An eight point buck in the yard. Bow season is over, now on to muzzleloader season... the wife is hoping this guy stays up closer to our yard and is 'safe' because if he wanders down to the end of the street... it's going to end up in someones freezer.

Couple of upgrades to the M500. A new front sight that hopefully won't fly off under recoil, and the official magpul sling mount. Now I can reuse my existing sling.

Yesterday, or Thursday, I don't remember... anyway I saw Eds had a G43x MOS on their web site and although they didn't email me (I'm on the wait list) I just counted myself lucky seeing it there and bought it. I was going to leave the OEM sights on it, but it turns out they're not really usable in low light when the light is coming from the target (like when it's lit up with an ALL THE LUMENS flashlight). The front is too thick and fills the rear notch and since the light is in your face and not on the sights you can't see the 'ball and bucket' to line things up. These are the same XS sights I put on the G19.5 MOS, they're not tritium in the rear (which I'm OK with) and they don't hang off the back like the Trijicon do when mounted on an MOS slide with the dovetail way toward the rear. Also half the price, always nice.

It's pretty cold today but we went and played 9 holes of frisbee golf anyway. Actually 11 holes, on the Holly Springs course the 9th is on the back and 10 and 11 are on the way back to the parking lot so it made sense to play those as well. We found a frisbee way the hell off in the bushes after the woman hit a tree and sent her disk flying 90 degrees to the course. It cleaned up pretty well and Dave said it's a good disk (5 5 0 0) for my throwing speed and should make a nice mid range flier for me.

After frisbee we went and picked up sushi and Thai that we ordered prior. For a restaurant that does Thai and Japanese, it was acceptable in both.

Using up some of that zucchini left over from the BBQ the woman went to but didn't end up grilling at... I give you... my zucchini bread fleet:

Guitar practice is going well, I'm noticeably better. I've switched to using one of the kitchen table chairs (they say don't use a chair with arms and they're correct, it keeps getting in the way having the guitar bang on the arms as I move around) and want to setup the app on my tablet so I can get away from my computer desk. The subscription covers both the app and the web site, which makes sense since you can just hit the web site from the tablet anyway if you had to.

Tried to churn butter in the Kitchen Aid and it failed. They kept talking about using the whisk (fine, we have that) and splash guard (have that too) and eventually running the speed up to 10 to get it to separate. Around speed 6 it was clear that this was going to make a crazy mess even with the splash guard and such so I stopped and reverted back to the old churn. The cream was still too cold so it took a while but getting creative on how to hold it so it wouldn't flop around on the counter and I got my butter.

This was of course so I could make freezer biscuits, the woman specifically requested them. It's good when she actually likes the stuff I make.

The woman cut her thumb while out sawing wisteria vines off a tree. She refuses to wear gloves when using tools, and this is one of the side effects...

Two day shooting class with Steve Anderson last Friday+Saturday and... it was OK. I'm not high enough level to take advantage of a lot of what he's teaching. He's going for getting A class guys up to M or GM, so, yea. Not me. Still learned enough to use, especially tweaks to my dryfire routine.

Not the most amazing meal, but I was using all 4 burners to make tortillas, beans, frying pulled pork and making the 'street corn'. stove cred?

Picked up a 17HMR Badger (for $200!) from a shitty gun store down in Goldsboro. This is going to be the 'van rifle', in the knife bag that was hard to fit the 22 in with the optic. Why 17HMR? Well, with the iron sights it's a shorter range rifle but with the 17HMR cartridge there will be zero drop within the usable range. So... in theory if you had to shoot at squirrel at 7 yards or at 47 yards, it should be dead on. Also... I wanted a 17HMR. :)

Buying a 2 pack of the quick release pins turns out to have been a good idea. How could I have possibly known I would get a 2nd one of these? Hmm....

Got some knock-off magpul slings off Amazon and the hardware is so out of spec they just fall out of almost every QD socket on every rifle. Lame. To return them I tried the Amazon Locker thing, just got a code, went to the locker place about 8 minutes away, punch it in and put the package in the door that opens. Easier than trying to get the UPS guy to grab a package off the porch.

Oil change on the van today after spending 1.5 hours running the leaf blower. Lots and lots of fall nonsense out there.

Assembly line making sauce packets for my asian chicken dish. Used up all the brown sugar and ketchup and had to get a little creative on the last two... using BBQ sauce and white sugar. We'll see how those turn out, some day.

Got brave and tried the level 1 test in the guitar app. Turns out... I'm not very good yet. No one is surprised, it's going to take a lot of work even to get the basics down. But that's like everything, get the basics to where you don't have to think about it and then you can get fancy.

What is surprising is that my thumbnail generator thing could deal with the .png file. No errors, no incorrect extensions, just.. worked. Can't remember when I changed it to deal with other extensions.

Cleaned the chimney so we're ready for real winter now. The soot that came out looks like finely ground coffee.

Looked up when I got the guitar, and I've basically been at it a month now of daily practice. So from no idea, to failing the first test in only a month! :)

Turns out when you finish the test and pick 'exit' instead of trying again it shows you what you did:

The mushroom salad we made last year, made this year with the 'wrong' mushrooms. Couldn't find any hen of the woods so I ended up getting a few sampler packs and too many baby bellas. It was OK, but not as good as last time.

Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey meatballs and gravy (outsourced the gravy since we have no bird to make it out of), glazed carrots, corn pudding, the aforementioned salad and leftover squash soup eaten first. Oh, and pie. Which I have no photos of, but the woman made 2 apple pies.

Made up two dozen bagel dogs today, about as large of a batch as I can make at one time. Some turned out kinda puny, my dough division wasn't accurate and it probably wasn't kneeded correctly since the dough ball was so large. Turned out OK, and now they're in the freezer for lunches.

I figured out I can save the foil wrappers and reuse them, so 8 of these are recycled. One is damaged but I'll still be able to reuse all of these next time.

The woman was going to make spaetzle for dinner tonight, but I got a wild idea to try to make white bread for grilled cheese sandwiches. It looks OK, we'll see how it does as sandwich bread here shorty.

Worked. Not the best, but edible.