analog_kidd

  I read that that was a possibility, so I took the trigger out and checked. It was installed correctly. :shrug:

I finally got around to completing my TGO AR today. :woohoo: Upper and lower receiver were completed in the spring, then we moved, and I ran out of money. Got the barrel and hand guards in a week ago, and today was the big day. At first, it would fire one round, cycle the bolt and load a second round, but then wouldn't fire the second round. I discovered that if I put it to safe and back to fire it would fire off the next round and then not fire again. Repeating the safety of/on made the next round fire. Took it all apart and discovered that when cocking the hammer with the trigger pulled back, the disconnector wouldn't reset. I manually pulled the hammer back to cocked and pushed it forward about 100 times and it eventually loosened up. Works perfectly now. All I need now is a scope and it'll be all done.

Had a pack of them wake me up at 4:00 am this morning. Sounded like they were just outside, and they carried on for about 15 minutes. We live in the country with several hundred acres of woods around us, and we hear them all the time. They sound creepy, but I think it's kinda cool. I've only ever seen one. Woke him from a morning nap while I was walking across a field, and he ran off.

  For me it usually isn't that big a deal... Unless there are 15 people in the line to get out and you know darn well the receipt checker isn't really doing anything but preventing me from getting my package of 5000 hot dogs in the fridge.

For about $20, you can find a USB drive enclosure. With it, you can take the drive out of your laptop, plug it into the enclosure, and then plug it into a USB port on another computer. If it works, you can copy the files to the other PC or burn them to a DVD. Honestly, there isn't a lot that can me done to fix a broken hard drive, unless you are willing to send it off to a recovery place along with a very big check. and if it works, keep the drive in the enclosure and use it for backups.   It seems unusual to have two hard drives in a laptop. If I had to guess, I'd say that the hard drive was partitioned into two drive letters. I do this on my computers. I use the C:\ partition for the O/S and programs, and the D:\ partition for data. It makes it easy to reload the O/S. I just wipe the C:\ and reinstall, and all my data stays intact.   As said above, I wouldn't have the laptop repaired. You are going to spend a lot of money on it, and could have just spent the same amount on a new one..

What the heck is with all the stink bugs this year? I've never seen them this bad. They are everywhere! I got them all over the house, in the house and in the truck. They can sneak into just about anywhere. They crawl across my face while I'm sleeping and get stuck in my wife's hair. I'm over them. And you can't squish them, or they smell like a teenager's socks.

The wife and I were heading to Costco yesterday, and I told her about this story. As I was talking, it occurred to me that it would be funny to start calling it Accost-Co.

Oh, no. It's going to be like all the other cop and CSI shows on TV now, where one show becomes popular so they fire up another one with a similar name but in a different city. It'll be Walking Dead - New York, and Walking Dead - L.A.   I'm putting in my order now for Walking Dead - D.C.  :up:

So, I heard an unverified story that this past Friday in Oak Ridge two MOH recipients were brought in on Black-hawk helicopters to the local high school. When they flew in, they buzzed over Y12, which sent them into high alert and they locked the place down.   I know the guys were in town, I heard the lead up to the ceremony on the radio. They held it at the Y12 auditorium. I just don't know how accurate the flyover story is.

I finally got to use my "Chicken Nipples"   :dropjaw:   They are a little gizmo I installed in the bottom of a bucket, and then you fill it with water. The chickens touch the little plunger and get a drink. Don't know why they call them chicken nipples, but I think it's funny. I've been telling people it's what they cut off the end of the chicken breast.   Here's what they look like:  http://www.amazon.com/Poultry-Chicken-nipple-chickens-hatching/dp/B004NEIS1M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410565577&sr=8-3&keywords=chicken+nipples

The wife and I started a Square Dancing class. I'm not really all that interested in square dancing, but she wanted to do it, and I'm always dragging her to my silly activities, so I agreed.   It was actually fun, right up until the lights went out and they sent everyone home. I thought it might be more fun to Do-Si-Do in the dark  :cool:

A few months ago, I was driving home from work. I don't now the details of what happened, but this woman was absolutely enraged at a man in a different vehicle. She was honking and shaking her fist, and rocking the car by holding the steering wheel. I noticed this at a stop light we were all at. When the light changed, the man got the jump on her and somehow a car ended up between them. She became so enraged, that she started driving very erratically. She did a two lane sweep into oncoming traffic across a solid yellow line, jumped back around and cut me off, nearly clipping my bumper, floored the gas, and locked up the brakes at the next red light, right behind the guy, but not fully in her lane. She was taking up both lanes.   She then proceeds to get out of her car and pounded on the guys window, kicked his tires, and dropped all kinds of profanity that made even me uncomfortable. Meanwhile she's screaming at him about what a horrible driver the guy was.   Oh, the irony

  I think I'm back in. Someone posted a link to the new group, and I followed that and joined. No biggie either way, Facebook is a distraction that I barely give a second thought to.Besides, there's too much good stuff to read on TGO. Who has time for FaceBook?

  So you did that? I just signed up for that page a week or so ago, and saw that it went to "Secret". I thought to myself "Wohoo; in before the lock"  :up:

Sounds like you got a solution, but I'll mention what I bought anyway. I got a stereo that is called a "switching receiver". It has one HDMI output, and several other inputs, consisting of HDMI in, component in, RGB in, etc. The receiver has several modes such as Cable, DVD, Game, PC, etc. I can configure each of those modes for what ever type of input it uses, so my Cable is HDMI, vcr is RGB, etc. The receiver handles converting everything to the one HDMI output that goes to my TV. All I have to do is select "Cable" on my receiver remote and the receiver takes over and makes all the connections. Want to watch a DVD? Just hit the DVD setting on the Receiver remote.   It also does all the fancy surround sound stuff, plus connects to my network so I get Pandora, can connect to my den PC to get music, and does  a bunch of other stuff I never use. I forget exactly what I paid for it, but it was in the $400-$500 range.

I read that the range is a popular tourist destination outside Las Vegas, called Burgers and Bullets. I guess you can shoot just about any kind of gun you want there, and enjoy a tasty burger afterward. One thing they specialize in is teaching youth about firearms. I also read that the instructor did have the girl shoot a few times with single rounds loaded, to get the feel for it.

Can't tell your location from your profile, but if you live near Knoxville, I have a full body beekeeping suit you are welcome to borrow if you want to try taking it down.

A quick Googling of "WRT310N access point" indicates that others have had success doing exactly what you are after, with that model. Good luck.

The WiFi extender will cut your speed in half. They can't transmit and receive at the same time, so they take an outgoing packet, receive it, then forward it, then wait for an incoming packet, receive it and forward it on. Your router can transmit and receive at the same time.   One option for you, since you have the Ethernet cable run, is a wireless access point. Plug one end of the cable into one of the ports on your router, and the other end of the wire at the other end of the house is where you plug in the access point. It's kind of like the range extender, but you get the full speed, and you get WiFi at both ends of the house.   Many routers can be configured to act as an access point, you just have to go into the config and set it. I think some manufacturers even sell dedicated access points, so there's no monkeying around with settings to make it work. If you find a router that supports something called DD-WRT, it's almost certain that it can be configured as an access point. DD-WRT is open source code that can be installed on a router that enables all kinds of functionality not included in the manufacturers default configuration.

To me, he seemed like that annoying guy that used to smoke, and would do it anywhere, anytime, and didn't care who's face the smoke blew into. The world be damned, it's my right to smoke if I want. Then for whatever reason they decide to quit, and they never shut up about how everyone else should quit too.   He has his ideas about how life should be and likes to share them, and that's fine, but sheesh, sometimes you gotta give it a rest.   I remember him from a couple of years ago when he did the AT. I really enjoyed reading his posts. Since he came back to TGO, his posts immediately got under my skin. It's like he's a completely different person.

My truck has some notches in the sides of the bed liner, just forward of the tailgate by about 18". I cut a 2x4 to fit in it side to side. Whenever I'm carrying something, like groceries, I put the 2x4 in and it keeps all my stuff from sliding around. Best $2 truck accessory I ever bought.

Chrome froze up for me a few days ago. It would open, but would never load any pages. I found this tech note: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142059?hl=en and it fixed my problem. It did, however, clear out all of my settings, so I had to re-enter things like saved passwords on TGO, etc.

When my wife was preparing to get her HCP, I discovered that the place giving the class used IDPA targets for the shooting test. I Googled IDPA Target Dimensions and there are several images with all of the dimensions. I made a template from a piece of poster board then traced it onto scrap cardboard and made my own.   For her, she just had to put a hole in the paper to count. You may want a more official one, but if the DIY route is OK for you, look them up.

It looks like the wreck happened just outside a turn. Any driver at that point would be unable to swerve left to avoid him. Plus coming through the turn, most drivers probably would not have seen them until the track straightened out, at which point they would not have had time to react. Going further into the center of the track, he signed his own death certificate.

For me everything was fine, parts wise, until I turned 40. I still am in great health with the 50 looming now, but right after 40, things just hurt that wouldn't normally. Now, I spend a day whitewater kayaking and I feel it the next day, when I didn't used to. I seem to get tendinitis a lot more now, and joints just hurt a little.   At 40, you really should start thinking about a prostate exam and have your blood tested for a PSA score. :ugh: The exam sucks, but it's a part of modern life. Just go to your happy place and it'll be over soon. Oh, and find a Doc with skinny fingers  :up:.   I'll leave you with this quote from Hunter S. Thompson: I put that on my wall at work and read it almost every day.