Range trip today to run some rounds through the new G19 and a few through the G20. Was bullshitting with Sean and Jason until the woman texted saying Taco was sick and the vet was on her way. Uh oh. Came home early, hopefully it's not too bad.

During social time I told them about Krista (not by name, just a story of picking up a chick because Jason was talking about how hard it is to date during the plague). When I got home I sent them photos and they both said was creepy I had them, but then I had to tell them about the magic of the journal and how lots of things are detailed out. Like this.

The new sights are mounted up, look good and work well, and the tritium vial in these 'cheap' ones it about 2x the size of the ones in the Trijicon, and are WAY brighter. Who knew?

New carburetor for the wood splitter is here, but it's not exactly correct. Bummer. It's got a choke on it and the one on the splitter does not. So do I use the parts out of this one and attempt to fix the original, or swap them and just disable the choke function, or.... just do what Scott says and keep trying to get the junk out of the original one? At least the fuel cut-off valve is here so I can install that and not have to keep dumping fuel everywhere when I take things apart.

Nothing says "new Glock" like that magic gold grease...

I made these, they're brown sugar sweet potato biscuits. I had to make the Bisquick myself since we didn't have any and then cut the whole recipe down (it makes 17 biscuits). They turned out OK, and I froze most of them and tried baking some this morning. That worked, they're good with coffee. So, now I have another thing in my binder of stuff that is good and easy to make.

Sometime after I left the range today, Sean had a failure with his new G19 (he got one a week before I did basically). One of his handloads....

First Decker is hurt and needs a vet visit, and then Taco gets sick and the vet has to come back out again. Damn goats.

Kenny contacted me last month to check up on me since I dropped out of the signal chat, and now the woman got this from Dennis today:

People trying to track me down. I responded to Kenny, I assumed he would update the rest of the old group.

Got the log splitter running again. The replacement carb isn't right, but the gaskets and internals are so I swapped them over and it fired up. I also got the fuel cut-off installed so now I can run it dry vs. leaving gas in the carb.

This happened a few weeks back, but I forgot to put it here. The woman got a 2nd return put in the office HVAC system so there is some return air flow when the doors are closed. Normally they expect air to flow under the (un sealed) doors but with the doors soundproofed that doesn't work. Now it can draw air from both sides of the sealed areas. She also wanted a new thermostat so they did that. It's a 'commercial' one, not sure if that just means it costs more because, or if it's actually wired different and not something I could have done. Either way it's done now, she just has to put another coat of paint around it since the new one is much smaller.

All of the goats are feeling better. I swore Decker was going to die on us, he looked like he was about to drop dead (shaking, eyes rolled back in his head, stumbling around) but he recovered. Another emergency vet visit and 2 shots and he's back to normal.

I asked the woman to get me some sort of Chinese frozen stuff at the store, and she tried. It seems like it would work, food + rice in one container, but it's not even mall food court quality. Bummer. Not sure how something so full of salt, sugar and MSG could be so bland.

Split a lot of firewood today, actually everything I could. The new stuff is just too wet, it won't split it just bogs the splitter down and then mashes it's way though leaving impossible to stack ragged pieces. I'm going to wait on that stuff.

I did put all the rounds at least on their side to dry faster, but I didn't haul them all over to the wood shed. Maybe another weekend.

Looks like the socialist candidate just won the 2020 presidential election, but the less-shitty party isn't totally out of power so hopefully nothing happens but lots of gridlock and more of the same garbage our .gov is so well known for.

The journal just came in handy. The woman was trying to figure out when a bunch of unlabeled pictures were taken and I was able to grep my way into finding the events and getting dates.

So this is kinda fun. Guy on the forum had some '94 ban era LE only marked G23 mags, and no one really wants G23 mags anymore so I got 3 of them for $45. That's cheaper than just buying new mags (by a lot) and these looked like they were in good shape and are something unique.

It slots right into the 'collection' for the G23. I have the pre-ban mags it came with, then a crippled 10 round during ban mag for the peasants, the marked crown use only mags during the ban, and an after-ban which I think is a gen 4 because it's got the reversible mag catch cutout.

Power just flickered, didn't lose my PC or the router due to all the new UPSes, but did loose the upstairs wifi AP which means the macbook when off-line which means this web server was cut off. Hmm.... closer to having a resilient infrastructure but not quite there yet.

A tree fell at the range last week and Sean and Jason brought some trimmers and a weak ass battery powered sawzall to try to clear it which got it down to mostly the trunk. Today I brought the smaller chain saw and cut it into firewood sized pieces, brought it home and after Beth and Michael finished visiting, I split it and stacked it. More wood!

With the failure of the Midwest Industries optics mount I was a little bummed, and hesitant to try another so I basically didn't for a year. Now I've tried the MCarbo mount and I gotta say, it works. It's not as nice when folded because it's hanging out the side, but it does hold zero so points for actually working.

Zeroed it, shot a bunch, then shot half a mag at 25 yards, flipped the mount open 10 times and slammed it back closed, finished the mag. No zero shift that I can see. Going to keep it.

Made the first deep dish pizzas last night, and had to actually throw out the first batch of dough. It was way, way too wet, the recipe was totally wrong on the water amount. On the second batch I used about 25 0.000000e+00ss water (added half then kept adding as needed). That's a pretty egregious flaw in the recipe, I mean I get it's more humid here but that's a lot to be off.

I wasn't sure I wanted the 'toppings to the edge' style so I put them in the middle and pushed the dough up to make an actual crust. It wasn't bad that way, but the burnt edge thing is part of the 'deep dish' definition, apparently.

Edible either way.

Made some zucchini bread to use up some of the pre-shredded frozen packs of zucchini I made up from the garden... last year. Old, but it seems OK. If we get food poisoning, we'll know I was wrong.

I used 1/3 less oil, didn't substitute in apple sauce because I didn't have it, I just left some out. Seems to have worked, took a little longer to bake but that could be the extra moisture in the zucchini.

Last night I tried to make some chocolate pudding from scratch. It looked right, but when it cooled it solidified to the viscosity of... caulk. Gross, so into the trash it goes.

The woman is on a tear in the kitchen. First off this amazing mushroom and asparagus salad...

and then her mom's butternut squash lasagna tonight. Yum.

There was a wounded deer in the yard, dragging itself around for a few days so the woman wanted me to put it down. He's no longer suffering. 147gr 9mm with the can. Quick postmortem check showed it's right rear hip area was crushed/broken. Must have been clipped by a car.

Whatever those winter blooming flowers in the yard are, they're starting to do their thing.

I feel like there were several other important things to put in here, but now I can't remember what they were.

Some pictures from thanksgiving. Lamb pies were the main.

Two tasks done on my list of crap that should be done but that I really don't want to do. Got the old Honda generator drained of fuel (and tried to repair the leak but found it has 2, and the second is going to take a lot of work since it's on the side of the carburetor) and got the truck tires balanced and rotated.

Dad and his woman came over for dessert/coffee on Friday, that was reasonably OK. Dad is pretty down, wouldn't really say much and after through some texting and prodding from his woman he told us he has PAD. Oy.

Range today, mostly socializing but some shooting. I brought out the P7 and put 50 rounds through it; gets so hot I can't imagine having to use one of these all the time. Maybe they didn't actually practice that much in the 70s.

The woman has me watching The Crown from the beginning and it's actually a pretty good show. You really have to pay attention, it's a soap opera but with a lot of subtle details. I actually like it.

Used some of the 'work from home' stipend from work to get a small UPS to put on the laptop in the woman's office so it won't need to be reset every time the power blips there. The replacement battery I got for it didn't last very long, not going to waste my money on that again.

Processed the quail today, the first batch laid, hatched and grown all on site. Kinda cool.