I hope they do.
Watching TV: Why do they just show the same stuff over and over? There are so many other good movies. Why aren’t they mixing those in. Saving Private Ryan is on twice a day, every day. They stopped showing MASH. That was on all day long a few months ago, now, haven’t seen it once in a couple of months. And, a majority of what’s on TV is just not really any good. Whoever makes decisions on programming, I give them a D minus.
I had to go to a doctor today. Everyone had masks on. I didn’t. Anyway, I got in and the nurse did me on the scale and blood pressure. Then the doctor comes in. I said something about me not putting a mask on. He said no problem. Then I said to him “I haven’t been near another human in weeks until today. So, I couldn’t have the virus so why would I wear a mask?” He said Blah blah blah, might prevent you from catching it. I said “But no one else has it either. So, if you have 100% of the people without the virus, why the masks?” He said, “Run for office and I will vote for you. I don’t really understand any of this either.” I sat here at home for months. Things have reopened. I go in at times when other people aren’t there for a reason. I’m still not totally into the going out thing yet. Even though I think the Virus is a joke.
Boycott? The New Orleans Saints.
People telling me about big fish being held all wrong. By clients of guides. What do you want me to do? Speak up. I spent 20 years being the guy who spoke up. It’s up to you guys now.
It’s Alcoholics Anonymous Founder’s Day. Just poured a fresh one to celebrate. Hey, if you quit, good for you. Not belittling it. Some people shouldn’t have it anymore and their lives are better. It was a theme. A “new friend” of mine announced he was 30 years sober. I replied “Think of how much money you have saved.” His response, “My fines and attorney fees have gone way down,” My drinking has never incurred any of those fees.
Back on the Homefront. Reorganization of cupboards: I have like 20 bottles of mustard up there. I would have thought Hot Sauce would win the award. Nope: It’s mustard.
My new coasters. I like them. Bartenders think they get too slippery. So, meeting in the middle: Spraying with liquid glue and sprinkling salt on them. Adds some grip.
Refinance: Lower rate, going to be paying $83 less every month.
You enter a bedroom.
There are 34 people. You kill 30. How many are in the bedroom? My answer: There is too much death in this world.
What matters: Fisherman’s Night. June 25th at my house. Fishing guys hanging out for dinner and drinks. Bring a little extra money: There is stuff to buy if you need stuff. The bar is huge. The garage fridge is the beer fridge. Next trip to the store: It gets restocked to the gills.
Next time: I will teach you how to hold two conversations at one time.
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