As time gets closer the days seem to get longer... today may have been one of the longest days of my life.

Ok, so heres the deal... I finally got the tub ready. You would not believe how many cups of water I had to measure out in there. 2,159 to be precise! From there I was unable to remember what Andre said for salt, and honestly, I think he was shooting from the hip so I basically rounded up all the salt in the house and dumped it in. Knowing I would take forever to try to stir the salt into a nice homogenous mix I pulled out the ˝” drill and a mud mixing paddle. Be careful if you try this at home… water and salt will fly… everywhere, not to mention contacting the porcelain with the paddle tends to beat the tar out of the tub! Nothing about 20 bottles of porcelain repair paint wont fix I guess…
Next it was off to Seattle… Pike Place Market to be exact. They have the coolest fish market there… if youve never been there you need to check it out. Sad thing is though there wasnt a Red or Shark anything there. After much debate and fear of not following directions to the letter I chose the Whole Wild Alaskan Troll King Salmon… mainly because the name made for a fond reminder of members of this forum…
At 17.99 a lb this better be worth it. A 22 lb fish netted me $431.52 out the door. Basically a Challenger payment… good thing shipment of Challengers was delayed or I may not have had the cash to make this happen! As I paid I noticed the guy wrapping it in paper so I asked him if it would be OK that way on my way home. He said as long as I headed home straight away everything would be great… so I sped home as fast as the neon would take me… 118 mph! A first for me and the neon. Good thing I didnt even think about what would happen if I got a flat or something!!
So I get home and something doesnt seem right with Bob… oh yeah, I named him Bob… pretty clever huh? I unwrap him and set him free in the tub and he just seems to be kind of floating on his side. Figured maybe he just had to get acclimated to his new home so I jump back on the board to spend some quality time tracking the Challenger. Man time flys when your having fun… I remember hearing the door open… the “Hi honey, its me, Im home” and then… all hell broke loose!

“EEEWWW… what in the sam **** is that smell”… oops… guess I sorta forgot about Bob…all I can say is when she went in the bathroom she was NOT happy. She started quizzing me and making me feel inadequate and all and asked me what the point of all this was… I had no good answer. So… Andre… just what IS the point to this? I trusted you that this was somehow going to help… and??


Oh great… sounds like she just found out we are out of salt… she sounds pissed… gotta go… later…