Season's End and almost me!


I should be glad that nobody reads this blog because very few of my fellow boaters can call me out for inaccuracies. Since I've been away recovering from a C.A.B.G. Which is a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft I'm sure even fewer of my readers are aware or care about my musings. I'm back, I think?

It doesn't really matter, really. After the tediousness of the 10 year newspaper column run, I was happy not to have a dead line. My Editor was happy not to have me around because I nearly got him fired for criticizing the Papacy during the election of new Pope.

He was out of town and I had lulled him into a complacent place because all I wrote about are the assholes that belong to our faux 'Dead End Canal Yacht Club'. Some of you even doubted if they even existed but anyone who can't pick them out of the happy hour crowds on Fort Myers Beach hasn't been paying attention.

Hey, I was trying for a little controversy to see if anyone was paying attention. I guess my editors were. Change of direction and all that! What I am tired of is the winter residents who slobber over me whenever I'm out at the bars that I write about, “Oh, we miss your column so much!” “Why don't you write more?” “I subscribed to that paper just so I could read your column in the summer.....”

Bullshit! Bunk, Hogwash and all that because if the Editors would have heard one tenth the tripe I have to listen to they wouldn't have 'changed direction'!

The cheap bastards who run the paper couldn't put out a rag like that if it weren't for suckers like me and YOU. They just suck what little advertising dollars there are and keep it all. I must give it to the Island Sand Paper who is another fish wrapper but at least they do it with a little style

In any event, I'm not sure if I have that many stories left about them because they have nearly exhausted my memory banks but I'll throw in once in a while. I will be happy to report on boat trips and near misses on the waterway and encourage new arrivals to take US Coast Guard Aux safe boating courses. I would be really excited when the law mandates such courses!

All you northerners have already gone home and good riddance, so why am I bitching! Time to lay down and take my meds!

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