Neanderpundit

started for me, on saturday at six AM. I can happily report that Buffalo Range in Ottawa is a damned nice range where I will return. Pitiably, though the blogmeet was predominantly composed of men, the only ones to man up enough to get to the range were Jimmy of CUG and Nate, Son of Bruce, Cousin of Njorl, a new shooter; I’ll let Jimmy tell that story so he gets the Kim DuToit New Shooter Happy Dance of Joy. Nice to meet you, Jimmy, nate, and I look forward to blasting some clays with you soon. Nate, you want to shoot some more sometime, just gimme a ring.

On the other hand, dinner at Klas was better attended, and I must first thank Leslie, for not only doing the lions share of the work to orchestrate the project, but for doing so in a fit of bronchitis bad enough that she had to leave early, if you can imagine that!! Thanks., Leslie. We’re nothing without you. Incidentally, Leslie, singlehandedly, performed the sisyphan task of taking cash from everyone and paying the tab. I know at least one guy with a physics degree who can’t figure that out.

Next, apologies to Windypundit, whose blog is new to me, but I will be reading a lot, and soon, sorry, man, I don’t let anyone take my picture. No offense, and that really looked like a rocking cool camera. I have to apologize for Dude, but I ALWAYS have to apologize for dude.

Now, Zonker, who I’m just now meeting for the first time, really needs a damned haircut. And he really should try to lose some weight, I mean, its horrible to watch someone let themself go so badly. And he needs to stop moonighting as Bashar al-Assad

For Biloxi, a little song:

These are good balls,I had ’em all my lifetime, they swing low, and from side to side
These are good balls, crazy for dangling, and they’re normal, they’re perfectly fine
And it’s a long day, livin’ with two testes,
there’s a number I no longer like
I found a place to get me another
I found a place to make it three for a while
And i’m three, three balling.
Yeah i’m three, three balling.
Biloxi will understand

Dude was there too, and I thought it especially nice of him to share his dinner with the bar crowd later. He spent some time telling people about his friend ralph, and his trip to europe.

Tammi spent the night telling us about how she worked several trade shows, and then she lifted up her hair and showed me a neck so fine I suggested she wear her hair up more often. And then I felt funny in the pants for a while. Damn, what a dangerously good looking woman with a storied past. I like hearing those stories just fine, too.

That one guy… what can I say about Joe. Oh, yeah, he rocks! Maybe the funnest jarhead in the midwest, if not north America. And a man who knows enough not to pour a cheap rice beer down on top of a guinness.

There will, I’m sure, be plenty blogposts, and I’m sure Zonker will be posting some pictures as well- make sure you’ve not recently eaten before you look at Zonker’s posts. Well, that’s ALWAYS true. But thanks, one and all, for making it a great day and evening, sorry for the folks I missed friday night, and let’s do it again soon!!

In the late 70’s I did some work for a locksmith, mostly cleaning his shop and packing up machines because he was selling his business. He taught me something about locks, too, and as a result of that, I used to go on calls with him to get into cars/homes/etc. that people had locked themselves out of. IN fairly short order, I had become one of the best b&e guys in the business- but of course I only did this under legal circumstances.

So today, while getting scrips filled at Wally World (I try not to spend money there, but the pharmacy is the only one open the hours I need) I’m wandering by the closeout area, and I see this Sentry Safe. It’s $49, marked down to $8. Because it has no keys.

I shake it,and realize that the keys are inside.

SO I buy it. Hell, I’ve blown more than $8 on lunch. This week.

I get it home. It has a 4 bit lock,(four sets of tumblers) so it’s gonna be tough, but even in my semi-inebriated state (yes, the codeine is wearing off, thank you) (ouch)I find my kit and manage to get the sucker open in less than five minutes. And yes, the keys are inside. So I now have a $50 safe, in perfect condition, for $8. Nice.

Now, a word to the wise about picking locks. It’s harder than it looks- and if you’re not manually dextrous, don’t.And merely posessing lockpicks is illegal all over the damned place. And another word to the wise: if you keep your door locks smooth as silk, neatly oiled and clean, and the key turns in it like butter, you’re making it easy on anyone trying to get in with a lockpick. My locks are all stiff. It’s sometimes a bit hard to get the key in. And on all the doors you can’t turn the key unless you lift the door a tiny bit. Making them practically impossibel to pick. Think about this when you consider “fixing” that sticky old lockset.

At least, that is the impression I get based on the novostuff wearing off and the increasing amounts of codeine in my bloodstream. Coherence? fuck coherence.

Anyway,. now as I’m verguckled, I’m gonna go handle firearms. Loed ’em ain the truck, annyway.

here’s what I got.

K31
SKS
Arisaka
Cugir
Remington
Winchester

I also have the 380, and the Ruger MKII. I will bring the Colt Cattleman but I can’t find any ammo, so if you want to shoot it, bring some 45 long colt. Factory, please. I’m not gonna risk my gun on someone else’s handloads.

I will have some targets, and some earplugs, and a couple extra shoting glasses. And ammo, lots of that.

Since i didn’t get hardly any responses about food I’m not bringinany. Fend for yourselves. I may buy some $4 sammiches at Subway and sell’em for $40 onsite. It’s the least i can do. No! Bring your own sammich. And it’s gonna be hotter than Fat Bastard’s jock, so bring some water and stuff. I’ll have a couple bottles.

Somebunny else is in charge of pichers. Bring a camera.

Oh, here’s the website for Klas for all you pussies that won’t be blowing stuff up.

and here’s the website for Buffalo Range in Ottawa.