The Wandering Minstrel

As a senior, I normally avoid foods that raise the old blood pressure or line the blood vessels with plaque. One day a week, however, I indulge in a breakfast that contains two actual chicken eggs topped with shredded cheddar cheese. Despite the departure from the diet regimen one day a week, the medical lab work we periodically get always comes back within limits.

Clickable Image: Several High Caliber methods of preparing eggs.

If I were these guys, I’d be wearing ear and eye protection. If I were the guy in front, I’d need gloves to prevent blistering from holding the hot barrel.

Still on the wish list . . .

• Model 1100 TAC-2
• Semi automatic action
• SpeedFeed® IV Stock
• 12 gauge
• 18-inch barrel
• Blasted Black Oxide Finish
• 6+1 Capacity

Under $750 at the Personal Security Zone

We stopped today at one of our local gun and ammunition stores hoping to find some 20 gauge slug cartridges. The man behind the counter had only two boxes of five rounds left, so I bought them. For as much as I paid for the goddamn slug rounds, I could have bought two 25-round boxes of target loads.

The reason for buying the more expensive loads is due to new rules at the range where we shoot, to wit: slugs or double ought buckshot only and limited to a specific three out of the sixteen lanes. The reason for the rule is that after extensive revamping of the range and the backdrop, small birdshot can ricochet back to the shooters. Not a good thing.

We have been members at the range for several years, and are disappointed in the performance of the current owners with respect to customer service. Customer service? Hah! Picture George Carlin doing pelvic thrusts as he comically describes “customer service.”

Our membership at this range is up in July and we have decided not to renew. The combination of lousy target hangers and pellet-reflecting backdrop gives us pause. Our planned departure from the Southern California area seals the decision.

We have had Charlie Wilson’s War in our DVD collection for a couple of years at least. After the former Congressman’s recent death, the Better Half and I decided to watch the flick one more time. Sort of like a tribute, I guess, but more for our entertainment since we think it is an excellent film without too much left wing Hollywood crap in it.

In the flick, Tom Hanks plays the role of Charlie, a good ol’ boy politics playing Texas Congressman who gets transformed into a crusader against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Julia Roberts plays a role not unlike Kay Huchison, an activist anti communist socialite who prods Charlie into his eventual “war.” Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the gruff and profane CIA agent who acts as a catalyst in the transformation.

There was a sequence near the end of the flick, while Charlie Wilson is standing on the balcony with Gust Avrakotos during a party celebrating the defeat of the Soviet army in Afghanistan, Gust warns Charlie of future problems if he and the other members of Congress do not follow up on giving economic aid to the Afghani’s. As Gust finished this warning, Charlie thinks about what he said, and you hear an airliner flying over Washington DC. It is an obvious, ominous reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

As I indicated before, it is very entertaining, has lots of weapons, guns, blowing shit up, doesn’t try and make a twisted political statement and ends on a reminder of where we now live in the age of Islamic terrorism.

I rate Charlie Wilson’s War a quarter star short of five, holding back just because it was directed by the ultra-liberal Mike Nichols.

The other day, I posted a poster about being prepared. When drjim left a comment on the post, I realized that the photo was missing a couple of the guns that the better Half and I have on the premises. I opened up the safe today and laid them all out for a group photo.

We’ve both got guns on the wish list - some handguns and some rifles. More on that later.

I just ran across this today, again looking for something else. I was looking for some 20 gauge slug shells (the range won’t let us use bird shot) that I could buy on-line.

Bite the Bullet Mints

Keep a tin of these Bite the Bullet Mints in your holster and you’ll have the freshest breath in the West! Each 1-1/2″ x 1-1/2″ x 3/4″ (3.8 cm x 3.8 cm x 1.9 cm) tin contains about forty-five bullet-shaped mints. Thirty-six shrink wrapped tins in each illustrated display box.

I think they resemble Preparation H hemorrhoid suppositories, myself . . .

Found on the net while searching for something entirely unrelated. Looks like fun, so I posted it.