Taps

Robo Calls

 I just noticed.  I don't think I got but one or two robo calls to my land line from August to May.  Now it is daily, again.

Getting an old school answering machine, instead of voicemail, with an SSD instead of magnetic tape was something I should have done long ago.

He's in a cemetery near Manilla, now.

 

I'm with YOU, Chonk.

 And you are definitely my brother, Bruthah.

Oopsie, Masky

So I used Saturday's post yesterday because I forgot to think of something for Friday.  Mea Culpa.

So, Maryland went from 100% masking discipline 2 weeks ago and is about 50% at my now mask-optional shopping places this week.  The beer store and the grocery store.  

So, back to normal is almost here.  If only 2x4s cost a coupla bucks, again, gas was a buck cheaper, and American Eagle plinking ammo was plentiful and could be bought 1000 at a time at normalish prices. THEN we would be back to where we need to be.  

Why did some of you vote for Biden again?  Just because Trump was an asshole?  Yeah, I didn't like him either, but I need you to come fill my gas tank a coupla times, now.    

Jazzy Skyscraper

Just scrub away the past and make way for sterile glass towers.  It'll look good when Superman fights Zod among them.

Thems skyscraper builders are either gonna make me an offa youse can't refooz, or make me pay back dues for AFSCME

I've seen this happen

Travelling south on Interstate 95 near the exit for Route 212.  It didn't hit anyone but bounces like a Dambuster bomb into the woods on the left side of the highway.  Scary stuff.

 

This is me

How I looked at my first gun show. It was a Nation's Gun Show in Chantilly Virginia. I wasn't wearing a mask, tho.

Chicago Shootings

Chicago shooting are up 36% over the previous year.  But that's not so bad because shootings last year were so very unseasonably low.

whisper whisper whisper

Wait, I am told they were pretty high last year, too.

So, is all this police defunding push and ACAB and bail elimination really a Roger Stone political op to make Democrats look bad and get law and order GOP type elected and re-elected for generation when folks assume such crime encouragement was really a push by the incompetent Progs?

Texas

Will Governor Abbott sign constitution-carry into law in Texas?

Or will he come up with some excuse?  

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"All the news stories say he will sign it, T-Bolt!  He promised!"

Yeah?  Then something just happens to happen and whoopsie, maybe next year..

SBRs

If SBRs got removed from the NFA, what would I get?

10 years ago I'd get a short KRISS.  Today?  Meh.  I am less enamored.

Short AR?  Meh.  Them things are loud, and I don't have a pack I want to tote a short rifle in.

Now, suppressors, that would be different.  Not that ANY appropriate barrels I own have threads.  So I'd have to so all that.  

A .45 SBR with a suppressor?  That I might roll out of bed for.  

Conservative Candidates

Even if you mean the butt, you can't say the butt.  We SEE you, Little Marco.

"I'm all for the Second Amendment, but"

I know you are saying it that way because you want to be on both sides of the issue.  Get the votes from us neanderthal gunnies, AND get the votes from suburban Karen-moms.

But it hasn't worked that way in a while.  The gunnies know what it means from the jump.  It means you are against the Second Amendment.

Look at Trump, Little Marco.  He's as against the Second as you are.  But he NEVER said the 'but'.  He means the but, but never said the but.  See his poor record as president on the issue?  But he ate your lunch on the campaign trail and one of the ways he ate it was by knowing what phrasing had gone stale and become counter-productive.   

Too late now.  But try to remember this, going forward.  It applies to other parts of your job.  Try to be a leader and smart politicians in the future instead of a follower and out of touch politician like you are.  Good luck.  

And don't make the mistake Lil Marco did, other conservatives.  Stop kissing up to Democrats with the fence sitting.  Them dirty Progs will never love you and it alienates your base

I wish they came that way

I carry a pocket knife for when pistols are for sale as impulse buys on the end caps of hardware and hobby stores.  To open the clam shell.

Book

I bought a used book through Amazon and forgot about it.  It arrived this week.

Guess when I bought it?

Mid December.  Better late than never.

Thomas Boswell's Why Time Begins on Opening Day.

It has a B. Dalton price sticker on it, maybe it did some other time travel

Satisfying

6:15

Maryland is Pretty Liberal

Especially the part I live in.

I'll let y'all know when I start seeing folks inside stores and such with no mask.

Now I don't get out much, and it seems most of my 'out' is the gas station, work, grocery store, and doctor visits.  So, grocery store will be the bellweather.

My County, officially, 'opens' up May 28th.  

Mask at work

My big company hasn't pulled the mask.  Our big federal customer has.  So we are more hesitant than the unionized gummint workers.

What's the hold up?  "Oh the CDC says it's fine, but we haven't heard from OSHA..." Nice goalpost moving.  This is the first time they told us they take their cues from OSHA.  For our Brit readers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

OSHA says they are working on guidance.  Might take awhile, "In the meantime, follow CDC guidance..."

I work in an office.  Where they confiscate any cake knives.  There IS no weapons to counter an active shooter for the Fight part of the Run-Hide-Fight training. 

I used to work at a brewery, with slip and fall hazards, drop hazards, lift hazards, burn hazards, heat exhaustion hazards, forklifts, strong caustic chemicals, steam lines...  OSHA never shows up for stuff like that until you start getting hurt a lot and filing claims.  So OSHA was a joke.  

I doubt anyone has put a claim in at the office for workman's comp for Covid.  So OSHA isn't even on the radar.

Left Lumbar Done

 It felt weird.

Lotsa needles, as per usual.  But those aren’t that bad.  Arm shots hurt more.

Then weird electric pulses.  Then weird internal burning sensations for three minutes. Now I have to ice up for two days.  Because it is only half the back I don’t know if it has fully worked but there seems to be some relief.  I will, of course, report more later.

How dry I am

I hate blog dry spells.  Big day.  9:30 shot.  Hoping for relief on one side.  If I think of it I will report here later today.  Tell you how the test drive goes.  

Speaking of dry, though.  My beer of choice is Victory Prima Pils.  It was an excellent example of the style.  It's still fine, but I noticed a drop off in quality.  Not as bright in the mouth as it used to be.  The Saar didn't snap like it used to.

Come to find out the founders Ron and Bill, brewing contemporaries of mine, sold their interest.  That explains it.

But I have cut way back on my beer consumption.  It just helps that my brand lost a step.  Easier to give it up.

Lost and kept off 30 pounds that way.

Am I just getting old and crotchety?

Going to lots of Doctor offices lately, as you know.  

Half of them use my first name with a Mister.  Like:

"Good morning, Mr. Jovian..."

It's Mr. Thunderbolt.  But they are nice ladies and mean well so I don't get all snappy about it.  It still rankles.  I'd be more cantankerous and correct them if they didn't mean me well, but, never upset the front desk at the doctor.  Yes'ms and Thank Yous, all round. 

Ablation tomorrow.  Left side.  Hopefully eliminate back pain for at least 6 months on the left.  Right side in 2 weeks.  After that I am taking up competitive gymnastics.  I swear.