10/31/08

Sorry, I went to the shop with Gregg last night and didn’t get home until 2200 h. By then I didn’t feel like firing up the laptop so I didn’t get a chance to send the rant to Spiderman. No, Gregg and I didn’t do anything at the shop but look at shit and talk about other shit. Basically, it was a total waste of time. So, this morning I was on the Cheaper Than Dirt website looking at stuff for my 1911. I found some really cool grips with a built in laser sight but I like the grips that… um, the previous owner, yeah, put on there. I can’t remember if I told y'all where I got that gun so I'm just going to leave it at that. And yes, I am exactly too lazy to go back and look. Where was I? Oh right, CTD website. I also found an ambidextrous safety for it. I'm more accurate with my left hand so I think that might be a good investment. I'm thinking once the Zombie Apocalypse comes, I'll carry my Judge in my right hand and my 1911 in my left and be all, “POW! POW! Take that you army of undead! POW! POW!” or something. I think I'm going to stop off at CTD slightly out of my way home tonight and buy one more clip, a cleaning kit, and see if they have that safety. Those clips come with screw-on protective plastic bases, one short and one tall. I think I'll attach the tall one to the “range ammo” clip to help identify it in the dark. Oh, I might also look at a hard case for the thing since that wee little soft case is getting a kind of crowded with all the extra clips someone keeps buying for it. Dang, I just checked various checking, savings, and credit accounts. I am “nigga rich” enough to buy a Judge this afternoon. I probably should take someone with me to CTD to talk me out of that purchase. Well, I just stepped away for a bit, helped some dude in the Grand Canyon room and then flew a bombing mission, and now I'm back. My screen saver flashed up one of the Photo Chopped pictured John did of a two-door 510 wagon and it got me thinking. We “decided” that the wagon I'm going to buy from Marty Smith is going to get those big assed box-flares so I was wracking my brain to come up with a suitable power plant for that rig. It hit me, “Duh, why not put all that Small Block Chevy stuff in there?” I have that GM 10-bolt axle already and it would fill that wide-body pretty well. I just have to convince John that it is the way to go. Of course his reply to me suggesting it was, “It’s your car.” He may have thrown in a “dude” but I won’t commit to that. The gist of the answer was that it was not his preference. We’ll discuss it tomorrow I'm sure. Oh, I had another wacky thought the other day. I wondered if it would be legal to build a private indoor pistol range at my house. I'm sure I'd have to clear it with the City of Benbrook and maybe even Tarrant County. How cool would it be to have a range to use whenever you want, for free? Yeah, I know it wouldn’t be “free” per se because you’d have to pay to build and maintain the thing and all the ammo and targets and stuff, but you wouldn’t have to pay a range rental fee every time. Nor would you have to actually go to the range, you’d be there whenever you were home. I need to see how much it is to join the shooting range there on I-30 near my house. That is much more convenient than the one John and I have been using. Then again, having to traipse all the way across town does keep me from blowing through ammo as often. Oh, that would probably be one for the “minus column” on the home range too, now that I think about it. Ok, the range fee isn't all that much and it would probably take several years of continuous shoosting to ever “pay for” the range that way. But seriously, how friggin’ cool would that be? Perhaps if I ever build out in Boyd I'll include an indoor range. We’ll see. Well, I think I'm just about done talking to y'all for the month. Oh, by the way, boo! Happy Halloween.