MacGyver

From your description, the relationship shows a lack of maturity on at least one side.  While you may not be there today, you'll probably be thankful in the future looking back at this event.   You really need to examine what this relationship looks like should you continue down the path with her. If you think it's hard now - wait until you get married and real problems present themselves.   At the very least I'd suggest some good premarital counseling.

Welcome to TGO...I think.

Ben Folds' recent open letter is one that I hope every label head read:  

All the best country right now is coming out of Texas and the Carolinas.  And, I take it as a good sign for the future that there are a lot of really hard working bands in the Americana space right now.   Music Row probably quit being relevant in the '90s, and they sold out long before that.  I think it's interesting and really sad that all of the developers are trying to turn music row into condos right now.  I get it that developers have no respect for anything they can't flip and make a buck on - the sad part to me is that the country music labels can't even find the voice to offer up a defense as to why music row should stay.    I guess at the end of the day, part of the reason for that is that the music labels are really just "developers", too.  They're looking for talent they can exploit, turn a fast buck on and move on to something newer and shinier.

Awesome!  Excited for you guys.

We really kind of need to conscript a couple of new mods. But yeah, sitting on your hands does get kind of dull.

Thanks y'all. I feel like we've said it a lot, but you guys make this a pretty easy place to moderate. Community is hard to build, but we fight to protect it. Thanks for hanging out!

For what it's worth, Republic Forge is our very own Jeff Meister's post Hero Gear venture. That's sure the route I'd go!

Are you linking from the original post that David put up?  I don't see them currently available in the store, so I'm guessing you somehow linked to an item that's out of stock and thus won't let you purchase one.

Wow!  That's great news!

Man, I drop off the grid so that people will quit calling my phone...

When I was a kid in Atlanta, Old Sarge's Army Navy Surplus had a big footlocker of dummy grenades for $1/each.  Pineapples, baseballs, even some potato mashers.   Those things were standard issue for war games in our neighborhood.    Funny, back then my dad would take me and my friends up there on Saturday to spend our allowance on all that stuff.  Today, I'm sure that after the SWAT team got done responding, they'd probably arrest our parents and send the lot of us kids into the foster system.    It's a shame.  Our kids today sure aren't any better for it.

Cool. I hope to be there, too.

Here's the "inventor's" overview for whatever it's worth:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFVffAho-k   Meh...

That Boyd's stock sure improves the heck out of that rifle in the looks department.  Good to hear that it's a shooter, too.

His elective vacation has now become permanent...

You know, life's really short. Faith And hope are good things. The world is a cruel place, but I kind of believe that only by putting ourselves out there for others can we really put ourselves in a position to really receive the help others give us. Call it karma, do unto others, whatever... Regardless, life's just really short.

Sweet!

That's a good looking belt. It's what the Boy Scout belt would be designed as a gun belt.

As much as I'd love to see this happen, as I see it, you're asking the government to cut a revenue stream.   Republican or Democrat doesn't matter in that regard.  There's no way they're giving up the money.

I can't wait to see how it turns out.

I remember joy in survival school of trapping a raccoon.  I can remember the exact words of our instructor when he told me, "a raccoon can feed a man for a week."   I don't know that I'd seek one out, but it sure was good then.

The Midsouth folks are good people.  We need more like them in the shooting community.

Have you PM'd dlm37015?

I've got on of the 2" California legal ProTech models.  It's unbelievably fast.