Done Fishing, Here's the News · 12:14am Aug 27th, 2016
I RETURN!
An astute reader might notice that that was "I return" and not "I have returned," which is a key difference. And one that is quite meaningful in this particular case. "I return" confers that I am in the process of returning, a statement which is at the moment, quite apt. Flights are a little full (standby flyer here), so I won't officially depart Alaska until Monday, arriving back at my home sometime on Tuesday.
That's actually a shorter jaunt then it took me to get here. I'll tell you more about that in a bit. But first, as I was saying, I am in the process of returning. Which basically means crashing at my parent's home for a few days while I wait for flights to open up. Which isn't exactly torturous, barring the incessant itch at the back of my mind to get back to editing (which I need my stuff to do). As a double bonus my younger brother and his wife are also visiting along with their absolutely adorable little three-four month old son. Guy's my first nephew, which means that I am suitably distracted at all times if he's present. He thinks my beard is funny. Or maybe that's all the funny faces I make.
Yeah, for a big bear of an Alaskan, I completely melt around little kids and babies. I spent an hour the other day just sitting and making the kid laugh.
Anyway, that said—mostly so that some of you readers don't fear that I'm holed up in some moss-shrouded hotel room somewhere, which I'm not—I am basically stuck for a few days between the two points of travel (the fishing boat and my computer at home).
But, all that aside, the fishing is done! Over. Complete! We worked hard, pushed ourselves hard, and fished hard. And in the end, we managed to fill our holds with what we needed in six days. Despite some early sets that had us worried it was going to be a much longer trip. We got it all, we brought it in, got paid (the boat, not the workers, not yet), and got everything cleaned and put away.
You can read the rest of this post at Unusual Things
Sequel? Sequel?!
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I am quite excited to hear that news. If you'd mentioned it before (and I think you had), I completely forgot about it.
I was kinda surprised to learn that Alaska had rainforests, even of the temperate variety. I tend to forget that it has weather aside from snow and chill winds, but I suppose those ginormous cabbages and such have to have some kind of growing season, right?
And wow. 1300+ pages. And here I'd been thinking that 600 was a pretty big number. What you have written, sir, is a doorstopper.