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I've gotten into a much better paying career field, and have decided it's time to really play with some firearm ideas. I've always ever had a 1911, and a .357 magnum revolver. I've decided I like the idea of only having to worry about 1 caliber. I really like the 1911 platform, and really like the fact that somebody makes one in .357 magnum but frankly, it's not cheap. Does anybody here have any experience with one and can let me know if it's worth it?

Part time just isn't enough money. I could try and do that as a second job once I have a vehicle, as far as that goes me and my girlfriend finally got a car, an old beater, then it got totaled 3 days later. Now the insurance company is saying she was at fault even though the guy T-boned her as she was coming out of Papa John's and hit her REAR driver side tire. On good news they dismissed everything in court, so I can finally put that nonsense to bed.

Oh yeah, got done with court. It was rescheduled again to the 14th. Just wish they would've told me that. As far as a trade goes, I have been looking into trying to become a butcher. I really like the idea of it. As much as I like to cook I really learn more about different cuts of meat and my best work has always been in the seasoning of the food before the actual cooking, I just haven't had much luck breaking into that here in Nashville. I'm limited to places I can walk to if I have to, and the only grocery store meat department job I can find in that area is Krogers and they only do part time. Plus I'm fat and hairy and built for cold weather, so spending a good chunk of a shift in a freezer isn't an issue for me. As far as the drinking goes, I really don't do that near as much as I used to, but I am someone who likes to have a couple of beers after work on a regular basis, and some good scotch on special occassions.

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Thanks everybody. I do appreciate the advice and support. I wasn't sure if yall would have any interest so I didn't get too much into detail but I guess I will now. I've matured a lot since the Domino's ragefest. I would also like to note that the franchise owner of that location (and several others across TN) has since lost those locations. Apparently he couldn't keep them afloat, and I was to discover that I was only the beginning of a wave of staff walking out at my location. Let's see, I kept bouncing around different pizza places because, if you've driven before they'll hire you without an interview almost every time. It didn't work out at Applebee's not because of lack of resolve, but because I literally discovered at the job that when I'm in a kitchen sober I can't find anything to save my life. When I cook at home I'm usually drinking, and the result seems to be that when I've some alcohol in me it's like I already know where everything is, even if I've only been in the kitchen once before in my life. Seriously it kinda freaks me out a little. The prison job I left of my own volition for a variety of reasons, not because of any lack of willingness to see things through, I started off working Mobile patrol for them and became the best in the state at it. I'm not exaggerating there either, when the commissioner was going to stop by the prison and inspect our mobile patrols by surprising us and showing up on perimeter road in his personal vehicle, my shift commander called me because the prison found out he was coming in on one of my off days and they wanted me there. I turned that post around from a place where they put people who couldn't run a pod into the place where if you can't hack it on mobile you get sent to run a pod. After my shift commander retired the new one changed my post assignment to a wandering post (different pods from day to day). The result was me picking up a lot of other peoples' slack only to do it all over again, while getting flack constantly from inmates cause I was the guy who enforced the rules, but I couldn't get it to stick cause I was never in one pod longer than 1 day in a row. I didn't like the fact that they took something I took pride in (my mobile post) and ruined it by re-staffing it with their worst officers, but I got splashed in the face with urine and my Cpl. actually sided with inmate because I refused to give him an extra chow tray, I'd decided I had had enough and turned in my two weeks at the prison. The gas station job I left because of circumstances. I couldn't work enough hours with my school schedule to make the money I needed to cover bills. It was somewhere during the gas station job that I started the relationship I'm in now which has greatly helped me mature, but the prison job did too in it's own way. I went back to Papa John's to drive for them while I was in school. My girlfriend moved in with me to get out of a really bad situation with her roommates after getting screwed over by her company. She went to work driving my car for Papa John's while I went to school. Nursing didn't work out. Honestly I never should have gone into it. I only did it because the state would pay for it but that was a stupid reason to make that decision. Money got tight, I ended up going back to work inside for Papa John's while my girlfriend drove. Car crapped out. The reason I failed phlebotomy wasn't exams. It was the field portion. You have to have a certain number of sticks with a 77% success rate. I found out late in the program that I had little to no chance of making that ratio, after doing my own math to check my numbers. That's when I talked to people to get some help and found out my classmates were mostly just lying about their sticks and not reporting their misses in order to pass. I refused to do that. Even if you toss integrity out the window it's downright stupid to begin a career by giving your future employers false expectations of your capabilities. A lot of other things were happening in this time. I lost a good friend to cancer. A good man. Another person who helped me become a lot more mature, just a little over a year ago. Me and the girlfriend have just kept working, walking to work when we have to, getting rides from friends when we can. We saved up, and got another car from a friend just last week. Which then got totaled a day later as my girlfriend was leaving the store right after her shift. So now here we are, keeping our heads above water, trying to sell a variety of things to recover in between paychecks. Oh, I forgot to mention, I picked up a bogus DUI charge in Williamson county back in July. I actually go to court tomorrow morning to finally get it sorted. I was actually the designated driver for my girlfriend coming home from a party. I got pulled over for speeding, officer asked about alcohol, I admitted to him we were coming back from a party but I was sober and that's why I was driving. They put through a field sobriety test which I apparently failed, refuse to breathalyze me, so then I have them take my blood. This was back in early July. Court date gets set for October, October comes I hear from my public defender that the alcohol results came back 0.00% (as I knew they would) and I go to court to find that the court date is getting moved to 12/5 since they need more time to test my blood for drugs. I can assure you all that will also come back clean. So yeah. It's been crazy. My girlfriend and I have been each other's rock throughout all of it. And I've even left out all the backstabbing "friends" even going so far as to try to cause strife in our relationship.

R Jolly? I delivered fairly often to a guy named Roger Jolly. Seemed nice enough. Always tipped good.

Ho Lee Hel. TGODavid was nice enough to spot me a benefactor membership for the month, some comments got going about me being the old Ebow1 and the legend of throwing the pizza oven so I just spent the last hour re-reading through that thread. I forgot just how much went into that. And I guess I forgot how long I'd been gone. I think I got tired of looking at the guns for sale and never being able to afford them. Anyways, I guess I'm back, so I thought I'd catch everybody up what's happened since that Domino's nonsense. I know there were a lot of justified speculations about my maturity. Well let's see, after Domino's there was Applebee's. That didn't last long, truly I just can't run a kitchen when I'm sober (seriously). Then there was pizza hut and driving for them, while working the campus bookstore and going to school. Finished out school at some point with a 2 year police science degree, was working for Papa John's by then. Got my truck totaled. Some guy tried to run a red light and I was there just in time to stop him. Ended up leaving Papa John's what with not having a vehicle and got a job working at Deberry, being that I was still out of shape, I thought I could work a prison job and get in good enough shape to become a cop. Yeah no such luck. Never exactly had a whole lot of spare time with that job. I ended up leaving that job with a two weeks notice. It was turning me into a level of asshole that I just didn't like what I was becoming. But I can say this much, I put up with a lot worse than one asshole manager without any violent outbursts. Went to work 3rd shift at a Shell in the meantime, heard about TN reconnect, decided to go to school again into a nursing program (didn't want that initially but it was what the state was willing to pay for). Had to leave the Shell cause I couldn't make enough at that job with my school schedule the way it was. Ended up driving again for a different Papa John's. Nursing didn't work, transferred to Phlebotomy, didn't pass that. Somewhere along the way I realized I've never really had an idea what I want to do with my life and that I've just been guessing. Well now I'm working at Valvoline and actually enjoy my job and like the company I'm working for. I've been in a serious relationship for a good amount of time now and she's helped me become a lot more mature. Don't know if yall were interested or not, but thought I'd share it as I guess I didn't realize how long it'd been.

Yeah, I used to be a lot more active on this site. I just got out of it for awhile. This is more of a, my bank locked up my account because of a claimed "security issue" without any notification to me and I can't access my money and need something until I get paid so I can get things like groceries. I appreciate the benefactor status for the month. As far as the pizza thing goes cz9mm, let's just say what's his name was wrong in that song when he said there's always a place for the angry young man.

I think we tried the merger thing last time and it didn't work. Any chance you could spot me a 6 month benefactor status and I can pay back the $20 as soon as I can? 12/14 at the very latest.

Soo, I've had trouble in the past establishing a benefactor account, or I think I had one before as ebow1 but I couldn't get my account to come back after the site did whatever it did that makes it different now, so I set up a new account awhile ago and contacted TGO about my benefactor status but never got a response. I don't know if it's the spam filter on my email or what, but I'm trying now to contact yall again and to see what happens. I need benefactor status, I've got some stuff I've gotta get sold. I'm more than happy to pay back the cost of the 6 month membership as soon as I get some money from those things I need sold but right now I've got some issues financially. On top of everything, since I'm having trouble getting into benefactor status here, is it a rule violation to post my armslist listing in this thread?

So, I got on to try and sell some stuff, and I couldn't log in with my old username and I never got contacted with how to fix it, so I made a new account. Now, I can't access my posts in the sales forums because this account doesn't have benefactor status, but I should still have about a month left of it on my old account. I just need to get in to drop the price on an old post for a reloading setup to try and get that thing moved, as I really need some cash right now. Any way the TGO staff can help me get this back to rights?

New member here, but not really. It's ebow1, had trouble getting my old account to work. Haven't heard back from the message I sent about it when I couldn't log in, so I simply made this account. One little issue I didn't think about though, I can't get into my old posts of stuff I was trying to sell. I still have about a month left of benefactor status, and I need some money. Any admins or anybody like that got the power to help me out here? Preferably like, really soon. Kinda strapped for cash here.

Ebow1 here. Sorta. I went dark for a good awhile with this website, now I come back and my login is all screwed up. So I'm back. And conveniently have just finally acquired a deer antler that I like for the horn mug.