I had a full and very tiring weekend filled to the brim with manly and masculine activities including shooting, cutting steel, and lots of welding.

( I'll put it behind a cut to save some of you from being overwhelmed with machismo )

I should preface this entry by saying that when I was six years old, I had Star Wars sheets, and Star Wars curtains and Star Wars Underoos. At some point in my childhood, I had the 12" Boba Fett action figure, which made me the coolest kid on the block ( Read more... )

I went to the range again this morning and shot at the USPSA practice that they hold every Saturday.

( Things are progressing well. )

I am so excited right now. My sheet of kydex arrived from McMaster-Carr. Think of all the wonderous possiblities!

( cut for photos and more blather )

I have found kydex sheet in reasonable quantities available for sale on the Internet for $6 sq/ft at McMaster-Carr. Simply search for "kydex". It is available in a rainbow of colors, provided that one has monochromatic vision and one's rainbow consists of black, gray, and white. Just think of all the fun and amazing things I'll be able to do ( Read more... )

I am grumpy as hell right now, but I'm at the coffee shop having a quattro and there's plenty of extra-hot hotties today, so that's easing the pain a bit. My grumpiness might stem from the fact that I went to bed yesterday morning around 0530 and got up at 0800. I had a long day yesterday, which included picking up a half-ton of hollow steel ( Read more... )

I've sunburned my head.

I just shaved my head.

I have a mistress. Ever since I went to the Black Rock Desert for the first time four years ago I've been in love with it. It is a dry lake bed about one hundred miles north of Reno, NV near the towns of Gerlach and Empire. It's one of the flattest most desolate places on earth and the feeling one gets standing in the middle of the playa is ( Read more... )

I've been trying to write this entry for almost a week. I don't understand how the more prolific folks on livejournal do it ( Read more... )