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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 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!
We’ve got the church clothing/toy sale coming up. And thepool is doing a yard sale in October. We’ll buy a space there.
We’re not ready either.
Well, one of my hard drives has apparently gone tits-up. 100 GB of music, bye bye.
I still want to test it in Hair’s computer to be sure, but I’ve tested it on both IDE controllers on my machine. The drive is spinning, but completely fails to be recognized by both BIOS and Windows.
~sigh~
But I can replace it with a 500GB USB drive for under $100. My, times have changed.
Bummer, man...
That rug really tied the whole room together.
Man, rug pee-ers did not do this. Like Lenin said, look for the person who will benefit. And you will, uh, you know, you’ll, uh, you know what I’m trying to say—
It was the nihilists?
I’m thinkin’ that wouldn’t save me much cash...and I’d need about thirty years to work on it.
Oh, and I’d need a crochet pattern insteada knit.
They were throwing it everywhere on Friday. Mostly it was coming back and hitting THEM! It was a joy to watch!
I’m gonna have SirKit read your post. He had a hard drive go out on him earlier this summer; the one with all our IRS data on it from this past year. EEK! He found a guy in town who was able to retrieve the data, though it took him 12 hours to do so. I don’t remember exactly what the problem was, so I’ll have SirKit tell you what transpired.
Thanks. It’s not vital data or anything, it would just be a hassle to have to copy everything from CD all over again.
It's amazing to see how this has gotten the RAT anthill in a turmoil. They've even forgotten about their own VP candidate. As far as experience and life story goes, Palin has more than Obama and Biden combined.
Things are so bad, lots of liberals are trying to think up good attacks on Palin on their own while waiting for the official party line from the great echo chamber. So far, it's been "damning with faint praise" because there's no official slime for them to use yet.
This is exactly the same panic I saw when the soviets shot down KAL flight 007. The RATs then were dumbfounded for a month. The first anti-American slime came within a week, but it took three more weeks for the blood libel to be put through enough media spin cycles so that it would become normal RAT gospel by the end of the month. 9/11, being on such a bigger scale, took a couple more months to rewrite what our own eyes saw.
Meanwhile, Obama is already acting like he's the president, and is having his goons threaten radio stations with the DOJ and IRS if they go anywhere near Stanley Kurtz. And you can bet they're looking for sealed documents they can use, like the did with the old Bush DUI. Maybe the world acclaimed him the messiah in Berlin, and the election is just a mere ratification.
Desperate or not, they're all just a bunch of lousy fascist thugs.
I waiting for some Dem to make public the fact that she smoked marijuana, and make it out to be some big bad nasty thing. She admitted that long ago, and it was, in fact, legal in her state, at the time. She said she tried it, but didn’t like it, so she didn’t continue using it. They’ll also bring up the investigation about her in Alaska in the firing of the Public Safety Commissioner. Considering the number of Republicans she’s pissed off in AK, I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of them pushing this issue, as well.
Chain 4000....
*snort*
Thanks to eBay, I have Ghost.
Now, thanks to you, I have the motivation to Ghost my many drives.
Geez, my machine's My Computer is a conglomeration!
I need to build a new system just to get my drives all under control!
Lessee ... two 500gig internals, probably another USB external (which will require a second USB expansion card, I think). And let the real data reside on a NAS.
I have to start picking up parts for our new systems ...
Uh...yeah...that’s quite a span....
Actually, the first item isn't that small, if your weapon has acres of "cheese grater", like my DPMS SASS. Magpul finally sent out the foliage and OD green XTM two-piece rail covers. With the tan ones, I was able to come up with a decent color scheme approximating the Army ACU colors;
The rifle is one long piece of black, so I'm doing my part to tone down my EBG.
The newer panels have a slight engineering change applies, with rounded corners and a taper added to the central tab to make connections easier. After fiddling with the first couple of panels, the rest went on (and off, if I didn't like the combination) easily.
Then, while looking for something I've now totally forgotten about, I came up with this oddity I picked up (cheaply) at a gun show ages ago. This is Canadian 7.62mm NATO (DA 63) ammo packed in a "scuba weight" bandoleer.
It's made of rubberized fabric with plastic pockets heat-sealed to it. Inside each pocket are 10 rounds of ammo. I'm not sure what the total belt held as far as ammo goes, because it was "demilled" by cutting off the straps.
When I bought it, over 20 years ago, the two center pockets were still sealed, with the rounds still inside. The other pockets had been opened as part of the demonstration process. I think I paid $5 for the thing, including the loose rounds.
So I decided to open the last two pockets and report on what I found. First, they were a bear to open, even with the large pull tabs. Second, a green tarnish had started, probably from outgassing of the rubber or plastic.
Waxed paper lined the pockets, but the green gunk appeared on parts of the brass that didn't touch anything, which makes me think this was a reaction to gas. Here's the 20 rounds taken out of their cocoons for the first time.
I cleaned one of the rounds. Half the green stuff wiped right off with a rag, where it was the lightest. I used a little bit of Flitz (an extremely mild abrasive polish), the the round cleaned up acceptably. The round one the left is the one I cleaned.
I think I should have left the "weight belt" submerged in water for a few hours as a test, since I was going to open the last two pockets anyway, but it never occurred to me until I started writing tonight's edition.
Wonder if magpul makes those for the SOCOM II cheese graters !!........:o)
*sniff* That’s so sweet.
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