- I came up with a new workout regimen today:
- Warm up and stretch by searching the basement for your cordless drill. Augment this by helping your wife find the bag of PVC “T” connectors she bought last weekend. You will be assisted in this exercise by a 15 year old girl who apparently does not know what a cordless drill looks like.
- Over oxygenate by breathing deep as you cuss after finding the drill with two dead batteries.
- Work on flexibility by going to Plan B – Disassemble a stone walkway in the back yard.
- Arms and upper body workout – Using a masonry chisel, a 2 pound hammer, and a pry bar, take apart a 250 piece, 20 foot long limestone and concrete walkway. You may be assisted by a five year old boy.
- Legs and back workout – Sort the pieces of limestone from the pieces of concrete. Carry the limestone, two pieces at a time, to the other side of the back yard and stack them neatly. Pick up the pieces of concrete, two at a time, and pitch them into a garbage can. You will get no assistance in this from the five year old boy.
- Legs and back workout – Roll said garbage can, now with 200+ pounds of broken concrete in it, back to its place. The five year old boy will be of no assistance whatsoever in this exercise.
- Cardio – Do “Siamese Cat On The Loose” wind sprints. This is where a Siamese house cat gets out and tries to get himself lost. You walk to the cat, he runs from you. You run to the cat, he sprints away from you. You may be assisted in this exercise by a five year old boy carrying a plastic putter and an Irish Woman who goes behind you telling you how sorry she is for letting the cat out.
- Cool down by going to the hardware store with said five year old boy and getting the wrong PVC “T” connectors for your wife.
- Dear Hardware Store – Why do you put the 1/2 inch Schedule 40 PVC pipes next to the 1/2 inch “T” connectors that will not accept Schedule 40 PVC?
- It is never a good thing for your wife to notice an oily patch of driveway under your 2013 Ford pick-up and it’s only March 2014.
- It would appear that the culprit is the rear driver side shock. This better by covered by my warranty.
- Note to teenagers – When being driven to a sleep-over at your friend’s house, it is always a good idea to remember to take along the notecard you wrote her address on.
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Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on March 15, 2014
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Thoughts on the Day
- The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived.
- I saw a woman with a lower back tattoo today, and it’s faded and blurry. Soon, we shall see stories about tattoos being removed en-masse.
- Started work on a politics post this evening. Got angry and depressed. I think I’m going to have that a lot in the next few months.
- You know it’s been a long week when your wife asks “Can you just pick up pizza tonight?”
- Apparently corned beef is made from cows that are massaged daily and fed only hand-selected corn and barley. It’s the only reason I can find for the prices.
- Irish Woman asked me to tear down and move one of the back yard fences today. We may need counseling now.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 13, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/13/thoughts-on-the-day-217/
Thoughts on the Day
- Ever overthink what would probably be an awesome idea so much that you decide it’s not worth the effort? Yeah, I’ve done that to myself twice tonight.
- Yesterday it was sunny and warm. Boo and I wore shorts when we went to the park.
- This morning it was cooling off and rainy. By the time I left work it was cold and snowing.
- Nothing’s better for arthritis than a 30-40 degree temperature swing in 24 hours.
- It takes a special kind of stupid to mock my limp on a day when I put very little value on human life.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 12, 2014
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Musings
- It is not good for your concentration while shooting a practical pistol shoot to get a text that reads “No rush, but when you get home we need to take Boo to the emergency room.”
- He’s OK. Apparently he fell at school on Thursday and smacked his shoulder. On Saturday he was having muscle spasms in his neck. This caused him to have a headache and not want to turn his head. A thorough exam by the doctor, followed by a dose of ibuprofen, made him feel much better.
- Remember that issue I had with the 1911 magazine last month in which it would fall out the bottom of the gun during a shooting stage? Yeah, that happened again on Saturday. Twice.
- After considering what I was doing, looking at some books, and going back out to the range today to reshoot the stages, I believe I’ve found my issue.
- It would appear that rather than putting my right thumb on the safety lever, I’m tucking it under my non-firing hand. When I try to take a firm one-handed grip on the pistol, my thumb is coming up and forward a bit, and pushing in on the magazine release. That would explain why the problem tends to happen when I’m racking the slide.
- Yeah, my hands are a tad on the big side. I’m using Hogue grips already, and I can almost wrap my fingers around the trigger guard.
- I spent quite a bit of time practicing correct grip, including going to it when drawing from the holster. I’ll continue working on it over the next month, including malfunction drills, and see how I do at the April shoot.
- The mud at the range was about 6 inches deep and soupy on Saturday. Today, it was, for the most part, the consistency of modeling clay. I still wore my old boots.
- You would think it would be easy to find bright red dud cartridges against gray-brown mud, but I still managed to lose two of them today.
- Today was the first time I’ve shot an AR-15 with a reflex sight in a situation where I could switch back and forth between targets. It was a lot of fun and a new challenge.
- Today was also the first time I’ve shot my Mossberg 590A1. A box each of buckshot and slugs put a wonderful ache into my right shoulder and a grin on my face.
- Saturday night I saw a customized Benelli shotgun get auctioned off for $2800, which is a new experience for me.
- It probably would have stopped at around $2000, but the winner had his young grandson on his lap, and he let the kid keep upping the bid. Where do I get grandparents like that?
- I saw a new game at the Ducks Unlimited banquet: Duck Bingo. $20 gets you a number, which corresponds to a cell in a grid. The grid is the floor of a chicken wire cage. Once all of the tickets are sold, a duck is put into the cage, and the number of the cell where the duck poops wins. Prizes were a beautiful Howa .308 and a hunting print.
- Yes, I bought a ticket. No, I did not win.
- To the jackass who was too busy texting to notice all the cars around him were gone, I hope you were at least embarrassed when the nice policeman asked you to identify your major malfunction.
- I also hope he has to go to a gastroenterologist to retrieve his phone.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 10, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/10/musings-39/
Rest in Peace
Posted by daddybear71 on March 9, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/09/rest-in-peace-3/
Musings
- I was quite productive and helpful today. Not sure where that came from.
- It is always a good idea to actually power on a server before you try to configure its connection to the storage system. Unless you’re a real badass, in which case feel free to do whatever you like with it.
- I had my performance review this morning. I still have a job, so things are going OK.
- My head is a little stuffed up, my fingers and toes are stiff and sore, and it hurts to walk. Either spring is here or I have the plague.
- Friday night of the second weekend in March 1992 – I go with a bunch of buddies to the Starkbierfest in Augsburg. I drink at least 12 liters of dark, rich, strong beer, eat a whole roast chicken with roasted potatoes, and end up hung over for three days and have no regrets.
- Friday night of the second weekend in March 2014 – I’m at home, baking brownies for Girlie Bear to take to an air rifle competition tomorrow. I’m drinking cherry herbal tea with honey and bourbon while I watch Bugs Bunny with Boo, and I have no regrets.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 7, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/07/musings-38/
Musings
- I think I’m going to rename Crash to “Little Satan’s Handwarmer In Training”.
- It’s a good thing he’s cute and cuddly.
- Today was one of those days when I miss having my world defined by land mines and engineer’s tape.
- We got about 3-4 inches of snow on top of ice Sunday night. Irish Woman has been wondering aloud how much it would cost to telecommute from Belize.
- To no-one’s surprise, school was cancelled yesterday due to the weather and road conditions.
- To everyone’s surprise, school was cancelled today due to the weather and road conditions.
- However, the roads were clear and it was sunny all day. Girlie Bear has been raging at the stupidity all day.
- So far, school is open tomorrow. But a butterfly may stretch his wings a bit in Tegucigalpa tonight, and that would just wreck everything.
- Irish Woman has announced that she wants to get her concealed carry license.
- She’s come a long way. She was very nervous when I bought my first gun in 2005.
- Now to get her some good training.
- Of course, when she starts shooting, she will learn just what is and is not in the safe, and how many boxes of ammunition we have.
- Speaking of ammunition, I got a good feeling this weekend when I was looking for a lost glove and found a previously unknown box of brass-cased .45.
- Our Friends of the NRA meeting was held at Cabella’s last night. It’s a good thing I didn’t take a credit card with me. There was a sporterized Eddystone .30-06 in the used gun section whispering sweet nothings to me all night.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 4, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/04/musings-37/
Musings
- For once, going to pay the taxes on our vehicles and get new license plate tags was a pleasant experience.
- The line moved quickly and efficiently, the lady who took my check and gave me new stickers was pleasant and friendly, and I was actually in a good mood when I left.
- I know, right?
- Unfortunately, “76254R” was already taken for a personalized plate, so I went with “DDYBAR”.
- We met Freiheit and his family at the zoo on Saturday, and had a wonderful time with them.
- I’ve forgotten how cute toddlers can be.
- I have discovered a new favorite bourbon, and of course, it’s $40+ a bottle.
- Irish Woman donated a photography package to a charity auction last night, and it went for almost $300. She was quite excited about that.
- The auction raised over $13,000 in total, which is pretty good for the first time the event was held.
- Interacting with all of Boo’s teachers last night told me one thing – we have a very good looking young man. All of the teachers talked about how pretty his eyes are.
- I’m going to have to keep an eye on that boy.
- When you do something particularly crappy for a small child that’s not your own, you sometimes ask yourself “Where are her parents?”. When you do something particularly crappy for an old person that’s not one of yours, you sometimes ask yourself “Where are her children?”.
- My local department store had no .22 shells in stock, but it did have six boxes of .50 BMG, which is nice.
- Got to have your priorities in manufacturing, I guess.
Posted by daddybear71 on March 2, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/02/musings-36/
Things I Learned From A Dinosaur Documentary
- Meat eaters were all jerks.
- You can figure out all kinds of behavior based on the fossilized bones of a bunch of animals that got washed into a riverbank together.
- All baby animals are cute, even if you have no way of knowing how they really looked.
- Apparently because modern animals do it, then the dinosaurs must have done it too.
- Just because you’re the baddest reptile on your particular block, doesn’t mean the guy on the next block over isn’t bigger, badder, and meaner.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 25, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/02/25/things-i-learned-from-a-dinosaur-documentary/
Thoughts on the Day
- The beautiful weather we had on Saturday was a head fake. We had freezing rain and snow with lows in the 20’s again last night.
- Apparently I have been designated the “safe” place when the cats are playing grabass in the evening.
- There I am, just minding my own business, and suddenly I have one Siamese standing on my chest, claws dug in, meowling at the other Siamese to leave her the hell alone.
- Irish Woman has come down with the same crud I am getting over. Her trip to the doc-in-the-box was as quick and painless as mine.
- I hate to say this, but I love that cigarettes-and-whiskey voice she always gets when she has a cold.
- Dinner tonight was a roasted chicken with steamed peas, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
- The carcass is already in the crockpot with bell peppers, mushrooms, garlic, and onions to be stewed for soup tomorrow night. I’ll start it tomorrow morning and finish it with either rice or noodles tomorrow after work.
- I’m trying to show Girlie Bear how to cook good food without having to work too hard or spend a lot of money.
- Plus, it’s February. I need warm, filling comfort food to ward off bad thoughts.
- I took Girlie Bear to get a cup of coffee today after an appointment. She pronounced that the coffee shop we visited was a bit on the hippie side, and remarked how the other one we go to is more of a neighborhood coffee shop. I’ve never been so proud.
Posted by daddybear71 on February 24, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/02/24/thoughts-on-the-day-215/
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