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[Monello]

There is nothing sort of watching paint dry that compares to the shear boredom of sport fishing...

 

[Larry Gude]

I was thinking you'd like that one!!!

Variety of life. As I wrote it I did so pondering the fact that some folks, many folks, absolutely love it. I mean, I get fishing, taking a little john boat out at 5 am, the quiet, the solitude, being IN nature, the relaxing part, being away from most everything, the excitement and satisfaction of getting the right bait, catching a good fish. But, man 'sport' fishing???

We pulled out of Ocean City at 5:30, 6am, so, we'd already been in the car for 3 hours. It's exciting, this big, bad ass boat, gearing up, heading out, nice and slow, out the bay, out the jetty, then, cap'n firewalls it and for TWO ####ing hours THRRRUUUUMMMMMMM...that got old real quick. Nothing, just THRUMMMMMMM, the wind, the smell, the open water as OC disappears into the distance, then JUST the water. Then, suddenly, he cuts it to idle, the boat settles, your sense awake and....all of a sudden, there are boats everywhere!! It was like being in the Millennium Falcon coming out of hyper space or something!

So, you take turns in the chair, all these lines go out, the mate does everything, the eating of sammitchs and beers at 8am kicks in and...that's it...for endless hours. The first rush of excitement as a sail from a fish pops the surface, the cat and mouse as the, seemingly, bored fish simply strikes at the bait to kill it for entertainment, not to eat it. That got old, quick. A fish is on, yeah! For awhile...slow day. Been up in the flying bridge with the captain, in the galley, nap, all around the boat. Boring as hell, stuck, trapped. We move and, suddenly, there are tuna everywhere so, we call get the 'thrill' of 'catching' a fish, 30-40 pound tuna, whatever. That got old QUICK, too. the long, numbing return to the dock, the fish cleaning, the mate does even that. Back in the freaking car for three more hours.

I know damn well someone loved that, loves that. A bunch of business buddies do. They won the White Marlin open 2 years ago. They do this all over the world. I was invited to start coming along like 15 years ago, different part of the world, every year and the ONLY reason I even considered it was to go dive in a new spot every year. The mere thought of another minute on a sport fishing boat, yikes!

In any event, I do get it, different strokes, different folks and certainly things I do that are just IT for me, all the details, that others would rather be ANYWHERE else.

Even if it means 12 hours on a sport fishing boat.

 

[Larry Gude]

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I guess our metabolisms change when we get older and our tolerance goes down a lot quicker.

Again, this wasn't the case, I could rink more and suffer less than ever up to about a month ago. Part of why I stopped was I was just getting bored of it plus the expense. I just stopped. :shrug:

This is more a thread about how amazing our bodies are, how adaptable, how readily we heal. How they just work so well, effortlessly on our part.

I was watching the special on the Roosevelt's last night, his polio, man, it really struck me how awful that has to be, to have a body, parts of your body, that has issues you CAN'T do much about. Very humbling.

 

[SG_Player1974]

Hi, I'm Larry

...I've been a regular beer drinking my entire adult life. It would be unusual for me to go a week without at least a few beers. I certainly drank more than average but, I can't say it was a problem with my life. I've always gotten up and trudged off to work on the bad days with the occasional bad weekend or Holiday where I was miserable all next day. It didn't miss important meetings or dead lines or whatever because of it. I've just always liked drinking beer. In any event, for well over 30 years, I've been a beer drinker.

I do believe that this is the proper rehearsed opening statement to a functioning alcoholic's anonymous introduction

 

[ArkRescue]

I used to be able to drink quite a bit, but somewhere along the way, I'd go out for a good night of partying and find myself unconsciously switching to cokes. After awhile anything more than one beer would make me sleepy. Now, anything more than a glass of wine with dinner makes me sluggish the next day. I don't enjoy getting tipsy anymore, so I don't mind at all. A bottle of Rumchata will last months and months in my fridge, if I finish it at all. A glass of wine with dinner when I'm out is really just to be sociable and not be the only grownup having a soda with dinner.

I guess our metabolisms change when we get older and our tolerance goes down a lot quicker.

Yup I am finding the recuperation time my body needs generally isn't worth drinking alcohol. I do it less and less as time goes on. I can think of a few times when I was a 20-something that I probably really put a hurting on my liver, and I was lucky to wake up from that.

 

[Misfit]

I had a urologist tell me that drinking a couple beers is really good to clean you out, this was after he took a kidney stone out of me.

I drank a twelve pack of Newcastle Brown Ale over the weekend and it cleaned out my colon.

 

[ArkRescue]

I drank a twelve pack of Newcastle Brown Ale over the weekend and it cleaned out my colon.

TMI ....

 

[Toxick]

I've been tapering off the last 6-7 months or so and, since just before Christmas, I've had 6 beers, total over the last, basically, month. And a couple of them were one beer with lunch. It has really been interesting to me how effortless it has been. There's not been a moment of 'I gotta have a beer!'. I have felt better and lost weight without trying and both those seem perfectly obvious but, it has been, truly, effortless and not any sort of obvious detoxification. My life and behavior patterns haven't changed a bit. I don't avoid bars, I don't avoid my beer buddies, was out New Years and had two of those 6, hung out with some friend who are Huge drinkers and that was another 2 of them. I've just stopped drinking and I am pretty sure New Years was the last alcohol I've had.

Yeah.... pot really takes the edge off.

 

[MMDad]

I drank a twelve pack of Newcastle Brown Ale over the weekend and it cleaned out my colon.

I always laugh when I see these treatments for cleaning out build up in your colon. They sucker stupid people into spending a lot of money to clean out something that does not exist. If they really want to get empty, a 12 pack of Milwaukee's Best is far more effective than any herbal supplements. You can even add some pickled eggs if you want a little extra power in your cleansing.

 

[Misfit]

I always laugh when I see these treatments for cleaning out build up in your colon. They sucker stupid people into spending a lot of money to clean out something that does not exist. If they really want to get empty, a 12 pack of Milwaukee's Best is far more effective than any herbal supplements. You can even add some pickled eggs if you want a little extra power in your cleansing.

I found the gum I swallowed when I was six.

 

[MMDad]

I found the gum I swallowed when I was six.

Gum only takes 7 years to pass through. That gum had to be from when you were 47.

 

[Misfit]

Gum only takes 7 years to pass through. That gum had to be from when you were 47.

It just feels right to eat it.

 

[Larry Gude]

Yeah.... pot really takes the edge off.

No interest. Last time I got high was Thanksgiving night, 1996. And in about 20 minutes I remembered exactly why it had been 15 years of nothing at that point. Bleh.

 

[itsbob]

I drank a twelve pack of Newcastle Brown Ale over the weekend and it cleaned out my colon.

Do short people have semi-colons?

 

[Hank]

No interest. Last time I got high was Thanksgiving night, 1996. And in about 20 minutes I remembered exactly why it had been 15 years of nothing at that point. Bleh.

You need some better chit!

 

[Larry Gude]

You need some better chit!

Well, that was along time ago and the way I hear it is that the #### now, for an old timer, is WAY too strong, that you can barely move because the potency is something like 20 times when I was a kid.

 

[Larry Gude]

Do short people have semi-colons?

 

[Larry Gude]

This is just amazing. Had two IPA's last night after jamming. I feel a little hungover.

 

[cricketmd]

Perfect timing for this thread! Thanks OP! I'm trying to cut back as well! I'll be looking forward to reading your future endeavors at this. I too got to a point I got bored with it, it costs too much money and does nothing anymore (I too am a beer drinker). I look forward to a healthier liver, the weight loss part and saving money, I'm currently in weaning down phase! Thanks for sharing Larry!

 

[Larry Gude]

This sucks. I'm gonna have to either just give it up all together or start drinking more. I had TWO beers last night, one only a partial to taste something that was in a growler and HALF a glass of wine and I've had a headache all day....

I was surrounded by a bunch of really fun people, SB party last night, who work at and with local breweries and know a TON about beers. It was like being in a beer candy shop they brought some many different beers. And I was good.