Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
'The People who Walketh in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light
His Name Shall be Calleth Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Merry Christmas to all who believe in Christ, Happy Holidays to those who do not'
Merry Christmas to all Hobbits! There should soon be a bunch of hard news about casting the Hobbit movies.
Looks like the nayber across the street likes his new snow blower.
Does he like it well enough to do your driveway? Nary a hint of snowplow in our side of theshire. We’ve been digging out the vehicles and replenishing the bird feeders. Sure has drifted a bunch since yesterday.
Jackson Silver has staked out his spot on the top of the computer desk.
Heh. Not for free. Guess I don’t qualify for old lady discount yet.
I think we should get free snow removal services when we buy carbon credits.
We were ready to head to the store when Gypsygirl indicated an overwhelming desire to go for a walk. So...we took her around downtown, quite a few businesses were closed and there had been a fairly good effort made to shovel off the sidewalks. She came back tired and grinning, we got to admit it felt good to be out there. Guess we’re in for another round, it’s really a picturesque snowfall.
So, I pondered this question earlier on Facebook. I’m working (more or less) in thehomeoffice today and have themovies on.
Seems that only Legolas and Gimli weren’t tempted by the ring. A friend suggested it was because they weren’t human. But, in the movies at least, Galadriel was tempted. Was that accurate to the books (I can’t recall)?
Okay...so all day the two neighbors are in and out driving for short trips. Where are they going? What are they doing? Can’t they run all their errands in one trip?
You’re good people. I know those folks are thrilled to have that venison!
Thanks for that link about the handguns. We’ll have to peruse that before we go shopping!
It's pretty, isn't it?
We had a good Christmas dinner last night with Paul and Sarah, and her parents. Then tonight, we went over to Somerville to get Paul and Sarah all married up! It was a lovely wedding, and SirKit’s brother’s sermon was good; Paul’s friends said they liked it. I even got SirKit out on the dance floor at the reception for one dance! But it was great to get back home and out of those fancy shoes, cause my feets were hurting!
First order of business is some small stuff. In this case, I learned that when a Wilson Combat magazine falls 29 inches to a tiled floor, it disassembles itself. I accidentally knocked it off the table, it hit the floor, with the spring and follower shooting off in one direction, the bump pad and floor plate in the other. The mag body stayed where it landed. I guess it was "equal and opposite reactions".
I put the pieces back together, and everything was fine, nothing broken. Out of curiosity, and watching the Mythbusters Marathon, I loaded the same mag with seven rounds of dummy ammo, and let it drop again. Everything stayed intact, except the top round came out of the mag about a quarter inch. Lacking their high speed video, I can only guess that the empty magazine bounced, and a vibration node of sufficient magnitude started, being strong enough to let the bump pad flex off the mag body, and freeing all the internal parts to take off. The loaded magazine had enough weight to prevent bouncing, and also provided enough stiffness to keep everything in one place. I'm not sure what the scientific conclusion is, except that Wilson Combat mags can survive a 29 inch fall, empty or loaded.
I also got a neat gadget, the $20 Marble's "Catch 22". It's a plastic storage device that holds 50 rounds, and hooks on a belt. It seems like a good way to carry some .22 ammo without it rattling around in your pocket, or those teeny boxes that can never be repacked neatly.
There are ten holes, each holding 5 rounds. The lid uncovers one hole at a time, letting you dump five rounds out without disturbing the other ones. It also looks like a great way of storing "special" .22s, in this case, dummy ammo.
Tonight's main story is a status upgrade on the Sig P229. First, the status of the .40S&W conversion unit.
So I now have 500 rounds, two spare mags, and no conversion unit, yet. The ammo is a special LE version left over from the 300 million rounds that DHS bought for their standard sidearm, the P229. Someone did the math, and that comes out to 113,000 rounds for each handgun. That's a bit more than even my generous standards calls for, which leads me to believe DHS was fronting the purchase for someone else. The "civil security force"?
Also on the Sig scene, I got two more mags for the .22, and converted them to 15 rounds, too. I'm still waiting on the followers that will hold open the slide on an empty magazine.
And as much as I liked the feel of the stock Sig grips, I invested in a set of Crimson Trace lasers, based on what I liked on the Kimber. They're very nice, but not exactly what I expected.
Due to the thinness of the original grips, CT made these thicker, and rubberized part of them. On the Kimber, they were hard plastic, and no thicker than normal grips. I then figured out that the Colt-type grips had enough thickness for the recesses that held the batteries, circuit board, and wiring. The Sig grips were too thin for that, so they had to make chunkier grips.
They're comfy, but just take a bit of getting used to, along with the slightly different switch mechanism. The Kimber has a single switch in the middle of the frame. The Sig has two, one on each side, just below the magazine release. In theory, both are activated by the middle finger. But right now I'm finding I have to adjust my "natural" grip a bit on the Sig to turn on the laser. I'm sure it will become second nature soon enough.
I was also puzzled why I wasn't seeing the laser beam all the time. Then I realized the grip I was using (the only safe way to handle a weapon when you're not about to fire it) was blocking the beam.
Again, something for me to practice until it becomes second nature. Get to know your weapon before you're faced with a "situation".
Evening Win Mag - very interesting, didn’t expect the wilson mag to ‘diassemble’ itself; that could prove to be a pita in either competition or practice. Nice weaponry btw. :-)
Probably because none of us regularly let magazines of any kind drop on the floor, so we have little data to go on. I was surprised that the Wilson flew apart without any damage. That told me that whatever happened, worked much like disassembling one properly.
The fact that a loaded mag did not fly apart hints that loading it up strengthened things up, with even the compressed spring adding to overall stiffness. I suppose different brands, dropped at different heights, and loaded with different amounts of ammo would produce different results. But since I don't have a government research grant, I'm not going to bother with further testing.
It’s been a very Corin kind of day.
Started at my Mom’s having to call AAA ‘cause I locked the keys in the truck last night. As I was getting ready to call them Jr. called and said that the kitchen ceiling was leaking. Yes, that would be the one we just (finally) painted in October after the last leak. So we came home a day early.
Haven’t found the leak but it’s somewhere around the toilet we had installed when Nana moved in. They rigged it a bit higher for her. So, at the very least, we may be able to retrofit that.
Somewhere along the way either Luke or I managed to goober up the controls for the Wii. So I have to sort that out. And Jr. installed a new game downstairs and now the DVD player is disconnected.
On top of all that, my parents have the world’s worst mattress in their guest room. Not Valerie ended up sleeping in a recliner. I stayed in the bed, much to my regret. I’m here with heating pad and contemplating a vicodin.
So, basically, life is pretty much normal for us...
Pretty indeed.
The road closures were less so.
I don’t mind snow one bit, as long as I don’t have to go out in it at all. ;o) Thankfully, the job I start next week is not too far from here, and apart the hill on which we live, the route to it is on roads that get plowed pretty quickly, the main one being a state highway that gets plowed immediately!
yeah... pretty much...
snicker
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