Caretaker…

There ARE pictures… Sigh… Trying this again…

By popular demand, pics courtesy of PP…

Kaya in all her glory…

Kaya and I, in our respective ‘strollers’… I was still bleeding like a stuck pig, but did not want yet ANOTHER piece of damn tape stuck to my face. For some reason, PP wouldn’t let me walk out… Sigh…

Recovery is processing, slowly. But I’m thankful for friends who’ve been keeping me company and feeding me GOOD homemade soups! I think we’re all going to be souped out by the time these two weeks are over… Sigh…

PP and Kaya are back home now, and Obi dog is still searching for tiny bald hooman…

LOL

Some funnies…

Since I’m still on meds from the surgery, got these from the mil e-mail string…

HOW TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT WITH WOMEN IN THE MODERN WORLD

She is not a BLEACHED BLONDE she is PEROXIDE DEPENDENT

She is not a BAD COOK she is MICROWAVE COMPATIBLE

She does not wear TOO MUCH JEWELRY she is METALLICALLY OVERBURDENED

She is not CONCEITED she is INTIMATELY AWARE OF HER BEST QUALITIES

She does not GAIN WEIGHT she is a METABOLIC UNDERACHIEVER

She does not TEASE or FLIRT she engages in ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION

She is not DUMB she is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

She is not TOO SKINNY she is SKELETALLY PROMINENT

She does not HAVE A MUSTACHE she is IN TOUCH WITH HER MASCULINE SIDE

She does not HATE TELEVISED SPORTS she is ATHLETICALLY IGNORANT

She has not BEEN AROUND she is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION

She does not WEAR TOO MUCH PERFUME she commits FRAGRANCE ABUSE

She does not GO SHOPPING she is MALL FLUENT

She is not an AIR HEAD she is REALITY IMPAIRED

She does not get DRUNK or TIPSY she gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED

She does not get FAT or CHUBBY she achieves MAXIMUM DENSITY

She is not COLD or FRIGID she is THERMALLY INACCESSIBLE

She does not WEAR TOO MUCH MAKEUP she has reached COSMETIC SATURATION

She does not NAG YOU she becomes VERBALLY REPETITIVE

She does not want to be MARRIED she wants to lock you in DOMESTIC INCARCERATION

Hopefully coherent blogging (if I ever did) will resume sometime this week… LOL

Here we go again…

Except this time it’s the French Elections…

Massive email hacks, release of data, and…

RUSSIAN HAND SEEN

Former economy minister Macron’s campaign has previously complained about attempts to hack its emails, blaming Russian interests in part for the cyber attacks.

On April 26, the team said it had been the target of a attempts to steal email credentials dating back to January, but that the perpetrators had failed to compromise any campaign data.

The Kremlin has denied it was behind any such attacks, even though Macron’s camp renewed complaints against Russian media and a hackers’ group operating in Ukraine.

Full article, HERE.

And an interesting twist, the French government has put out a warning about publishing any of the hacked material.

France’s electoral commission has ordered media not to publish contents of Emmanuel Macron‘s leaked campaign emails to avoid influencing the election.

 It warned news outlets in France that journalists could face criminal charges for publishing or republishing the material, under laws that came into effect at midnight forbidding any commentary liable to affect the presidential race.
Full article, HERE.
So once again the ‘Russians’ are at play… Or are they? Or will we ever know the real answer???
My guess is probably not. When one considers that the average 14 year old hacker in momma’s basement is capable of using these same tools, and most ‘attributable’ to Russian/Ukrainian coders, it could be anybody…
Sigh…

If one doesn’t believe…

An Instalanche, courtesy of Sarah, doesn’t help things on book sales…

Thanks to that post I’ve jumped over three thousand numbers up and am in the top 100 in three categories! I was down around the #7,000s paid in the Kindle store, now?

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,825 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Ironically, NONE of these are the Military Science Fiction category… That is just… Odd…

Thank you Sarah!!!

 

Sorry…

For the addled posting schedule… Still trying to recover from surgery…

Anyhoo… Some ‘good’ news for our side of the aisle.

Much to the mainstream media’s chagrin, the FBI’s report on the number of NICS checks conducted on gun sales in April contradicts their claim that the firearms industry is experiencing a “Trump slump” in 2017.

Full article, HERE.

This pretty much backs up what we were hearing at the NRA convention too, so I’d tend to believe this rather than what the MSM is putting out…

I escaped….

Two and a half hours of surgery yesterday, now feel like 9 miles of bad Texas road, or supposedly that’s what I look like…

Take the worst sinus headache, the worst sore throat and throw in a broken nose… And that’s pretty much me right now. But I’m home with PP and Kaya, and friends, so it’s all good!

Regular posting will resume when I get off these meds… Wheeeee….

Body and fender shop…

Gonna be out of action today and tomorrow at the minimum for a tune up on my sinuses and a few other things…

Posting may resume Saturday, depending on how I’m feeling, or how many pain meds I’m on. Or maybe PP will put up a guest post… She’s flying in to ‘manage’ me for a few days…

Anyhoo, go read the folks on the sidebar!

NRA AM…

Final thoughts and one more gun…

It was great to see the usual suspects, and chat over/around coffee, munchies etc. in the press room, on the floor and at various off-site locations! 🙂

Not as big as Houston, but the second largest Annual Meeting. And, as I’ve said before, this one was MUCH more relaxed. I think that was a good thing!

So, on to the gun. I ran into Phil Schreier on the floor and he asked if I’d seen the museum gun. “Nope.” says I. He smiled and said go to booth 457 and tell Mike Carrik I said for you to get a brief.

So I trot my happy little butt over that way, and lo and behold…

Anybody recognize it?

It’s an original Girardoni Air Rifle!!!

The lockwork is interesting in that it does NOT strike a primer, but hits the equivalent of a Schraeder valve (like the valve stem on your tire), to fire the gun.

And the 22 round magazine (closed)

The 22 round magazine (open)

A complete, correct copy of the one remaining ‘tool kit’ from an Austrian museum. Note the four tubes, they are the ORIGINAL speed loaders!!! L0( And the long tube in the foreground, is the ‘pump’ to pump up the air reservoir.

And here is Phil’s great presentation on it!

Thanks to Mike Carrick for his brief on it, and letting me get up close and get the photos!

Rimworld…

Thanks to those who’ve cross posted Rimworld- Into the Green!

I am putting Rimworld- Stranded up for free today through Saturday. It was actually supposed to go up for free yesterday, but I screwed that up… sigh…

Anyhoo, get it free and enjoy! Just click the cover below…

And I would appreciate honest reviews, if you have time. The more reviews, the better the chance of folks being willing to take a chance on us indie writers.

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

Rimworld- Into the Green!!!

It’s ALIVE!!! 🙂

Available on Amazon as of today, both in paperback and Kindle.

They don’t have both of them linked, soooo…

Kindle is HERE, at $4.99, and paperback is HERE, at $14.50. Sadly, since I’m not able to print mass market, the paperback price is higher than I’d like… Sorry.

The blurb-

After a chance encounter with Dragoons and Traders turns a routine planet exploration into a rout that kills his team and his career, Lieutenant Ethan Fargo, medically retired, wants nothing more than to hole up in the backwater Rimworld he’d explored and enjoy a quiet retirement far from people or problems.

Unfortunately, he’s about to find out that he’s not as retired as he wants to be, and that his new home system comes with dangers, politics, and Dragoon sightings of its own. What promised to be a boring retirement will turn out to be anything but.

For anyone that wants a signed copy, email me with your information, and I’ll tell you where to send the check for $14.50.
I know this a departure from my usual books, so I would really appreciate honest feedback and reviews.
Thank you in advance!!!