Neanderpundit

faster than the hawk can eat them. So I’m gonna put down some fox urine and see if that chases them off.

Match your speed with the traffic with which you are merging, as you travel down the onramp.

Find a spot to merge into

Accelerate or decelerate to get in that spot

Using your turn signal to indicate your intention to merge, smoothly drift into moving traffic, again, keeping your spped matched with the speed of traffic.

Thatisall.

Shit, shit shit shit shit.

My gunsmith, and the guy from whom I learned more about guns than from any human, has finally retired. He’s sold his business.

I have one of his rifles- this one.

it is my pride and joy.

Harry is still doing gunsmithing, but on a smaller scale. And he’s no longer making barrels at all. I intend to visit him as soon as I can, now I’ve found this out.

Look, I imagine Harry would never have sold his business to anyone unless they were going to continue to make fine barrels- but the day of being able to buy a one of a kind rifle, lovingly created, rifled, chambered, fitted to the action, blued, and pillar bedded to an action, one rifle at a time, by one of the world’s old time fine gunsmiths- those days are gone. Forever. And they will never, ever return.

Damn.

Oh, for another McGowen rifle look here:

Son of a bitch.

I went out yesterday and voted.

In indiana, you have to declare your party to vote in the primary- but apparently you can re-declare each time.

So I went and voted in the primary, and then I went home, and scrubbed myself down with a bar of Lava soap, until my skin glowed. I haven’t felt that dirty in ages.

But I voted. Did you?

Fuck the comb.

Wife reminds me I didn’t get the daughter’s campaign stickers printed last night (she’s running for student council president) So I sprint off to the computer room where I pound out 72 small and 12 large self-adhesive full color glossy labels.

And then use the paper cutter to trim them into individual labels, because all I have are full sheets of label material.

And then I have to score the backs, because in cutting the full sheets not all the individual labels are crack&peel. Which you must do with a scalpel, the onlyu thing sharp enough with a smooth enough edge to cut through the backing and not the sticker itself. And i manage to get 71 and only mess one up and cut all the way through.

I still haven’t had my damned shower.

Then the wife shows me the notice about the “election party” which is after the normal school day, in the gym, and ends “Promptly at 4:00-5:30″

How the HELL can some4thing end promptly over the course fo an hour and a half?

This is the BEST school in the damned district. Good lord.

Last year I had about twenty five tomato plants, and was only able to easily harvest tomatos off about eight, because eight tomato cages was all I have- the others ended up laying all over the ground.

So this year, I put three plants in each cage. The cages are huge- like five footers- so they are too big for one solitary plant anyway, so I figured, each cage has an early girl, a better boy, and a celebrity. Two additional cages have Lucky Hundreds (cherries) And I put in four decent looking green pepper plants. Hope they do ok.

I have four twenty foot rows of corn. Not a lot, but a few nice ears of fresh sweet corn are a gift from the gods.

I have cukes, and beets, in addition to peas and beans, and I expect to put in some squash, too, before it’s over. I want to find some good jalapeno plants, if I can find some that dont look iffy. I may yet hang one or two tomatos as well.

Is Give Peas a Chance

Pascal reminds me of a post I was thinking about earlier, when I heard about this

When confronted with vegetarianism and it’s moonbattery, years ago, I used to drone on into a riff about “What about the right of the plants to live, hm?Have you thought the oats you murdered before they could reproduce had any rights? Have you ever considered the pain experienced when some sadistic bastard tortures a tree in the horrible practice of Bonsai? ” yadda yadda etc. etc. etc.

How was I to know someone would take this seriously?

I guess I underestimated the utter ignorance of the people of the planet.

No, it’s not as dark as all thet, my cheap digital camera just won’t try to take “Available light” photos.

discovered that I was avoiding the traffic on I0294 and I-88, and using 355.

So they placed 355 under construction, as well.

Closing loopholes in sanity since 1955. Fucktards.

A man whose car I am unfit to wash- a REAL man, none of this pussy bullshit- finds himself beginning this week unemployed. Keep him in your prayers.