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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
LOL!
Have you hit the bottom yet?
Ah...that is a good resource. Especially the last name list - I’m turrible at coming up with last names.
Nope. No rain here (yet).
I’m watching the Cubs.
Hehehe. The camera guy showed somebody in the crowd dressed as a pirate. The announcer was wondering what that was all about since the Pirates don’t come in until Friday. They then got a deluge of emails explaining that it’s “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” He was a bit incredulous.
Aargh! Avast, you wireless pirate!
Heh...you mean he didn’t have it marked on his calendar and circled in red? Doesn’t everyone??
OK, I need to get cleaned up and clean in here a little and then I’m gonna have dinner and watch more Doctor Who. I was worried I wouldn’t like the new guy, but actually he’s a lot of fun.
I thought the part where he picks out his clothes from the closet on the TARDIS and they show various things from older Doctor Whos was a nice touch - a poofy shirt like Jon Pertwee wore, scarves, stuff like that.
I may find the bottom tomorrow :~)
Heh. He was muttering “I don’t believe it.” Then the camera guy was picking out people in the stands with “pirate talk” posters: “Go Cubs, Arrrrggghh!”
I can’t remember if the new doctor found a pennywhistle or not. I’ve got all the episodes of the first five doctors on my hard drive and I need to put them somewhere. Maybe I should just buy a big external drive for them or something....I don’t really want to burn that many disks and I still have a couple (that I know of) doctors to go.
Yeah, I liked the old Doctor better but this one is... well, he’s easy on the eyes, for one. And a bit more obviously angsty.
Could be! I only saw that once...don’t recall details.
He’s cute, though, in any case. Not really handsome in a Hollywood sort of way, but totally cute.
Did he pull out Tom Baker’s scarf? The scarves the kids wore at Hogwarts always reminded me of that.
I wish Netflix had a more organized collection of the older ones. There probably isn’t such a thing, I suppose, but...it’s a mess trying to search for them by season or anything. I think I’ve given up the idea of renting them because it’s just too complicated.
Do you have a DVD burner? Could fit quite a lot of ‘em on DVD if you have them in avi format or something like. And DVD discs are cheap now - fifty cents or less.
yeah, I think I’m on my second or third burner. :) The last ones I’ve burned are towards the end of the Pertwee era.
I admit to frequently thinking “Awww...the Doctor needs a hug...”
Sometimes he needs a slap.
I still have to watch the last four of that season...
I’m on the third disc.
First, I deactivated the magazine safety. In my opinion, magazine safeties aren't, for both tactical and safety reasons.
On the FiveseveN, a spring bar is pushed up by an extended rib on the right side of the magazine, putting pressure on the trigger bar, and allowing it to contact the sear. The trick is to keep pressure on the bar, even with the magazine gone, to trick the safety into thinking everything is ready to fire.
After reading about various ways of disassembling the weapon and removing the bar, I settled on the "10 second fix", which can enable or disable the magazine safety without taking anything apart. This borrowed image shows the safety after it is disabled:
The bar is usually below that little block, where the magazine rib can bend the end upward, contacting the trigger bar. I used a knife blade to pry the end of the bar away from the side enough to slip a small screwdriver blade underneath it, and then lifted it above the block, where it puts full-time pressure on the trigger bar. To enable the safety, just pry away the end of the bar, and move it into the slot below the little block.
The other tidbit was the arrival of a couple of CMMG +10 magazine extensions for the FiveseveN. When 20 rounds isn't enough, you can have 30.
The plastic FN magazine is built much like the Glock, with a tab in the middle of the bottom edge locking the magazine body to the floorplate. My Glock mag tool came in handy, and with just a little squeeze the floorplate slid off. The extension, with its longer spring, attaches to the mag body like a floorplate. Then the original floorplate in again placed on the bottom.
It's not elegant, but it is 30 rounds in a handgun.
Heh. There was that time when Rose's mom slapped him upside his head.
30 rounds.......
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