7/10/13

So I never made it in here to talk to y'all yesterday, sue me.  Here’s what went down Thursday the fourth and Friday the fifth.   I think I slept in until 0600 h on Thursday.  Mom and I made lunch plans to try and eat at… um, that bistro on Magnolia down the road from Benito’s right next to the vegan place full of hippies, I can't remember the name right now.  Anyhoo, they were not open so we went back to Red Hot & Blue for a rack of ribs.  After we ate we went back home where I took a nap.  I think I went for a long hoon in Fiona in the mid to late afternoon, but I'm not 100% sure of that.  Yeah, I think that is what I did.  Anyhoo, I didn’t do anything in the evening and was in bed at 2200 h or so.  Friday I got up and came to the railroad to test the War Room phone, as I am supposed to do every day.  I hung out with Larry until 0830 h when I knew the 0800 call was finished and went back home.  I know I went for a hoon “on the way” home.  Mom and I then went to the unnamed bistro on Magnolia and ate.  I think I went to the shop to confirm that I had actually bought a Mini and have a look round the place.  Yep, it was still there… and I HAD bought a Mini, which, by the way, I think I am going to start calling Oliver Closehoff.  I told y'all about Saturday and Sunday already so there’s no point in rehashing that.  So, moving on we will now disgust what John and I are planning for this coming Saturday.  Since the tool box is at my house, and John has Fifi, he will pick me up at my house first thing in the morning.  We’ll load the tool box into the back of Fifi and head to the shop.  We’ll hook up the trailer and roll to the new shop.  We’ll drop Oliver Closehoff in the “small” bay and the tool box in the “big” bay then go back for either his 1200 or Lil' Wiggly.  We may load a few more items in the back of Fifi for the second trip and we may not.  We’ll see.  Once we have whichever car we chose to take first dropped in the “big” bay, we’ll go back for the other.  So, what I'm trying to say is our plan is to move Lil' Wiggly, "Timmy!", and Oliver Closehoff to the new shop Saturday.  I doubt we’ll be able to get much more than that done though.  I imagine we’ll eat at Wasabi and then he’ll drop me at my house.  I'm not sure if I told y'all about the last time I took the Saiga 12 Kushnapup to the range with the “low recoil” ammo.  The short version is, “It still won't cycle the Fiocchi ‘low recoil’ ammo.”  If I really leaned into the gun and hung on super tight, it would cycle, but any relaxation and it would “stove pipe” jam.  My original thinking was, “Well, we just won't ever load ‘low recoil’ ammo in the Saiga 12.”  Then I started thinking, “That’s dumb!  What if all you can find after the fecal matter intercepts the rotating air-current induction device IS ‘low recoil’ ammo?”  So, my new plan is to take a selection of ammo back to the range once more and try to set the automatic gas-plug to cycle the stuff.  Once it will run “low recoil” ammo, it should shoot anything.  So, I think I might plan on another trip to the range after John drops me off Saturday… unless I'm so pooped I can't manage it, of course.  Oh, speaking of “courses,” when Larry bought whatever gun he bought at this last show, it came with a free CHL class.  Since he’s not planning to take it, he gave it to me.  When, however, I went to sign up for it online, I couldn’t find a date for their next class.  Later that same day, Monday I believe, Pat texted me to say that he is signed up for the August 17^th morning class at Shoost Smart.  I went online and signed up for the same class.  So… there’s that going on.  Well, since I've been in meetings most of the day, and haven’t had a chance to play solitaire, I'm going to burn the last hour of the day doing that.  Toodles.