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Well, lots of stuff has been happening over the past few days.

Sunday, I went to a 'Game Feed' with some of the local guys, to support the local police. It was held at The Rock Creek, a very nice local restaurant. They had all sorts of great 'local' food, as well as some more exotic stuff. The local dishes included Chuckar, Pheasant, Quail, Deer, Elk, Moose, Bear, and of course Sturgeon. I liked most of them, but the Sturgeon was awesome. I ate a lot of it. The most exotic option, at least from my perspective, was Marlin. I haven't had Marlin for many years and it is almost impossible to find in the US. It was a little 'tangy' for me, but still is one of the best fish/meat combos there is next to Sturgeon. I came home stuffed and happy.

Speaking of Sturgeon, I have been out fishing for them three times lately and haven't had one bite... But, the good news is that I am getting very proficient with the new casting reel and can cast much further with it now that any of my tried and true spinning reels. This new reel is quite a piece of technology and I cannot wait to get it into some large Sturgeon action. The new rod I modified is working great also - and ditto it... Along with it, I got a large 1,500 yard supply of heavy PowerPro 80# test super braid line. It has been breaking very easily and I am writing back to the maker to get this resolved. Bad line and big fish don't mix...

I have been doing well on the pool front. Last week I won 7 out of my 8 league games. Our newly reconfigured Wednesday night team won 12 out of 16 games. The Thursday night team sucked, but I did good, winning all my games. That was the last match for the Thursday night league with the playoffs starting tomorrow.

Last night, we had the normal Wednesday night league game as the other team couldn't make it tonight. I again won all 4 of my games and the team got 12 out of 16 again. Since it was Tuesday night, when they have their weekly nine ball tournaments, Storm and I played in it. I ended up in 4th place, being beat by Storm, who was playing better than he has in months. I missed a couple of shots, and he got a couple of nine ball breaks and, well, that was it... But, I am playing very good - the crowd was impressed.

Yesterday was a very 'drilling' day. Since our dental insurance kicked again for the year, the day started off with me getting 3 bottom teeth prepped for crowns - always a big fun experience. I now have temps on and my jaw feels like someone took a hammer to it. Then, when I got home, I called the contractor as our water pressure had dropped to almost nothing. We have our own well and I checked the control unit and all looked good to me. Anyway, he said to call the local pump company and they showed up and checked it all out. We are a 'little sensitive' to water issues after the Great Garage Flood of '06. The end result was they had to replace our pump, which was 190 feet down the well shaft. I had never seen this operation happen before and was quite amazed at how much of a hassle it was. The pump is attached to 10 sections of 20 foot long plastic pipe. They had this crane sorta thing attached to their truck and would bring it up a section at a time and lock it and remove the pipe and do it again - over and over... The pump itself was about 3" in diameter and about 4' long. They said it had gotten hot and burned up the impellers that pump up the water. These little buggers cost about $ 1,000, but since ours was only 2 1/2 years old it was still under warranty - whatever that means... They installed a new one and all is working well again. I have no idea what the cost of all that is going to be, but it took them about 4 hours to do it all.

This is the third serious problem we had had with DaHouse now and is getting a little concerning. First, the furnace blew up last year, then the Great Garage Flood of '06, and now this pump thing. Maybe we should look at some home maintenance insurance or something...

O, speaking of the Great Flood... They came and cleaned all the carpeting and it all looks great. They only have a few minor trim things to do in the garage, and smooth out all the land they messed up moving the trailer and getting stuck a couple of times and it will all be done. Well, except for dealing with the insurance company - which is always big fun, even here in DaHo...