Life
Well, I had an un-eventful 4th of July. I was supposed to have a twilight boat from 6:30pm to about midnight, so Jeff and I didn't plan anything. Well, at 11:30am I get a phone call from my co-worker telling me there is no twilight boat going out that night and that we need to make the 12:30 boat. Eek... that gave me less than an hour to get my butt down to the dock and on the boat before it left. I've never showered and driven so fast down to the dock. I ended up taking the wrong freeway down there, luckily, I have been to downtown Long Beach enough to know how to get to where I needed to go. With no time to spare, I arrived at 12:30, running onto the boat.
Let me say that the fishing day was highly uneventful. With 43 anglers on the boat, we brought up 1 sand bass and a few calico bass. Man, what a waste of a day. Though I have to say the beach/ocean was beautiful. We got back to dockside about 6:30pm. I called Jeff and asked what we were doing for the 4th, and of course his answer is "nothing, I am starting school tomorrow so I am preparing for it." Whoo-hoo, hear my excitement. So I went to the store, bought a bottle of wine and some potato chips and helped myself to 2 glasses and some chips when I got home. I watched Crocodile Dundee II on tv and sipped wine. Shortly after the movie, I went into the bedroom (where Jeff was still sitting at the computer working on the next days material) and jumped into bed. Probably around 8pm or 8:30pm by this point. I promptly fell asleep. Jeff tried to awake me for dinner at Olive Garden or perhaps driving around to look for fireworks, but I was passed out cold. I didn't wake up until about 8 this morning for work. Guess I got my much needed sleep I had been lacking for the past 25 days or so of working non-stop. So how were your 4th of July days?
In other news, I just have to comment in here. I hate barracuda. They are the slimey/stickiest fish you can ever try to handle. I went on a boat that was targeting barracuda. By the time you measure and weigh about 8 to 10 of them, your hands are covered in slime, you can't grip your pencil to write, cause it keeps slipping out of your hands... you can't get ahold of the scale properly to weigh them... and you can't really wipe your hands on the towel you carry because you just transfer some of your slime onto it. Not to mention that to catch the barracuda they gaff it with a hook, which causes it to bleed everywhere on deck. Needless to say, they are one messy fish. (Kinda sad job watching all the fish suffocate to death... not a fun part of the job). But on this same boat I must say the highlight was seeing a giant ocean sunfish.
This thing must have weighed over 400lb easily. Sunfish are said to get up to 3000lb. That's a big ass fish!!!! That's the best photo I have of the fish. It actually got hooked by someones line and had to be snapped because it was WAY too big to even try to pull into the boat. Poor thing probably has a hook stuck in its mouth now.
Alrighty, off to doing laundry. Trying to get Jeff's house cleaned as always. It's a never ending battle.
BTW Jen... three cats= TONS of poo poo + pee in litter box = lots of money in buying litter. (Bought 5 tidey cat 20lbs today for $45) -ouch. Damn cats, no more food and water for ANY of them!!!!
p.s. Guinness is doing great
Let me say that the fishing day was highly uneventful. With 43 anglers on the boat, we brought up 1 sand bass and a few calico bass. Man, what a waste of a day. Though I have to say the beach/ocean was beautiful. We got back to dockside about 6:30pm. I called Jeff and asked what we were doing for the 4th, and of course his answer is "nothing, I am starting school tomorrow so I am preparing for it." Whoo-hoo, hear my excitement. So I went to the store, bought a bottle of wine and some potato chips and helped myself to 2 glasses and some chips when I got home. I watched Crocodile Dundee II on tv and sipped wine. Shortly after the movie, I went into the bedroom (where Jeff was still sitting at the computer working on the next days material) and jumped into bed. Probably around 8pm or 8:30pm by this point. I promptly fell asleep. Jeff tried to awake me for dinner at Olive Garden or perhaps driving around to look for fireworks, but I was passed out cold. I didn't wake up until about 8 this morning for work. Guess I got my much needed sleep I had been lacking for the past 25 days or so of working non-stop. So how were your 4th of July days?
In other news, I just have to comment in here. I hate barracuda. They are the slimey/stickiest fish you can ever try to handle. I went on a boat that was targeting barracuda. By the time you measure and weigh about 8 to 10 of them, your hands are covered in slime, you can't grip your pencil to write, cause it keeps slipping out of your hands... you can't get ahold of the scale properly to weigh them... and you can't really wipe your hands on the towel you carry because you just transfer some of your slime onto it. Not to mention that to catch the barracuda they gaff it with a hook, which causes it to bleed everywhere on deck. Needless to say, they are one messy fish. (Kinda sad job watching all the fish suffocate to death... not a fun part of the job). But on this same boat I must say the highlight was seeing a giant ocean sunfish.
This thing must have weighed over 400lb easily. Sunfish are said to get up to 3000lb. That's a big ass fish!!!! That's the best photo I have of the fish. It actually got hooked by someones line and had to be snapped because it was WAY too big to even try to pull into the boat. Poor thing probably has a hook stuck in its mouth now.
Alrighty, off to doing laundry. Trying to get Jeff's house cleaned as always. It's a never ending battle.
BTW Jen... three cats= TONS of poo poo + pee in litter box = lots of money in buying litter. (Bought 5 tidey cat 20lbs today for $45) -ouch. Damn cats, no more food and water for ANY of them!!!!
p.s. Guinness is doing great