11/15/13

Almost as soon as I shut down the rant yesterday I remembered something I could have told y'all.  When I walked out the front door to come to work yesterday I found a Hello Kitty tuque and birfday card on the bench on the front porch.  It was from Amy and Sam Chambers.  I took the swag inside and then went to work.  About halfway to work I regretted chickening out on wearing the tuque.  It was warmer today so I didn’t need... ok, I pussed out again.  I'll wear it to the shop in the morning… except we’re not going to the shop in the morning.  I just remembered that John has some stuff he needs to do to the 610 at his house before the dude coming to buy it arrives.  We’re meeting there, working on that for a bit, and then going to the shop.  The dude buying George is coming in the afternoon to do that transaction as well.  What I'm thinking is, I'll build my tool cart while John works on the 610 and then we’ll go to the shop.  Oh yeah, after dinner last night, a “meh” ribeye and equally “meh” shrimp enbrouchette at Saltgrass, I drug mom to Harbor Fright so’s I could buy me a tool cart.  We discussed this yesterday, remember?  Anyhoo, we pulled up to the front door and parked in the handicap spot.  There was a “fixie” bike out front which caught my eye.  It was pink.  I said, “That is one pink bike!”  Mom grunted something in acknowledgement and I got out of the car.  I went in and began to look for the cart.  Fortunately, it was right there by the register.  I grokked the display unit and said to the dude at the register, “I want one of those.”  He found the appropriate box and I paid for it.  After dropping it in the trunk, mom asked what I'd bought.  I pointed at the bike and said, “A pink bicycle.”  She didn’t believe me so I pointed out the cart I'd actually bought.  At the house I tossed it in the back of Fifi and went in to open the packages which had arrived.  Oh yeah, the magazines and pouches I'd ordered from Midway had arrived as well.  Man, I really did have stuff to tall y'all today!  Anyhoo, I went to my room and unpacked the six new STANAG magazines for the Hebrew Hammer then stuck them in the pouches along with the six I already had.  I'm not sure how I'm going to link all the pouches together for battle, but something will come to me… probably.  Speaking of preparing for battle, I also tethered the cover for the optic to the gun with one of those Velcro cable management thingies.  Now, all I have to do is pull the cover off and it flops to the side but stays with the gun/optic to provide protection when the fire-fight is over.  I got the idea from the gun show where the dealer selling the Tavor with factory optic had zip-tied the cover to the cooling holes on the side of the gun.  I was going to go with zip-ties but didn’t have any at the house… and I think I like the Velcro thing better anyway.  When I was done “playing with” the Hebrew Hammer, I grabbed the Saiga 12 and flipped up its sights.  A quick flick of the weapon up to the shoulder and BAM the sights just lined right up.  I'm quite pleased with how that project turned out.  I need to take it to the range and sight them in now.  Perhaps that gun will go with me to the shop on Saturday.  We’ll see.  There is another gun show this weekend so Larry and I will be doing that Sunday.  I'm thinking about looking for a Kel-Tec Sub 2000 in 9mm.  I've talked about them before.  It is a pistol caliber carbine rifle which folds in half to make a tidy little package… they also use Glock magazines so 30 round sticks are available!  Of course a Kel-Tec KSG would be pretty awesome as well… since I am now a “Bullpup Guy” I guess.  The Sub2k is half the price of the KSG though, and I've wanted one of them longer, so… well, we’ll see.  I'm also shopping for the Meprolight MX3 magnifier to go along with the Meprolight M21 optic on the Hebrew Hammer.  If I find one of those, a new gun is off the table.  There was a guy with Saiga 12 ten round magazine pouches at the last show… well, he didn’t have them then or I would have bought them then, but he said he’d bring them to the next show.  I'll be on the lookout for him because I really want a way to tote around my Saiga 12 magazines conveniently.  Let’s see, what else will I be shopping for?  I can't think of anything right now so I guess that’ll be about it.  I'm also about out of stuff to say so I think I'm going to call it a rant.  I'll let y'all know how the weekend went down on Monday.  Toodles.