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What are you doing right now??

i too got up early, again at 2 AM, but stayed in bed until the alarm sounded off.....so 4:30

got laundry in the dryer now, getting a head start on that for the wife.

going to the range later myself, taking one 45 or another, after i check the logbook.

no scraping the ceiling today, i finished that yesterday.......but cannot paint until friday mid-day, or saturday.

then onto the next room.
 
Bassbob said:
it's a piece of crap.
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Thus the name poverty pony. lol, but none of the other ponies i have were loose. i don't think they even tightened it at the factory. it was way too loose. it has two screws and neither was even snug. probably one of those last guns they made knowing they were losing their jobs and didn't give a crap. if it comes loose again i will get some red loctite. i may put an FRT in it...maybe. i got this thing really cheap and i mean cheap. but there is not a bit of slop between the two halves.
 
Reflecting on events. I had retired from the PD in 2000 and was settling into ranch life with a smattering of USAF reserve duty as an OSI Special Agent here and there. 24 years ago today I was on a 3 day assignment with the USAF reserve to give a threat briefing to a deploying AEF unit. I had been in the midst of building a horse breeding barn but had not put the roof on it and was anxious to get home to work on the barn. Instead as I walked into the Intel shop after the briefing, I watched live video of the second plane flying into the to WTC. My 3 day assignment became an 18 month tour, and ultimately I spent 6 of the next 10 years deployed to various places around the world.

9/11 changed my family's life profoundly. I was away from home more than 1700 days, my oldest son in USAF was deployed to the GWOT 9 times, my youngest son joined the Marines, son in law was deployed to Iraq as a Marine with the 1st MEF, and many friends and family had similar experience.

9/11 changed my family's lives profoundly, but ours is but a snippet in the context of the experiences of millions of Americans. It changed everything for all of us and continues to impact our lives today.

A few days ago I had the privilege to do a pistol skills course for some Navy and USMC student pilots, a few of whom were not born as of the 9/11 attack. We must not allow subsequent generations to forget the lessons of 9/11, nor in fact of Benghazi, or Pearl Harbor, the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Khobar Towers, Pan Am Flight 103, and the list of attacks against Americans goes on. Our defense is vigilance and strength, and the resolve to respond to threats with maximum violence. Never forget.

I lowered my flag to half staff yesterday in honor of Charlie Kirk and it remains so today in memory of 9/11. Never forget. Remain vigilant. Be strong. Be resolute. God Bless America.
 
Scraping and sanding hole patches and loose paint. Getting ready to paint. Sad and horrorified today, memories of 9/11, on top of a young husband and father killed needlessly yesterday and people almost celebrating it, and woke up to a father killing one son and critically wounding two others this morning in the nearby city. Grow more disappointed and disgusted with people every day.
 
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Hi,

I still haven't been to the range this week. Mrs. BassCliff and I have been helping the kids get their new house ready for move-in. The previous owners were pigs. Every surface must be cleaned, carpet must be replaced, many rooms repainted, it's a mess. After the cleanup I get to help them move.

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After all is said and done, I'm sure they will be happy there.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,

I still haven't been to the range this week. Mrs. BassCliff and I have been helping the kids get their new house ready for move-in. The previous owners were pigs. Every surface must be cleaned, carpet must be replaced, many rooms repainted, it's a mess. After the cleanup I get to help them move.

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After all is said and done, I'm sure they will be happy there.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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nice house, nice front lawn, which i'd hate to mow weekly....lol

its the way it is many times with some people and the lack of regular home maintenance.

best of luck to them...and your aching back.
 
got up early again today..this is getting tiresome.

now i have to wait till just after 8 to leave for a dental appointment.

when i get home, a good possibility i might paint all those scraped areas of 1 ceiling.

if all goes good with that..??

that 1 room will be done, and saturday starts another ceiling....

ah, the joys of keeping up with a house.
 
Finished cleaning up the Beretta APX after range session yesterday. The gun worked perfectly. I must say for $299 it was exceptional! The gun was clean both inside and out and didn't have a scratch on it. This was an un-issued police gun and I believe it came from Brazil. I just happened to purchase the last one from Guns.com. Honestly I have purchased other guns that were not as nice. This will be a range gun and I found it to be quite accurate and comfortable to shoot. After shooting 200 rounds yesterday i still didn't get a sore hand. I wanted a full size gun for the range and was not disappointed. This was the first Beretta I purchased as the military had issued me a 92--which I hated. No optics can be installed on this gun which makes no difference to me as you can read about in my other posts. Honestly I should have purchased this gun years ago. I think AIM is still selling this gun for the same price as guns.com if anyone is interested.
 
Went chootin, took the bear creek upper on the poverty pony lower and shot twice. both times the cartridge hung up and i had a heckuve time gettin it out. so took over to house and hit the chamber with wire brush and took back and same thing. so i went to the gun shop to see if he could polish it. he looked at the chamber and said a dirty word. lol this chamber is screwed. he got out a bore scope and good grief it looked like it was shooting rocks out of it. deep gouges and looked bad. i called bear creek and they sent me a return label and said they will replace it. just have to box it up...

Now while i was there he handed me my 9mm and said it's done, go out back and try it. i did and came back with a smile. so iwent across the street and made a video. kinda too far away from it but oh well. the FRT worked fine.

 
just finished supper....

2 pancakes..........


that's all i wanted......and the wife cooked them up.
i am in some arm pain, and some back pain.....

painting all those areas that i scraped paint, i was stretching too far forward, and backwards, to save time from moving the dang ladder.

could have been worse...to have used a brush, go all around the perimeter of the ceiling, and then using a roller on a long handle, to do the whole ceiling.

worse how??

keeping my arms extended, for a longer period of time.

tomorrow..??

assemble a coat rack (free standing), and a shelving rack (floor type stand)...to give my arms and back a rest for sunday's scraping of another ceiling.

its a beech to be old, and not want to call my son(s) to come over.
 
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