Random Nuclear Strikes

No, no, no. Not rangeday with Carnaby Fudge. That went well. I was able to get the .22-250 re-zeroed and reconfirmed the zero on the .444. And I got to do so with a couple of guys who can shoot rather well. February will see another rangeday with them.

Also, there’ll be a big plug tomorrow for somethings I saw at the range yesterday and am putting in my house.

No, what sucked is that Firefux (which is what I’m currently calling it) decided that Epic FAIL was the order of the day last Monday.

If you noticed a disturbance in the force here last week, that was it. Every single link I had saved went toodles. Not having any available time this week, I’ve spent that last four hours getting about 50% of them back.

XP’s “System Restore” was FAIL as well, as were the back-ups on the hard drive. Only complete removal and complete reinstall of Firefux worked at getting back on the intarwebz without IE (always save a copy of your favorite browser on your external drive).

Oh, if only I were brave enough to try a Linux based browser.

Yesterday was my birthday. I now have 25 years experience at being 12 years old. At least that is how I see it.

I spent it, for the first time in a long time, at work. I’ve been taking my birthday and any connecting weekend days off for well over a decade, but someone beat me to it this year, and it wasn’t so bad.

While working, I was contemplating becoming a Stoic, but decided that The Wife would probably get annoyed rather quickly by that move and it would probably also lead to a deep drop in the RNS hit count. So I guess there’ll be no new resolutions this year.

I did my ritualistic birthday shopping at Midway.com (they give you a 10% off birthday e-coupon when you sign up for their mailing list). It was slightly mute by a lack of funds due to new homeownership and all, but I think I did rather well anyway.

Today, I’ll be at the rifle range with Carnaby Fudge who, unlike me, will be going to Boomershoot. It’ll be just a general shoot and BS session. I’m hoping I can maybe give him a few pointers as well as see how well he’ll do with my Boomershoot shooting bench.

Tomorrow I will be going down to The Mom’s for my birthday lunch and get to meet a 72yr old friend of hers who wants to talk about getting her first pistol for self-defense.

Never too late, I say.

In the “that’s pretty cool” department, take a looksee at the Lenticular Clouds forming off of our resident volcano, Mt. Rainier. The house we looked at before the one we bought had a spectacular view of the mountain, but it was more expensive, had much less land and needed an entirely new kitchen and a furnace, so we went with value instead of sightseeing.

You all take care of yourselves. Congratulations to CalGuns (The work of Saints, they’re doing down there trying to make the place habitable). I’ll see you later.