10/26/2011

So, we’re up to Sunday in the narrative. I'd told Larry on Thursday that I wasn’t going to East Texas for the tour and said I wanted to go to the gun show with him. I got a call from him saying he was getting ready and would call again when he was leaving. I got dressed and went back to the intergoogles, where I'd been wasting time waiting to hear from him. He finally called and I headed out to meet him at the Credit Onion, as we are wont to do. We met and rolled to the show. I had no money so it was just a wish trip for me. We walked half the aisles then decided to not risk the parking fiasco of last time and ate Convention Center Hamburgers. They were… well, they were Convention Center Hamburgers. We walked the rest of the show and saw a few things of interest. Since I haven’t seen the gun I've been shopping for, a .308 Saiga, I decided I'd just go for another 7.62x39 Saiga as my hunting gun. Of course I found a .223 Saiga which piqued my interest as well. After we’d seen all the booths we went back to a few we wanted to look at again. Larry bought an Arsenal modified Saiga in 7.62x39 and a few magazines. I ogled the 7.62x39 and .223 Saigas I'd seen before. I decided I would be a good boy and not buy a gun I couldn’t afford at the moment. Oh, I also thought long and hard (tee hee, I said "long and hard!") about a Draco “pistol.” What is a Draco? Well, it is a short barreled AK-47 with no butt stock sold as a pistol. Oh, someday I will probably have one, not today though. Eventually we left and headed back to the Credit Onion where I hopped in Fiona to go home. On the way home, I stopped in at the costume shop to look for a wig. You see, on that show “Hot in Cleveland,” Betty White’s character had bright red hair for some reason once. When she saw it she said, “I look like ‘Little Orphan Granny!’” I laughed so hard I almost peed myself. I told mom about it and she thought that would be a good Halloween costume for her. I found a red wig a few weeks ago but it just wasn’t right. At the costume shop I looked at some other options. When nothing really excited me, I left. I told mom about some of the wigs and it was decided that she and I would go to the costume shop and then have lunch at Papadeaux’s. Monday morning we took off on this errand. Of course we first went to the downtown courthouse to replace the lost trailer license. From there we went to the costumery. She saw a realistic-red curly haired wig and we asked to see it. It was even called “The Annie.” We exchanged the wig I'd bought before and were on our way. We ate way too much at Papadeaux’s then went home. After a nap, I headed back to the office to see what I was up against first thing Tuesday morning and to retrieve my keys and phone. The dude who was supposed to be covering for me was nowhere to be found. I'm not even sure if he came in at all on Monday. I read and replied to a few of the dozens of e-mails then went home. Now I'm back at work and… well, I'm back at work. That’s about all I have to say about it.