My Corner of the Universe

Baby is coming soon

2011-10-26T11:00:00.001-04:00

I expect my first child will be born here soon in the next couple of days, gonna be an exciting thing.

Support HB 4009

2011-02-06T11:09:00.001-05:00

If you live in Michigan tell your legislator to support HB 4009 which would repeal the pistol free zones in Michigan.

RAH!

2010-11-09T16:50:00.001-05:00

I think I'm going to try and get off my ass and start posting again, don't hold your breath though.

Guns I want

2009-09-30T01:14:00.009-04:00

As a note, this list is not in order of importance as much as a stream of crap out of my head.

A nice .308 battle rifle. A FAL would likely do nicely. I want it just for the sake of it being awesome.

An AR-15 preferably a gas piston one, probably have to be in 5.56 though if I ever want to be able to afford shooting it. I want it for the sake of having an accurate semi auto rifle that makes Sarah Brady cry. (My wasr-10 already does most of these things but what the hey)

A Tokarev pistol. Cheap ammo that's got some nice pop to it? Yes please! Really the ammo is crazy cheap, like ten cents a round cheap if my math is correct. Plus I like the plug uglyness of it.

A Saiga-12 or Saiga-20 havn't decided what gauge I want yet. Who couldn't love a semi auto AK clone shotgun? I'm not sure how well it'd do killing clays but it just looks so damn awesome.

Some sort of K98 clone. Probably end up getting an yugo m24/47 because they're so cheap. In the same vein a nice lee-enfield rifle, probably a No4 Mk1. As much as I love semi auto's I love bolt actions just as much. For some reason the action of working the bolt between shots just resonates with a part of me.

Reloading equipment and a place to put it. Nothing like being able to fine tune your bullets for exactly what you want. Plus for some of my rifles it's the only cheap way to shoot them.

A nice high capacity pistol in 9mm. Not really sure exactly what kind yet. Mostly 9mm for ammo cost.

A nice percussion lock muzzle loader. Don't know why, it just calls to me.

Lever action rifle. Maybe pistol caliber, maybe 30-30. Just seems like I should have one.

A revolver. Likely in .357 maybe one of them newfagled 8 shot ones. I was a pretty good shot with my Colt Trooper MkIII before I traded it for a Makarov.

Well that's all I can think of at the moment.

Fuck....

2009-08-13T17:34:00.003-04:00

You know it's pretty depressing when you look at your life and see that you live in a country who's government is doing it's damndest to destroy the very ideals it was founded upon and force some form of nanny state socialism down the peoples throats. Whats even worse is the number of people who are cheerfully drinking the kool-aid.

But wait, it doesn't end there! To make things better I have a large medical bill to pay, an untreated heart condition that is likely coronary artery disease, and not enough money to actually find out what is wrong with me and have it treated.

I'm living in a place I can barely afford and the girl I care about the most can barely pay the bills and eat at the same time. That's the worst thing of it all too, as much as my life sucks right now she's having an even harder time of things and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it right now.

It's depressing.

I'm not dead

2009-02-23T00:57:00.002-05:00

Really I swear, I'm just really busy.

It's Depressing

2009-01-26T12:11:00.000-05:00

As of late Congress has been spending money like a rock star on a month long coke binge. Except it's been doing it on a national scale. Now where you might wonder does this money come from?

Well Congress has three sources of money: One is taxes, if they want more money from taxes they can raise them, to a point, see you can only tax people so much before you actually start to lose revenue because they either lose the incentive to work as hard, or you outright tax them to death.

The second way is to sell debt to other countries, like China. Now generally this works ok because the US has a fantastic credit rating. The thing is is that China all ready has a lot of our debt and they likely aren't going to want to take on any more. If we default bad, bad things will happen.

Thirdly is that the Fed just prints more money. This is akin to slapping a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. Our monies value is based on the GNP, the collective worth of the nation, so when you increase the money supply you decrease the value of each individual dollar, this is inflation. The cake is only so big and if you cut more pieces each slice is smaller. Too much inflation and you end up like some African nations where it takes a wheel barrel full of cash to buy a loaf of bread.

Sigh.

Why I carry a gun

2009-01-21T00:53:00.002-05:00

I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because my sex organs are too small. I carry a gun because I want to continue to use those sex organs for the purpose for which they were intended for a good long time to come.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Courtesy of Syd, at Front Sight Press

Oh for fucks sake

2008-12-12T19:27:00.002-05:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7508404.stm

I think it's high time we returned to our former homeland the UK and returned liberty to its people.

I mean wanting to ban pointy knives? It's hard to say all that I feel here, but none of it's good.
To the commentators who supported the proposal: you're the reason your country is going to shit.

Bah

2008-12-10T22:11:00.001-05:00

There is so much I want to say yet I cannot find the words.

Hmm

2008-12-09T04:09:00.002-05:00

I have a rather strong feeling of foreboding...

Traps

2008-12-06T01:41:00.002-05:00

Once again fate tempts me to reach my hand into the bear trap of love. Dare I take it's challenge and reach into the trap hoping I can take the prize without losing my hand?

OC'd today

2008-12-04T22:51:00.004-05:00

Went to Glens and Dunhams today open carrying my 1911. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, imagine that. No 911 calls or anal raping by the police.

Moving on Up

2008-12-04T22:50:00.002-05:00

Well it seems for the time being that I'm a CSM and no longer you're friendly Customer Service Ogre.

Watch this

2008-11-23T14:48:00.000-05:00

Seriously watch this, it's funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4

Bonus points if you can recognize the background music.

Quote of the day

2008-11-20T03:50:00.000-05:00

From /k/

It's called personal responsibility. I know that's becoming a foreign concept in this day and age, but it basically means this; You are the first and foremost defense against any threat against you, be it psycho government, the crack head down the road or the fucking British. It is not the government's job to babysit you all day long and letting it do so is the fastest way to a tyrant taking power.

If only more people thought this way

Ughh

2008-11-14T23:25:00.001-05:00

Fucking flu.

HAIL

2008-11-06T00:32:00.001-05:00

ALL HAIL DER SWARTZENFUERER!!!

Go vote!

2008-11-04T13:14:00.000-05:00

Or I'll beat you with a stick, a really really big stick at that.

Rants Ahoy!

2008-11-01T17:37:00.008-04:00

I've come to the conclusion that men are their own worst enemy. Why might you ask? Well that would be because for every nice guy there are at least three assholes.

These are the guys that pressure girls for sex. The guys that thinks its OK to hit women. The guys that will lead a girl on to get what he wants and then drop her when he's done. The guys that'll a girl drunk to have sex with her (also known as rape). The guys who tell a girl they love her then screw around with her best friend behind her back.

I promise to never be this guy. Wanna know why? Cause I can't stand to see a girl in pain, it breaks my heart. Especially when I can't do a thing about it. Because when I say something I mean it. When I give my word it is my bond, my sacred honor pledged. When I tell you I love I mean it. I don't believe in a One True Love or soul mate. To me love is something that must grow, a delicate sapling that can become the great oak.

To the shallow guys out there who base everything on looks , you're missing so much in the world. I see good looking girls every day, and you know what I feel? Nothing, nada, zip. For me attraction starts with knowing the person, talking with them, learning about them. Do they like the things I like? Do they think? Dear lord is there ever a shortage of thinking people. Do they have a sense of humor? A sense of determination? Can they get knocked down by life and pick themselves up and march on?

Now the girl who I can talk with, share my feelings with. Who understands that sometimes I just want to wrap my arms around her just to know she's there. The girl who uses her mind. That's the girl who I wantbe with.

One of the few things that I find hard to stand is someone who is a constant whiner. OK yeah I get it, you hate your job, I'm not really fond of mine either but it's the best I'm gonna get right now. When you tell me how you hate your job every damn day it starts to... wear a bit. Yes I know life sucks and the universe is fucking you up the ass with it's mighty penis of hate, but stop bitching, suck it up, and either deal or work for something better.

Well I'm outta steam for now.

What is love?

2008-10-29T01:50:00.003-04:00

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Ahh love you cruel mistress. Capable of making or breaking a mans life. I never knew how much I'd miss having a girl to hold until I didn't.

I met her and gave her my number. Talked with her for hours on the phone. Hung out with her when she came back to town. Held her tight. Told her how I felt. Took an 88 shell in the right wing. Spiraled down to earth. Grabbed the lever and ejected. Got to watch my flaming plane crash into the ground.

Fuck.

Oh well one day I shall fly again, and I shall show that cocky German gun crew who's boss.

So yeah for those who couldn't follow I met a girl and tried to start a relationship with her. Sadly she's not up for a relationship anytime soon. So now we're just friends. *sigh* But I regret nothing, and I really enjoyed all the time I have spent with her.

And so a hunger has grown within me. A hunger for female companionship.

Oh my aching head

2008-10-29T01:09:00.004-04:00

Sometimes I wonder what the Mainstream Media and TV have done to peoples perception of firearms ownership.

Today I cam back from lunch to an interesting situation. A lady had bought a youth compound bow for her child and when they got home discovered it was missing the arrow rest so she brought it back. From what I remember I believe it was the last one so she couldn't exchange it and just wanted a refund. My fellow Service Desk Ogre was unsure if it was OK to return it as firearms sales are final (yes I know and she knows that bow are not firearms bear with me here) and she thought it might be under the same policy for some reason. Anyways as fellow Ogre is working to find out the answer I strike up a conversation with the next lady in line. I explain that we used to do send outs for customers shipping their guns back to the manufacturer for repair work but no longer do that. She asks me if a license is needed to buy a bow to which I respond "Uhh nope just gotta be eighteen, actually I'm not sure if you have to be eighteen but we won't sell them to you if you arn't." Now for some reason the lady, and the lady behind her thought that you needed a license to purchase/own a gun as well. To which I respond "Nope the only thing you need to be able to purchase a rifle or a shotgun is eighteen and not a criminal." They seemed a tad surprised at that.

Now I'm not trying to bash these people or call them stupid but it seems that the media have done a rather good job of making people think they need a license or permit to exercise a basic human right. Sigh.

Dear Dumbass

2008-10-27T00:20:00.003-04:00

When you tell me how you plan on ripping off the company I work for don't be surprised when I foil your evil plans.

Guy comes up to the service desk and says he wants to return a DVD because it doesn't play properly. I inform him that we do not allow returns on movies and the like once they are open but he can exchange it for another copy of the same title. He responds that it is still sealed and unopened. So I ask him "You watched it and it didn't play properly, right?" which he confirms. I then explain to him that since he just told me that he had opened it I cannot return it. For some odd reason he didn't want to exchange it either, it was like the movie was perfectly fine or something.

I am Joe

2008-10-22T00:31:00.002-04:00

I am a 22 year old soon to be college student who works at Wal-Mart. Sure I don't pay a lot of taxes right now but one day I actually plan on making real money, and I'd like to be able to keep some of that money. I won't be able to afford classes if Obama taxes the economy into nothingness.

I'll "share the wealth" with those I like not whomever the gummint says I will.

Boredom

2008-10-14T17:13:00.002-04:00

Man am I bored. Working 4pm-11pm five days a week doesn't do wonders for your social life. Nor does the fact that I live in a small town with no social venues other than bars, which I'd rather avoid. I really want to get out there and start meeting some women but it doesn't help that there really are not many places to meet people around here.

Prints

2008-10-08T23:56:00.002-04:00

Well tomorrow I'm off to have my fingerprints taken as part of my CPL application. You see if my county was like pretty much every other county and had the Sheriff or local PD do the printing I'd have been done on Monday when I paid my fee. Except they had to contract it out to a company who is only in town every other week for a day or two and you have to make an appointment with them. The only upside is that it is done electronically so I don't have to get ink on my fingers.

What a way to start the day

2008-10-06T13:45:00.003-04:00

Woke up today with a nosebleed. Something tells me today may be a record Monday.

Helplessness

2008-10-05T22:05:00.003-04:00

A good friend of mine gets chronic headaches/migraines which cause her an immense amount of pain. The worst part, for me that is, is that there isn't really anything I can do to help the pain stop. So I just try and give her a hug and hold her until the pain stops, at least when I can. Needless to say this makes me feel pretty helpless since I can't really do much. This is not a feeling I enjoy to say the least.

And So It Begins

2008-10-05T13:45:00.003-04:00

Making some chili today for a friend. Hopefully it comes out OK, now I'm off to get some ingredients. More to come as things develop.

Update: MMM Chili. Spending time with her was well worth it as well.