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Friday, Jul. 26, 2002 - 4:18 p.m. Codeman�s trip to traffic court was the pleasure we all expected it to be. The courtroom ended up being packed with the kind of folks you just can�t meet anywhere else. Well, maybe at the biker bar in the seedy part of town, or on the street corner in the Projects. The average group of people on a �Jerry Spring Show� would look good compared to the Fubu-wearing, low cut halter top sporting dregs of society that were present. Our usual punctuality became a benefit today. Codeman was the third person to sign in, and was the third person called to the bench (after the cases where lawyers were appearing flew through first). It was relatively painless, if writing a check for another $70 can be painless. And yes, I made Codeman pay me back for the cost of the fine. I might have provided him with a car (cheep as it may be) and pay for his insurance (expensive as it may be), but if he breaks the law, he will always pay the price. Even if it was for a b.s. �Failure to obey a traffic signal� ticket�. One other bizarre note about today�s trip to the courthouse: The first case called before the judge was our Drugdealingneighbor! He wasn�t there, but he had one of the counties best defense attorneys there to plead for him. This appearance was not for his little adventure last weekend. This was for another traffic stop he had back in June (from what the judge read on the citation). His lawyer got all the charges for that one dropped. They were �no proof of insurance� and �failure to wear a seatbelt�. Good luck an getting him off that easy on last week�s charges, fine lawyer! We hooked up the hillbilly boat after coming home form court, and headed up to the nuclear power plant lake. I checked the radar, and even though we were in the middle of a mild thunderstorm at the time, the weather behind it looked promising. We drove through a few heavy downpours on the 40-minute drive, but the rain had stopped by the time we entered the boat ramp. We went to the North Branch, an area about 50 acres large that is all �No Wake�. That didn�t stop people in the past from trying to swamp our little fishing boat. But now? It won�t happen ever again. The power plant is just the other side of a small railroad bridge at the south end of this basin. With all the 9-11 hysteria, the N.R.C. completely shut down the lake to all boat traffic last fall. This spring, after they figured out that a small, low population area�s power plant wouldn�t be high on a wacky terrorist�s hit list, they opened up most of the lake. But not the area around the power plant. There they have placed floating barriers at each end. Including the small railroad bridge. Because of that, the area will not be a popular boat loading area in the future. Most boaters don�t want to put around at idle speed in a 50-acre area, do they? We were the only people there this afternoon. It was like having our own private lake. We did pretty good fishing, too. I landed a nice 2lb. Channel cat ( I could tell you a bizarre story about catching this fish, but even I still don�t believe what I did. Since all fishermen have the reputation as �tall tale tellers� I will leave the story to your imagination), and I lost a large fish (walleye? Carp? Catfish?) when my drag wouldn�t let the line out quick enough. We also caught freshwater drum, bluegill, a crappie, and one keeper-sized largemouth bass (which we don�t keep). All together, we caught about 50 fish in 3 hours. Not bad. We only left because we ran out of bait (nightcrawlers), and because we were starting to bake a little�.. Short entry. My mom is due any minute, and I need to start meditating to prepare myself for her personage. Or maybe �medicating����.
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