My Wife's Birthday

"Going to be 37 next week.", she says.
"Yep, that's cold", I reply.

Then it dawns on me what we are talking about.

Seth's Blog: Getting meta

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Bulliwife: The Dragon Princess

I can't wait to write this book with you.

The things you learn as an Outdoorsman

This morning I learned that sportsman and meth-heads end up holding the door for each other during those really odd hours of the morning at 7-11.

Behind this smile are several years of wandering in the woods while
waiting for the right shot. This is my buddy's first deer. Three of
us have been learning to hunt since we got out of high school. All
of us lost our dads in some way at an early age and weren't ever brought out in the field and shown what the heck to do. Instead we have been
stumbling through the whole ordeal and learning with a desire to experience it
correctly, not just take a life with bloodlust or even a hint of
machoism. This animal was harvested correctly and it's meat will be enjoyed gratefully.

There is a lot behind that smile.

Passing in the night

Sportsman and meth-heads end up holding the door for each other during
the odd hours at 7-11

Eliot

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2010 will be great if...

Here are the list of things to accomplish in 2010.

House:
Build garden shed

Media Productions:
Montage of TWAAFR
Montage of Treatment -music choices: Brian Coates, Chemical Brothers
"Believe", TAT

River Guide notes electronically documented completely

FinChasers:
Write extended treatment
Complete Drift Boat
Design 21st Century Pontoon Barge
Sell emblems
CABELA'S - new buyer in February
Dick's Sporting Goods
Sportsman's Warehouse
Wholesale Sports

Before the End of 2009

Media Productions:
Obtain the video bits of TWAAFR from Rodney

House:
Hang red boat
Screw last bits of deck rail

FinChasers:
Line-X Trailer rock-guard and steps
Take pictures with:
Driftboat (FCBoat, Wood?)
Motorcycles
Kayak Rack
Raft
Update site and price trailer accordingly with options

Emblem Invoice:
Sisters Fly Shop
River City
Western Tool Supply

Innovation

Tonight a long-time friend and I brought our families together over a meal in Portland. We have known each other since diapers, drifted apart until my graduation from high school and then rekindled a very unique and withstanding friendship. Our dads used to coach football together when they were in college and still remain very close friends today despite their economic differences. You could say we two boys echo our fathers.
My wife actually looks forward to hanging out with them which is a blessing I never take for granted. We enjoyed catching up respectively and amidst my vocal wanderings with my friend we turned to politics in a way that only two can do when we know we may not agree.

Switching from back-country snowboarding in Jackson Hole, he says "I don't want to spend too much time on politics, but now that it's been awhile how do you feel our President is doing?" With a few glasses of wine under my belt I felt no shame in getting to my point quickly so I started with healthcare.

As of now I am unemployed and carrying only a major medical policy and I prefaced my soliloquy with that to him. Then I continued with "What do you want to know? Do I advocate socialism, communism? Do I dig Marxist theory? If we standardize healthcare by making the wealthy pay for everyone and even the playing field of coverage and the pay that the medical field sees it will in turn lower the standard by which we operate." He sat there silently knowing he opened up a can of worms that was going to get all over the boat in short order. "When is the news telling us of a new breakthrough that some Canadian made in asthma research? It doesn't happen because they aren't going out of their way to experiment and make changes to what we currently know because what's in in it for them?"

He quickly retorted from the gut "Yeah, they are waiting for us to do it".

Without hesitation I said "Exactly! That is what a free market economy gives us!" And the conversation ended just as abruptly as it started, yet we went on to enjoy the evening with each other wholeheartedly. That is a great friendship. I'd like to think the conversation turned away because he knows he just hit it out of the park for my team.

Innovation.

Could you imagine if the government dictated what we pulled our drift boats around on? Every trailer would be the same and there would be no one with crazy enough notions that there is a market for something better. No one would have thought to add a winch and roller to a flatbed trailer offering protection with all around versatile utility. No one would have spent hours in a machine shop developing a rack that held a gear raft above the drifter for the guides and super-avid river-rats. And definitely no one would have been allowed to add recessed motorcycle wheel chocks to the deck (because that is another agency that governs those products). We would have no trailer to haul motorcycles and quads as well as your driftboat and raft, not to mention just being able to use it for getting a load of lumber for the deck you had been been putting off. There would be a few regional manufacturers of driftboat trailers and a few manufacturers of motorcycles trailers and they would all operate under the guise of being able to build what they want, within their own specific limits of course.

What FinChasers has developed is the epitome of the free market and represents exactly what gets stifled when legislation removes the capacity/desire for an individual to achieve the pinnacle of greatness.

"Sucks to your asthmar, Piggy!"

The Buteyko method of breathing for chronic asthma



This is a method of breathing that helps some asthma sufferers. My daughter has serious bouts with it so we will give it a whirl.