We’re on vacation in Hotlanta, GA. So far we’ve done the Georgia Aquarium (which is pretty amazing), Airsoft Atlanta (looks like the 5.11 catalog exploded, but it’s a great airsoft store, and we’ve eaten waaaay too much. So far no one has killed us on the highway, but it’s only Tuesday.
I’m using a borrowed computer running Win ME and no anti-virus software (until I got here). When I started the new AV software I installed, the search returned 762 virii - a new record for a comp I’ve worked on. I’m still fighting them.
Yesterday turned out to be a double Legendary day - like two simultaneous Legendary days. I was up to it, though.
Today, though, is going to make yesterday seem like a cakewalk. Today I have to accomplish something at work that no fully human person can do. Today is a 5.15 day. Today, the difficulty is set on Chuck Norris.
That’s OK, though, because…
I am Awesome.
When most people look up Awesome in the dictionary, they find Chuck Norris. When Chuck Norris looks up Awesome in the dictionary, there I am. Yesterday, I cut my finger while using a Vise-Grip to change a light bulb (really). I didn’t bleed though; I just leaked some Awesome. Not to worry - my body makes Awesome at such a prodigious rate that I’m thinking about getting some leeches to make sure I don’t overfill with Awesome and turn into Jack Bauer.
Check out the comments to the article. Wow, just… wow. I’ve got to hope that there are just some DU trolls lurking there and that there aren’t really so many shooters who are anti-black-rifle. I am not a hunter (I did that as a young teen, but basically lost interest as I got older) but I respect the importance of hunting in the human psyche and if somebody wants to take a 500 Ricearoni Magnum out after Bambi, well, have at it. (I’m going to the store to buy meat because I don’t have to wake up at 4 a.m. to get it.) But people who say that a rifle has no place in the woods or field because it’s made of aluminum and plastic just make no sense. A rifle is suitable for hunting if it has sufficient power and accuracy to humanely take the game. That’s it. Otherwise, the anti-technology argument gets pretty slippery pretty fast. Hunters started off with spears and rocks, didn’t they? What do you need with a gun, or a bow, to hunt deer? Under the Fudd reasoning, isn’t a long pointed stick the only really “respectable” and “traditional” tool for hunting?
Actually, my favorite part of the Outdoor Life article is Mr. Bane’s admission that he has a shotgun with a Cartman “Respect Mah Authoritah!” sticker on the stock. Excellent! That made me read his blog, and it’s so good, it’s going on the blogroll.
Old but still good GPS (Garmin 60 CS, not the new CSx) has too little memory to take all the maps required for an upcoming trip, so arriving today is a new Garmin Nuvi 680.
Thanks to the Interwebz I was able to discover that some of these are loaded with the new 2008 maps and some otherwise identical units have the old 2007 maps (and the map data is older than that, by a lot, believe me), and I found a vendor that sells only the updated version. You might or might not be able to get an updated map from Garmin for free, but it’s best to avoid the hassle and delay and buy the new one in the first place.
Dentist again yesterday. There was a “complication” that “had never happened before” that required me to be in the chair for an extra hour and a half with many, many hands and tools in my mouth. Things you never want to hear your dentist say:
“I’ve never seen anything like this” referring to the piece of metal that they epoxied(?) to one of my teeth by accident.
“Let me have the xxxx bit” for the drill to cut apart the metal thingy. Repeatedly.
“You (random dental hygenist walking by) want to try your hand at this for a while?”
I feel like I went 30 seconds with the young Mike Tyson. “And now it’s round one and … ooooh, that’s gonna leave a mark… and he’s down! One… two… three… ….”
And … WTF? I brush 3 times a day and floss twice, and I still got a cavity? Maybe I need radioactive toothpaste or something?