wacky1980

neither does google ... oh wait

ok

as soon as we get a nice day, wife and i will be taking some target practice along with her brother out on one of his farms. he's got a new ar-14 that looks like it should be fun to shoot.

everyone's checking their account balances for that fat stimulus check / trying to find a store to spend it in. we all bottleneckin' tf out of the internet.

i don't even have the shotgun anymore. left it at my parents' because that was the only place i ever picked up tags for hunting. it's too expensive to hunt down in this area without landowner access, because outfitters have excessively commercialized it. everyone wants a trophy for their wall. i just want a freezer full of venison. i keep a small rifle and (starting today) 2 pistols in the house for defense. thinking about a stubby shotgun for those tight spaces lol.

Hunting limit. My ithaca deerslayer could hold 5 or 6 and I only ever used it for deer and turkey hunting. The state limit for hunting back then was 3 slugs, so we had to plug it to limit capacity.

sounds like fun. only 12 gauges i've fired are standard shotguns. plus, gotta keep them plugged to a max of 3 rounds. legal is lame. i just bought a new walther pps for concealed carry. get to pick it up tomorrow. can't wait to break her in.

i'm gonna be really good at dealing with id theft by the time i'm dead. thanks, experian. this time it came in the form of an unemployment claim filed in my name against my employer. apparently i got laid off back in june. fuck.

how the blade of ochi lines up with the wreckage from only one place on the shoreline at one point in time. nevermind the 100' waves constantly busting up and shifting around the wreckage over the previous 30 years. or the fact that a relic hunter (ochi) would go to all the trouble to make a map to the wayfinder, but not actually take it for himself. i'm not about to dive all the way into the expanded universe to understand the details, and they shouldn't expect as much from the audience. just make it plausible on its face and move on.

the fucking wayfinder.

Look at you! Out there living the dream. Apparently you're not without internet either. Lucky dog.

Slapped together those temp probes this afternoon. I couldn't find my solder gun so I had to borrow one from a friend, and it was a blunt stick of hot shit. I almost melted the first connector trying to get the solder to take. Anyways, they're done now. Also got started on the heating elements, but I forgot to bring home some wire terminals so I can't finish those right now. They're much more impressive-looking than some simple temp probes. Maybe tomorrow I'll get those done and can post a pic then. The project is underway...

started working on the brewhouse build last night. i was hoping to get all the temp probes built by the end of tonight, but they're tedious af. it took me an hour to get one of them halfway done yesterday, and i need to build three of these damn things. oof. i did get in the last big component today though...the control panel housing. it's a monstrosity of a thing, and it's gonna be beautiful once i get it hacked up and painted, and get all the components installed. it's nice to be excited about something again.

Well now it has to happen.

This gives me an idea for a new uemb tradition...

if you could only choose one, which celebrity would you stalk and why?

i'll leave it up to her then. if she wants a belated xmas gift, she can holler at me.

does @Neko drink beer? i have something that i couldn't fit in scoob's box (weird...i've never had that problem before) and i could send that along. it won't make it by xmas though

Hey. Hey! Merry Christmas.

well i'm glad scoob took this secret santa opportunity to get a dig in there about the whole "tiny penis" thing. as if i needed another way to measure something so small. thanks, asshole. really though, this is a great gift. i'm starting a project next month that will require cutting into some plate steel with high precision (by hand because cnc is pricey), and my standard tape measure was gonna be a sloppy way to mark things up. i'm also a nerd and really enjoy precision tools like this. thank you sir. your gift is somewhere between your front door and champaign, il. usps tracking sure is getting better! it's still telling me delivery on 12/19, but i'm starting to doubt that.

is that the consensus now?

wait-- is packard gonna be in there when it comes down? hey, i just thought of a way to pay the server bills around here for the next year or two...

whole house was sick with the main symptoms back in feb, but nobody was getting tested for covid at that time. we tested one of the boys for other viral things because he carried his fever for a whole week, but it came back negative for everything. "some viral bug going around" is all the doctors would say. 🤷‍♂️ i've tested negative maybe a dozen times since then. going in to donate blood next week, and they'll do an antibody test with that. maybe that will uncover something.

Lucky for you, nobody is sending you shit to worry about. I could drive you a gift faster than any courier would show up, but nah. Tell you what, donate something to wrlt.com of smashville and that will be enough to make me happy.

Tracking says delivery to your door by 12/19. Woohoo, in time for the weekend.