North of the Border

Howdy y’all,

We’ve had a visitor to the Shooter Map from Canada (she actually left a comment and everything, I’m so excited). Now, currently there are no volunteer mentors in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but I’ll go poke around the discussion boards a bit and see if we can find one.

If anyone knows anyone who knows anyone … chat up your friends and shooter buddies.

 

please and thanks.

OJT

i wonder how many hours i have to clock on the phone to tech support  before i can get college credit for being bi-lingual

word of the month

despondent

there is too much to even really complain about

top 3

every day the sun has been out the last few weeks, I’ve been sick. Apparently I’m not on the invite list for the Ark this time around either.

The local fire ant guild has been building a secret base on top of the master water valve. Not a big issue unless someone in the house feels the need to f–k with the broken faucet and switch it from broken and off to broken and on. Horizontal jets of water, flooded bathrooms and ant bites, oh my.  Oh yeah, the meter box where the valve is located has filled up with mud and sludge and worm poop because of all the rain.. so you get to enjoy the prone firing position while you dig in the secret ant base with a small garden trowel to find the valve …. while the bathroom fills up with water and the ants enjoy what must amount to a bountiful harvest.. healing up nicely tyvm, I enjoy the itching scratching and oozing.

Phone shopping:  The gent at the Apple store overcharged me (by approx $550) on the last iPhone purchase (#7 was smashed in a fit of rage when the gps quit working 75 miles from home). I managed to find a source for the correct price, and I convinced them that YES DAMMIT they would give me the correct price and credit the overage to my card,  but the BubbaGumpApple rep couldn’t work the paperwork for anything but a full refund. I took the money (in the form of a CC refund, which I haven’t seen yet) and left #8 at the store. No longer an Apple customer. I probably shouldn’t be pissed about a full refund but I am.  Maybe it has something to do with turning off the phone service to the house last week and telling everyone to call my cell # instead …..or spending 75 bucks 3 days ago on the extended warranty for the phone I don’t have anymore or the $$ I burned on apps I can’t use anymore…. or the lack of ice cream in the freezer

huh … whaddya know … I CAN complain about it ….

if you’d like the rest of the top 10 you can gimme a call….DOH!, nvm ..

Parlay

Ahoy matey

It be talk like a pirate day
So stick to the code

credit report tip

Just fyi for anyone thinking of consolidating student loans:

Make sure the old loans are in good standing before the consolidation.

The creditor will report the status of each loan as of the consolidation date. Any past due or defaulted loans will continue to be listed as derogatory for 7 years even though they’ve been paid in full and closed.

Consolidation closes the accounts without making them current, so your loan status is frozen…… for better or worse …..until death do you part….

Asking “what will this do to my credit?” or similar question, in no way ensures the student loan people will tell you all or any of the above

This may apply to any loan being paid in full/closed. I dunno, I’ve never lump-sum paid anything else on my credit report. I suppose if you can afford to PIF you can afford to make it current first, so it shouldn’t be much of an issue, just an extra step and extra time for the new status to filter through the computers and be reflected on the report.

wildlife menu

what do the critturs here in Texas eat when they can’t get cornfed yankee?

there’s more creeping, crawling, flying, jumping, biting stinging stuff here than I’ve ever seen before. It’s like a Stephen King novel in my backyard.

one of the ‘little’ red ants tried to bite my foot off and when I stomped him his whole family crawled in my shoe.

Just FYI .. sitting down on the neighboring anthill to remove your shoe .. not a good plan. No matter how bad your foot hurts do not let the ants ‘trade up’. Dancing on the anthill wishing you hadn’t gotten out of bed that morning is not really any improvement on an already bad plan. Trying to spontaneously develop the ability to levitate in order to take off your drawers without putting a foot on the ground … not a good backup plan. I suspect they’re called fire-ants because dousing yourself with gasoline and lighting yourself on fire is the only way to get the little buggers off. kerosene maybe.

I wonder if you can cross an anteater with a rhino….

I can’t take fruit off a tree out here without half the countryside taking a bite out of me… makes me all warm and fuzzy to think about the poor bastard from DC that will get tasked with putzing around Texas to take the guns off the people. There’s a gecko on the wall outside that’ll have him for lunch.

gun dr

today I’m making a trip I’ve been dreading for a while …. the S&W 1911 has to go to the gun shop.

During the last cleaning I discovered what appears to be a crack in what should be metal.

Now these old tired eyes are even older than my old and tired glasses so it may be a scratch and not a crack.

If it is a crack I’ll be seriously disappointed … the pistol is barely a year old and has made less than half a dozen trips to the range. I’ve never put a full box of ammo through it on any one visit, so it’s reeeeaaaaly low mileage.

If it is a scratch I’ll still be disappointed …. it lives in a padded box, so unless I scratched it somehow with a toothbrush coated with Hoppes it seems unlikely to be damaged from anything I’ve done to it.

update: machine mark apparently. I guess my eyes have improved enough since I bought it that I can actually see it now. I did find a similar mark on the opposite side, so the idea of machine marks is ok.  Still, it seems a bit irregular for a machine mark imo.