December 7, 1941 - A Date Which Will Live In Infamy.

I had to get up at the completely barbaric hour of 6 am to take a one hour drive down to Watsonville to another range to take an all day NRA Range Safety Officer course. I passed the test with 100%, so I guess I'll get a certificate in the mail at some point ( Read more... )

 
One member is conducting an email argument with me about the length of the 100 yard rifle range. He insists it's only 50 yards.

Sheesh. Facts is facts. I invited him to measure it himself.

 
When I got home from the range today, my tenant stopped me and wanted to show me a beautiful red juvenile King snake that she'd almost stepped on ( Read more... )

At the 1900 match, I was given about 15 old reloaded .30 Carbine cartridges that someone had bought at a flea market a long time ago. Who knows what the load was, plus they had lead bullets. So I pulled them down, tossed the lead bullets in my lead bucket and the powder into the shrubbery as a fertilizer. That left me with the cases, containing ( Read more... )

Gas jumped again - it's now $4.30 cash or $4.36 credit card. It's probably cheaper in Santa Cruz, as we're at the end of the distribution line and the one station has a monopoly ( Read more... )

 
( Cut for disgustedness )

 
Back in January 2009 I wrote an entry on Celia Hayes Adelsverein trilogy. At that point in time, I was half-way through the second book. I won't repeat the backstory here - go read the entry.

After writing the entry, I finished the trilogy and wanted more! She obliged by writing two more books about one of the more fascinating characters ( Read more... )

 
You were a good driver and a good man. Racing will really miss you.

 
Bugger!