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Any more job openings?:D

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I went back to being a nerd and writing C# code, pay and hours are a lot better. I can put a good word in for you, I know D|ck and Jim, LOL Dick's son lives in MI[8D] I said hi to them, LOL

I do know pile of people there.

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I actually went bowhunting on my wifes birthday in 1996(Nov. 9) and shot a doe and the biggest bodied buck I have ever personally seen, 240lbs field dressed. He also scored 160 gross and 140 net. My first buck with a bow. Needless to say I was late getting home to take her out to eat. And did I ever hear about it. But she said later that she did kind of understand I had to show it off some. I still bowhunt on her birthday, but I haven't gotten any more presents like that. It is after all right in the Peak Of The Rut.

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I have actually planned my children's births around hunting season (early deer seasonthat is)

My wife and I were blessed to be able to conceive easily. After I realizedthat my firsttrip to the plate resulted in my wife becoming pregnantwithour first child.I began to worry about the possibility of an October or November baby the next time around. When my wife and I decided to try for a second child, I planned it so thatif a "one trip to the plate success" happened again,the birth would skip those months. Sure enough my second child was born in mid December just as planned.

If we would have started any earlier to have a baby, I would have been in my tree stand softly whispering "your doing good honey....just a little more....push.....push....almost there....Uh..hold on babe, Igotta set the phone down for a sec. there's a deer comming":)

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It'scommon for me to drive 1.5hrs to a friends farm for a 1.5hr hunt till dark, then drive back, 3hrs of driving for 1.5hrs hunt.

I own more pairs of camo boots than all other kinds of footwear put together.

I practice shooting my bow in my bedroom (10 yrds).

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I have actually gone to class (which i was 5 min late for)only to realize i still had blood on my shirt sleeve from a successful morning hunt.

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[align=left]I have driven 45 miles with a 13pt buck tied across the back end of a 2-door Cavalier which included going through the heart of downtown Des Moines at noon on a Saturday only to do the same thing with a Doe the following season.

I have convinced my wife to drive 30 miles with a deer tied across the back of her Neon to get it processed because I had to work at 7 in the morning and I didn't want the meat to spoil.

I have (as a 8 year old) helped Dad gut a deer, drag it to the house and hang it in the tree all before Breakfast with Santa, where my mom discovered my sister (6 at the time) and I both had dried deer blood in our hair from "looking at the insides."[/align]
Along with my father-in-law I have faked food poisoning to get out of an all day shopping trip so we could go pheasant hunting instead.

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Wow ..... my eyes are watering from laughing so hard!:D

Well ... every opening week, I mysteriously got a "back injury" ... paid a few hundred dollars for an ER trip the night before the opener, since back injuries are hard to deny, allowing me at least 3 days off with a Dr's note ..... crazy huh?

Now, being the Principal of a private school, I just close school for the week;)

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That is beautiful, I will have to remember this one. God bless my girlfriend, I love her to death, but she would never catch on to that one :D

I've finally got through the rest of these posts and I'm starting to take notes on the most effective ways to skip out of things....this is sad.....

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I have told my wife we couldn't go out on New Year's eve because (1)the roads were too bad, (2)one of the kids seems to have a fever, (3) I had a sinus infection, so I could get up earlyto go hunting on New's year's day.

I have actually cancelled our anniversary dinner (Oct.17th) because I told my wife the babysitter called at the last minute and could not make it. (I calledthe babysitter'smother and told her we changed our plans).
I of course felt terrible about it,and went to bed early to get up the next morning to hunt. I told my wife that could be my anniversary present.