7/1&2/14

And we are officially halfway through the year.  Wow.  So I was looking at my SKS the other night and noticed that the face of the bolt, where the firing pin protrudes, has a bit of a ridge.  It looks like a volcano of sorts.  I am concerned that it will cause the weapon to “slam fire” by setting off the primer of a round when the bolt slams shut.  The guy in Bowie, Texas where I bought a bunch of internal bits for this gun claims that it will cause “popped primers” by acting like a hole punch, cutting out the center of the primer when fired.  He only charges $10.00, plus $2.00 return shipping, to fix the problem… so of course I’m going to burn a dozen or so dollars’ worth of gasoline to drive up there and have it done.  I’m planning on cutting out of work around 1500 h (it used to say “tomorrow” here) and running up there.  Feh, this isn’t doing it for me right now.  I think I’ll take a nap.  I actually started this rant yesterday but never got back to it after I got bored and went to take a nap.  Now it is Wednesday and I have to go back and delete the word “tomorrow” from the sentence where I say I’m cutting out early.  You didn’t even notice it, did you?  Of course not.  So, I have the SKS in the trunk waiting for me to take it to Bowie to have the bolt face smoothed… and other stuff.  I fingered while I’m gambling my job by having a semi-auto rifle in the trunk, I might as well have some ammo as well.  Y’know, just in case the gunsmith wants to try the thing out.  So there are also 100 rounds of 7.62x39 on stripper clips in the gun bag… and my eyes and ears, sort of thing.  And now I just have to wait another seven hours before I can go up there.  What is the emoti-vator thing for “drumming fingers in frustration?”  Meh, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.  And by “dangerous” I do mean “potentially boring as hell.”  Ok, so I get a call from John last night asking if we can move the shop day to Friday this week as we will both be off and he has stuff to do Saturday.  I said that would be fine.  Hopefully some more parts for Lil’ Wiggly will arrive before then!  I don’t really need all of the stuff I ordered for the car to make it run… but the O-ring for the fuel cell and the electric fan mounting kit will come in handy.  I can’t install the remote air filter without the silly-cone coupler which isn’t due to ship until… HOLY FUCK!  TWO WEEKS FROM MONDAY?!?!?!?!?!  Well, that’s blowful.  I just made the mistake of going to e-Bay to look for one.  Yeah, there are a bunch of them.  I probably would already have it in my hot little hands had I gone that route.  Chalk one up to… shit, I don’t even know up to what that should be chalked.  Global Warmi… I mean Climate Change!  I’ll chalk it up to Climate Change… somehow.  Oh, speaking of “Tin Foil Hat” stuff, I was on the shuttle with Larry the other day and the subject of Richard Hoagland’s wacky interweb site “Enterprise Mission” came up.  (I’m trying to insert a hyper-joiny-intergoogle thing there.  I wonder if it worked.)  I said I hadn’t checked it out in a few years and wondered what they had going on.  Well, I went back yesterday.  It looks like they have been on hiatus for a bit because the stories seem to be rather old… at least the one I read was.  It was about some glowing spiral anomaly in the sky over Norway, Sweden, and Russia back in 2009.  When I mentioned it to Larry he said, “Oh yeah!  I remember Ray talking about that and he hasn’t ridden on the shuttle in years!”  I think I’m going to search out a few more wacky conspiracy sites today.  Might as well get my name back on those NSA lists, amIright?  Y’know, other than the “Right Wing Gun Nut” lists I’m already on for reading The Truth About Guns and Google searching things like “Tavor trigger,” or “.50 Beowulf AR upper,” or “Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle,” or “naked midget oil wrestling.”  Wait, I’ve never searched for that!  I can’t afford a Barrett .50 cal, why would I search for one?  Anyhoo, now that my train of thought has completely derailed, I guess I’m going to go do some searches in the “Tin Foil Hat” arena.  I may link some of the better ones tomorrow… if the black helicopters don’t come for me in the meantime!