It's been awhile....

Well my friends, work has been completely insane. I've worked over thirty hours of overtime in just the past few weeks. I'll definitely take the money, but I'll be happy when things get back to normal. I like my days off a little too much to give them up.

Speaking of days off, I had Wednesday off somehow and took advantage of it by going fly-fishing down in Ennis, MT on the Madison River. I had the greatest day of fishing I have ever had! I managed to catch over thirty fish on a little over six hours! I also caught my biggest trout ever which was a gorgeous rainbow trout over 24 inches long and probably weighed over three pounds. It was huge! It took me over ten minutes to get it into my net after I hooked it. It was amazing and I felt really proud since all of the fish I caught were on flies that I had tied. But the fishing gods required a sacrifice and to start my day I broke my fly rod on a snag. Now I don't have super-expensive equipment for a reason, but my wife had bought this rod for me and it was the first fly rod I owned, so I was really upset about it and still am. I decided to run back into Ennis, which is about an hour from Bozeman, to see if I could find a decently priced replacement rod. I managed to find a really sharp looking rod for around $50 so I bought that and got back to the river. Well, apparently the fishing gods were not satisfied and on my last cast of the day, I broke the tip off of my brand new rod! I was so upset that I couldn't decide wether to puke or cry about it, so I did neither and just hiked back to the car and called it a day. It was still one of the greatest days of fishing ever.

As far as the whole weight loss thing goes, I've been holding steady at just under 245 for a couple of weeks, but I really just need to get back with the program a little better. I'm so very close to losing ten percent of my body weight. This past week I was within a half of a pound of achieving that goal, so hopefully this will be the week. We'll see. Anykerways, I've got to get back to doing whatever it is that I do around here and I'll write again soon.