What'd you do today?

Going through stuff my dad brought home from grandma's house.  Found a Schebler DLX 124 carburetor, which my research says came from a 1940 Indian 4 cylinder.  I've been trying to find an example of one for sale to determine the value, but no luck.  Similar models have been in the $1,200 range though.  

Southpaw huh? How'd she do with the brass ejecting across her nose?

Had a hell of a weekend this week. Friday we had some occupational and speech therapists come by to evaluate our son. He's got a speech delay and a couple of other minor delays in his development. Luckily, MD is one of the best states in the whole of the US for that. He gets free therapy to help out with that stuff. Well, I say "free" but in reality, I probably pay higher taxes than most people on this forum (NJ excluded) and that's where the services come from.

That said, parenting is a frikken horror show when your kid isn't progressing along the standardized chart. You get everything from "well, he may have a hearing disorder" to "you might want to get him screened for the autism spectrum." Mind you, two days later, the kid is saying some simple two word sentences which mean he's progressing much more quickly with speech now, and he's having a mini language explosion with new words coming every day. I understand that it's the job of the screening folks to look for potential problems, but honestly, I just want to tell them to go "eff" themselves for making me second guess everything my son has been doing the past week. Takes the joy right out of parenthood.

Because of that, my memorial day weekend, which is usually good and relaxing was nothing but a huge ball of stress for me. I'm hoping to hit the skeet and trap range this Saturday to blow off some steam.

She was ok with it. I was a little worried about OOBD which isnwhy she shoulda had her glasses on but took them off betwwen strings and I'm sorry to say I didn't notice.

I also went for speech therapy and a form of occupational therapy and while I may have some odd mannerism and Rainman style recollection of the most bizzare minutiae I turned out ok.

I had today off and I did nothing.  I showered at 3:30 so I'd be clean when the wife came home from work.  I have tomorrow off and I have a few things to do.  Gotta get more rocks for a backyard project, grocery shop, meal plan for the week.  I'm probably going to try to hit up a range and put some rounds through my pistol too.  Should be a good Friday.

I officially have a mortgage now. Most I've ever been in debt.

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

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  

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?

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

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

Thank you for that!