TGO David

It's a bit surreal walking around outside in shorts, t-shirt and sandals today... while shoveling the last remnants of ice off of our sidewalk.  :D

I've got one more to post.  Wait for it later on this evening before ordering anything.  It might change your mind.  :)

I have an empty house in Rutherford County that I need to have some basic handyman work done on.  At this point we're just talking about hanging some new interior doors and maybe some drywall patching.   Doors would need to be trimmed to size and hinges mortised in.   It's all stuff I could do if I had time, but it's really hard for me to come by any of that lately.  I'm going to try to put the place up for sale in a few weeks so I'd like to hire someone to do this bit of work for me.    

Here are some I took in San Francisco back in 2010. Neat city. Wouldn't want to live there but I've visited several times now and have enjoyed it. The fog was super heavy this particular visit so I wasn't able to take those iconic pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge that everyone strives to take, but it ended up being a blessing in disguise and I was forced to explore other shots of it instead. The fog and the heavily-filtered dim sunlight really lent a sorrowful tone to the beautiful architecture. For some reason the crisis helpline call-box really stood out to me and told the darker story of the Golden Gate Bridge. I was not previously aware that numerous people travel to San Francisco each year just to take their own lives by jumping from that bridge. The Rangers at the park were telling us that they do sweeps of the parking lot every morning and evening to see if there are any cars that appear to have been abandoned. If so, they begin searching. The impact of the fall rarely mercifully kills anyone who jumps, they said, but rather does tremendous damage to a person's internal organs and leaves them helpless to drown. Frequently the bodies of jumpers are washed by the tides all the way out to the Farallon islands nearly 30 miles away. Anyway, it was kind of surreal walking along on the bridge with so much of it obscured by fog to the point you could only see the water below every so often, with no ability to see if someone might have been out there on the verge of death hoping that a friendly voice or hand might guide them back in off of the rail. :( BTW, that sad looking guy in black in the last photo, walking along staring at his shoes, was with me that day so I wasn't worried about him jumping. He was a co-worker and we were out there on business, but as annoying as that dude was, I might have pushed him if given the chance. :devil:

When I go to the range, all I want is to be left the hell alone.  I don't mind social conversation between strings of fire, and I don't mind answering questions from people who have a genuine desire to learn something, but when someone comes up and pontificates at my expense, I get really grumpy, really fast.

Glad to see you back, but sorry to hear of your troubles.  Hang in there!

This might not be exactly what you're after but I stumbled across this forum a while back:  http://kydexpro.com/   They have a lot of tutorials on there.

  No idea.  My other Boker came with it also and I just haven't bothered trying to figure it out.  It's way oversized and clunky, which seems absurd given how small and sleek the knives are.

I received this and another Boker this past week. The Sidekick has an OAL of 6.625" and a blade length of 3.25". The blade is 440C steel, the scales are Micarta and it included a Kydex sheath and a strange belt attachment. I have a BladeTech Tech-Lok belt attachment on the way instead. It's a pretty simple knife, made in China of course, and cost less than $50. Not bad for something small to hang on your belt and not get too worked up about if something were to happen to it. More info here: http://www.bladehq.com/item--Boker-Plus-Sidekick-Knife-02BO287-3--22655

That's an odd one.  Going to have to look at it a little closer to see what happened there.

As long as it goes bang!   Seriously though, the Hi-Point has always struck me as an automatic pistol built by someone who had never seen another automatic pistol before.  That's neither good nor bad.  Just really different and kinda clunky.   :)

Very interesting, and damned sexy.  So what parts of it are still Glock?  The sear?  :)

Welcome to TGO.  :wave:

Welcome.  :)

Looks really good on the rifle in particular!

Haha!

  :rolleyes:   There's a lot of other crap a 1911 won't do either.  Like run when it's full of mud, or carry 15 rounds in the same size frame as that Glock 19, or get carried by more police forces than any other handgun, or.... you get the point.   I'm a huge 1911 fan but I am also a huge Glock fan, and a huge M&P fan, etc.  Each have their strengths, each have their weaknesses.  But this slide breakage isn't an inherent weakness of that Glock any more than a freak frame-crack on a 1911 is a weakness of that platform.

  He also said,  "Where's your parts?  What do you mean where's your parts?  I stole from from you and sold them to other people?  Whaaaaaaaat?"

Welcome!

Looks like more nasty weather predicted between noon on Wednesday and noon on Thursday for here in the mid-state area.  Between 3-6" of snow and ice again.

Clearly we all should have done something about that pesky ammo tax before he showed up.  Who the heck forgot to do that?!?   Trust me, folks, we're going to have a stern discussion about this at this week's meeting.  And whoever keeps leaving the toilet seat up, Marge in Accounting is plenty ticked about that too.

  This.   My thoughts when I saw the skit were:   1.) It wasn't very funny.   2.) It was fairly tacky for all the wrong reasons.   3.) It seemed like the SNL writers wanted to make fun of ISIS but at the same time hoped no-one would "Charlie Hedbo" the SNL offices because of it.  They played the middle of the field as if to say, "Hey ISIS... don't cut our heads off or shoot up our offices because we make fun of everyone else in this video too!"     Overall it felt like a 1990's SNL skit.  Lame.  Short on the funny and not worth the time it took to produce it.  The writers didn't fully commit to making fun of ISIS by going in for the kill, so to speak.  They could have done so much more with an anti-ISIS skit and apparently left the good gags on the cutting room floor.

  Ok you've gotta review that once it arrives.  I'm curious!

Every time I think about selling a gun to buy something non-gun, I remind myself that the government isn't trying to ban whatever that other thing is. :)

Got to say that those were all simply shot with the iPhone 6 this time. I'd be glad to break out the light-tent and Canon for your collection though!