Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
19 hours to go before I hit the road! I had abandoned my solar project because I was concerned with the cost and time, today I suddenly revived it. While I was picking up shipping blankets today at Harbor Freight, I saw they had a 45 watt solar kit for $250!@#$@ It had three 15 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
I got my Yaesu VX-7R today. Rigged up with the 50 MHz extension, I was flipping through the shortwave radio stations from my apartment. I managed to pick up Radio Nederland (very faint), Radio Italia, China Radio International, and some French station. Went outside and picked up 5-6 stations really clear. So awesome, it was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2006
I saw Snakes On A Plane tonight. I was expecting it to be cheesy, and it didn’t let me down. I laughed hard, a lot. The entire audience erupted into cheers when Samuel Jackson said his hotly anticipated line. After a while I got the idea they were going to use the rapper’s anti-bacterial lotion […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2006
The Garmin update is being a bitch, two different PCs and it times out on update. It’s already erased the old maps, so it’s sort of useless at this point. Tonight was the first night I’ve ran in a while, four miles. I should’ve known not to lay off, it’s harder now. I bought 28 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2006
I made a quick weekend trip to Oklahoma to visit the parents. It was hotter and more meh than Texas, somewhere I have a photo of my thermometer reading 42 C (107 F). While I was up there I took advantage of the welder and built my brackets for the jerry cans. Finally got my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2006
More Krav Maga tonight. This time warmups were back and forth sprints, then about 160-180 total squats with sets of dive bomber pushups. Those things were murder, my quads were crying for mercy. Today was mostly low and leg work. Low defensive punches, low punch defense, shuffle front-leg straight kicks, elbow punches, and combinations of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2006
I fired a Glock 23 last night and a HK USP .40 today. I really liked the feel of the Glock, the levers and whatnot were accessible and didn’t require a lot of force. Glocks are also relatively cheap, a used 22 or 23 could be had for $450 or so. Unfortunately the lack of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2006
I’m in the market for a semi-automatic pistol. I went to the promising local gun range and fired a few boxes through a Beretta 92FS and a Sig Sauer 220 45 ACP. I’m looking for a .40 or .45, so that rules the 92FS out. However I’ll miss that 15 cartridge magazine on larger calibers. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2006
Yay, I survived Krav Maga tonight. After my last class I was dreading this like a dental appointment, but made it through participating the whole hour. I almost have jump rope mastered. I had a partner that was my height and I learned how to better pace my effort. I got winded and dizzy several […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2006
So I went to the grocery store for the first time in a couple of months, there’s something new. Shopping cars with cupholders. WTF? Fatass americans can’t go shopping for more food to make them even fatter and plagued with disease without chugging on a Coke now?
