Neanderpundit

Pay no attention to those hailstones falling behind you!

Saturday as I mowed we had a brief toad strangling thunderstorm, sending the dog to hide under the couch (the dog is almost as big as the couch, so this is no mean feat) and the weather map on my phone said ‘Clear and sunny”. it persisted in saying ‘Clear and sunny’ when there were obviously huge thunderheads drifting over my actual house. This morning it shows rain through the area, and the Weather Channel shows “Partly cloudy”.

They’re just guessing, and they’re not even looking out the window to see if their guesses are remotely accurate.

Explains a lot about the global warming bullshit.

Coined by Partner and stumbed upon in several places on the web:

Clusterfucktard. You know one, I bet. Maybe you know a whole family of them.

So Saturday I decide to mow the backyard. It’s been unmowed a long time due to the mower having problems, and me having zero ambition to do so.

I took my time, and did a little at a time. That was facilitated by the mower running out of gas five times. The right front wheel falling off. The blade becoming disengaged with the rest of the mower. I would mow for a little while, and then something would fall off, and mow for a while, and run out of gas, then mow for a while, and another part would fall off, and I’d end up running to the repair shop, and then I’d mow for a while, and the mower would run out of gas again, and I’d take a break because I was breathing hard enough I thought I was likenly to die, and I’d mow a while, and then eat something, and mow for a few minutes, then have to run up the hill to get rid of ther recently acquired White Castle Sliders… Anyway, you get the picture. A quarter acre of nasty grass most of which was chest high, on a 40 degree slope, mowed by hand. By the time I came inside, I was done. I had no intention of getting out of bed again until noon on tuesday. In september.
But I hadn’t been to the Indy 1500 for quite some time, and I needed a full length recoil tube and buffer. Also, Rich met Partner and I at the show and returned my engine hoist- he borrowed it to work on his Mustang and is now done with it, I was glad it was getting a workout.

Anyway the show was nice but my feet came pre-hosed from the mowing yesterday, walking around the show didn’t help, and while I would have liked to meet up with some folks at the blogmeet, we decided to just go home.

Now I’m sore and tired and beat senseless, but I have actually accomplished a few things, so Monday will go a little better. Sorry, to all the folks I missed at the meet. I wish I could have been there, but I’ll come again someday.

Oh, the buffer tube: My friend will be manufacturing some AR stocks in wood, very soon, and I will be putting them on my rifle to do some destructive testing, so I will be posting about that as time goes on.