Job: 123 Fake Street, Anywhere

The weekend of my 40th birthday I decided to reward myself for a job well done and do some fishing on the Chesapeake Bay. I found a head boat that was nearby in Solomons Island and arrived at about 5:30 in the morning. Too bad the boat wasn’t going out. The name of the place I went to was Bunky’s Charter Boats and the people there were really nice. So I got to talking to the guy inside and the talk drifted to their private charters.

Now, since I had contacted a number of charter boats in the area I knew that most were booked already. But we got to talking (fishermen just love to talk) and I asked about the charter prices and how the fishing has been. When I heard that people had been catching rockfish (striped bass) I was intrigued. Now, maybe the gods of the committed fisherman were smiling on me. I was standing at the counter when I was told that a cancellation had opened up a morning trip on Sunday.

Interesting… Read the rest of this entry »

This is a just a quick one this morning before I head out to do some fishing.

Many times people say that their internet connection is slow. So testing to the point where the fiber gets out of the system and into the world beyond can be very helpful. In my case, it is a matter of testing to NYC or Washington DC depending on where I am at the moment. So periodically I will run tests to one of those two places. Speakeasy just so happens to be in a common physical location for me and gives good results in an overall kind of way. That’s why I added the button to the sidebar. So instead of remembering where I put the *&%@ link, I can just do it here. Maybe it will be helpful to you, maybe not. But I do know it will be helpful to me.

Now, off to do some fishing. Happy Birthday to me! As they say, a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work…

A short while back I got interested in fish-keeping. That mug peering at you is a Pseudotropheus socolofi that was one of the first cichlids I got. He has nothing to do with this particular story, except to welcome you. That and his tank is just below the fish I’m going to talk about.

About 3 months ago I bought some Xenoophorus captivus at an auction. They are native to Mexico and listed as endangered on FishBase.org. You can see their geographic location at Jesus Maria google satellite maps if you are at all interested. But what about these Green Goodeid’s already.

OK, lets just say when I got them there were eight. Now there are about twenty-eight. If you have never had live-bearers you don’t know what you are missing. Read the rest of this entry »