Healthy Living - Healthy search results - reaching out more than once

I want to go on a crusade to remind folks to use the other Search Engines too.  Google does Not own the entire www search world.  For example... Recall that at one time Ford/Chevy/GM thought that they owned the auto industry out-right?  Now the times have changed.

My_Space was the darling of the social media environs on the web for a time.  Now Facebook is being pressured by others and Kids do not use it as their parents will see what they are up to.  (and future bosses)

Google is not a for sure thing ether.  For example I searched for "cream of broccoli soup with cheddar"
on all these three search engines...
   Google.com   Yahoo.com   Bing.com


AND really liked that Yahoo and Bing both listed an about.com recipe at
http://southernfood.about.com/od/cheesesouprecipes/r/Creamy-Broccoli-Cheddar-Soup.htm

Thinking that healthy foods into my diet mean not just cracking open a dang can.  Since I'm cooking for myself nowadays.  Eating out 3 times a day is not healthy to your gut or your back pocket.

And that we need to look to more than Google to find the nuggets of cool stuff on the web.

My thought for the day.

Have a good one yourself...

Keith

3 days on Wavelength with some friends... Just for the fun of it.

Had a fun three days of fishing!

• Day One: Fished out to San Clemente on Saturday 
• Day Two: Went south to the 43 on Sunday and got Marlin and Dorado and some firecracker Yellowtail. 
• Day Three: On the return trip on Monday we saw very little. Did use up the last of the bait at Catalina for a few Calicos and a passel of Perch. All released.

We were down by the 43 spot on Sunday. Great weather. First John R pulled on a marlin for a short time. It came unbuttoned after 12 minutes or so as he was using just a small bait hook and sardine as we were soaking on a patch of bait at the time. It gave us a big show. He did not even have a leader. Amazing it lasted that long. Did have some girth but was short on the length of the bill. Possibly in the 90 to 100 range. 

Trolling nearby to that we picked up a bigger and hearty marlin on the troll that I got to fight to the boat at 24 minutes. Unfortunately the lure had a very short leader and was not taken as the leader man (also short) did not have the ability to grasp it. At 27 minutes the hook finally came free. The marlin was to the boat 2 times and if I/we wanted to kill it we surely would have had it on the boat with the long gaff. I’m okay with the long release even though the guys say it was effectively a “Caught Fish” I will not be submitting a weight slip on this one. One angler on board thought it was big like 180 to 190 ish. I think it was more like 150 to 180 ish. Never know unless killed and hung on the scale. So we are okay with letting them go free. But I do wish I could have grabbed it's bill and given it a pet on the nose.

Then John found a bit of action just a few miles outside the 43 spot. We stopped at a patty that was epic. Dream paddy fishing. The dorado were jumping up and playful even when not hooked! Unfortunately the firecracker Yellowtail were too thick and the guys had a hard time getting picked up by the bigger Dorado. Luckily I got two. A big bull that went 14.5 pounds. And a female a little smaller at maybe 8 lbs. Ron H had a big one to the boat that puked up all the bait/feed/chunkes & his hook right before John was about to gaff it.

Richard loved the mayhem and bouncing the Yellowtails over the rail onto the deck. The Wavelength had a fine day. All fish we kept went on ice right away and John and Ron did an excellent job filleting the fish.


2012-09-24 Wavelength Weekend
Fish Wish granted. A terrific fishing experience by all.
Keith L.  -<"><


Meanwhile... I missed the KHMT fishing event in Avalon last weekend. AND I missed two local fishing events this weekend (MDRA and CYC). Ooops. This was worth it!

4th of July 2012

Just back. We got to take the Ramblin over to the Island for another great DRYC cruise. It was a great Guys weekend. Thomas' good friend Daniel came along. AND Daniel's Dad, Steve, came along. He was great company for me. Thomas and Daniel took charge of the crossing. I lounged downstairs with Steve for much of the Crossing. How great that Thomas is able to run the boat with enough skill that I could actually relax! It is stressful enough to get everyone on board and all the supplies loaded up.

The crossing was some good smooth water and no shipping issues. Some larger swells made it interesting but not anything the Ramblin' can't handle. We had some great times at the island. Even played Softball. Thomas and Daniel had lots of experience playing ball together so it went well.

And as usual the cruise is a reunion of many fun friends. The big tables at the landing were full of happy people and eventually heaping servings of good food.

We walked over to the Two Harbors' far side and watched the fireworks. Good fun. This was followed by dancing at the Doug's Harbor Reef. As usual the kids are out on the dance floor in mass until the 10 pm cut off. We decided to Not hurry home. We took the day to hike. With Thomas hurrying ahead like a Jack Rabbit he left us all to suck wind trying to scale the side of the mountain. We took water breaks and avoided a heart attack or heat stroke.

But the views at the top were worth it!

Thomas did a stunt on us and hid over the edge... But he came back up and did slow down for a photo with dad.

It was another thing to get down! Thomas lead us on a loop. OMG was this slippery slope going to dump us into a bunch of cactus? Luckily we did survive it. Daniel did have a blow out and destroyed one on his shoes. Funny stuff.

Then on Monday we did finally head for home. We took the time to fish and give the boys a bit of time to Snorkel and explore the beautiful waters of Catalina.

I'm very happy with the trip and the boat performed great!

I even got some help washing the boat this time. Loved it. Fish Wish Granted. We had a good and safe trip. Keith

Fishing show in Orange

Yesterday I paid a visit to the Pacific Coast Sportfishing Festival at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Wish I knew a few days ago that if you got a Diawa reel at the show the Diawa booth would match it with a Rod and Hat and Shirt free. Now you tell me. The seminars were cool. Calico fishing tips. White Seabass fishing tips. I had very attentive ears. Some great fishing tips. Some very knowledgeable folks to talk to in the booths too. Ran across radio talk show host Sergio Fainsztein of course. And also saw a fishing pal Bradley S. Schnair there with some of his newer lure designs. AND I loved that Ballast Point was there pouring some very tasty beer! If you know me you know I like beer while fishing or talking fishing. www.BallastPoint.com I really like the Yellowtail! This stuff rocks cool art of Fish on the outside and really tasty beers inside! Yes I had a good time. My fishy need sorta solved for now. Waiting for the bite to start and the water to clear before I start up the engines on Ramblin'.

We had a very fun MDRA fishing trip last night. Well done & Thank you Stan! Some photos are now in the photo album section of:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mdranglers/

Look for album... 2012-04-19 - BettyO Fishing trip (tip, sort the list of photo albums by "last modified") You can even add your own photos if you want.

I had fun. Met some new members. And tried out my new camera.

What do you think of this one? I love this stuff.

Fish Wish granted. It was a smooth night on the water. Tight Lines, Keith L.

MDRA Awards Dinner

I had the fun responcibility of being the MC on Saturday (Feb 18th 2012) at the MDRA Awards dinner.

AND got to give my best friend (in LA) a Angler of the Year award.

Cool Stuff.

I kinda like this stuff.

Keith

Fishing trip Jan 2012

My first Ramblin' fishing trip of Twenty Twelve.

Took a couple of MDRA guys out to run the boat and do a little fishing.

All in all it was a nice fishing day (Saturday. Jan 28th). Got to put my new fishing license to work. Will try to fish in all 12 months of "twenty twelve." Now if Only I could put a weight slip in to MDRA in each of the 12 months. That is much harder given the lack of fish biting yesterday.

Locally we had small craft advisories. Due to wind concerns. But that has to do with the entire Los Angeles weather pattern. Most has to do with blowing over trucks on the high mountain passes. If the conditions are right we could have bad weather in the bay or even a big Santa Ana cna bash Avalon Harbor.

This was not the case for yeasterday. Yes I checked the weather. So we went out on the Ramblin' and were rewared with fantastic conditions and views.

All the scared-d-cats are at the docks so we had very few boats on the water. The weather was great. The water was flat. Wind was nominal. I was in the south half of Santa Monica Bay. Not north up in Malibu under the steep canyons anyhow.

The one item we did need was a hot spot with biting fish! It was not a good day for catching. We did have a great blue sky day on the water. Few boats were out there. Nice dolphin and bait action. We fished from Malaga Cove to PV point and got nothing. Did have some excitement as a nice thresher shark that picked up one of my sardines on the drop and it gave us a terrific show. Even after it bit the line off it still broke the surface for wild slashing of that great big iridescent tail in the afternoon sunshine.

Fish Wish Granted... Good day on the water.

Keith L.

Happy new year 20 12

New years resolutions...

1
To call the new year twenty twelve. Not two thousand twelve.


2
I resolve to use both my right hand and left hand while brushing my teeth.
(train left hand and go easy on my top left gums)

3
...

Still working on the list. Suggestions?

Silly ones are welcome too. ( see # 1 & 2 above)

My son bashed his head open again while skate boarding. Again we get to visit the emergency room.

Quality family time.

Ha.

Trivia of the day - Noosphere

Maybe you or I can use this new word in Scrabble someday.

Word of the Day... noosphere

PRONUNCIATION... (NOH-uh-sfeer)

MEANING... noun: The sum of human knowledge, thought, and culture.

ETYMOLOGY: From French noösphere, from Greek noos (mind) + sphere. Earliest documented use: 1930.

USAGE:
"This avalanche of information is threatening to swallow us whole, to waste our days and to overwhelm our own thoughts. Essentially, it's the noosphere on steroids."

Frank Bures; Digitized to Distraction; National Post (Canada); Nov 15, 2008.

Ha. This leads credence to this sticker I saw...
the quote said... "The Internet makes you Stupid."


Less time on Facebook may save me from myself. Now to accomplish that. How to pull myself away from the tempting titillation of the noosphere?

I post about my dog. About the sunset. About stuff. Isn't my life's trivialities a riveting topic for everyone else? Oh boy that works for this blog too. How true is that.

Will make a post next about my New Years Resolutions. Will I include Facebooking less? Let's see.


More later.

Keith