- Today there were no “No Shoot” hostage or innocent bystander targets, only collaborators who got what they deserved.
- Why is it that every time I go to the range I come away knowing that I need to go to the range more often?
- My instinct, after shooting all-steel handguns like the 1911 and Cz-82 for years, is to bring the gun up out of the holster with a bit of force. That lighter weight plastic fantastic just about flies up.
- I missed my support hand twice during the shoot today. Luckily I stopped pushing up with my strong hand before it went vertical.
- Time to practice my draw. Again.
- There were 98 shooters at the match today. When I first going last fall, there were about 50, and people were astonished. But remember, gun ownership is falling and the shooting sports are dying out.
- Boo tried his hand at putt-putt golf for the first time this morning. Apparently, a good time was had by all.
- Someone please tell me that there are golf scholarships to good schools.
- Many thanks to JayG and Weer’d Beard for giving me the name I used to describe the out-of-stater who was driving like a complete putz in front of me today – Masshole.
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Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on June 14, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- It’s nice to have a day when just about everything lines up just perfectly when you’re trying to get away for a week off.
- I’m not sure what the unemployment numbers look like this week, but when I was driving through a light-industrial area of town today, I saw a lot of “Help Wanted” signs.
- It looks like manufacturing, welding, and small engine repair skills are in demand.
- Tritium sights, where have you been all my life?
- It’s one of those “Why would anyone want to spend that kind of money for sights? Ah, I get it now.” kinds of things.
- My goal for the next week – Get to the family reunion without spending half a paycheck or needing marriage counseling.
- We must be doing something right. Boo turned down pineapple sherbet tonight in favor of fresh strawberries.
- It’s supposed to be 90 degrees tomorrow with intermittent rain. Irish Woman wants to know when we moved to Costa Rica.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 13, 2014
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Musings
- As we watch the collapse of the Al-Maliki government, I wish to point out that nobody ever did well trying to conquer the Kurds when they had their act together. Heck, they’re used to being surrounded and outnumbered. I say we airdrop in a crap load of guns and ammunition and make popcorn.
- I’m enough of a garden geek that finding three volunteer tomato plants in the garden beds was a highlight of my day.
- Lord, I’m trying very hard to not find joy in the suffering of someone who caused a lot of my own suffering, but I think I’m going to need a little help.
- It would appear that I am buying Irish Woman an antique piano for her birthday. I’m glad I thought of that, right after she told me about it.
- Hmmm, read a funny book about shooting, or read a history of World War I that will depress me to no end?
- Why not both?
- Thinking of that, it occurs to me that I need to organize my bookshelves. “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” does not belong next to a book of Norwegian jokes
Posted by daddybear71 on June 12, 2014
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Musings
- Dear Motorcycle Man – If you’re going to scoot out from behind me on an on ramp and get into the traffic lanes, please follow through and pass me before I get to the end of said on-ramp. Hanging back in my blind spot tends to make it hard for me to safely merge. Luckily for you, I saw you behind me when we started onto the highway, or something awful might have happened.
- Dear Bicycle Guy – Yes, it was a beautiful day Sunday to go out for a ride with your mates. But if you’re going to ride three abreast on a narrow, two-lane country road, please make sure you’re not riding your tires on the lane dividers, because I really don’t like having to pull two of my tires off the road so that I don’t clip you in the head with a mirror.
- Dear Louisville People – Really? You managed to shut down traffic on all three of my routes home due to accidents? Thanks. I love taking surface streets across town during rush hour.
- Today will go down in family history as the day that Girlie Bear had her head licked by a giraffe.
- She sometimes has a rough patch with the animals at the zoo. She had a swan try to eat her leg. She’s been urinated on by a snake. When she was little, an alligator snarled at her and she climbed me like a tree.
- I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
- Someone needs to tell my Labrador Retrievers that they are indeed water dogs, and being asked to stay outside for 15 minutes while it is sprinkling is not going to bring about a horrible death.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 10, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- I love the smell of sour mash in the morning.
- Success goes not to those who innovate. Rather it tends to go to those who acquire the innovators.
- It’s uncomfortable to sit and listen to someone discuss automated data analysis techniques for business that you used to do for other purposes by hand.
- What’s good? Bourbon.
- What’s better than bourbon? Single barrel bourbon
- What’s better than single barrel bourbon? Free single barrel bourbon.
- There is a science and an art to making liquor, and bless those who practice it.
- If a master distiller is going to put his name on a bottle of vodka, who am I to not buy one so that I may try it out?
- Lightning bugs are very hypnotic.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2014
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Musings
- I don’t know Bowe Bergdahl. I don’t know anyone who knows Bowe Bergdahl. I know the official line, and I’ve read the Internet posts that relate a story told by those who claim to have either served with him or been in on the search for him. I still believe that the military has enough integrity to do an honest inquiry about what happened the night Bergdahl went missing from his unit, and am holding my comment on that until something official comes from the DoD. All I will say is that, hero or dupe, Bergdahl is an American and is back with Americans. If he’s a hero, then he will get what he deserves from us. If he’s a deserter, then he will get what he deserves from us. But it will come from us, not from those who held him for five years.
- Someone needs to tell President Obama that taking an hour to ask Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid to the White House to talk about something he’s about to do would get a whole bunch of people off of his ass in a lot of situations. Then again, that would require him to admit that the Congress is a co-equal branch of government, and we can’t have that, now can we?
- When the best that can be said about your firearm is that it’s similar to a Smith and Wesson Sigma and is California legal, then it’s probably not going to go into my gun safe. No amount of engraving on the gun is going to overcome that.
- New life goals:
- Work in a building where I don’t have to go through metal detectors at the entrance
- Have a room that’s sound proofed enough that I can sit in it and watch Blazing Saddles while Boo is in the house without raising the ire of Irish Woman
- Have a place that’s remote enough that it’s hard to reach me but not so remote that it’s a pain in the butt for me to go.
- Find time to read the ever growing stack of books that I’m going to read when I have time.
- Take Boo back to North Dakota and show him how to make forts and tunnels in the grass
Posted by daddybear71 on June 3, 2014
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Thoughts on the Weekend
- Sober, filthy, and sunburnt is no way to go through life.
- Rhythm of building things:
- Gather tools, screws, wood.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- Put piece together.
- Try to install. Notice that the piece is three inches too long.
- Take piece apart.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- Reattempt installation. Notice that the piece is now one inch too short.
- Go to lumber yard to get more wood.
- Stare longingly at the liquor store as you drive by.
- Measure four times, cut once
- Assemble piece
- Fit piece into its place.
- Figure out that the piece is two inches too tall.
- Consult with wife. Stress that you really don’t care anymore
- Accept her decision that it looks fine.
- Put tools away and clean up.
- There are few things that will brighten up a young boy’s day more than ending it with toasted marshmallows and a campout in the back yard.
- Crash plays with Moonshine by boxing, kicking, wrestling, and biting. Moonshine plays with Crash by holding him down with one paw and putting the cat’s head in his mouth and growling. I think there’s a bit of a difference in capabilities here.
- At the prices they were asking for hamburger today, I ought to be able to go behind the store, pick out a cow, and watch while it’s slaughtered and ground up, all while a mariachi band plays and a sweet young thing brings me cold beer.
- When the weather looks iffy for grilling out over charcoal, go back to that old standby – cast iron.
- Kroger did not appreciate me referring to their on-sale meat area as the “used meat aisle”.
- Somewhere in Europe is the person who stole the English to Russian half of my Smirnitsky dictionary. When I find the son of a gun, I’m going to beat him to death with the Russian to English half.
- One thing about living in the sort-of-South – Every event can and will be a social occasion.
- The time to cancel your summer day camp program is not five days prior to the end of school.
- Processing sixteen pounds of strawberries will cause your hands to look like those of Lady MacBeth. Hopefully I don’t sleepwalk.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 1, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- Definition of irony – printing a 100+ page document on “Memory Fitness”, then forgetting to pick it up off the printer.
- No, it wasn’t me.
- If you’re going to put a bunch of bumper stickers on the back of your car that read such things as “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” or “GRRRLLLLL!”, then you give up the right to stand at side of the road crying while you wait for your husband to come change your tire.
- At least she was polite when she turned down my offer of assistance because her hubby was just a couple of minutes away.
- Speaking of bumper stickers, I was tickled to see pro-2A bumper stickers on the back of the Prius that was being driven by a young guy with dreads this morning.
- Yes, I’m stereotyping, and yes, it’s good to see that people aren’t monolithic political blobs.
- Apparently my applesauce spice cake isn’t as good as my banana bread, since the piece that went to school with Boo came home with only one bite out of it.
- If he wants me to make banana bread, he needs to stop eating the bananas before they turn brown.
- Seriously, the lady at the grocery store probably thinks we’re running a primate rescue or something.
- Welcome to the last two weeks of the school year, where the classwork doesn’t count, but the attendance does.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 30, 2014
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Musings
- Girlie Bear is not happy. She is getting cut off from coffee once school is over next week, and she’s already anticipating the DT’s.
- There is nothing at all strange about a 43 year old man deciding that he wants to go to bed at 9 PM on a work night.
- I have decided that the new medicine I am injecting for my arthritis is nothing more than light corn syrup. When injected, it has the same consistency.
- Nothing says “I didn’t consider my patient population” like handing a guy with arthritis in his hands, who only took his anti-inflammatory medicine half an hour prior to his office visit, a slender pen and a stack of forms to fill out.
- The correct answer to this particular problem is to hand the patient a business card with a website and login information on it, and politely ask him to fill out the forms using a comfortable keyboard.
- When the arrival of a pair of canvas sneakers is the high point of your day, you probably need to reevaluate your life.
- Yes, these are my shoes. No, they’re not too big. No, I do not wear a big red nose to work.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 29, 2014
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Musings
- This weekend I did a lot of fishing. No catching, just fishing.
- There is a distinct difference between explaining the intricacies of an internal combustion engine, a manual transmission, and an electronic ignition and just saying “Push in the clutch before you turn the key” when asked how to start a car.
- The difference is usually seen in the amount of glassiness in your audience’s eyes when you are done with your explanation.
- Gentlemen, even if you truly feel that way, never use the term “It was your bright idea, darling.” when your wife complains about how tired she is after working in the flower garden and goldfish pond all day.
- Discussing the Santa Barbara shooting and the media reaction to it at the dinner table might make the inevitable discussion of it in Girlie Bear’s Social Studies class…. interesting.
- In the likely event that she gets in trouble for repeating what I have to say on the subject, I pledge to pay for Girlie Bear to have sufficient entertainment during her suspension.
- When you have nightmares after writing a semi-autobiographical short story, you have cut a little too close to the bone.
- If you ever want to see how integrated your area is, then take your child to a public place where children play.
- No matter their race, income, or politics, everyone likes to take their kids to the park on a sunny day.
- It is gratifying to see the guy wearing the “Obama 2012” tee-shirt talking about where to find appropriate swimwear for a little girl with the lady who had Rush Limbaugh coming out of her car windows when she pulled into the parking area.
- I am no longer allowed to use the term “self licking ice cream cone” when describing technology, regardless if it’s something that a vendor provides or something that a customer uses.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 27, 2014
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