Category: Personal

IHMSA match is this Sunday.  Got my red dot pistol scope in the mail, mounted it on the Mk.III and got it zeroed.  I shot a 24 with it, which is the best I’ve ever done on pistol.  Now this is indoors, where we scale the animals down for 25 yards to approximate shooting them at the outdoor distances.  I probably won’t be able to do quite as well outside, but I’m hoping.  Twenty four isn’t getting anywhere close to our top shooters, but it’s beyond the realm of embarassment, when you consider I’m shooting a factory Ruger Mk.III Hunter, and not a fancy Thompson Contender, or Anschutz Exemplar.

I will be shooting both Field Pistol, with the S&W 629, Production, and Smallbore, Unlimited Any Sights.  I may do Big Bore with a 629, Unlimited Standing, for kicks too, depending on how I’m shooting.  This means I will be furiously reloading .44 Magnum and .44 Special for the next two days to get ready.

Bitter and I paid a visit to the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. this weekend.  Not a bad walk around the tidal basin, except for all the other people.  This weekend was also the Kite Festival which gathers around the Washington Monument.

Everyone who goes to Washington really ought to go to the FDR memorial. It’s what you would imagine government bureaucrats, many of whom owe their jobs and livelihoods to the policies of FDR, would come up with. It’s basically a giant fountain dedicated to big nanny government. It makes me sick.

Today is the last day of my “early 30s”  From tomorrow on, for the next three years, I’ll have to consider myself in my mid 30s.  I might be able to push that to 37.  Sounds like a nice idea.  I’d only get two more years of “late 30s”, but that’s OK isn’t it?

… there is just no pleasing everybody.  I think next time I’ll just leave it at Happy Generic Holiday :)

Or is doing the whole daylight savings time transition several weeks earlier a lot tougher on the ol’ biological clock than it was doing it at the old “spring ahead” time?  I’m still not completely back on schedule in that regard.

Bitter was planning to come up this weekend, but Heller oral arguments are Tuesday, and all the cool kids are in town, and we got an invite to possibly have dinner with some of them, if there’s time, so here I am.

Went up to the BassPro in Arundel Mills Mall in Maryand today to pick up some powder and large rifle primers.  Based on availability, I ended up getting Unique powder, and some Remington Large Rifle primers.  Ended up picking up some shotgun ammo too, since I was there, and needed some.  Rreloading will begin Monday when my dies all arrive.

Still answering e-mails from last night.  Silhouette was crowded, so I got back late.  Then had to watch Lost.  This morning work is kicking my ass again.  Lots of bureaucratic stuff to deal with in addition to actual work.  Happens every once in a while when the senior managers feel like they aren’t in charge, whatever that means to them (usually wasting people’s time with meaningless garbage).  I could take up blogging full time if I got into senior management, as I think collecting a paycheck to blog would do a lot less damage to productivity then pretending to contribute something.  We’ll see how things go after lunch.

Today seems to be everything go wrong day.

Good thing about the snow: No work!!

Bad thing about the snow: Too hazardous to go see Bitter :(

Well, today I decided to spare my coworkers my plauge and stay home.  I woke up with a nasty cough this morning, so I can no longer count on copious use of hand santizer at work to prevent me from becoming typhoid Sebastian.

Last night I ran out of my drug of choice, Claritin-D, which you now can’t get at the 24 hour supermarket because the pharmacy is closed, meaning no one is there to wear the jackboot.  This morning I will have to go submit to the government anal probe to get my favorite Table I precursor.  How come no major candidate is running on telling the UN to go to hell and repealing this nonsense?  Does anyone agree with it other than power hungry politicians?

Either way, enough about The Man making my cold medicine a controlled substance.  Blogging activity should be close to normal.