What'd you do today?

impulse418 wrote: You truly deserve that world's best dad coffee cup.

She let me sleep for 12 hours. We're square.

I worked a 12 hour shift, then went home, picked up my 3 year old son, and made a 2.5 hour drive to NYC. When we got there, we dropped off a box, turned around, and drove 2.5 hours back. I was nearly 30 hours between bedtimes, and when the coffee, 5 hour energy drinks, and AMP wore off, I crashed and spent 12 hours in a coma-like sleep.

Why did I do this? My wife runs an etsy shop where she sells handmade toys and the like. A woman who is an event coordinator for a pretty swank company contacted her and asked for 10 pieces of product to be overnighted to NYC. Trouble was, they asked this at 3PM, and anything you're shipping has to be out by 5. My wife had 4 of the product in stock already, and tried like hell to make the deadline, but it wasn't going to happen. Rather than miss out on tapping into a pretty big client AND an order worth a few hundred bucks, we gambled and asked the woman if we could hand deliver it by noon the next day. They agreed, and I took a long, long drive.

Spent the day at my first sales presentation with the CEO of the company, my district manager, one of our sales guys, the VP of marketing, and one of our head dietitians. I was just there to take care of the food and look pretty. Sales pitch was to a school we've been trying to get into for 20 years, but the head honcho is a bit of a pitbull and seems to keep making the same mistakes with their dining services companies over and over. 10 years and 4 different companies later, they're finally coming to us. Frankly, I'm not sure we want this one. Whoever winds up becoming the director there is eff'ed on the employee end of things. School employs all the cooks. Not a single one of them (not even the newest dishwasher) is making less than $16/hr with full benefits 401k, etc. After all the OT for functions, they probably make more than the managers do. Sucks for whoever will be there as there's little to no recourse for counseling and/or terminating problem employees since they're employed by the school and not our company. It's like dealing with a union, but worse because there are no common expectations or rules. If it were up to me, I'd walk away from the table, but it's a big name school around here, so we'll likely stick to it.

Otherwise my wife brought the plague home with her from the damned rugrats in her building at work. Massive sinus infection just in time for me to have to work a 12 hour day Saturday and then turn right around and deal with driving a bunch of kids to the Appalachia Service Project regional HQ in southern WV. I hope it's a quick virus, otherwise it's gonna suck.

Spent last night in Calgary at "4 Diamond Award" hotel that didn't even have free WiFi.  Drove to Edmonton today and staying at a much less fancy hotel with free WiFi.  Driving to Dawson Creek tomorrow.

Eville wrote: Primary Arms runs 20% off specials on those fairly often.

Thank you for that!

impulse418 wrote: 80% lower? I'm so sorry you live where you live that requires that. Speaking of... Got some trigger time on my Sig MCX. They were right, the stock trigger is pretty horrendous. Have been looking at upgrading to a Geissele SD-C

procarbinefreak wrote: It's funny...  the first few times I shot, the double action shot was the most dead center shot I had.  Now that I'm getting "better" that's the one that starts to drift.  I tried the whole focus on the front post thing, but I can't seem to see the target at all then.  I just need to get out more and shoot more rounds. I'm eyeing up a glock 26 now and I'm not sure if I want to sell the 92fs to get it or not.

Yup. That's pretty typical that that your DA shot is the flyer. Once you get the SA shots in group, you'll want to go back and work on that DA control again. After all, it's the most important one in a defensive situation. I've gotten to the point with my PA-63 that the DA is center, but slightly high. Which I'm okay with as it puts it right in the collar bone area when aiming center mass. After that, everything else is right where it should be.

I've done a couple of dump-and-run drills with it too (as in, dump the mag and high tail it out of there) when the range will allow it. I'm less accurate, but still all center mass, so I've got that going for me.....



As for what I've been up to:

• Kitchen and powder room floors are finished (we used a laminated vinyl tile product) and everything is done with the exception of finishing painting (PITA)
• I have an antique Hoosier cabinet about half-way stripped, then it started raining.... and raining.... and raining. Luckily I should have it finished up this week so I can paint it. Gonna be our new china & liquor cabinet.
• Students are done at school. I don't feed anyone from here on out, so I'm in the office today to get paperwork wrapped up and take care of an interview for a new Assistant Food Service Director that I need to hire.
• After spending the recent week with my son, I can say that the ladies who did the screening and got us all worried are full of crap. That kid is perfectly normal. He DOES have a speech delay, but cognition, etc. are fine.
• Going on a service trip next week to WV to help repair homes with Appalachia Service Project. Looking forward to it despite the forecast of thunderstorms and heat.
• Trying to find a decent price on AR 80% lowers. Anyone seen any recently?

For the first shot, don't look at anything but the front sight post.  bring the gun up to your face so the hammer is on your cheek and you are looking at the front site and have it on your target.  Then, in a smooth motion, push the pistol forward away from your face, keeping focus on the front site only and the front site on your target.  Simultaneously, squeeze the trigger smoothly so that it breaks and fires at the same time that your arms reach full extension.  This is called "railing" (tee hee).  You can get the gist of it from this dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoX26OhDCY  

Yesterday I went golfing for the first time ever. 18 holes on a difficult course is not fun.