What Was I Supposed To Remember Today?!?!

OH yea, Mother's Day! I remember now.

I hope everyone got all their Mother's Day supplies. If not, you could be in deep dog doo doo. Ma wiped your ass and cleaned up your barf when you were a baby. The least you can do is get a friggin card!

Anyway, this year I get off easy. Last year my dad had to work. I did too for that matter. But I told the people at work "no way am I staying here for any overtime! Forget it! I have more important things to do! Fire me if you want, I do not give a crap!".

NOTE - none of that actually happened. I did not have to stay for any overtime. I forgot when I left the office but it was still daylight. I am thinking 6 PM? Something like that. I made dinner reservations at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. At the Courtyard Grill. It was pretty nice. The hotel is was built in 1925 and opened in 1926 for a cost of $10 million. A shit load back then. And it is grand! The Roaring 20s were going full blast. It is something right out of The Great Gatsby.

Anyhow, that was last year. This year my dad does not have to work. So mom is going to see "The Lion King" at the Miami Performing Arts Center. I am going to weasel my way out of going. It is not the movie, it is some kind of musical Broadway style deal.

Not to be confused with "The Lyin' King". That is a totally different show.

Both these links are a little dated, but they go back to the Disney Movie. That was a long time ago. They are still kind of funny I suppose.

So I get to not go see the musical. This is not so bad. I probably did not want to see it anyway. Musical theater is not my thing. But mom likes that crap. So she gets to go see the show. Because it is her day.

I get to stay at home. Pulling stuff out of the old boat and transplanting it to the new boat. Here is a partial list of things that need to be transplanted!

1. The marine AM/FM/Cassette radio. Yes cassette. I got the thing for $25 brand new. And it was made for boats. The radio is built into a waterproof enclosure. It was so cheap because it was being closed out. Everyone wants a CD player now.

2. The satellite radio antenna and antenna mount thing, along with the power cable and stuff for the satellite radio tuner

3. The on board marine dual bank 10 amp battery charger.

4. The cool battery caps that allow me to fill the cells with distilled water without having to pull the batteries out. I just stick a tube in the distilled water jug, and pump this hand thing till the ball is hard and the cells are full. See how easy that was?

5. The good speakers I bought. The not as good speakers in the new boat will go back to the old boat. Otherwise, there will be big ugly holes in the old boat.

6. The mount and wires for the chart plotter.

7. The mount for the VHF radio.

8. Maybe some other things. Like the fish finder. It depends on how hard it is going to be to pull the cables for that thing. But then there are holes in the transom to plug up and stuff - so I might just get a newer fish finder. A little better one. I am leaning towards the Humminbird 737.

Thus the cycle is complete. While I will sell the old boat, and it will go away to live with someone else, part of it will live on in the new boat.