11/18/13

I meant to send some picture links to Spiderman when I sent the rant last Friday but forgot.  Hopefully, when the tale of Sunday comes up in here, I will do that.  But I don’t expect to get to Sunday today because Saturday was kind of full.  First off, as mentioned Friday, I met John at his house to watch him work on the 610 before its new owner arrived.  I built my tool cart while he replaced the master cylinder then I watched as he replaced the rear brake cylinders.  When it was discovered that he didn’t have any brake fluid, we broke for lunch and went after some.  After picking up the BF, we went to a sushi buffet at Cooper and I-20 where we proceeded to eat too much.  Back at his house we bled the brakes and declared the car “done.”  We hopped in Fifi and headed to the shop.  We unloaded the stuff we had in the truck and then went around back to get George.  We rolled the car to the front of the shop and went back in to look at Lil' Wiggly's motor mounts.  We fought the bits out and discovered they weren’t as bent as I'd expected them to be.  I welded a strengthening truss/rib thingy in anyway.  John painted them while I zooked up the gas pedal someone in California wanted John to fix for him.  I think as I was finishing up that, the dude coming for George arrived.  We dropped John's “new” four-door 510 in the back and then loaded George on the trailer.  I showed the guy some of the car’s eccentricities and then pulled the old “Look at the watch and say, ‘We gotta get going,’” routine.  They left, after paying me for the car of course, and then John and I began shutting down the shop.  We totally forgot about the engine hanging from the hoist over Lil' Wiggly.  We “dropped” it down so the front pulley was sitting on the radiator support again and decided it would be fine.  I took John home and it was decided that I needn’t wait for the guys coming to get the 610.  I went home.  Ok, so that didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it might to tell.  I wonder what I left out.  Hmm.  Well, Sunday morning I get a text from Larry saying he has a sore throat and wouldn’t be going to the gun show.  I said I was but wasn’t going to try and talk him into it.  I did go.  I left a little early so I went for a hoon around Las Vegas Trail and Heron Road before stopping in at the credit onion’s ATM for some more cash.  At the gun show, everyone asked where Larry was!  I was surprised at that.  Anyhoo, remember Friday how I said I might shop for a Kel-Tec Sub 2000 in 9mm?  Well, I found a couple but none which used the Glock magazines… until I got to The Doctor’s table.  See, there is this doctor who is also a gun dealer.  Larry bought a Saiga from him at his doctor’s office one time.  We like this guy.  When I walked up to his table I saw a Kel-Tec S2k on his rack.  I looked at the tag and saw that it DID use Glock mags… it was also $200.00 CHEAPER than the others I'd seen!  Needles to say, I bought it.  I took it and the sling I'd bought for the Hebrew Hammer down to the car and then continued shopping.  At the Russian’s table I asked about the Meprolight MX3 optic magnifier.  He showed me what he had and said it would work.  Being the gullible dumbass I am, I bought it.  I mentioned buying the S2k as well and he asked which magazines it took.  When I told him it was the Glock model, he said, “You need fifty round drum mag.” Or was it “You need fifty round drum mag?”  Either way, he had a fifty round drum magazine for it.  I bought it when he knocked $20.00 off his price.  I shopped the last few rows, ‘splainin’ to everyone why Larry wasn’t there, and then left before I could do anything else stupid.  I stopped off at the Flying Fish and ate most of a batch of frog legs.  Yeah, it is something I do from time to time to remind me why I don’t eat frog legs all the time.  They aren’t “bad,” but I forget that they aren’t all that good either.  Anyhoo, after that I went home.  I beat mom there!  It was then that I realized I flew through the gun show in about half the time it takes me to do it with Larry.  I installed the optic magnifier on the Hebrew Hammer and played with that for a bit then installed the sling I'd bought for it.  I think it’ll work once I play with it some… the sling that is.  The optic magnifier “works,” but it looks like it sits a tad low and I'm not too happy with the way it locks onto the Picatinny rail.  I'm not ready to scrap it yet.  Oh, I forgot that I also bought a case for the Hebrew Hammer… it didn’t fit.  So, with all of that gun’s entertainment value cashed in, I moved on to the S2k.  I unpacked it and grokked it.  I popped in the fifty round magazine and swung it around sighting stuff in the room.  I like it.  I removed that mag and put in the seventeen round mag and did more “Pew!  Pew! Pew!” around the room.  I really like this gun.  I folded and unfolded it a few times and then read how to remove the bolt.  I pushed out the pin and pulled the bolt free.  Yeah, that was a mistake.  It was a total pain in the ass to reinstall!  The hammer interferes with the bolt and has to be pushed down to clear.  They don’t mention that in the book.  I got it back together and found a spot for it in the gun cabinet.  It sits nicely on top of the shorter back-wall “holder-offer” thingy which organizes the shorter long guns and keeps them from touching each other and the back wall… sort of thing.  Don’t worry about it, it makes sense to me.  Well, I've just been called away to do some actual work so I'd better call this one a rant.  Suffices to say, the rest of the evening was a waste and doesn’t really need to be narrated.  So there.