From: ganthony@gmail.net   
      
   sticks  wrote:   
   > On 7/8/2025 10:30 AM, Ted Heise wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 15:07:38 -0500,   
   >> sticks  wrote:   
   >>> On 7/4/2025 7:58 AM, Ted Heise wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:31:09 -0500,   
   >>>> sticks  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> You'd think you planned this trip with fishing in my   
   >>>>> looking at where you always ended up.  ;-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> LOL no For whatever reason, it just doesn't interest me that   
   >>>> much.  Though I do like seeing the water.   
   >>>   
   >>> I used to fish a lot more than I do now.  Just always seems   
   >>> like there is something else I should do.  Doesn't help that   
   >>> the wife doesn't fish, but she at least used to go sit along   
   >>> the shore and read.  We haven't done that in two years for some   
   >>> reason.  I also do love to eat fish while camping.  Stayed up   
   >>> at Lake Koshkenong in Wisconsin and we'd get lots of catfish,   
   >>> walleye, and largemouth.  I really do enjoy fried catfish, some   
   >>> fried potatoes, and beans.   
   >>   
   >> Oh don't get me wrong, I love me some fish--great eating!  I just   
   >> don't care to take the trouble to coax them out of the water.   
   >   
   > It's always better if you actually catch something, too.   
   > I got a feeling with that until I get the knee worked on I'll be doing a   
   > little more fishing in the future.  I don't know how that works out with   
   > the wife wanting to hike, and I'm not keen on her going off in the   
   > wilderness by herself.  Probably get a new knee late this fall and try   
   > to be back in the game by next year.   
   >   
   >>>> week to move back to Nebraska (we lived there until 1997 when   
   >>>> we moved to Indiana for my career).  Now that I'm retired,   
   >>>> we're going home.  As a plus, it'll be a shorter drive to the   
   >>>> Rockies and the Southwest.  :)   
   >>>   
   >>> Wow, that's big.  Congratulations.  Indiana is not a bad place   
   >>> to live, but Nebraska is better, and cuts off a whole day   
   >>> getting west.  That is one of the big problems with where we   
   >>> live in Illinois.  Takes at least two days, usually 3, to get   
   >>> to where we want to be.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks!  And for me, it cuts off two days, given my 60 mph upper   
   >> towing limit and slightly greater distance.   
   >>   
   >> We're excited about getting back there.  One gripe: until we get   
   >> the cars licensed there we would have to pay out of state fees for   
   >> a state parks pass.  So that's one to do item that'll have to   
   >> wait.   
   >   
   > I just bought two passes for Wisconsin.  One for the pickup and one for   
   > the RV.  $38 for the first and $20 for the second.  Like fishing   
   > licenses, I don't mind paying for these as the money goes to good   
   > things.  If I use them fine, if not, no biggie.   
   >   
   >>>>> ...I got throwed out of a bar there one night.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Okay, that's more we have in common.  Though my bad old days   
   >>>> of alcoholic drinking are behind me, thankfully.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mine pretty much are, too.  Not by my choice, but my wife just   
   >>> goes crazy.  I'm starting to resent that and am probably going   
   >>> to take that power away from her.  Not that I want to drink all   
   >>> the time, but if I want one I don't want to fight a war over   
   >>> it.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, I can see how that would suck.  I still think a cold beer on   
   >> a hot day is one of the best things ever.  Only problem is that   
   >> for me it would never be just one.  The old AA saying has it   
   >> right, "One is too many, and a thousand is never enough."   
   >   
   > Out in Utah that feeling of resentment bothered me.  After several miles   
   > and the knee starting to swell up and become painful walking, it seemed   
   > all I could think of was how good it would be to finish up, get back and   
   > be able to sit and have about 2 beers and feel the pain lessen.  That's   
   > when I decided I was going to take back my rights to choose how I live.   
   > I totally understand I am a person who likes it perhaps more than   
   > "normal" people, but things have certainly changed.  I simply have no   
   > desire to party like I used to.  I actually prefer to drink by myself,   
   > to be honest.  2-3 beers is just about right.  20 years ago, that was   
   > not the case.   
   >   
   >   
      
   A twelve pack a year is about my maximum beer consumption rate and that’s   
   just one beer at a sitting. I do have a shot or two of bourbon a few times   
   a year.  I remember too vividly what hangovers feel like and I am   
   completely over that.   
      
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