  Yesterday morning (actually about noon'ish) I got to talk to Joe myself. I think I got him straightened out. I was talking to Levi, and Joe was bouncing around the wheelhouse like a 7 year old that ate too much chocolate, and everything Levi said to me, he had a smart assed comment for. Then at one point, he took the phone from Levi's pocket, pulled the ear bud plug out of it, and started yelling "hey, hey" into my ear. :) I said "Joe? " and he asked me what Levi's real name was. I said "Joe - you and me are going to have a little talk.
" He got quiet for a minute. Then he asked "about what? " and I proceeded to tell him that Leavy was very sick, that he couldn't eat, that we had been back and forth to doctors and that his calling every 15 minutes about stupid boat stuff just wasn't going to cut it. He popped in with the smart assed comment about "can he wipe his ass? " And I told him he could - and he said if he could wipe his ass, then he could feed his self. Well... about that time I started getting loud with him, and I told him that the boy was sick, that he was pulling Levi out of the dr's offices or imaging labs when he was calling and that I didn't care if the boat was sitting at the bottom of the bay, as long as Levi wasn't on it, it wasn't as important as the boy's health. I told him that if he pulled Levi out of a dr's office ONE MORE TIME for some stupid lunch meat question, or anything that wasn't just dead serious, that if I could get my hands around his fat freaking neck, I was going to throttle him.
I told him that I was not going to tolerate his crap while we were trying to deal with Leavy being as sick as he is, and that if it happened one more time, I was going to go wherever the boat was, and just choke the living shit out of him.
He said ok. I hope it meant ok, that he isn't going to do that shit anymore. Then he started again about Levi's first name - I told him if he really needed to see it, he ought to ask if he could see his license. Well, he took off hooting and jumping around the wheelhouse and hollering "it was your wife that told me to ask to see your license" and other stupid things. Joe pissed me off - but he is like a kid in so many ways it is cute. Thank god I didnt have any brothers, or I wouldn't have kind of laughed when he did that.
The boat blew that brand new engine last night. That thing has been a lemon since it was installed. They have been back in the shipyard quite a few times since they put it in about 3 weeks - a month ago? So they are going back to the shipyard today, I guess they were pretty close in to port arthur when it happened. Good thing it was there, and not between brownsville and corpus. 
