It's 03:35, and I am getting antsy. I want it to be 07:00. I'm not usually that much of a clock-watcher, but tonight I am, and it sucks. By 08:00 I will have my first bass into the boat. By 09:00 I will be completely relaxed and care-free. About 10:00 I will call my buddy Doug at work and let him know how many fish I've caught, just to be cruel. I know that he's do the same for me...

It has not been a bad night so far. Were I superstitious, I'd say "knock on wood" but I ain't. Superstitious is a weird word. If you only think that black cats are bad luck half the time and don't the other half, are you stitious?

I just got a free package of cookies from the candy machine... Grandma's Fudge Chocolate Chip. Not my favorite, but for free... well, not really free, I guess it was half-price. Toofer wan.

I have been having a running discussion obout the essence of evil tonight. My contention is that there is no such thing as evil. Everyone has wants and desires, and takes action to attain those wants and desires. Some people have extraordinary wants and desires, and take extraordinary action to attain them. For instance, all Hitler wanted was a perfect world. His idea of perfection, and his ways of attaining that perfection, were not amenable to the rest of the world. (Let me hasten to say that I am with the rest of the world on this, and not with Hitler.) I do not believe that makes him evil, however.

Just got home from Med-assist, we were slow for a while but really picked up around 20:00 (we close at 20:15!) and I actually got to do a couple of x-rays tonight!

Well, the fishing didn't go quite as planned. Instead of getting away from work at 07:00, it was almost 07:30, due to some critical emergency patients. Therefore, I didn't get my first bass into the boat until 08:22, but that was close enough to my goal that I was happy about it! I didn't have the best fishing day ever, but I did get more than last time. The bass are in an immediate post-spawn stage, and you have to hit them on the nose with the bait to make 'em bite. I wound up with fifteen fish, the largest about three pounds, the smallest around two.

I also lost two of my favorite lures... a 3/4 oz red rattletrap now lives in the branches of a fifty-foot tree, about twenty feet in the air. Don't even ask. Dammit, I said don't ask, but since you did anyway... OK, I threw it there. It was not planned, I made a very fine, long cast but it was windy. And it's a lure-eating tree, too.

The second lure that I lost is in the deepest water in front of the dam. It got caught on a rock on the dam, so I gave a mighty tug (I can do that... I use spider wire) and the jig came loose... and so did the knot tying the jig on the line. It landed close enough to the boat that I could've caught it... but I thought it was still attached. O'well. It was only a two-dollar jig, but it had caught me a lot of fish.

I left the pond around noon and came home and put the boat/tackle/everything in the garage, since I will be going out again Friday morning early. Then I went to bed, slept 'til time to go to work.

Twenty-one days. I'm getting ready to have fun! And I will keep you informed!

Tomorrow is domestic chore day, need to get laundry done, errands run, etc. It is going to be a low-key day. I'm not rushing anything, just gonna take it easy. Maybe catch up on some journals, too. Really got behind this last week, only read the really necessary ones.

Domestic chores. I am really not very good at that, my boredom level is way too high...

JD just called, we chatted for quite a while. I sure do miss that boy, looking forward to seeing him. He told me that Tyler was pretty sure about spending the summer here. I haven't talked to Tyler for a month or so, though.

Well, I'm gonna wrap this up and get to bed.