Life

Last night a 65ft statue of Jesus was it my lighting and burned. I'll leave the irony for you to wallow in. However, a story posted that the church was going to rebuild gave me the ideas for the new statue.

So here is Big Butter Jesus version 2:

Did something I have not done in years. Dusted off the fly rod and vest and headed out to fish. Fishing in Ohio is not the same as out west. No open land to head to find a spot; also this is bass territory. However, I did hear of the Mad River sticking trout and this is a good time to fish them.

I intended to get into small mouth with the fly rod, however wanted to check out trout spot on the Mad River. So headed out Sunday and did little scouting of Kiser Lake; looks like a nice float tube lake as it had no motors allowed and it apx 45 minus drive. Did no fishing at the lake however I headed over to a access spot for the Mad River.

I arrived and there was no one around. I know it was Easter Sunday .. still I expected at lease one or two others. Get on the gear and tie on a fly and headed out. Water was cool, clear and not flowing too fast to wade in. After losing one fly and catching two trees I started to double I had any knack for fishing again. I was never a hard core fly fisher; if I caught three to four small trout in Idaho I was ecstatic. Switched flys to a prince nymph; picked a spot near a log that looked good. Still thinking this day was just going to be an exercise in casting and knot tying day. Then bang! I got a fish! And that little brown trout made my day.

I’m not a total loss. I can still read the water; and get a fly where I want and catch a fish. Felt good and look forward to doing little more.

Happy 234th Birthday US Navy.

I spent eight years with you (1987 to 1995) working as a Aviation Ordnance Tech.


Four years in San Diego CA on F-14 Tomcats..


and another four on in Oak Harbor WA on the P-3 Orion..


Was a good eight years. Got to travel and my associates degree while in. Happy b-day USN!

And to all the current men and women in all armed forces I salute you. Be safe.

Cheers!

Lots going on but little blogging. Mom visiting and I have a summer class to teach (yea). Happy True Blood (HBO series) is back and summer season of Burn Notice.
I did get Mass Effect, installed, patched and started the game. However, my last save is standing at the start of the very first mission; so have not really started playing yet.

Have my eye on the new iPhone. The better camera and the video capture looks very cool. Also… Found out I get a discount on the monthly plan through work so I may take the leap and get an iPhone 3GS.

Got an e-mail from Facebook and they pulled off a few home videos I uploaded. Bummer .. but no surprise. This is the biggest reason I love running my own web site I can put them here and post links to in FB. Find a way around this BS.

My video site

Oh Facebook .. stop being bitches to the DMCA and RIAA.

Went ahead and setup a FaceBook (FB) account last week.

I was little hesitant as I like to control my own content (i.e. FB license agreements, etc.). However, glad I’m in FB now.
This may curtail some of my bogging, however I sill like to have place to upload higher quality videos, photos and art. Also longer posts that don’t make sense in FB can live here. So it’s nice to have both places to interact in.

I haft to admit find it more fun than I expected.