From This Modern World:

"George Bush isn’t some conservative poseur, he’s the proverbial student that’s become the master. On just about every level, George Bush has improved upon Reagan. Bush has presided over political patronage that reaches every level of the government (and even into the realm of war profiteering). The Administration has had deficits that not only dwarf the gargantuan debt of their spiritual leader, but serve as a tribute to their spendthrift leader (”Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter….this is our due.”) And as the ultimate act of one-upsmanship, not only has the President pissed away every penny that comes into the treasury and buried the country under a mountain of red ink, but Bush was able to do so while continuing to cut taxes for the super rich. Beat that, Bonzo!"

I've lost the river rocks GIF at the top of my page. I switched how I log onto Blogger and now it doesn't appear. There must be a copy of it in my cache but with XP I don't know how to find it. Grrrr.

And here I go again. I've received the invitation to this years interview for the radiation therapy program. It is in a little over two weeks. I have to brush up on my math and also go over what I can remember of the questions.

I have also started back in my running and I feel so much better. I've run for at least an hour the last three days, and I'll run again tonight with the group. We all met yesterday afternoon at a restaurant in Issaquah for Ram's birthday. He broke through to the masters division on his 40th. The old guy gag gifts were fun.

Of course I'm still thinking about the fish. Joe called me early this morning and we discussed different poles and reels. He heard about a company that makes glowing products for fishing. They are called Radical Glow. I'm going to incorporate them into my jigs. I went back to sleep and then dreamt of fishing as one component. I slept late. There is no work today because we started working ten hour days once again and we all have Monday off. Woo hoo.

Lee wants Nicky to visit her so my job is to get his shots up to date and then ship him to L.A. Ram said not to forget to punch holes in the box. He said before that he had ordered a bride like that but they forgot to punch the holes and she didn't make it. I'll really need to find a place then. Nicky is part of my job up here on the plateau. Then I wont have a fat tiger cat trying to replace the computer on my lap. After the interview I'll be able to better concentrate on that task. Yeah, it still feels as though I'm moving in first gear. I'm hopeful that the behind the scenes lining up of things are going on unabated. Those decisions have been made. Everyone picture me in school please.

Go to this site and watch the presentation. Pretty clever and sadly so.

Yesterday was the last day of fishing in many rivers here in western Washington. I asked my boss for a half day and he assented. To my surprise it started snowing mid morning. There is up to a foot of snow in parts of Snohomish County. The river had a beautiful layer of white. This is where we park.



I didn't have any luck until later in the day. I fished my normal spots and nothing, so I went down to the now empty area which most of the guys usually work. I changed depth and the jig and the float went under, fish on. This thing was a cow, huge. What a nice end to the season. It was a 32 inch female. I'm told it is kinda rare to get a hatchery fish this late in the season.



I'm home from work today because Mukilteo was hit hard by this storm. And there is no fishing. It is time to look into my next steps. I dropped off this year's application to the BCC radiation therapy program a few days ago. And I'm still without my own place. Gotta work on that.