- I am no longer allowed to use the phrase “Contingency plan includes reboot of all cluster nodes and holy water” at work.
- It’s never a good thing to stumble upon something really bad and have no idea how long it’s been like that.
- I think the biggest compliment I can give an author is to say that I got so absorbed in their work that it takes three requests from Irish Woman to get me to put the book down and go to sleep. Michael Z. Williamson did that to me four times in the past week.
- My parenting style lately: When I say “Boy, you better stand on your head and whistle Dixie”, I mean you better be into the fourth bar before you ask why.
- Girlie Bear has been watching a BBC television show that deals with midwives in rundown parts of post-war England, who bicycle around the slums, delivering babies and trumpeting the benefits of socialized medicine. I think I’d rather have my gums scraped with a rusty coke can from the same time period.
- Since we can now decide what ethnicity we are, I respectfully ask that I be referred to a Barbarian-American.
- Only I and people like me can use “barbarian.” It’s our word.
- The rest of you may refer to me as “green-eyed devil.”
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on June 16, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/16/musings-147/
Old Soldier Descriptions
We all know them. They’re the old, crusty, salty characters who’ve been in too damned long. They’ve been there, done that, and designed the tee shirt. If you’re going somewhere, they can tell you which bars to go to, what food to eat, and where the best place to sleep it off is.
So, in salute to these proud men and women, I present these ways you can pick them out of a crowd
- She dated Patton in AIT.
- His first CIF issue included lorica plumata and a gladius.
- She helped John Moses Browning carve his first slingshot.
- He knew Christ when he was a corporal.
- She knew Moses before he went to OCS.
- His first assignment in the fleet was to pull an oar on the Mayflower.
- He proudly wears a “Re-Enlist 20th Maine” tee shirt to the VFW.
- She doesn’t march the Nijmegen, because she marched. the. Nijmegen.
- He can be overheard at morning formation saying things like “You know, Grant was a hard man, but he was a fair man.”
Posted by daddybear71 on June 16, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/16/old-soldier-descriptions/
Gun Data for the Day – Day 8
Today’s entry comes to us from Tam, who is testing out some of the newest Magic Bullets in 9mm. Remember, if the State Department gets their way, people like her, who are doing all of us a service, would have to get a license and permission to publish this kind of data on the Internet.
Please, if you haven’t already, reach out to State and remind them of their obligation to respect our rights.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 16, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/16/gun-data-for-the-day-day-8/
Gun Data for the Day – Day 7
This falls under the ‘maintenance, repair, and overhaul, or refurbishing” language of the proposed ITAR changes.
Plus, I need this, for reasons.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 15, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/15/gun-data-for-the-day-day-7/
Musings
- Girlie Bear begins one of her summer volunteer jobs this week, in which she will be assisting in the Louisville Zoo’s black-footed ferret program. She likes to joke that she gets to work with her BFF all day. Unfortunately, she is not allowed to give the fuzzy little varmints pat-pats, because they can’t be allowed to get used to attention from humans. She, being a teenage girl, feels a little disappointment at that.
- She describes baby ferrets, by the way, as ‘fuzzy little pink erasers’.
- Boo begins a week of “LEGO” camp at the zoo, which as far as I can tell, involves 3 hours a day of playing with LEGO’s, 3 hours of walking around the zoo, and an hour of doing something that keeps his counselors from jumping into the tiger exhibit.
- Irish Woman and I had another of our “Green goes with green, darn it!” disagreements this morning. I guess this is why she buys all of Boo’s clothing, not me.
- Irish Woman is summoning dark magic. She washed her car, parked it under a tree, and watered the lawn, the fruit trees, and the vegetable garden this weekend. If it doesn’t rain tonight, then we need new dice.
- It’s a good feeling when you look around your home and say quietly “We need more book shelves.”
- Boo has reached that stage of summer life where vigorous nightly scrubs are necessary to remove the impression that he is spending his days in a coal mine.
- For now, normal bar soap and a washcloth are working. I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t have to graduate up to Simple Green and a .50 chamber brush by the time school rolls back around.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 14, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/14/musings-146/
Thought for the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on June 14, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/14/thought-for-the-day-226/
Gun Data for the Day – Day 6
Let’s get some performance data on commonly available XM-193F ammunition in 5.56mm.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 13, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/13/gun-data-for-the-day-day-5-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on June 12, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/12/todays-earworm-641/
Gun Data for the Day – Day 5
Who you gonna call?
Posted by daddybear71 on June 12, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/12/gun-data-for-the-day-day-5/
Gun Data for the Day – Day 4
You love ’em, you miss ’em, you wish you could have one of your own. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the Browning M-2 .50 machine gun, or as it’s known to many, the Ma Deuce:
Posted by daddybear71 on June 11, 2015
https://daddybearsden.com/2015/06/11/gun-data-for-the-day-day-4/
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