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Someday, I really need to find more time to update my journal.

Since an Android smart phone entered my picture, I’ve generally noticed a few things.

1. I still hate talking on the phone.
2. When I’m home, it’s often more handy for e-mail and facebook than alt tabbing to chrome just to do a ^T{start typing url}^M and read/enter something. It’s just so portable.
3. Having next to no signal in my office rocks.
4. Access to a clock, calendar, and a calculator without having to ^Zcal^M and the like, is great.
5. FBReader and Project Gutenberg make a great pair.
6. At least 17 years later, I still hate earbuds.

I really can’t help but wonder if Dian Fossey and the hair dryer bit from Guerrillas in the Mist is what inspired them dragging a hair dryer through the desert in Space Balls.

Like come on, like you really need a hair dryer in either of those locales?

The weather has had the state shut down so much, that my brain is starting to visualize ways to make simulated mines and grenades for airsoft :-/.

Sigh, the ice storm still has me cooped up here instead of at work. I do appreciate the “Break” from having to be on the road so early, but, eh, work is a good thing ™ in my books.

I’ve spent most of my time putting in research efforts after last Saturday’s airsoft game as to what the ideal course of action would be, long term. My MP5 performed excellently and it ought to serve me for as it is now, for however long the parts last but if I’m stuck here, I may as well plan a head. I’m thinking the best return on investment would be to acquire a full sized G36A/G36E type AEG, probably one of SRC/TSD make. I could get a good G36A/E quite cheaply, even with this months pocket money, but being a stingy son of a bitch, I’m not going to do it until at least Feburary lol. Just about everything that I ain’t saving this month, I’m reserving for a GED.

In terms of upgrading my MP5, whatever month it is when I get a second weapon, I’ll likely disassemble my MP5 and see how it works, and what might be doable to `improve it`. O.K. so sue me o/. What I’m thinking on the externals at least, is to get a claw mount that puts a picatinny rail over the top of the receiver and a pair of rails on the sides. Then mount a mil-dot scope on the top rail and a bright LED torch on either side.

My thinking here is that assuming the referees have no objections: I could put the torch on the right and engage it when I have to shoot around a corner against a known threat—making it harder for other players to get a clean shot at me with the light shining in their eyes, hehe. Then transition it over to the left rail when I’ve got to swap to firing off the left shoulder. Ditty trick for just an “Airsoft” game perhaps, but arguably more effective then simulated flash bangs.

I am not convinced that Thunder B‘s or similar items offer more ROI then throwing an empty soda can. Well, compared to a *real* stun grenade or using a torch anyway. Price wise a simulated fragmentation grenade is probably more useful at CQB field than a simulated stun grenade. For the kind of range Airdogs fields offer, a mil-dot scope would be more useful to me at longer ranges (i.e. outside or far down the corridor) then the more popular 1X red dot sights, because within that range, I scarcely need my weapons sights let along a scope, and when I do need to be precise an adjustable mil-dot offers me more utility. Especially since it could be mounted on another weapon. For the internals, I can’t really say yet. Will cross that bridge when things come to it. Perhaps an M4 or G36C might have been a more well rounded weapon to have started with but I rather like the MP5 for use in doors. It also fits in my pack better.

A spring action sniper rifle would be a good second/alternative weapon, if it’s capable of enough precision for what I would call sniping but IMHO a full sized G36 (not a C or K variant) would be a better investment for the cash. Or at least, it should give the range my MP5 lacks for the hill next to the woodsball field, and save me the trouble of having to drag the little H&K behind me, lol. Since most people use a G&G GR16 or comparable M4 kit, the barrel length of a G36K would probably be alright but I think a full sized G36 would offer the best possible result down range.

When I can get a few slings, it would also be easy to rig things to carry both. Use the MP5 as primary in doors and the G36 outdoors, but really a scope would do alright for increasing the effective range. It’s just that getting a G36 costs about as much as putting a scope on my MP5, lol. Two AEGs also has a better insurance against failure/dead batteries than just mounting a scope.

>_>

As of 30 minutes ago the office is officially closed tomorrow. Damn fucking gum it, it’s only a state of emergency out there…. not night of the living dead!

After scanning a bar code off my computer screen and opening a novel on my cell phone, I can just see myself in the 2070s trying to explain to some youngster that once upon a time books used to come in something called paper.

Then when something breaks down, I’ll shake my cane and politely point out that even in the future, nothing works. Will anybody still get the quote?

Appropriately Ford Tempo’s have been haunting my dreams all morning. Yesterday ma made the final decision to scrap Rosie, which brought the price of the cars value by weight. Before we left, I took one more picture:

From Rosie & Noëlle

So that’s officially the end of an extremely old friend. The only good thing I can say, they will likely keep her around for a parts draw until they need to liquidate some cars or run out of usable parts.

O.K. so while we were at the car dealer, we had to get all the car insurance crap sorted out while finalizing things. Bad news is obviously, a slightly higher cost but good news is full coverage.

Getting pissed with the insurance company e-mailing her about the changes, she’s gone ahead and made changes to that. So now I have to contact the dealer and get that updated with the policy changes, and she has effectively increased the projected insurance bill in the process.

As far as I’m concerned, she just forfeited an equivalent share of her share of my regular pay cheque, or owes me monthly!

Today started off like a normal day, except for  the cars recent transmission problems getting, eh, worse. So instead of a nice Monday at work, I end up missing work and taking it into the the mechanics. Whose advise is run it til it dies. Of course that gets my mom banannas.

So I’ve spent time looking at used cars. There goes a nice 50% of incom, that would other wise be getting saved  :-/. The ironic thing? Years and years ago, this is the kind of time frame I thought I might end up having to get a car… lol.