I caught a blade through the basket the other day and while nothing bad happened, it was about 1" away from really bad things happening. While I wait for the real liner to be made (ordered already) I put this together out of tape and that high density foam from Sean. It's ugly, but it works for now.

Made the strawberry yogurt pound cake for the FIRE book club brunch thing and it was the best part about the FIRE book club meeting. Nothing wrong with the people, just more delusional FIRE people who aren't interested in history as a guide.

Used some scrap to make a quick amp stand. No reason the amp can't sit right on the ground I just thought this would protect it from careless vacuuming a bit.

Too much swords, golf, guitar and shooting and my wrist gave out in protest. Actually went to the doctor and got x-rays and everything and got this brace to wear for two weeks.

I am not getting skunked on the sweet potato harvest this year. Dug up a few as a sample and we turned them into hash. Very tasty.

Match today, and I walked out after stage 3. Started out OK, got really slow and then screwed up stage 3 really bad. Two no-shoots, some misses... it was garbage. All strong hand only but still, I practice that. All this dryfire is NOT paying off. If anything I'm getting slower because I'm more aware of what I should be doing and not just doing stuff.

Also, I really didn't want to be there today. Weather was perfect (overcast and cool, no sun in your eyes or anything), squads were smaller, etc.

Dinner at Figulina for our 19th anniversary. I'm normally pretty adamant about not paying for Italian food since it's so easy to do at home but in this case they specialize in pasta and not quasi-Italian stuff (chicken parm). I had the double sided ravioli which was pretty damn good. The dough is two separate types with two separate fillings they form together into single ravioli of two types. It works, and not sure I could duplicate the technique.

Hey look, a legit double feed in the G34. Starting to malfunction more as of late, but the round count on the springs indicate it's due for service so it's not too surprising.

The pick for this month was one of the cheap ones I got in a multi-pack just to give the woman more colors to pick from. A few weeks in and I noticed that everything is getting covered in this gold colored dust as the pick slowly disintegrates. Then, catastrophic failure. So much for the cheap pick.

Lugnut isn't doing well. His patella keeps popping out of joint which I imagine is painful and keeps him from being able to walk, sit or stand. The vet has been out twice so far while we figured out what's wrong. The last time the woman was at work so the vet taught me to reset his joint. Ick. You can feel it's out of joint and then with a little pressure it pops right back in with a snap. Ick.

The first draft of my story is officially complete. 167k words in 50-ish chapters. Some chapter numbers are empty (unneeded stuff that was deleted) and others have 7a and 7b style labeling since I had to insert things for pacing. Now, we move on to editing.

Last night I went to a 'writers salon', basically a gathering at someone's house for writers to socialize and (optionally) read some of their work. It was all people from the Sunday group so I knew everyone but it's the first time I've heard any of what people have been writing. They're all... a lot better than I expected. Makes my stuff seem lame.

Green Ops shooting class yesterday.. and when I got there I thought I was in the wrong place. It started at 8:30am, I got there at 8am and there was no one there. Then at 8:15am... still no one. Was there a road closure I missed that was holding everyone else up?

By 8:30am one car rolled up. The instructor. Turns out I was the only student. He could have canceled obviously but chose not to. I basically ended up with a 7+ hour private lesson. We worked on all my issues exclusively so it was a very productive day.

The thing that bothered me the most was that when I tried his random Walther with a larger dot window I was able to shoot faster at 8 yards getting all alphas with it than I was able to just blindly fire the G34 into the berm. His claim is that yes, my gear really is holding me back. I'm now chasing a few hundredths so the little things are starting to matter.

I find that both shocking and disappointing at the same time.

Moved the Fiesta over to the in-laws garage. Kinda worried about it over there for some reason but the van is leaking again and I need to get it out of the rain and try to seal it up. Easier doing that if the fiesta isn't getting rained on in it's place.

Two upgrades to the G34 based on the class feedback. I'm not ready to get a new pistol yet and all that's involved with that so instead I put that cut down backstrap back on and upgraded the optic. Hopefully the extra plastic up high will force the gun down without so much effort on my part and obviously the larger optic window will make tracking the dot and finding it again much easier.

Everything came together just fine, no stripped or broken screws this time. Will hopefully get out to zero it tomorrow.

The SCS has been moved down to the G21. I didn't know it would fit but it does. The MOS depth and screws are the same, it's just that the cut is a little wider. Looks good enough, and now I have a dot on the 45.

For the FIRE thing next month they're doing a Power Point party instead of a traditional intro. Everyone fills in some template slides and they'll run them on the screen during dinner. I think. Anyway, for the 'other stuff' part of the last slide I decided to not hold back. No hiding who I actually am. Probably going to freak out some pearl clutching libs, but I guess it's better to try to attract the like minded vs. trying to hide from the enemy.