Neanderpundit

And shipped him off to southern Illinois.

Had to hump a lot of his stuff up and down stairs, tripped and twisted an ankle on the ramp of the moving van, helped him drag a fishtank the size of a coffin up a flight of atairs and into a moving van.

Shame to see him go. We had developed a good relationship, beyond doctor and patient, he had become a good friend. A series of bad business decisions and personal problems have made him have to leave the area to avoid a business covenant. He’s a board certified internist, knows more about the human body and how it works than I know about machines, and that’s saying something.

Anyway, broke, tired, and beaten, he drove off for parts uinknown about an hour ago. I filled up his moving van with gas so he could at least get halfway, I think he has enough scratch to fill the tank up one more time. Hope that gets him to his new life.

Damn. Now I have to find a new doctor. Again.

With my mind on my money and my money on my mind

Mark and SWMBO Alger have lost an old friend. Go give up some loving. Or i will kill you. Now.

who is an auctioneer. Settles estates, he does.

he hands me this box. Says “Maybe you would be interested in this”

I take the box home and open it in the basement. With this guy, you never know if it’s going to be a severed foot, or something.

Instead it’s ammo. Ammo he’s found closing estates. He can’t deal with it himself, it being the People’s Republic.

And talk about a mixed bag:

32 assorted shotshells, 30 12 gauge, 1 16 gauge, 1 .410. About half and half plastic and paper.

33 rounds of Remington-Peters 38-40 wcf. This is the most modern looking stuff.

14 rounds of (relatively) modern 30-06, nickel primers, soft tip, for some unknown reason stuffed into links of M1919 belt.

28 rounds of 380 ACP, in various manufacture.

12 rounds of- get this- 32 rimfire. And one 32 rimfire short.

11 rounds of 38 special. SOme so old they say “38 smith and wesson special”

(a lot of stuff for a headstamp)

6 rounds of assorted 9mm. One with a wierd cone-shaped lead bullet.
2 full, unopened boxes and one opened, partial box of 32 WCF.
1 full box of 38 Smith & Wesson by UMC. Looks to be 70 yeasrs old.

1 partial box of 45 acp, Issue, steel cases.

An open but full box of Montgomery Wards 22 WRF. Yes, WRF.

And the piece de resistance: 17 rounds of (apparently) 8mm Nambu.

Oh, and about fifty assorted rounds of 22, including about twenty shorts, a nearly empty box of CB caps.

I need to find a market for these puppies, I don’t want all this ammo floating around the house with nothing to shoot it in.