Tam does too, I am certain.
It’s cold enough outside that it is time to dig out the winter socks.
As a kid I hated wool anything, including socks. I don't know if I got less sensitive or if woolens got less itchy somehow since the 80s... I mean I have some fancy pricy pairs, but I also have and enjoy the cheap tube wool socks. None bother me now.
If someone told me then that one of my luxuries at 50 was gonna be wool clothing I’d have called them crazy.
Let the butthurt flow. pic.twitter.com/J19rW8AwvH
— Gringo Pistolero (@poohjahaddin) October 19, 2020
No word about my MRI results. Maybe by this afternoon. I just want to sleep. Taking so many NSAIDs.
Thinking back, this has been a long time lead up. Just look at the parts of me whinging about not having stamina at the range, and how a 500 round count wouldn't benefit me after I hit a big wall around round 200. That was noticeable at least 3 years ago.
My back hurt every now and then for 5 years. But whose doesn't?
Numb spot on my foot? Now feet? 2 years maybe?
10 years ago I went ahead and popped for a lawn mowing service because doing it myself was a pain in the back.
All hints of what was to come.
In my 20s I didn't set out to abuse my back, but I didn't avoid a lot of labor that surely played a tune on it. I can't go back in time and tell younger to go easier on it. I'd probably be fatter now, and that would also make things worse
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Saw on some internet source about how to up my egg cooking game. Now that I crack on a flat surface more of my yolks are intact. If you pour a couple tablespoons of water on the edge of fried eggs and cover the pan, the water gets under the eggs, lifting them, making them easy to remove. Also the steam both keeps the temp down so the edges don't burn, and it hardens up the tops of the eggs with the lid holding in the hot gas. Simple trick, but I wish I knew it 20 years ago.
Also, when making scrambled eggs, a tablespoon of mayo and cream, whisked up before the eggs come in the bowl, makes for more fluffiness. I season with homemade shallot salt and tellicherry peppercorns. I like this, when I am not in a an omelette mood.
I haven't been shy with butter cooking eggs either.
"Got any more eggvice, T-Bolt."
I find if you boil the water first, THEN add the eggs to the water, gently (I use a gravy ladle to get them in the hot water without cracking from a drop) then the eggs' shells tend to be easier to peel. When making devilled eggs my critical ingredients are celery seed and real bacon bits.
Lessee, checking our Department of Health, Maryland, as of Wednesday, we had 3,868 deaths due to Rona, and 132,343 confirmed cases.
Out of curiosity.
3,868 / 132,343 = 0.02922. Or 2.92%.
3% is dire. But remember, people have gotten Covid and not been tested/confirmed. According by the WHO, a LOT of that happened. By 20 times.
Now... Do you trust dire predictions from the WHO, or rosy scenarios from the WHO? Or the CDC? Or the CHICOMs. Or Nancy Pelosi or Donald Trump? Yeah, I thought so.
When people brag on electric cars they often go for the performance boasts. Because it is an electric motor they get tremendous potential when accelerating from a full stop.
"It'll go 0-60 in 1.4 seconds" or summat. Well, maybe not that good, but numbers more impressive than typical gas powered cars.
I just wish drivers of electric cars would get this memo and navigate about town with a little more alacrity. Just because you bought a car similar to your grandma's retirement home golf cart doesn't mean you have to drive like your grandma used to before you took the keys to her Buick LeSabre away. Use that pedal on the right.
Yes they did David Harsanyi, formerly of the Federalist.
You know, National Review doesn't have the cache it used to. But I am sure the Federalist will take you back if/when the publication fails.
Obviously, I prefer the Federalist these days. NR needs a come-to-Jesus moment, to correct their trajectory. But so does Paul Ryan's Fox News.
Anyway, the article. It's the same hash we've seen many times before. Ho hum. Hell, I bet I've written similar. And I've read the same thing with different words many times. And heard JayG rant about ti many times. "Just because the founders never saw an AR doesn't mean the 2nd doesn't cover ARs. It does. Just like the 1st covers radio signals and internet HTML." And besides, Heller settled this. Individual right, yes. Yes, modern implements. Go somewhere else to push against the not-absolute-right envelope.
Hmmm, what right IS absolute? Or the closest to absolute. A man on death row is about to lose his right to life, but instead of a last meal he could pen a letter to the editor of his local paper. He can't incriminate himself for other crimes even if they can do no worse to him at this point. Copping to a car theft while being strapped to the Chair is fine, but you can't coerce him to. He can still call for his lawyer. He has no gun rights whatsoever, though.
He took some medicine for his back pain.
I'll take up his regime, and just avoid convertibles and Dallas.
I didn't even know they had someone in custody, much less conceded someone other than Kyle pulled a trigger that night.
From your lips to God's ear, Dick, that Barrett brings some rationality to the system
I mean I could write some gun control. It wouldn't be "Shall not be infringed" like it should be, but it would be a great evolutionary leap in that direction. As the enemy likes to point out "Heller said the right isn't absolute!" Well it is a lot closer to that than the current nonsensical 'common sense' gun right violating regulatory regime allows.
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First, ditch are state laws with Federal preemption and the Supremacy Clause. We are talking about a right under the 2nd and 14th Amendments. And the 4th. States can't say this race or that one can't vote in state elections, can they? Or this religion or caste can be banned from public spaces or schools, can they?
Second, keep the NICS checks to keep the screaming from the ninnies to a minimum. Weed out felons that way. But NICS only goes to the shooter, not the shooting iron. No serial number involved. If you buy a gun on the 13th of November, that NICS number should be good until the 13th of December. SO buy 6 or seven more if you want on Pearl Harbor Day. Just cite your NICS number and dates, the FFL confirms that is valid and Robert is your Mother's brother. Enjoy your 3rd Glock 18. Buy one in Maryland, another in Virginia and a third in Texas. NICS is national, after all.
Third, gut most of the GCA and NFA. If a policeman can carry a firearm in the line of duty, a regular citizen certainly can. So the NFA become mostly moot. I don't think the cops should have mines or frag grenades, so... keep the NFA for that? What, the cops don't want me to have flash bangs? Fine, then they can't either.
Fourth. CCW permitting. If you insist on one, it has to have a long period before it expires, be very cheap, very quick, and very easy to acquire. You know what? Vermont carry, nationwide. If Vermont can do it, the rest of us can.
It's a right, dammit.
She's a girl. Prolly a Smiff J-Frame?
— J T Bolt (@NewJovianTBolt) October 13, 2020
I keed, I keed. https://t.co/MmIdHy96LJ
I may get one even if it IS right handed. Price bedamned. From Valkyrie or whatever.
The only thing. It'd feel like blasphemy to put a red dot on one so close to the original.
This is the most fascinating chart out there. pic.twitter.com/5YmIDPYP7P
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) October 12, 2020
We aren't out of the woods yet.
But... this Covid stuff isn't the Spanish Flu. 2.2 million aren't gonna be dead my New Years. Like they promised 10 months ago. The original guesstimate of 3.4% mortality ain't really happening. It's less than that. Not good, peeps still die from it, bit it is more like 0.14%. It KILLS folks, no shit. But not like how we originally acted it did.
Does this mean we can say President Trump saved 2 million Americans from certain death? Yes, we can, if we use Democrat math. Bastards.
That doesn't mean this disease wasn't fucking scary back then in April. Christ. Don't forget that! We may have suspected the better case scenario, but there was no way to know that. And folks were scared and snappy then. Don't hold their fear against them.
3.4% death rate... Armageddon.
2% really bad flu season, the likes of which you have probably never seen.
1% mildish flu season. Normal.
Amazing what that tenths place means.
Is this Disease really 1.4? Worldwide? Be a while before we know for sure, what with places exaggerating numbers and others downplaying.
Wait, I got those numbers wrong.
There were 3.4% predictions. I never believed those. I could go along with 2.2 million in the USA, total, way back in the beginning. The equivalent of 1918. We didn't get that.
But .20% is a really bad flu. .10% is milder flu mortality. The WHO says we are close to .14%, now. It's hundreths place. That counts.
Not that I trust the World Health Organization. Too much influenced by our adversary, too many about faces. Much like the CDC.
The reason Gen X is now the most conservative generation is that we basically just want to be left the fuck alone.
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) October 10, 2020
If that fat ass with asthma and other co-morbidities can waltz through Covid... I have less to worry about.
I haven't done one in a while.
It is hard to find baloney at my store that isn't the less deirable thick cut version. No regular slice, no beef only, no thin.
Paper good have taken a dive again. The shelves peaked in inventory and have now noticeable dropped in qauntity and variety.
Still low on disinfectant items in the cleaning aisle except for bottle and bottles of off brand bleach.
Soda pop is actually a notch down. Barely noticeable, but there, drop in variety available. Odd
I mean, nothing like the peak of the Plague Pandemic, but a dip.
The butcher aisle is fine. Which is superb.
But hey, I got that MRI referral to arrange for now.
Hard to blog. Distracted by the burning, charlie horse, sensation in my legs. Distracting. I wish I could get a nights sleep. So tired. Hooray, whinging. That always draws in the readers.
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Buddy told me a story of woe with his FN pistol he got a year ago. Stove pipes a lot. When I hear about that malfunction my first thought goes to extract tension or some other extractor issue. I mean, it could be a lotta things, but that is the first, sorta-most-common, thing I check.
I know how to adjust the tension on a 1911. I don't even know how to disassemble the newer types extractor hooks on more modern designs. How to adjust that once disassembled? Cut a bit of the spring off? A loop or two? I'd have to do more research on that. A burr on the hook is another thing to look for. On new guns especially. When you are told to shoot a gun a lot to work it into reliability, and it does get more reliable, I kinda think this might be one of the things that is happening. You are wearing off the burrs on the machined bits. Something a good manufacturer should have already done. But even good makers might miss a spot.
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Hooray! Got an imaging appt Monday.
