Fish Tales

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Finally! A dry afternoon arrived after some early thunder showers I didn't quite sleep thru. Everything outside is still pretty damp, but I got myself up n out there anyhow. My eyes were stinging with the sunshine glare as most of the clouds moved out. It's been a week since I'd seen Sol.
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Looks like most of Canada's getting a major storm and what just left here is adding into it. (Good luck up there- getting out of that extensive cloud cover).
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Again, this week I've been working way too hard due to employee shortages at work. People who haven't taken vacation time seem to be dropping like flies hitting a bug-zapper. Getting tired, aggrivated, n pushing the self-destruct buttons... A theft of an expensive, electronic device prodded a normally calm person to violence on the perp caught with the goods. Injuries, arrests, broken alliances, n a split relationship all followed the breakdown.
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There went another three, hard workers. Unfortunately, the orders have to get out nightly, no matter the circumstances. Always the same people, over n over are expected to pick up the slack. Always the same quick to burn-out positions to fill. All because they don't offer decent time off, n a few more bux an hour. Bad economy news just fuels the cheap excuses.
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I'd been looking forward to shorter hours instead of running the marathon on a daily basis, but it seems I have to keep running to total exhaustion repeatedly. Unfortunately, I already feel like I never even had that time off! I'd be more rested, but the power-washer next door did me in for yesterday's sleep, then the longer night-shift, then the thunder interrupted today. Right back to burn-out Day Off...

I found this 3.5 foot fillet remnant down on Bcove under the D-bridge at mid-low tide. I was anxious to get some new October pics to share here so stopped on the way back from the store.
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Finally, on dry land, but skinned alive....