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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
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I like him better without all that hair!
BWAHAHAHA!!! I guess y'all DID feel old!
I seem to remember hearing about a concert in Mobile AL back in 1974 with a band, The Doobie Brothers", and the tickets were $ .50!! You reckon they were BRANDY NEW? ;o)
SSQ cut his auto mechanic's teeth on Rebel; he had a lot to learn and something was always going on with it and it gave him quite an education.
I forgot to wish everyone a Happy Mardi Gras, but now it's Ash Wednesday.
First are the Camillus BK2 and BK3. You can't see from the picture, but both of these knives are made from 1/4 inch tool steel stock, making them VERY "beefy". The sheaths are kydex, a hard plastic material. The handles are also quite large, even for my large hands. There is nothing dainty about either of them.
Then there is the CQB1/2/3 series. There's more of a story here. First, the photo:
The CQB1/3 have kydex sheaths. Included is a rubber strap to make a belt loop to use the sheath inside the pants. There is also a belt clamp on the back side, which I will show more of later.
The CQB1, shown underneath our current CQB3, has brush finished bright blade of 154CM steel. This is a premium knife steel, and was first used for turbine blades in the hot section of jet engines. The tool steel of the CQB3 is great, 154CM is fantastic. It is highly rust resistant, and can be polished to a blinding blue-white finish. I guess if you have to take the knife out of the sheath, it doesn't really matter how subdued the blade is any more.
Below it is the CQB2. I thought it would have the same handle as the CQB1, but with a shorter blade. It turns out to be a 75% scale replica of the CQB1. It isn't much bigger than the Hobbit Hole CRKT at the bottom. The blade is ATS34, the Japanese equivalent of 154CM. It has a more "tactical" bead-blast finish.
The CQB2 has been discontinued, so I got 15 of them (which listed for $150) for $40 each. I'm not sure if I can find a home for them in the military, so I pinged Steve for his opinion. Maybe they will be prizes at shootmoot.
The CQB1 and 2 have smaller, shallower grooves in the tang, compared to the 3. Fortunately, I found a tapered needle file with a flat bottom that fits perfectly. I filed the handle grooves on a test CQB2, and the 76 grooves only took me about 15 minutes to do. The improvement in grip security wasn't as great as on the 3, but still improved, and seemed comparable to 16-lpi checkering. Photos of this, and other details, tomorrow, as I work my way through a sea of boxes, most of which will have to be thrown away in the name of space-saving.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
The Falcon : the Adventures of Peregrin Took
dont ask me how I came about this. Here's my review of it that I put up on my blog:
I have just spent ALL NIGHT reading the entire thing...and you know what? All you FanFic writers who ATTEMPTED to write all your lame-brained version of Peregrin Took just need to go and wipe off all your prattlings, because sweethearts, this author has YOU ALL BEAT. I don't think there IS any fanfic as good as this one. I have yet to find it. The author has Pippin down to a T and not just from the fragments that Jackson and Boyd put into the movie, but the REAL Peregrin that I see every time I pick up the book to re-acquaint myself. I have always felt there was a WHOLE OTHER STORY underlying LOTR, and this is it. And it SPELLS OUT EXACTLY how I see the friendship between Frodo and Pippin...unlike the pathetic preachings I have seen in other fanfictions. Yeah, you know who you are : the ones who liked to write Frodo as the frustrated and disgusted one. You never really did read the story. Or love it. This author did.
Anyway, if you get so far into the story without laughing, I guarantee you, you WILL at a certain crucial moment where the author manages to slip in a very well known pop-culture lament ... and it will be PERFECTLY NATURAL. I was laughing harder than an obsessed person should at 3:00 am in the morning.
And if I weren't such an egotistical wretch myself, I'd remove my own story from the web.
But I am. And I won't. Because I love that character and it felt good to blather in my own wandering way...because The Falcon was EXACTLY how *I* felt about Pippin.
THAT was Peregrin.
*sigh*
:)
Izzit Friday yet???
Naw...Stephen does, but in my case, I never got into what I can't help thinking of as "fake folk". Which may well mean I'm missing out, I suppose.
Do like some of her lyrics, though.
Good morning!
Still in a cantakerous mood after last night. I guess my trouble is that I have a tendency to seek the approval of others, and when I'm excited about something they disapprove of, it grates on me. I shouldn't care. And I tell myself I don't. But...
Anyway...
On the bright side, I sold the bookcase, as I said last night. And the people may buy some other furniture. Also have someone interested in some other things...almost everything is spoken for at this point. Now to get to work on the cats! I'm not sure how to go about that. Petfinder.org, maybe? Or the local vet's office. But Halvah is going to be far harder to say goodbye to than the dogs were.
Gah...maybe I'll be more cheerful after coffee!
never had that pro'lem...
Now to get to work on the cats!
I never considered Joni Mitchell as much of a folkie as say, Joan Baez. Her music seemed sort of jazzy, and that was very obvious with "Court and Spark", then even more so with "Hejira". My sister is a bigger fan than I; she has all of Joni's CDs.
You are SO BAD! LOL!
heh... just read that Baltimordor's murder rate is three times that of LA...
where can I send more ammo?...
Yeah, I think you're right.
As I said, I think Stephen has some of her music. And I do like her voice.
s'muhjob...
the Lipizzaner Stallions are gonna be here the 26th... mrsnad's gettin' a bunch of homeschoolo families to go so we can get a group discount...
Hey - that's a really neat show, I saw them years ago on one of those tours, and would go again if they came up this way. They really are magnificent.
Won't the family take a couple cats? Cats are so easy!
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