There is quite a waiting list on rod orders at the moment and things are a bit slow. Apologies for this. We are trying to speed things up but we never seem to be able to get ahead of ourselves. For two years now I haven’t been putting builds into the HT Owners Club. Quite frankly there is very little marketing going on. Why? Because I think the waiting list is already too long and marketing is going to make the list longer.

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Some time back I read an article about a study conducted on London taxi drivers by a psychologist. The research paper, published in a respected psychology journal, had an interesting conclusion that had caught the attention of the mainstream media. The author had studied the working hours of the cabbies, the amount of trade they were doing, the weather etc. and come to the conclusion that they were, on average, working very inefficiently. Quite logically the study found that the busiest days for taxi drivers in the city of London was when the weather is lousy, people want to get across town without getting their designer clothes wet etc. By contrast, the slowest days for the drivers takings were the balmy, sunny days when people were happy to take a stroll and be seen out and about. The interesting data on working patterns showed, however, that the taxi drivers worked longer hours on the slow days than they did on the good (rainy) days. I'm sure the actual paper delved deeply into the psychological reasons why the taxi drivers choose to do this (they are mostly self-employed so choose their own hours), however the conclusion was fairly clear cut; by not chasing a certain revenue on the bad days they could cut their working hours with no loss of income. If they put the long hours in on the high turnover days instead of stopping early (probably when they've hit their self selected daily target) they could in fact take the sunny days off completely without hitting their overall bottom line.

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This week I took John out again to get him on some maruta. As I mentioned last week I'm not that bothered about them, but they are easy to find, forgiving of a beginner's mistakes and the run creates a target rich environment.

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I saw interesting post on Monday. It was about scent, how fish will smell as and so on. I didn't agree at all with original post and have to say that shortly is bull shit... on other hand... I did some notes from my experience and planned to do FP about it.
 
Well it has to wait one more week as it is Thursday as Paul kindly reminded. My plan was write FP few days ago and then life happened. Basically I was hoping to do FP day or two ago, but my days and evenings has had only one goal. It has been to get devices ready and preparing everything that we can rake reindeers back in the wild.

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Sometime during the beginning of covid-19 I got into some back problems. After sitting down I became an old man. When I stod up I could not stand up straight. I had to walk around a bit with my back bent and slowly working up to standing fully straight. It didn’t happen for any apparent reason. I would guess that it had something to do with suddenly working from home and the change of daily activity it caused and that I went from sitting in a reasonable chair during the day to sitting on a cheap kitchen table chair. The chair felt comfortable thought but it is still a suspect in the problem. I also lost a couple of thousands of steps each day also. I did walk to and from work and that added a number of steps that I think I lost during that time.

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I’m on my way back from NY to LA and am trying to beat the FP publishing deadline on the plane. I’ve got a couple of birthdays to celebrate tomorrow. My bestie, Mauyel, is turning three tomorrow. I think I’ll have to take her down to the river to practice casting next week. She’s ready. Also my tuxedo cat, Binx, will be 17. I'm eagerly anticipating my local fishing over the next three weeks. I’m high on hopium. Maybe the algae will have browned out in the river. Maybe the carp will be thinking about getting fat rather than banging all day. Maybe the grunion will have brought stripers and halibut close to the beach. Maybe.

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