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I have been up to you know where in alligators and falcons this week. Being the WG-10 and newest Crew Chief, I spend a LOT of time on the line launching and recovering airplanes. And yesterday was a wash for one of them. The Air Force washes it’s airplanes every 180 days. In Navy Air, we washed every 14 days and every 10 days in the A-7. I am now the owner of a 37 inch LCD Flat Screen TV. It is nice. The old tube set finally gave it up. Coupled with our newly acquired satellite service, pretty cool stuff. The missus has had a 32 inch flat screen for the bedroom since we were still in Wichita. The Kings and Ducks games are very nice to watch, indeed. We went with the satellite service due to our local cable company not being worth **** on a boar hog and ***** on a priest. You get the picture Been sorta keeping up on the scumbag currently residing at 1600 PA Ave. in DC. What a worthless piece of ****! Along with the Wicked Witch of The West and the “Gambler” from Searchlight we are in deep doo-doo if their plans go through. I really am having a hard time with the statement from the Bay Area Queen that we “need to pass the bill to find out what is in it” Rope, Tree, Nancy……Some assembly required. And the TOTUS going off on fishing as it is a bad thing. Lousy bastard anyway! I really wonder if most folks realized what he really was when they voted his sorry, commie a** into office along with all those districts across the country that thought a minion of obammy-mammy was the best choice to represent them in the congress. Sort of gives credence to a personal little theory of mine. That being………the average American couldn’t pour piss from a boot with the directions written on the heel. Just sayin’ ya know. Rant over. And all intelligent, conservative and patriotic bloggers should have Pinch and Lex on their blogroll! ORPO Sends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This has not exactly been a banner year for my health. First some sort of food borne thing at the beginning of January and now this. It appears I’ve got a nice combination of laryngitis along with a probable case of strep. As you can imagine, this is just a wonderful situation considering my job working in a call center and talking on the phone nearly all day. All joking and kidding aside, I’d much rather be at work doing work than at home doing virtually nothing. So, getting back to yesterday, I’d been getting more and more hoarse as the days had gone by and my throat was getting more sore as well. I called it quits for the day at work yesterday at about 0900 and headed out to go see the doctor. My doctor was actually on vacation, so I saw the nurse practitioner, but she can still write prescriptions Anywho, on to the pics Before we get to yesterday, we have to go back one more day. I stopped by Exotic Pets to pick up some dinner for Ziva and look at what I found – an amazon tree boa Getting back to yesterday, I had picked up my prescription and was heading on out when I noticed that it was snowing on the Sheep Range north of town. Call me strange if you must, but I always think this is rather cool A bit later, I noticed this truck and had to laugh – very quietly, mind you due to the fact that I didn’t have much of a voice – at the bumper sticker and the mud flaps I’d also noticed that it appeared to be snowing on Mt. Charleston and seeing as how I wasn’t really feeling all that bad at the moment – I just couldn’t talk and therefore couldn’t work – I figured I’d take a short drive up the hill… Yep, that looks like snow in the distance. And it’s not coming down very lightly, either I saw the first snowflakes floating at me right about here which is around the 5,000 foot elevation mark. You can see ‘em if you look closely. More snow and it’s actually stuck to the hillside, not just melted. Now, that looks like some reasonably serious snow up in the distance… And indeed, it was snowing pretty well right around here. One of these days, I’m going to actually go snow camping – I’ve never really had the chance before. Sure, we were going to do it in Boy Scouts, but it never actually happened. This will require some serious investment in cold weather gear as I don’t have much at this time, but I think it’ll be worth it You can pretty much read the sign if you click on the picture or you can go to www.coldwarmonument.org to read the story there, but this memorial tells the tale of an ill-fated flight from Burbank, CA to Groom Dry Lake in 1955. The men who perished that day were working on the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and their loss was deeply felt by those in the program. I’d known a bit about it before, but the website has some really good info as well. May they rest in peace. The thought has occurred to me that it might be nice to live somewhere like this and that park ranger wouldn’t be all that bad a job. This picture did nothing to shake those ideas I don’t get very many chances to get photos like this, so I just couldn’t pass it up Another one of those things I never really got a chance to see very often is icicles. Yes, they’re probably pretty common to lots of people out there, but not to me. I know something of how this is for many of you out there – huge casinos are commonplace in my life, but millions of people pay thousands of dollars for a weekend in my town Just more of the HHR in the snow And yeah, more of Cathedral Rock One of these years I’m going to get a cabin up here for a few days in the winter. It’s so close (about a 40 minute drive) and so wonderfully different Snow, sun, and the HHR – good stuff. I just thought this was kind of funny – seeing the sign with all the snow I know quite a few people who like horses I figured I’d put the panoramas into their own little group for this post. Click on ‘em to see full size as usual And this time, I even have a video for you I know it’s just some of the pictures from above with a little bit of driving and music from YouTube’s audio swap function, but I think it’s one of those things that will help bring back good memories in the future and I hope you liked it, too That’s it for today. Here’s hoping you have a great day and that I feel well enough this weekend to get out and do some fun stuff One of the first people to give me a link way back when was Pinch. He’s a former Naval Flight Officer who used to run the radars and other systems in F-14 Tomcats while trusting the guy up front not to do anything that might endanger their continued condition of actually living. A great writer with a sharp wit, Pinch has a pretty good blog going and has for some time. But a while back, his blog went Tango Uniform and lots of stuff was lost. Including, apparently, the link he had back over to this place. That is, it was lost until today when he posted a new one on his blog Thanks again, Pinch, and keep up the great work From AP: But Bank of America is going a step further than the regulations require. It will simply no longer allow debit card purchases to go through if there isn’t enough money in the account. NO!! Say it isn’t so!?! You mean I can’t buy something if I don’t have money in the bank??? What kind of crazy talk is this?? Are we so childish and irresponsible that it has to come to this? Well, yes, evidently it has. Excuse me while I go hide my dollar from myself! Hey, I told y’all I’d put up some new material, right? Here’s hopin’ you like it It was a heckuva weekend. I didn’t spend all that much time in the apartment which was a bit of a departure from the normal plan of rest and recuperation, but it was rather nice anyway I won’t get into the saga of the changing of Kyleigh’s car – she’s getting a different one since the used car place couldn’t repair the first one she got and they agreed in the contract to give her another one in that case. No, I won’t spoil the surprise but I’ll post pics when I finally get ‘em After all that “fun” we decided to head on over to Mr. Lucky’s 24/7 to get some food and catch up with Korey I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the people here can’t drive. They really can’t drive around big rigs. This is a pretty good idea in my book But we weren’t done with the weekend on Saturday – we headed out on Sunday for Margaritaville This is a first – Kyleigh allowing herself to be photographed for the blog How’s this for dessert? That’s what’s known as a chocolate hurricane and it consists of ice cream, chocolate syrup, brownies, and ground macadamia nuts. Yes, it is as good as it looks I also managed to get a couple of decent pictures of Margaritaville for everyone who wishes they could go there themselves I needed to de-stress after work today, so I headed on over to New Frontier Armory / Infinite Arms. The weather still feels like winter around here – it’s windy, rainy, and cloudy as you can see. Once again, my favorite gun store graciously hosted me as I got some more good gun Pr0n First, we have the Ruger LCP – the Lightweight Compact Pistol. It’s chambered for the .380 ACP round and was inspired by the Kel-Tec P-3AT. If you saw that P-3AT a couple of days ago, it’s already gone. They’re that popular. The Ruger is in just as high demand and is also a great choice. I understand that the PPS is James Bond’s new gun and I can see why. The trigger and takedown are pretty much identical to what you’d find on a Glock, but it’s much slimmer – almost as slim as my PF-9. I considered the PPS, but you can see by the price that it’s out of my reach financially. It’s also a bit heavier than the PF-9, but it’s still a great gun for people who live in places where the PF-9 isn’t legal to buy. The safety on the trigger and a loaded chamber indicator go a long way in places like California and some of the East Coast states Well, I guess I’m caught up for now and it’s high time I get some more rest as tomorrow’s another day on the phone lines. Have a great Tuesday, everyone EDIT – It must have been the late hour or something, but I forgot to thank Adam for the use of the $100 bill as a scale reference Folks, I’ll try to be back up online tonight. I’m at work now, so I don’t have a whole lot of time on break, but I wanted to let y’all know just a bit of the situation. I don’t want to say too much, but a few people in Cindy’s family are having very big problems. I figured I’d take Kyleigh and Stevie (Cindy’s nieces) out for a while to take their minds off stuff and I didn’t get back until 0100 this morning. That was yesterday, but something similar happened on Saturday as well due to Kyleigh’s new car requiring exchange at the used car place she bought it. Suffice it to say that the weekend was quite busy Today’s probably going to be rather busy as well – I’m probably going to have to make a doctor’s appointment due to my voice. It’s been cutting out on me for no real reason quite a bit of the time which is not good for work. Basically, I almost can’t speak at times and need to keep clearing my throat. But even with all that, I’ll be back with new posts and pictures later this evening So, how to relax after a long week at work that won’t cost too much? I don’t know about you, sometimes I want to go where everybody knows my name The first time I showed up, they had a banner for a sign and it’s nice to see the new permanent version 8) As always, I had a great time chatting with the owners, staff, and customers while I picked up a couple of minor items The Walther G22 rifle is an interesting piece of equipment. It’s a bullpup design, so the grip and trigger are in front of the actual action. One of the nice things about the G22 is that you can change whether it ejects the spent brass out of the left or right side of the firearm. Trust me – lefties appreciate this
Years ago, the Swiss used a gun I own as their military firearm – the K-31. These days they use a version of the top three rifles you see here. These are the civilian version – the Sig 556 which is a very nice gun, even if I can’t afford one. The rifle on the bottom is the Sig 522 – a .22 LR version of the Sig 556 which from the reports I’ve read is a great “tactical 22″ for fun and training. It’s much cheaper to shoot .22 LR than it is 5.56mm like the AR-15 and Sig 556 use See those top three guns? Those are M1A rifles which fire .308 caliber (AKA 7.62 x 51 or 7.62 NATO) rounds. 7.62 NATO has better terminal performance than 5.56mm at long ranges which is why the military is reintroducing the M1A into service overseas. I honestly don’t know much about the Vector Arms rifle below the M1As, but I do know a bit about the R1A1 below it. It’s a semi-auto version of a NATO military rifle which is also chambered in 7.62 NATO. The charging handle is on the left, but the brass still ejects from the right. I still haven’t figured out how you’re supposed to mount optics on it, but I wouldn’t mind having one at all Kel-Tec makes a wide variety of firearms other than my beloved PF-9. This is probably their most popular handgun right now – the P-3AT (pronounced by Kel-Tec reps as P-380) which is chambered in the now very popular .380 ACP (AKA 9 x 17mm) caliber. I prefer the power of the 9mm Luger (AKA 9mm Parabellum or 9 x 19mm) round and I’m willing to take the extra size and weight of the PF-9 to get the performance of that cartridge. Others prefer the .380 for its lighter recoil (I don’t blame them after firing the PF-9 Bond, James Bond. The Walther PPK used to be 007’s gun of choice until recently. He’s packing a different Walther these days and we’ll get to that one later, but for now I figured I’d show this one off
Finally we have the new Generation 4 Glock 23 with the rough texture frame. The major differences between the older versions and this one are the shape of the serrations on the slide and the adjustable grip which allows the user to change the back strap to suit different hand sizes. This particular pistol has the rough texture finish – RTF – which makes it easier to keep a good hold on the gun when you fire it. I’d love to have a Glock, but I have other priorities for the little cash that I have right now Big thanks again to New Frontier Armory / Infinite Arms for their hospitality and permission for photography in their establishment – they really don’t have to allow this 8) Their welcoming attitude, great customer service, and very reasonable (like usually ridiculously low) pricing will keep me coming back to them for all my firearm needs That’s it for now – have fun this weekend I’ve seen some pretty tricked out guns in my time which isn’t surprising considering all the gun stores and shooting ranges I’ve been to, but there’s a few that I’ve really liked. The same thing goes for some of the things I’ve found on the web. Take this picture – I really love this gun My only problem is that this would forever be a range gun and nothing more if it were mine. The last thing I’d want to have put in front of a jury would be something like this if I had to use it in self defense. I prefer something that’s dual use like my Hi-Point or my PF-9 for the most part – they’re bone stock. But like I said, if I were to keep it as a range gun I’d love to have it Of course, I’ve had my eye on some other firearms which are regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and I’d prefer to keep those out of a defensive encounter as well. Maybe I’ll have to send something like my 10/22 in for some decoration sometime I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank JR Shepherd from Lone Wolf Distributors for granting me permission to use their photo in this post. JR – you guys rock
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