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  • Poor victim selection

    Somebody broke into the wrong apartment in the Antioch area of Nashville last night.  Broke in to find the occupants there, struggle ensued, shots fired, and that’s all she wrote for that particular goblin.

    Oddly enough, a couple hours earlier, in a different part of town, I was talking to my Tai Chi instructor, and we both agreed that if you’re going to have a home defense gun, it should be on you.  You probably won’t have time to go get it when you need it.

    Oh, and this story is a wonderful example of why, when I bought my house, I had to explain to both my parents “yes, I bought a house in Antioch.  No, not that part of Antioch.”

     

  • Review: 5.11 Covert Khaki vs Covert Khaki 2.0

    A few years ago I bought a couple pair of 5.11 Tactical’s Covert Khakis. I really liked them, to the point where I wore each pair twice a week for almost two years. Just recently I lost a button on one of them, about 5 years after I bought them. Mrs wizardpc kindly repaired that last night.

    So, really durable, then. Virtually no signs of wear.

    My only complaint is that they shrank about a half inch in inseam the first time I ran them through the dryer on high heat. Learned my lesson on that one. So they’ve been a little highwater-ish.

    A couple of years ago, 5.11 discontinued the Covert Khakis. By the time I heard about it, my size was sold out everywhere. It made me sad.

    When I was writing the post on the Columbia ROC pants I discovered that 5.11 had come out with a Covert Khaki 2.0. I was thrilled! I ordered a pair a size larger than last time to hopefully prevent the shrinking issue. That ended up being a mistake, for reasons I’ll explain in a minute.

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  • Two more looking to join the club

    Looks like Erin has managed to get through the carry class along with her mom.  Of course, by get through the class, I mean they came home with the same number of holes they left with and managed not to fall asleep at any point.

    Along with that, apparently her mom picked up a nice knew piece, and, ironically enough, what fit her the best was one of those .357 snub-nosed jobs that we all say “no, this isn’t a beginner’s gun!”

  • The email. It is broken

    I screwed up something with the DNS transfer, so oddball and I aren’t getting any mail. We can send, but cant receive.

    I’ll fix it as soon as I can, but we get a low volume of mail. 😀

    EDIT: We can get email now, but for some reason comment notifications aren’t coming through. Not even as spam.

    The reason why email got borked is because I changed nameservers when I moved to the hosting provider. Like an idiot, I didn’t think through the consequences of that. I had to move back to the old nameservers because my hosting provider won’t allow me to set MX records. Unless, of course, I pay for email hosting from them.

  • BAG purchase report

    So… I finally bought that .22 pistol that I’ve been talking about needing to do for a while on the way back from the scifi con yesterday.  After considerable research and lots of thought between the Beretta NEOS and Ruger MkIII, I went with neither.

    Instead, I picked up this:

    A Browning Buck Mark with a 5.5″ slab side bull barrel and the upgraded grips.  I went with it because most folks seem to consider it on par with the Ruger, and, from what I could find, I could get this for about $100 less than a comparable Ruger.  It came with a hard case, one magazine, one of those stupid cable locks that will never see any use from me, and enough safety and warning booklets to kill 3 trees.

    I didn’t get back in quite enough time to try it out at the range, but I will say the rubber grips (their “Ultragrip RX” grips) definitely matches my hand wonderfully.  As I’ve commented before, I wish there were larger caliber pistols that had grips like this instead of just adding a bunch of stippling and calling it a day.

  • Overheard in the car

    Driving down the Interstate, we are passed by a Subaru WRX STI.

    Me: Man, I’d love to have one of those some day.
    Mrs wizardpc: But that’s a hippie car.
    Me: What? It’s a turbocharged off-road rally racer that gets like 18mpg! How is that a hippie car?
    Mrs wizardpc: Because it’s made at a factory powered by sunflowers and rainbows.
    Me: That’s totally going on the internet

  • I live… sort of

    Well, I ended up not sleeping as much as I meant to at the scifi con.  For some reason, my body decided that I needed to get up at 8:30am both Saturday and Sunday, not caring that I was out partying until 3am Friday night and 5am Saturday.

    Oh, and while I failed to catch any purple women (though the drinking and the kilt wearing was successful), something did follow me home on the drive back.  Pics to follow tomorrow when I hopefully has the brains.

  • To-done list

    Up at 0430. On purpose.

    Ran a 5k. Mostly.

    Went to the gun show. Surprisingly few guns. The only thing I came home with was for the dog.

    Moved blog from a self hosted solution to a hosting provider. I was already paying for the space and didn’t want to have downtime again.

    Dinner with the wife’s family.

    Possibly found her a new vehicle.

    Played with the dog until she decided to start tearing up the house.

    Feeding lilwizard before bed.

    Not a bad Saturday.

  • Switching servers

    Things might look weird for a little bit.

  • To all those heading to the NRA convention…

    …have fun. Wish I could have made it this year, since it’s only a few hours down the road. Instead, I will be having fun, to quote my coworker, “drinking heavily and chasing purple women while wearing a kilt.”

    Just… uh… don’t tell Naienko.