Wow!!! Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that we have a bonafide celebrity on the boards, and let's give a big welcome to Jim from Sportfishing News. The forums here could certainly use your knowledge, input and overall participation, and we hope you stick around.
Thanks also for the kind comments regarding my home state. To tell you the truth, being an ignorant city kid who only just moved up here four years ago, I'm almost totally in the dark about the things you mentioned, but I've heard the same from the locals here about the fishing. I still don't have a car, and renovations were put on hold three years ago when severe health and financial problems, which I'm still not over yet, brought my life to a virtual standstill, not to mention nearly ending it, which I won't get into right now.
Anyway, it is only during the past few years that I have come to realize that once you leave New York City, the state of New York is a huge world, a beautiful world, full of rich history, culture and agriculture. A couple of things in my life that have helped me to realize this have been my interest in railroading and meeting my maple syrup distributor, who runs a syrup producing farm in Way The ____ Upstate New York.
I hope someday to explore The Empire State in a much more expansive way and drink in all its beauty. Indeed, the railfanning scene in the Hudson Valley is one of the ten best spots in the world, and maybe when I'm ready for that fishing scene, I can get tips from Jim here, right here on . . .
YOUR AMERICAN BACKYARD!!! Right here at amback.com
C'mon people, everybody into the pool, we've got a great web site here and I know you're reading out there, so let's hear from you. You've got a lot to contribute, and this "once great republic" still has a lot of beauty, life and strength left in it, despite the confusion and turmoil here and in the world.
Look around at the different things you can buy on this web site, and all the advice you can get on so many different topics, and the discussions you can have with people from all over the country and around the world for that matter.
I spent three and a half years being a blithering fool on another web site, having fun, having some meaningful discussion and met a few people whose kindness, good will, advice and participation in my life, and mine in theirs, definitely served to add an important dimension to my life and build some lifelong friendships. I still haven't really "met" most of those people yet, but they're out there, and they're good people and they're in my corner, as I am in theirs, believe it.
That was pretty hard to fathom for this highly suspicious, extremely antisocial, and generally unfriendly, although decent, honest and general all around nice guy born and raised in the ghetto, where down every block and around every corner someone or something's trying to run games on your psyche, at the very least.
If you build it, they will come, ehhh? Well, it's here, at amback.com.
Take a look around. Thinking of trying bourbon, but don't know where to start? Are you like me, in need of a new lawn mower, but could use some advice before a final decision? Wanna know where the best blue fishing is? Got an old truck you want to sell, but you don't want just anyone showing up at your doorstep? Is your rifle jamming constantly, causing you to just miss catching that Chicken Of The Sea you've been promising your wife and kids for dinner?
You can talk about it right here at amback.com folks. You can ask questions about it, find out where the best place to buy it is, or what kind of cigar goes well with deer hunting. Nobody's asking you to become addicted to the internet and ignore your wife, kids and life, but just a few posts a week can go a long way toward getting a world of information, fun, friendly discussion and good will going.
I'm still getting cigars from people I never met and who refuse to accept anything in return because of my involvement in that web site. I'm still getting e-mails asking about my health, the situation in New York City and my father down on the farm in Puerto Rico, facing an increasingly difficult situation.
WELCOME to Jim from Beaumont in Misterrrr Speakerrrrr, The Great State Of Texas!!!!!
