The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Well, if Bjorn could do it. . .

The only thing I had to do was build up enough nerve after reading all of the condemnation for his actions to gather up my old well used equipment and cast off the gawd awful guilt feelings. It only took three of the wife's vicodin bombers, a 12 pack of beer, and some cheap wine that I keep around for when the in laws come over. I packaged them up (the busted and worn out equipment), wrote the letters and applied real crocodile tears to each letter asking for the repair and voila, I forgot how much the local UPS Store was gonna charge me to send them back. I had to wait and save up four-five weeks allowance for the postage alone. This was gonna be harder than just dropping the stuff off to St Vincent de Paul and sheepishly asking for a receipt. It felt even worse to pay the postage and wait to get back the free new stuff. I did the routine again, worked up the nerve to drop by the shipper, but by then I could barely fill out the paper work, without slurring my words and drooling down the front of my shirt, much less trying to keep my bloodshot eyes from rolling back in my head. I couldn't read my scribbling anyway and I was really surprised the shipper could figure it out at all. While filling out the paper work, it occurred to me to provide a buddy's address, but could I trust him to hand over the packages as they arrived? All the while I was sure that I would end up in jail for this. Funny thing though, I still remember how the shipper kept saying two things; "Do you want to open account with us?" and "You actually drove here?" Next time I'll send the kid to do the dirty work.

Well, September has come and gone, so it ain't gonna be Xmas in September, hopefully in October. I have yet to receive any rejection letters or any correspondence for that matter, but I keep a lookout for the FBI or Homeland Security to come around to ask questions about mail fraud. I didn't keep copies of the letters, much less recall what I sent in. I do have the receipt for the postage though somewhere. This is worse than waiting for rebate checks.

Stay tuned.

You are a sick puppy but you're in good company.

The good news is Ted Kennedy has been sober now for three weeks. Way to go Ted!

Yeah, Charlie, I know it's a troll. But it sucks, regardless who you wrote it about.

That I have absolutely no respect at all for Ted Kennedy bears hard on my comment. He was a foul unremorseful killer with no acceptable ethics or moral character. If any of us had done what Ted Kennedy did we would have gone to prison for manslaughter and we certainly would have never been allowed to fill any vacancy in any public office. So don't even start preaching to me about all the good he did. Look deep and you'll see that he did it for himself. End of my comments on the subject, period.

Sorry, regardless who you wrote it about, it's a crap comment. And that's the last I'll say about it, too.