Frozen fish, and Richard Gere

After a hot shower, i think my fingers work well enough to type. My friend mike and I finished up early at the boat shop where we work today, and decided to go perch fishing. After months of Michigan winter, the now ice free Muskegon lake called to us. Unfortunately no one told the wind blowing in off Lake Michigan that it is supposed to be spring now, and the wind chill dropped a nice 51 degree day into a 20 degree bone rattling hypothermia inducing, hand numbing couple hours out on the water. We still caught some nice fish, and although cold was nice to be outdoors again. until my cell phone rang.

My old roommate and good friend from college called. Dave is getting his PhD in philosophy from South Florida (the golden bulls), but for the last few days he has been playing hooky to got to half a dozen spring training baseball games. I guess today was New York vs Boston, and he had VIP seats. In the Tampa sun, drinking cold beer, watching a game, while I am narrowly holding frostbite at bay in Michigan. I might have hung up on him in contempt if my thumbs had worked at the time.

The coup de grace happens when he says that on his way to get his sixth, yes 6th FREE pregame beer, he meet and chatted about the upcoming season with Mr. pretty woman himself Richard Gere. Oh and Reggie Jackson and some other baseball players I don't remember their names.

HeHe, I'm glad you had fun Dave, and I'm only a little jealous, mostly of the warm weather; but should you ever get tickets to Red Wings training camp and I'm not there you had better take that secret to the grave with you, or I just might hasten you there. I'm going to eat some tasty pearch now.

Love you Dave
Alexandria