Waiting:

We have to wait till mid November to join the right Gun club to access the range where we can try out our new long gun....ugh a new toy and I can't play with it for the first month of ownership! Our indoor pistol range should be back on line next weekend.....so....we play the waiting game.

Where are they now?

Mysti and I stayed in this past weekend, the weather was cold and very verywet with fairly high winds. Our usual indoor shooting range is down for renovation for another week or so...so it has been all about staying in, cutting hardebaker board for shower repairs. Mysti really gets into this home repair thing, reminds me of Brigid, or vise versa.

Yesterday was Buy a gun day

Drove out to Essex for Mysti to pick up her Walther P22 (pictured previously) and on the way home we stopped at our friends Gun Store and I picked up a Bushmaster XM15 E2S, it is a base config but I intend to customize it later.


It's an M3 model (heavier barrel than the M4) which means It is not classifed in Maryland as an "Assault Weapon". Maryland Laws state it has to have at least a 16" barrel that is not cut to reduce the weight in any way,However I am permitted to purchase any upper for it that I see fit for it after the initial purchase. So now I can mod it all I want and put any optics I want, heck I can even get it made full auto with a silencer....just not allowed to put a flash supressor on it....This state is weird...just freakin weird. It took me 20 minutes to make this purchase (because we were shooting the breeze) and I walked out of the store with it....it took Mysti 13 days to be able to get her P22 pistol....simply because it was a pistol. Did I mention weird gun laws?

I have not abandoned the Blog :)

No, I started a new profession. Yes to be sure I will be leveraging my technical talents from my life long technology pursuits, but this is something new, and as such I feel the need to focus on learning how to do this new stuff well. Yes this means I spend a whole lot of un-reported OT reading non-recreational material but in the long run it should pay off.

Benefits:
Very little in the way of Night work
No weekend work (normally)
simple 8-5 hours monday - friday
No micromanagement
Low pressure so far
I get to explore new tech.

Down Side:
I am not the expert any more.
For the 1st time in 20 years I feel like a noob

ummm thats it....so I think Im looking good and so far insulated from the Market turmoils, as long as I don't look at the bottom line of my 403b. *sigh* Patience young skywalker the market will recover.....

New Job

Learning new stuff...totally different from what I was doing before....brain hurt, skull expanding to try to accomodate more info.....cerebelum liquifying melt down imminent.

Gun Show results.

Due to issues that I will not go into, I did not get to the Gun Show on Saturday, however Mysti and I did get there today. I picked up some Ammo Cans and 500 rounds of 9mm ammo. While Mysti found many little doodads that she wanted to pick up. They were not really gun related per-se, however the big purchase of the day was a Walther P22 pistol, so now Mysti has her very own weapon. Of course with the regulations in this state she wont actually get the thing till next week.

At least now she has her own reason to be at the range with me :)
This is the model she got.

Gun Show redux

6 hours of work left, then hiho, hiho, it's off to the Timonium Gun show we go. I'm betting even money that Mysti decides to buy a .22 of her very own to shoot with, rather than beat up my collectors item :)

This show promises to have approximately 600 tables so we should come home with the trunk loaded. I'm hoping to score some water tight ammo cans, some silloette targets, some snap caps
and ammo.

A plan I can Agree with.

Here’s the Kim Du Toit Prescription for Economic Recovery, Sweetness And Light, and All Good Things To Come:

1. Top tax rate (gross income > $250,000): 20%
2. Middle tax rate ($100,000 - $$250,000): 15%
3. Bottom tax rate: 10% ($25,000 - $100,000)
4. Alternative minimum tax: abolished, forever
5. Capital gains tax: 5% [update]
6. Death tax: abolished, forever
7. Corporate tax rate: 15%
8. Not one red cent for banks, insurance companies or other financial institutions.

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