Crain pivot pin is backing out of the LCR after 817 mostly powder puff loads. That's disappointing.

I asked Ruger about just putting it back with some locktight, and they said:

Rumor on the internet is that if it happens 3 times, you send it back and they replace the whole gun as it's 'unrepairable'. Guy in CA was pissed because he had to pay another NICS fee and wait 10 days again to get 'his' gun back.

Goldberg and I got an award in Q3 for the Epic deal. It wasn't big enough to qualify as the big deal or big win, but it was important to capture the logo, and there was no "new logo" award so we got the never before seen "knockout award". Whatever, it's a bottle of wine instead of some dump plaque so it's a win whatever they call it.

It and the wine from Wines and More are in quarantine for a few days. I had to open the box with a screwdriver and a piece of paper and not touch anything which is why it's just laying on the ground in bad light for the photo.

Thinking of wine and the wine fridge reminds me I need to flip the cheese. You're supposed to flip it every week during aging.

Broke out the pressure washer and cleaned the house, deck, and the gazebo and furniture. Now we can get out and enjoy the screened box for meals.

Today's other big project was adding a screen to the apartment coop. Couldn't get materials so I cut up some of those crappy 2x6s that I got from dad; managed to get enough straight-ish pieces to make it work. Half the door frame was that, the other horizontal pieces were make of the roost bar I removed. There is a lot of extra materials in the original build. I knew we over built everything but now it's becoming more obvious as I design new simpler solutions.

New type of bread, turned out well. Didn't have rye so I just substituted some wheat flour in there. The woman wants me to try again with the right flour at some point; it was good enough to continue to perfect.

Trying to find the screw size in the LCR, it was none of my 100 piece kit or my precision driver kit... but it was the 0.050" hex wrench on one set. Never used that one before, but glad it's on there.

Got that glock box off eBay. It's clearly a gen 3 box, bummer. But, it was cheap all things considered so it's good enough.

The woman made that spicy peanut bacon pineapple snack mix. Going to eat way too much of it over the coming week.

Wish there was something to report on, but other than being on a lot of work calls and toying with some CPOC 'try and buy' activities, nothing is going on.

I've moved my main desktop off my personal windows 10 laptop back to the work lenovo POS. It's just hard to bounce from RDP to RDP via VPN and all that to get to the CPOC labs. This thing is noticeably slower, but somehow it's going to be easier. Without having to go to customers very often (ever again??) I don't have to shut it down and move it much either.

Lots of work with the CPOC guys today, some of it interesting, some of it awkward. Other than that, and a run this morning, it's been a long but uneventful day.

No wait, there was the woman making a grocery run this morning. Risked the store, got some staples, got some chicken even.

Bread bowl experiment successful! I baked it in a Pyrex bowl to keep it small and high.

Added a simple handle to the screen door, it was slightly tricky to open without one. I thought I had a leftover from another project but I didn't, so instead of using an angle bracket I found in the parts box, I just cut a piece of scrap on the table saw and salvaged the already routed edge and stuck it on there. Works perfectly.

Got the garden planted with the seeds I traded the eggs to the neighbors for. I'm late to the party here and some of those should have been started inside, but it's all I can do in the situation. Something should sprout, if nothing else the peas since I always do those from direct planted seeds anyway.

Pulled the bikes out and got them cleaned up. So far all the tires are holding air!

The solar panel was covered in pollen and it was stuck on there, not coming off even with all the rain so I had to get up there and clean it off. Prior it wasn't providing much juice, enough to keep the batteries topped but not enough to run any load, but now it's showing the proper voltage even with the router running off it.

Power was out for 6+ hours so I had the generator running. Never noticed this warning before, I'm doing exactly what it says not to do. Hope that exhaust fan is keeping me from dying.

The rain didn't wash the garden away, so that's at least something.

G44 with the suppressor. Got it to the range today and on paper, and with the can on it's hitting 8" high at 15 yards. No wonder I was missing the damn bullet trap all the time. The threaded barrel without the can hits the same POI as the factory unthreaded barrel.

While at the range, I put just enough rounds through the G34 to get it to 30k. 30,031 to be exact. Looking just fine.

Turned some scrap into a house for Wobbles and Bob for use in their new coop. Also made a sand box that should be nicer than using cardboard boxes.

Birds have been trying to build a nest on top of the fan in the porch for a few weeks now. We keep cleaning it off (had to remove the screen on the bottom because the junk was falling into the fan blades) and they weren't being deterred from trying again and again and again. So... some wire screen up there should put a stop to it. It's not pretty, but it's the best I could do by myself. I should put a bungee cord around it to apply pressure from all sides and make the wire round instead of oval... if only I knew where the woman hid all the bungee cords in the last 'organizing' round.

First cheese taste test after 40 days. And... it's crap. Weak flavor, strong smell of feet. Fail. :(

Made some 'flat bread' with that funky pizza dough only yeast the woman got a while back. The package claims it's got something in it to make it easy to roll out, and they're not kidding. Even with minor flour on the mat the dough was super easy to roll out. I still can't make it round, or square, or any shape other than 'amoeba' but it tastes fine. Toppings were just ricotta, shallots and asparagus. Was very tasty... but we agreed that if there was just a touch of bacon on there it would have been perfect. Next time.

Moved all my email from the individual web portals on chrome tabs back to mail.app.

Against the woman's wishes, I crock potted some squirrel today. It tastes sorta like turkey neck, about that level of flavor, texture and dryness. Not really sure what I'm going to do with it yet but it's edible... if boring.

Busted out the table saw and made some 2x4s out of the old deck 2x6s. I trimmed off 1/4" of the 'good' side then ran them through again set to about 2x4 width. I hit some rusted nails that were inside the wood itself, can't be good for the saw blade. In the end though I got some usable pieces and started building yet another quail coop. This one will be a 2x8, and for me. The woman is going to let me keep some birds here after all.

Two dishes made out of the squirrel meat. Tossed it in with some marinara sauce and the basil pasta I made a while back, that turned out pretty good. Today was just some squirrel quesadillas.

Jason has been shopping for random crap, mostly because he's bored (can't blame him, I'm doing the same thing). He found this $200 FMK pistol at the local shop. It's hideous, but... none of us have ever seen an FMK. It's supposed to be a budget priced G19 clone, but... it's ugly. So who's going to buy it? Us apparently. I told him to stop sending it to me, but if he wanted to split it (and he has to go buy it) then we can try it out. If it's awesome, we can try to paint or rit dye the frame to a normal color. If it sucks, we can still dye it but then sell it and only lose a little money. if it turns out to be awesome, one of us can buy the other out. It's a safe bet for me, he's gotta buy it and sell it if we don't want it. If it sucks, we're each out probably $20 but get some experience with another manufacturer.

This is a Gen 2 version, so it's probably only a few years old. He bought it today, said it's been fired a little which is surprising. Mostly ugly ass guns like that are bought for some woman and fired a handful of times and then dumped in a drawer.

Some random youtube video was talking about Glock knives, asking if "they're good survival knives". The answer appears to be "yes", for $30 (actually $35 is the cheapest now and for some reason they're upwards of $47 at many sources) it's not bad. There are two versions, the 1978 design and the Gen 2 version with the saw back from 1981. The earlier versions have two logo designs, a round logo and then the more modern square one. I pulled mine out, it's a '78 design with the old logo. A Gen 1 knife! Sweet, goes with my Gen 1 gun.

I finished the new 8' hutch today, got the birds moved over and luckily Maxwell was around so I could actually take them all over there. No more birds in the garage! Yea! Cleaned up most that mess but still need to clean the floor lamp. Here's a picture of the hutch right before we carried it into the stall. I left the legs off and attached them there to make it easier to move around.

Moving the birds from the small coop to the large was tricky. There would be no way to move 30 birds by hand, those guys are too fast and snazzy. I tried to sneak up on them at night, doesn't work well. So, I made a cardboard airlock that joins the two hutches and managed to spook them enough to get them to fly through the tunnel. So clever.

Getting tired of pudding in store bought graham cracker crust so I tried this today for dessert instead:

Fired up the old mac air and made it a 'server' again. Moved the backup core, web and the document/backup server VMs off the security box to free up CPU on it, and installed a 3rd party RDP server on it so I can use the console for iMessage. I can turn off the iMessage VM this way, and I gain CUT AND PASTE! Finally.

There was an option called "reencode only if necessary" on blue iris and when checked on all the cameras the average CPU usage went from 100 0own to about 25%. If you do something like 'encode to disk' (which I'm not doing) or view a camera at a different resolution it has to then reencode video on the fly which pushes the cpu up to... 50%. That's fine. With it running so low now I'm not dropping frames either, everything is at 10fps which while low is pretty smooth. I might crank it up, or I might just leave it and give the CPU a rest. :)

I'm currently typing this via a VNC session to the NUC. I reinstalled the windows SSD and let it update, then put the linux one back and have been using it as a home box. It's probably overkill, and wasting energy so I should shut it back down. I thought about moving the web and core backup VMs back to the security box, leave the 'documents' one on the mac air and put a linux VM on there to act as my home box. However... without a UPS if the power goes out I lose the document hard drive anyway, so it's not gaining anything by being on the air.