For the newer visitors of RNS, I used to do a weekly music post called The Soundboard. I had to stop when we started running short of memory and then just got lazy and have kept putting off and otherwise procrastinating on starting it back up.
The procrastination is over.
You see, work was just a royal bitch last night and I haven’t looked at the web for nearly 14 hours, which might as well be a lifetime as addicted to it as I am.
So I have nothing with which to write about.
Unless you want to hear about the excellent news from the ‘Guessers in Long White Coats’ (aka doctors) or the kewl news from the guy who built my Boomershoot rifle.
OK, but just the gunsmith stuff. You don’t want to know what I went through yesterday at the hospital.
I have found a deal on actual M14 receivers and my gunsmith and I have made a deal that will get me one when I return from Boomershoot. Unfortunately, he will not be the one assembling the rifle for me, at least not initially. He has a decent amount of knowledge of M14’s, but being mainly a bolt action guy and not having much call for custom built M1A’s, none of the tools for assembly. So unless I want to buy the tools for him, he can’t put it together. But he will point me to someone else who can. He says he can and will do the final tightening up work of accurizing and bedding, but headspacing and the other critical stuff will have to be done by someone else.
No worries. If Mike says this guy is good, I’ll trust Mike’s word.
The actual good news is that while I was there, Mike asked if I had decided on the caliber of my next bolt action rifle yet. I said that I had decided on building a .338 Lapua after finishing my M1A and he said that he was quite glad I had decided on that caliber and proceeded to show me why.
He knelt down below his work bench and pulled out three expertly wrapped bundles and proceeded to unwrap one. When he was finished unwrapping I wished I had brought my camera.
He held in his hand, a brand new, unbarrelled CZ550 Magnum action with set triggers.
He had a customer request one and he had ordered three extras for future use. The one he had opened and handed to me was built for the .375 H&H cartridge and Mike said that he could easily make it work with a Lapua.
Way Kewl!
It is mine.
Anyway, where were we? Oh yeah, music.
After yesterday morning, this is how I felt
Canned Heat – Jamiroquai
Some of you folks will recognize this tune from the movie Napoleon Dynamite
And if the beat to that one is too slow for some of you, try this.
If you get there quickly, you’ll be able to link into a rave happening live in Tokyo.