Thanks all. And, Jeri... "NOW"... cool.

AllisonA... ok... At one point during the phone call I said, "Fuck me, here I am lightin a smoke... WTF am I doin? I am supposed to be quittin." Reggie says, "Oh, it wasn't tha smokes. It was the trichloroethylene." and he took to laughin. And I took to laughin too. There is a concrete test used to determine the bitumen content in asphaltic concrete. The lads used to take the odd "sniff" when it was boiling. Made those long days in the lab trailer a little shorter than the 14/7 they were. 14/7 for three weeks on with a weekend break in between would tempt anyone to take a sniff.

I never did take a sniff on accounta I smoked weed back then. Minds me a the time me and Dougie and Reggie went fishin on Simms Lake in Labrador. No trout. Not a nibble. On the third trawl past a point I hauled a Maui Wowie toothpick (I don't like to waste dope) and threw the dreg into the lake (the lads "looked the other way"). Bang, bang, bang. All three of us had trout on and mine was the smallest... about 6 pounds. Dougie says, "Ya got any more of that shit? Don't smoke it. Throw it in the lake." Of course, Reggie took ta laughin.

Gee whiz... I got at least a half dozen stories about that one fishin trip. I GOTTA get ta reminisce with Reggie before... you know.

Thanks for your kind words. Youse guys are good buddies too. Thanks for listenin.