Recent content by blammer

I had a very similar experience years ago. On one of our very rare vacations that did not involve solely visiting relatives, I did this. Knowing that our destination was a national resort area with lots of tourist accomodations, I stayed a night halfway to our tourist-trapping visitation...

My fat fingers are my first line of failure. I jab at something and hit something else. I suppose I could enlarge the display by going to the 'disabled accessibilty' settings, but that would be admitting the obvious. And then, just when I get used to where things are, they change the UI and...

If both the 6.5 and 224 brass, from different sources had problems, the common denominator may not be the brass. I've used SB dies on 556 and don't recall a huge amount of extra force (as opposed to de-crimping 556!). Are the 6.5 and 224 SB dies new? From your comments I assume you tried...

Interested to hear. I've not wanted to try it. But I have a Necstar VISM sight pusher that works well for its intended 'squareish' slides. It is very adjustable and has inserts that allow for some various shape differences. If one of their included inserts did not work, I'd think it would...

Blame Dino-farts for ancient warming.

Good friends are hard to find. Having caring friends and family around is a big help. Hoping he and they can agree on the course of treatment he wants and then gets it. Above all, prayers for peace for him, his family and friends during this difficult process. Let the spirit and his wishes...

Just make sure to double-check your fly before you go on stage. And look at different parts of your audience throughout the presentation. Telling a few on-topic jokes is always a good idea. Quick real-life stories, even about yourself are good. Be super prepared and practice on a...

Don't watch (pay to view and then still get commercials?: no thanks for football). Sounds like the game was a well-matched and well-played, though. My son-in-law was happy: Chiefs won and I think a Kansas university team was doing well in Bball. Yawners for me. If I want, I can watch the...

I just like collecting boxes. I get them from Amazon and other places. What's in them covers a wide swath of the economy and most goes into my 'rainy day' piles.

Log that you did it. If anyone complains tell them you tried to ask power company. What's the worst cops can do to you, even in CA? Of course, CA's goal is to get everyone on solar, so I'd believe any excuse to harass people to doing it would be done by them. However, for limited power use...

Question: Is there a dog pepper spray? I thought normal 'people' pepper spray did not work on dogs. Is that true? I'd hate to have someone carry it only to find it did not work on dogs. My boy has some kind of dog-deterrent sound-generator (looks like a garage door opener) he's successfully...

Those kinds of prices are pretty much everywhere like that in eastern Nebraska. Wife and I do various fast food takeout a couple of times a week. Usually I get a meal and she just gets a sandwich and we split the fries. Eats up most of $20. Though Nebraska just passed a minimum wage, have...

As stated in other posts, top strap erosion is the one I've heard about. Everything I read said that it was self-limiting: once it cut to a certain point it would not go further (assuming similar loads). Never read of a failure because of this. Shooting heavier bullets causes the bullet to...

However, back in the 60's I could earn enough in a summer to pay for college for the year. If I worked while at college, I could afford some treats during the year. There were people I knew who worked construction during the summers. They earned enough for a year of college and didn't have...

Wife puts up a reasonable facsimile: Fold out metal and plastic with builtin lights. Way easier than live we used to do. But it's heavy so we get our visiting kids to haul it up the stairs from the basement. Fondly remember the family tree-choosing ritual trips. Miss the smell (I can't...