10/18/2012

I obviously didn’t have anything to say Tuesday or Wednesday.  Of course I don’t have anything to say today either, but I wouldn’t want y'all to go into withdrawal over not hearing about my minor dalliances.  Ok, so Tuesday I had an all-day babysitting gig in the TOB.  Every “Hairpiece of Considerable Size” from the railroad was there for some management meeting… and I had to run the sound board.  It was a good thing I was there too because the worrywart in charge of setting things up REALLY screwed the pooch when he rationed out the microphones.  He totally missed three presenters and we had to do a last minute scramble with the remaining mics to get them up and going.  From then on, all pre-planning of who had what mic was out the window.  I did manage to screw it up myself once and got a wicked squeal from the system when it fed back.  Oops.  After that ordeal, and I mean the meeting in general not just the feedback issue, I was not ready to talk to y'all.  Yesterday… uh, I just didn’t get around to talking to y'all.  So, what’s new in my world?  Not much since Monday.  I think I have decided on what I'm going to be shopping for at the gun show.  My first item will be a single-action cowboy stylee revolver in .45 Colt to go along with the two lever guns in that caliber.  Then, or if I don’t find one of those, I'll be looking for a “Coach Gun.”  What is a “Coach Gun” you ask?  A coach gun, I don’t feel like quoting and/or capitalizing it any more, is an 18” barrel side by side double barrel shotgun.  It is called a coach gun because it was first available from the handbag company, Coach, in the early 1900’s.   No, that is a lie.  It is called a coach gun because it was the type of gun carried by the guard riding next to the driver on stage coaches in the Wild West.  The short barrels allowed the guard to swing the thing more easily and the spread of shot made a hit more likely.  Since I am now undeniably a 12 gauge guy, I want one.  After that, or once again if I find neither of the first two choices, I'll be looking for a tactical over/under shotgun.  Oh, a tactical O/U would be an 18” barrel gun with black synthetic furniture and, usually, some Picatinny rails for mounting optics and lights and people and motors and shit.  I know a couple companies make them; I've just got to find one.  Once I have a side by side and an over/under, I will have just about every possible form of shotgun.  I already have a tube magazine semi-automatic, the Auto-5, a detachable magazine semi-automatic, the Saiga 12, a lever action, the Terminator, two pump action, Mossy and Pumpenstein, and a single shot break-over, the Boomstick.  Does anyone need eight 12 gauge shotguns?  Um… yeah.  Psh!  Ok, I do plan to sell Mossy to make all the others happen so I'll “only” have seven 12 gauge shotguns.  There, happy now?  Of course, I'll probably wind up buying another Mossberg Maverick, like the one I sold to John, because… well, they are inexpensive and I like them.  I may not though, we’ll see.  Oh yeah, speaking of the gun show, John may not be able to make it to the shop Saturday so I’m planning to go to the gun show with Gregg then and Larry Sunday.  Of course, if he can go to the shop, we’ll do that Saturday.  What he expressly asked was that if I went to the shop, not to begin the removal of Lil' Wiggly's engine.  He wants to do a time-lapse thing about the removal.  I'm easy, whatever.  Oh crap, I just realized that I was counting on John's rent money for my shopping spree at the gun show.  If he’s not coming to the shop, I'm not getting paid.  Well, hopefully Mossy will sell for enough money to get what a want.  Yeah, I'm not going to hold my breath.  Well, now that I've rained on my own parade, I think I'm going to go do something else for a bit.  Smell ya later.