Humpday, good day, good news (for me)

Imagonna go get a boat!!!!

Broke down, talked to bossman, got an advance, divvied up over a month for payback.   I has my cash for the ‘new to me’ boat.  SOOooooosssss,,,  This weekend is roadtrip time,,,  5 hours one way,,,  oooffffff!

Early start to the day, and we threw everyone at this job and were wrapped up by 1:30.  Bossman took us all to a restaurant for ‘supper'(I’m still getting used to the southern thing of dinner and supper and sometimes get them backwards,,,.).   I’m guessing that we cut his labor cost in half compared to his estimate,,,  Dunno, but usually a dinner stop is a rarity unless we have been gone all day and the daylight is slipping away.

Feeling a might giddy right now.   Knowing that I can pick up the boat this weekend,,,   Leaving Lizzy up for sale, but not desperate to do so, and if she is still here in August, she is my race boat for the SKAW.   Did a lot of soul searching before posting her for sale, and finally boiled it down to ‘FIT’, as in, she really doesn’t fit me.  Its that damnable ocean cockpit that scrapes my upper thighs on exit, and that none of my gear fits in her hatches without a serious fight (if at all).   Great boat, but not for me.  (sorry mom, I know you tried to hook me up from beyond,,,)

As one commenter/reviewer over at Paddling.com stated, “she’s stable when in motion, and will inspire confidence,,, Until you stop moving; then she wants to get your hair wet.”   YUP! can totally agree with that statement,,,   Another mentions that she requires being loaded (she is expedition rated,,,) but how the hell do you load a boat when you can’t get your gear into the holds???

Yeah,  put her up for sale and let her move in her own time.   She has a good home here, even if she doesn’t see water as much as some other boat (BlueJean coff coff. ROFL),,   And if I get (when I get) this new to me boat, there are going to be snarl fests between BJ and it for a time,,, (no name yet,,,  Gotta get her out and feel what her character says she will be called, unless the previous owner gave her a name,,,  that whole changing the escutcheons thing,,, bad mojo,,,)  

But it looks like it may be a dry Dio weekend: runnin’round the country chasing boats: spending money he shouldn’t for things he doesn’t really need, not much time for water fun.   Fuggit!!!  Life is short, and if you can’t enjoy being alive, whats the point, right?   And it’s not like I can’t take an evening paddle somewhere between weekends,,,,  (thought about it today, but shaving my weeds so I am free for the weekend seemed a better plan.  Yup, even this footloose and fancy-free Bachelor has moments of responsibility that invade,,,,)

Get out, live life, do NOT let the bastards win in that way….  That we keep living our lives pisses them off to no end, they want that level of control over us, as Francis has been pointing out the last couple of days.   Not that any of what he talks about will surprise any of my readers, but do go read and think on implications of some of the details of his posts.   (and those posts are one reason for pushing to get a quality composite boat that I LIKE,,,    May have need of it in other ways.)