It’s ‘almost’ alive…
Started as a short story, it kept growing and is now a novella at 17600 words, thanks to my alpha and beta readers… LOL
And Tina has done a super job as always on the cover!
Hopefully it will be up by the end of the week!
Okay, I got quite a few emails about the new/retro 590A1 and why I wasn’t putting a sidesaddle and light on it…
Here’s why. This is my ‘other’ 590A1. It sits under the bed, ready to go. Speedfeed stock, sidesaddle, Surefire forend.
That’s why this one is going to stay original. And as a backup… One is none, two is one, and the 500 will go back in the safe.
And I’m sorry, but I just can’t resist… đ
It’s almost like he was prescient, considering what dropped yesterday afternoon…
Sigh… So much of the BS these days… Scott Adams is brilliant, and toons like this cut right to the meat of the situation!
Lemme try this again, post disappeared…
Finally got my old school shotty!
3 months of “It’s out of stock, yada, yada, and my gun shop FINALLY found one!
Old school 590A1, wood furniture, ghost ring sights, 8+1. All up weight is right at 8 lbs, so not a ‘lightweight’, but excellent for what I want (Home defense).
And the gun shop had three offers to sell it before I could get down there and get it! Thankfully, he didn’t sell it out from under me.
Not going to add frou-frou bits to this one, going to keep it basic for what I need. Range report when I get a chance to get out and shoot it!
Guess this will qualify as my BAG day gun!!! đ
Why is it the Guardian, FFS, has BETTER coverage of goings on in the US than the lame stream media does???
In the first significant check on the Trump administrationâs âenergy-firstâ agenda, a US judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into account.
The agency âdid not adequately quantify the climate change impacts of oil and gas leasingâ, said Rudolph Contreras, a US district judge in Washington DC, in a ruling late on Tuesday. He added that the agency âmust consider the cumulative impact of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissionsâ generated by past, present and future BLM leases across the country.
Full article, HERE.
Contreras was also involved in the FISA court as a judge, and had to recuse himself from the Flynn prosecution, since he ‘knew’ Peter Strzok well enough to exchange text messages with him.
Enough to make one wonder?
It does me…
Apparently the oldest known Mariner’s Astrolabe has been found!
Known as da Gamaâs or SodrĂ©’s astrolabe, it was found in the wreck of the Esmerelda, HERE.
The 3D photography indicated it had scribe marks for measuring the height of the sun, allowing the sailors to calculate their latitude.
This simple instrument was much less complicated than the ones used on land, because of ship movement, and these predate sextants by about 300 years.
When I was a navigator in the 80s and early 90s, we still did cel or celestial navigation as a backup to the inertial navigation systems on the airplane. We were happy to be within 5-10 miles of the actual position due to bouncing around and the time it took to take multiple measurements 2 minutes apart on different stars or the sun.
HERE is a nice article from Air and Space on a pilot’s use of a similar bubble sextant. With the advent of accurate clocks, good charts, The Nautical Almanac, and the training to plug and chug though the various pages, calculations, declination, etc. You could actually get close enough to home to get a TACAN lock on, where the early mariners were happy to get ‘close’ to what latitude they were on. I cannot imagine how frustrating that must have been to the navigators on those ships!!!
This…this is simply amazing…
If nothing more than for its stupidity!
From The Blaze, HERE.
On Tuesday’s radio program, Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere discuss the top 16 most stressful scenarios reported by survey respondents:
1. Losing wallet or credit card
2. Arguing with partner
3. Commute or traffic delays
4. Losing phone
5. Arriving late to work
6. Slow WiFi
7. Phone battery dying
8. Forgetting passwords
9. Credit card fraud
10. Forgetting phone charger
11. Losing or misplacing keys
12. Paying bills
13. Job interviews
14. Phone screen breaking
15. Credit card bills
16. Check engine light coming on
These idjits obviously don’t have a good grip on reality, or are still living in their momma’s basement!
My biggest worry back then was whether or not I was going to get shot at during my military flights!
Got a hint for them…
A course in reality ‘might’ change their ‘worries’ to something more realistic! Just sayin…
The University of Wyoming rolled out a new slogan and video last year…
Apparently more than two dozen faculty complained, including professor Tracey Owens Patton said that, âWhat goes behind the term cowboyâ is âerasure, racism, sexism, heterosexism, and genocide.â The universityâs Committee on Women & People of Color wrote in a letter that the marketing campaign ârisks casting UW as a place where only people who identify with white, male, and able-bodied connotations of âcowboyâ belong.â
Obviously those people have never actually READ anything about the real cowboys who settled the west. They came from all over the world, including a number of Hispanic, Black, British, and other ethnicities, as one of the last ‘frontiers’ in the 1800s and early 1900s… Sigh…
But, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously in July to keep the slogan. Students, alumni and sports fans apparently werenât offended as revenues were up approximately $38,000 in the latter half of the year and at least 18,000 people clicked the link to get more information.
The Perpetually Offended Snowflakes apparently tried to beat the university into submission, but they Cowboy’d up, and stood by the decision, which does seem to reflect the HONEST opinions of the people of Wyoming, and the students attending the university.
h/t DaveP
If you celebrate it…
If not, well, that’s an extra beer for somebody…
And I’m thinking they’re minus one Leprechaun! Didn’t pay his ‘taxes’ maybe???
Either that or he’s staggering around trying to put out his hair… đ
Probably, but I’d still waste a golf ball or two on that hole…
I’ve played Ko’olau in Hawaii, and the course record was 63 at the time (lost balls that is)…
This is one of the ‘interesting’ holes… What you don’t see, is that just over the ridge, there is jungle… until you get to the green!
Sigh… Is it spring YET???