I'll be out today and tomorrow "team building" with my co-workers. We're headed up to Callaway to fly-fish this afternoon, have a great dinner this evening, play poker later tonight and golf tomorrow morning. Should be rough. Yeah, you know "team building". See you Friday evening.
For my birthday back in March Sunette gave me a fly-fishing trip with my buddy Carl. As some of you know I'm a fly-fishing guide for Callaway Gardens on the weekends. Carl is the manager of the fishing operations for Callaway and he and I are fast friends. Our trips together are truly prized memories. Here's a video of trip that we took up to North Georgia. The video's not the greatest quality since we only had the video feature on our digital cameras and we had to use the compressed video format. Next time I'll get an 8GB SD card and not worry about it. So have you been fishing lately? Oh yeah, music is Saliva's Ladies and Gentleman and Evanescence's Tourniquet. If you're interested in replicating our trip you can contact Unicoi Outfitters and Cannon Falls Lodge
to me. I know that last post made it sound like I was bummed at my job. I'm really not, it was just an interesting observation I thought.
Anyway, today's my B-day. My wife has given me a wonderful gift. Some of my favorite memories are the fly-fishing trips I get to take with my buddy Carl from Callaway Gardens. If you didn't know, I'm a contract fly-fishing guide for Callaway. I used to work there full time back in the day and Carl and I became fast friends. He's an amazing guy and I really treasure the trips we get to take. It only seems to happen once a year unfortunately.
Well last year he and I took an amazing trip to Unicoi Outfitters in North Georgia for some trophy trout fishing. Carl was going to be writing a magazine article specifically on Unicoi Outfitters and the fishing they provide. I was the lucky guy that got to tag along and be photo fodder for print. Needless to say, it was one of the best two days I've had in my life. Amazing locations, amazing fish and amazing people.
I was going to insert a pic here of a huge brown trout I caught last time, but alas, I'm posting from work and I'm behind a corporate firewall that won't let me upload the pic. Doh.
Well this morning I awoke to breakfast in bed and a card. In the card was one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. A voucher for 2 days of fishing with Carl on trophy trout waters guided by Unicoi Outfitters. Holy mama-sita. That is a phenomenal gift. I'd take that anyday over some toy or gadget, and that's saying alot if you know me.
So, thanks hon! You're a wonderful bride and........
mother-to-be. You read that right folks. We've got #1 on the way. August is the time when life forever changes. I hinted at some changes several weeks ago, so now full disclosure. We're about 18 weeks along. Your thoughts and prayers are coveted.
So I guess that's two birthday presents. I'm a lucky guy.
Ok for those of you like me that weren't able to watch the world cup on Sunday, or see any of the gazillion replays of the headbutt. Follow this link to see a stinkin hilarious video of the headbutt...with some additional special effects. I can't post the video here...but just follow your nose. It's worth it.
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