I often have to travel with multiple pieces of checked gear, sometimes up to 10 suitcases.
There's the early-morning wake-up, the weather check, the gear check (masks, fins, regulators … check).
And after credit checks geared more towards a Great Train Robber than a woman who has meekly paid a lifetime's bills on time, I was handed the little box that would, I thought, make me modern.
A few people had made a last trip into Stanley to top up their supplies of chocolate, and the rest were checking their gear.
Now in its 25th year, the Suffern show, or Expo, as it is commonly known, comes at a time of year when many anglers are checking their gear, tying flies, sharpening hooks on lures and possibly deciding that they need a new rod or reel or flyline.
So the bottom-fishers are out in force — checking their gear, if not yet actually casting.
After you're done getting all extreme at ASR today checking out gear in a convention center, go to our party and get beer all over yourself while banging your noggin, ensuring you'll spend tomorrow checking out gear in a convention center with an aching neck.
It's not hard to get a handle on, quite deliberately shallower than a great many RPGs on Nintendo's handheld, but it's always worth checking what gear you might have picked up, and upgrading whatever you can at conveniently positioned toad villages.
"Most of the guys haven't checked their gear for months -- there's nothing to check," said George Dahl, chairman of the New York Lobster Conservation Management Team and vice president of the Long Island Sound Lobstermen's Association.
Always check your gear before a jump; ask somebody experienced to help you check.
