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My final weekend installment of Gun Pron consists of a couple of small items I picked up this week. First is the R&R Scope Throw Lever , which fits certain brands of scopes, and an easy-to-find and easy-to-use control of the power setting ring.

Here it is on my Leupold CQT. It's big, and ugly, and works like a charm. Reach for the setting ring, and you'll know when you found it.

The other item is something new (at least for me) in hearing protection. It's the SensGard hearing protector, and it claims to offer up to a 31dB in noise reduction. It claims to work by redirecting most of the noise that hits your ears to the sealed chambers, where it cancels itself out. A safe portion of the sound is left to travel into your ear.

I got mine from Amazon.com after reading the reviews. I'll probably have a chance to test them this week, although I'll bring my regular ear muffs as backup.

Mmmm... Leupold CQT. I really like mine. I kinda wish I had it with me right now.

I just landed in SFO... am here for the whole week and weekend. The SOX audit is underway, then I have a principals meeting over this weekend. Blech.

Between the time I got in the air, and the time I landed, something has gone utterly sideways with the audit. Apparently somebody in my group has disappointed me very much. Something they were very precisely and specifically asked to do... was not done. In fact they were asked some time ago why it wasn’t done... they said they’d take care of it right away... and it went undone. Now it appears the SOX audit has discovered that it wasn’t done. What was this thing? A simple thing. A particular new account was supposed to be set to auto-expire after six months. It was set up without the auto-expiration. This oversight was discovered before the six months was out... and [person] was asked to please make sure that the auto-expiration was set correctly. He said he’d do it, and then just a few weeks ago his manager reviewed the accounts and found that it had never been fixed and would he please do it NOW.

It appears that he just blew it off again, and now it’s an exception in my audit.

In the entire six year history of SOX audits here, I have so far had a grand total of ZERO exceptions, either in the internal or external audits. A record I have been very proud of, BTW. Not too many IT groups can say that.

I am not a happy camper. Dang, and I was having such a nice day...