Well, when in Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks ago, I finally met up with
one of my ling time friends who works in an auto/electric warehouse,
and I have ordered parts and talked with him on a weekly bassis for
the last 7 years or so. ANYHOW, his neighbor is a friend of mine whom
Ive never met, but have been aquainted on a bass guitar board for even
longer.


Anyhow, I told Chris the parts guy that I was so hoping to do some
deep sea fishing while I was down theere, and he said that next time
down (possibly this winter) we'd do something like this. Well, I
suppose Chris was talking to his neighbor Mike, and I got this email:

Hey Tim, . I talked to a buddy of mine I work with who has a 25" Mako
with two 225HP Mercruy engines about taking you, Chris and me fishing
when you come down next year.
We will share the cost of bait, gas and junk, we have plenty of
fishing equipment. Rolando is a great fisherman and we'll catch what's
running.

Mike

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So I write him back:

Oh man! I don't think I could resist that one! I wonder if it would
be possible to squeeze my buddy Chuck Kirkpatrick in on this one?
BTW, he did a short stint with FireFall and was a recording engineer
at the old Criteria Studio down there.

Chris knows him...

I hope I can work it out.

Tim

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His reply:

I'm sure 5 guys will be fine, we've gone to the Bahamas with that
many, I'll talk to Rolando on Monday just to fore warn him. It's a
ways off but Rolo keeps his boat in great shape and it should be good
to go.

A month or so before you are back in Miami make sure I'm aware and
we'll really start the planing. It'll be fun. Rolo lives in a
beautiful place with his boat on the water, we load and go. The last
time I went with him it was 5 maybe 6 miles from his house and we
where watching sail fish jumpin' and caught a few nice kings in a very
short period.

It'll be good to meet up with you, I don't know how long you'll be in
town next time but maybe we could fit in a FDP jam with Dolmite and
the gang, at the very least take a ride up on Sunday to see his band
the Dillengers. There down at the Hurrican Gill at MM 47 in Marathon
tonight maybe I'll fire up the Harley and roll down to see him.
Mike

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I think my winter vacation plans are in the making!
WOOOHOOO!