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Give the goberment yur checking account codes and they will drop it right in. Wifey got hers weeks ago. They mailed her a statement last week to let her know there was a direct deposit. I am a payer, I don't do direct deposit, I mail a check to them for taxes. I still have not gotten my check either.

1984 Path Microbiology classes and Immunology barely knew what AIDS was. I know, I was there taking Pre Med program classes. It was thought to be something that was going to be a major issue. Now we all realize, the first major symptom is a pain in the butt. Avoid it and you will be fine and not get it.

I never meant to condone smoking at all. My qualified MD is abreast of the reports in the medical community. He is like a brother to me, one of my closet friends. One of the first to drop should have been the impaired lungs of a smoker like the normal flu kills them. But Covid is not attacking them and killing them. Covid seems to do something different than a normal flu. Something in the cigarettes has an effect on its cycle it appears. Not suggesting in any way to take up smoking to prevent the contraction of the virus. Wash your hands, keep away from sick people, and you should be fine. Smoking kills in so many ways, I have never been one and have fought having to work with ones that did. It started when I was a kid and had severe ear infections. I suffered thru allergy tests for a whole week at 8 and shots until I was 13, Dad quit smoking when I was put in for testing. He is still alive today and has led a pretty good life as a quit smoker.

Interesting to see what this shakes out. Nicotine may work as an antiviral on this one. UV exposure may help the homeless, along with the social distancing. Nicotine has been used in medicinal ways since the Indians.

Don't know what a carnita is, but the dark meat makes good turkey salad sandwiches to have for lunch while pursuing other interests. Cook it, chop it, and freeze it. Pull it out and thaw, mix with your ingredients and have a sandwich.

Anyone catch the ad for online voting tonite on the tube? Who is better at electronics and controlling the web than the Chinese? It is an election year. Russians failed in 2016. Maybe the Chinese are better. Its just a theory. Not throwing monkeys.

Conversations from the weekend with a qualified MD on the front lines in an ER. Smokers seem to have a better chance than non smokers. Stumping the statistics on a respiratory disease on respiratory impaired persons. Homeless people are not dying by the thousands. Either they are better at social distancing, or environmentally conditioned.

Hornets feast on bees all of the time. Wasps go after them too. Talking about native ones. Bee keepers kill more bees than anything. Honey bees are an invasive species brought here by the original settlers. I killed 15 hives this spring. Who's coming after me. Do I get a wanted poster?

The pedophile that used to hock for Subway? Ya know him?

Because I have been out in the Sun Fishing All Weekend! Sunburn and sore muscles. For the first time since the first weekend in Feb, I had a weekend chance to get to TN and do some fishing. Started south at 4 am Sat. morn and saw my last face mask at the rest area in SE MO. Met my Doctor Buddy at Gibson County Lake to try some crappie fishing. Something different for a change. As usual, I am not a crappie fisherman and started catching bass on my lure. He ended up with several bass too, a nice big redear, several bluegill, and one dink crappie. The lake was packed, TN opened the flood gate early and the lake was full of boats. Had to wait to pull out at noon while a Professional Fisher in a nice big $40k rig put his stuff in his boat, then let his wife put her stuff in the boat, all while sitting smack dab in the middle of the 2 lane ramp at the crack of noon as the 20 mph wind was driving everyone else off. Everyone gave him the nice big one finger salute for a job well done. Off to Pickwick, decided to fish the river below the dam, it was down to 77k cfps and just barely fishable. First notch I hit, second cast, nice 5 lb cat came to boat. It will make a nice meal this week. We ended up boating about 50 fish before dark, mostly smallies and a few kentuckys, nothing over 3 lbs. Did catch a few white bass to go with the cat and a big skip jack. Fished the lake today, wind was already up this morning at launch, rough ride to the first spot. Boated a few fish today, but it was tough. Ended up finessing about 20 bass, but nothing better than a 3 lb smallie. Light jigs or ned rigged worms on light tackle fished very slow caught them all. Spawn is over and post spawn feed up has not seemed to pick up yet down there. Water temps were pretty cool at 64 and lake was slightly above summer pool. Lots of pleasure boat traffic. The subdivision looked like a holiday weekend. Temp was 86 when we pulled out and I went thru 2 big storms and hail coming back. Jackson Tn had power outages with 70 mph wind. Tennessee opened back up this weekend. State Parks were allowing campers again, boat ramps in them opened too. We sit down last nite and had BBQ in a restaurant with many other people and traffic in Jackson was about like normal. Like I say, I did not see a mask after I left MO. But the Cstores and one BBQ restaurant was only place stopped. Concessionaire at county lake only allowed 2 people in shop at a time and all chain restaurants were still drive thru only.

Calling for rain here Sunday, Tn dry till Monday.

Then there is the attack on the blood cells that cause abnormal clotting that cause strokes and the pulmonary issues. Wash your hands, stay safe.

Never know, either we get it and survive or the vaccine comes along and I don't get the shot. I'm going fishin.

Fishing with a M.D., doubt if we will have anything around that will try to kill us. He keeps the bugs off, I provide the personal defense. Gonna hit a small lake we looked at when I was in recovery, seems like there may be some crappie there. Then down to Pickwick for the spawner bass. It has been the worst week so far for me.

Word. I am heading to TN in the morning.

I unplug them and put them in a little ammo can from Harbor Freight when charged. Chargers came with a quick disconnect so I don't have to take lid off battery box to charge. Trying to figure if its Factory Matte or not. I used a rubber eraser on the lettering to rub them off and it made a slick green finish where I used it.

Boredom for the most part. Thinking about building a rod box on it. Trying to decide whether Rhino Line interior as is or add perforated flooring. The ribs don't really bother me walking around like I thought they would. Start working on the paint finish next, dull and faded, chalky. Gonna buff it to see what that brings out, then decide what to do with exterior.

He was aquitted on false charges in office. It's really a shame he can't make Congressman resign. It needs new blood with sound morals and ideas that reflect the needs of the country as a whole.

Does Trump really have a party. Draining the swamp means to clean out party lines. The President is seldom the cause of our ales. Congress and the House make alot of poor decisions, spend alot of time harassing POTUS, and waste all of our tax dollars on petty projects. They never seem to do anything good for the USA in the short or long term. They never can balance a budget, they have no financial responsibility, and vote themselves a raise ever time it comes up. Term Limits for both is the only way to solve the problem. You should not be able to make a career as a politician, and certainly not millions of dollars. And I mean all parties. Obama's career was only about 10 years long in public life, Trump will be only 8 unless we can find a way to keep him longer.

Trump has caused some thoughts of depression with me. I struggled with the thoughts of how we suffered thru bad Presidents before him, knowing now, it can be better. I have boughts of sleeplessness thinking about those who want to replace him are suggesting communism. I have to work harder now that the country has a growing economy.

Second on the Inertia system. I suffer from a tweaked nerve on the second surgery and radiation that goes across my right shoulder compounded by scoliosis to the same side. I noticed last summer that flinching was affecting my accuracy and heavy recoil was pounding me shooting rifles. Looking at a fall duck season, I bought a Stoeger 20 with the Inertia recoil system. Different pulse than what a gas operation gives and still delivers a pretty good punch shooting target loads. The box said put 200 rounds thru to break it in, I made it 10 and bailed on the idea of duck season. Stick with gas operation, or better yet, try several other guns before commiting to one.

Funny thing. Around the east part of the state, I always see women mowing during the week. Always wondered why that was, local thing I guess.

3 years ago May 4, I started my 6 week stint. Maybe they just don't like me anymore.

Performing a little study here. All that are out there that have went thru Radiation Therapy for Cancer. Have you noticed that ticks are not a problem any more???? 3 years ago since the radiation and I don't think a tick has bothered to latch on to me. Maybe it my new spidey sense and I detect them crawling on me sooner. Sunday, I waded thru the same stuff checking game cams with my buddy and he had several ticks that stuck. I did not even see one. The SOBz used to swarm me every time on the farm before, between the tick dropping Great Pyronees dog, the tick magnet horses, and all of the lousey tick infested deer spreading them all over. But, zapped with 6 weeks of radiation and I seem to be repellent to ticks. Buffalo gnats still swarm me with vigor, mosquitoes still like to drain me. All other low level invertebrates like to bother me. But the lowlife tick seems to know something and stay off. Not that I am complaining, just trying to find the upside from getting zapped beyond Chernoybl at close range. And performing a little scientific study.

Semi V, takes a wake a little better. Should be a great ride.