La-dee-da-dee-da...well...uh...

Well, I'm going to Tennessee October 13th to procure employment and a dwelling. Let's hope for the best. This is a really short post, but I don't have a heck of alot to say at the moment.

-S

Waiting, waiting, waiting...

I'm waiting on an application for Dekalb County Sheriff's office in Smithville, Tennessee. I talked to one of the Captains up there and he seemed really interested in receiving my application. I'm really excited, if this works out I will be like twenty minutes from Joe and also working for the Sheriff's office in the town where one of my most favorite country singers lives. Smithville, Tn. is the home of Aaron Tippin. Him and his parents own a sporting goods store there called Aaron Tippin Outdoors. So, let's hope for the best. Maybe if I get up there, Aaron will become one of my hunting and fishing buddies. That'd be really awesome.

-S

Just For Fun...

Okay, so I was watching the movie Sahara with Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn. It was a really cool film. As I was watching it I was thinking even as a straight guy, I cannot deny that Matthew McConaughey is a handsome son of a gun. I was thinking I'd like to hang out with Matt and Rocky from the movie "Mask", or "Face" as Joe's mom calls it. If I was at a party with Matt and Rocky, any beautiful women that Matt was not interested in would come hang out with me because I'd look better by comparison next to Rocky. Matt has me in the looks area, but we've both got the southern boy charm. Rocky has well...thank God it was only a movie.

Anyway, that was just a little silly post since I haven't updated in a few days. I'm doing a bit better in the stress area. Time will tell. I hope everyone is doing well.

-S

I'm probably crazy...

I feel like I've been under so much stress lately I can't think. Yeah, yeah I enjoy fishing and what not, but other than that everything sucks. I can't get proper sleep etc., etc.. So I could go on about this crap, but who really cares? Doesn't everyone have enough of their own problems without having to worry about mine? Let's just say overwhelmed for me would be an understatement. The most messed up thing is that I can't even seem to pin point exactly what is wrong with me. It's all just a bunch of suck.


-S

We lost the gator...

Last night Jackie and I were fishing at Duval Island in Floral City. She hooked a small alligator about three and a half to four feet long. We had it reeled in and well, for those of you who know me well you know some of the insane crap I tend to do when it comes to snatching ahold of local wildlife. The gator was actually pretty calm about getting pulled around. I was highly considering going over the wall and grabbing it from the water. Jackie suggested I get the scoop net and try to get it with that. I got the net and then I just kind of got spastic and swung the net wildly. I completely missed the gator and the swinging of the net spooked it. It popped the line and swam with great speed to the other side of the bank. We couldn't get it anywhere close after that.

We couldn't catch anything worth a crap most of the night, but when we switched over to trying to catch an alligator Jackie hooked a huge catfish, but it broke her line too.

Oh, just FYI: I had no intention of harming the alligator. I just wanted to get a few pictures with it in the back of my truck etc., then release it. "Yeah this bloke's a beauty. Oh, he's trying to have a go at me. You're naughty little guy. You're alright little one."

Join us again next week where we'll learn more about wild creatures by pissing them off immensely.
Alligator Hunter over and out.

-S

Fish On...

Yeah, these fish I caught were huge. They had to have weighed at least a half pound between the two of them. Good times.

-S

Feeling Low...

Here's Buddy, the Brittany Spaniel puppy I got to hunt with. So far he pays attention to absolutely nothing. I couldn't even get him to look up at the camera.

I'm not feeling well today, same as yesterday. I may have some type of bug.

-S

And still no fish...

Fishing last night brought in a whole lot of nothing. We started at Lake Rousseau and ended up going to the Homosassa River. Jackie caught a blue crab on her line. It was hanging on for dear life and really pissed off about being pulled out of the water. She almost put it on me. I would've been happy to just catch a Mullet. Blue crabs were running like mad at the river so we ended up just trying to net a few of those. No such luck on that either. The little suckers swim too fast. A manatee swam by and those are always nice to see.

Oh well, it was a fun night anyway.

-S

I don't know why I haven't done this yet...

This is my cousin Sgt. Ron MacMeeken USAF and his son Brannon.

This is just my salute to Ron and all the U.S. soldiers. May God bless all of you and keep you safe.

-S

Catfishing last night...

Fishing last night was cool but Jackie and I didn't catch a thing. It was pretty windy and for awhile I was actually getting a bit cold. Gator hunting season started September first and there were a couple guys zooming around the lake hunting. I heard them pop one so I walked over and talked to them when they pulled their boat up at the dock. They didn't have much luck either. They just had a small five footer in the boat. The fellas were both real nice though and I almost felt like asking them if I could go out with them sometime, but I'm just not that rude. I want a gator permit so bad I can't stand it. Florida only issues so many alligator permits per year and they do it on a lottery so it's hard to come by one. If you get one though, the permit pretty much pays for itself because you can sell your gators for top dollar. My late brother-in-law Paul and I used to talk about getting gator licenses. Paul put in for one several times, but never got one.

Well, we're going back tonight so maybe we'll catch some fish although I will admit I get frequently sidetracked by the idea of catching an alligator. It makes me want to poach! Hehe, just kidding.

-S

Reeling...

As I was waiting to hear from my friend Jackie so we could go fishing, I took this useless picture of the Kenwood CD player in my truck and I just thought I'd make yall look at it. Note to self: Give Casey back his digital camera and buy your own.

Well, I may have found my new hobby. I grew up around the commercial fishing business, but I hadn't really been into hook and line fishing since I was a little kid and that was mostly cane pole fishing at Mr. Harrelson's little pond in Abbeville. That was about it. My friend Jackie lives to fish and I think it is rubbing off on me. I can really see why people get so into it. It's probably the most relaxing thing I've done in quite awhile.

Joe got hired on with the White County Sheriff's Office in Sparta, Tennessee. His first day was today and he was very excited about it. It actually sounds like a really cool place to work, but the pay is absolutely horrid. I just couldn't make it on what they pay there. I'm going to send them an application and see if they'll negotiate a higher pay level for me based on my experience. I'm still mainly interested in being a patrolman up there with the Police Dept.

I caught a couple episodes of Hulk Hogan's new reality show "Hogan Knows Best". Not that I have anything against Hulk Hogan, but the show differs little from "The Osbornes" except for the fact that Hulk seems alot less confused about things than Ozzy and they don't have British accents. They probably should've just stopped the reality shows after "The Osbornes".

Yeah I think that's just about everything. Do you want fries with that?

-S

Blow, blow Seminole Wind...

Here are a few pictures I found of the results of hurricane Katrina. I picked three that I thought were a bit typical and of course the bottom one being a bit ironic.

Everytime you see hurricane footage there are always the select few who will be seen just standing around in the chaos, and of course there will always, always be a guy pulling his pants down. The info caption under the first picture said the guy was heading to shelter. The caption for the guy pulling his pants down just said something about him mooning the hurricane. My assumption is that he was probably going on a beer run. The bottom picture I just thought was ironic and you don't have to look too hard to see why.

Anyway, I will be so glad when I get moved away from the coastal area. We didn't get hit with this one, but we are still dealing with the affects of it. There is apparently little to no gas available down here until they can get trucks here. They speculate that will be Tuesday and gas is going up to $4.00 a gallon. I filled my truck up this morning and gas was almost $3.00 a gallon. This totally sucks mule ass because my job is twenty-eight miles away.

Anyway, my deepest sympathies to the New Orleans area as we sit and wait for one to hit us. I gotta get the hell out of Dodge.

-S