The Morning After 1
Wow. Hello, new readers, most of you from AR15.com. Over the weekend, you managed to slashdot the site to hell and back. Not a complaint! I like having readers. But I did alter the site so that it would stop dying and our webhost would quit screaming bloody murder at us. Woke up today to several emails from them, basically telling me to get our php under control or our lives were forfeit.
Still recovering from a friend’s birthday party where strange food was served. And alcohol. A lot of alcohol. Enough to make me eat bugs, century eggs (surprisingly good!), and powdered ghost pepper (FUCKING HELL NO NEVER AGAIN MY GOD OW). Happy birthday, Sarah!
On the way home this morning, I passed Cabela’s, and figured I’d check their ammo. Shit be coming back, yo. Grabbed 200 rds of 7.62 x 39 HP for $5 a box, they had mountains of it. Also huge piles of .223/5.56, tons of .45 ACP, .40 S&W, hell, the ammo aisles were pretty damn well stocked at pre-scare prices. (Also grabbed some bulk 12 ga 00, because I can never get enough.) The only things they were out of were, you guessed it: 9mm and 22LR. The latter was a ghost.
Also very nearly grabbed a Hi-Point .45, because I am a ridiculous fucker and they had a used one for $140. Then I realized that I would do better by nailing my dick to the bumper of a Ford F150 and telling the driver to step on the gas. I thought the C9 was huge and awful, but the 45 was like handling a brick glued to a brick.
Going to the ranch sometime soon, will blow up shit and post pics and vids.
Meanwhile, .303 British is still a big ol’ NOPE.
USA! USA!
UK! UK!
Happily, I roll my own, I have about 300 brass, and I load light. Less happily, H4895 is still hen’s teeth.
Thanks so much for the “you know you’re old when” moment. You know you’re old when you realize that many people who might be stumbling into this comic will have no farking clue what Slashdotted mean yet you were around before it was a thing, and was there when it was coined. >.<
And remembering when it was a threat you could level at a website… The “original” DDoS attack… ah, those were the days.
How many digits in your UID? 😉
Sure, sure, make me login to actually look.
Holy fuck. I remembered my password on the 2nd try. o.O
Survey sez, 5. A very low 5. As in >500 from being 4.
heh, Mine’s a 4. 😉 Almost as useful as having a low 1mil ICQ number… does anyone still use that crap?
Fuckdammit. The window show in the first panel made me homesick. There’s not a whole lot like Southern summer sunrises.
Sorry. Pic is actually of a sunset from our home office window, if that helps any.
You do NOT want to mess with ghost chilis, nor do you want to mess with cinnamon. Cinnamon can do just as much damage as ghost chilis.
Yes. I discovered this firsthand at about 2 am at the party. It was a lesson that continued to teach itself to me for about an hour.
You guys rock. I am sad I am caught up, you managed to make me waste my entire morning!
1: was it actually a waste if you enjoyed yourself while reading?
2: James, this is Mikayls, the annoying girl who makes you draw her every A-kon and A-fest, and i need help with my gun lingo, as i have a character in one of my books that collects handguns, i know basically nothing, if you can help at all, please do!
but if she’ll shower with him…he’ll see her scars. He has really impressed her on a deep level. for now. until it gets fucked up.
“…and my hair is fucked.”
???
It’s already half shaved off, and dyed blue..and she’s worried about what, bedhead? 🙂
Nice story; looking forward to wherever this is going.
BTW *yawn*
we need more Omar. He’s funny.
Shaddap.
Calling the Hi-point .45 a “Brick glued to a brick” is only half fair… the pistol grip to me feels like a less grippy 1911 in terms of dimension and angle, and the balance is okay, it’s just the slippery damn surface and impossibility of improving it… but it IS attached to a butt-ugly brick, so yeah.
Yep. that pistol hit *every* branch of the ugly tree on the way down. trigger’s a pain, takedown is a right pain in the anus, but it’s eaten every single type of ammo I’ve fed it. The plus side? it’s bulk helps keep recoil down a lot.
Damn it, I was literally going to the Cabela’s on 75 to look for .22 lr this weekend. I went by an Academy the other day and it was $40 for 50 rounds.
At that price it is literally cheaper for me to shoot 12 ga 00 than it is to shoot .22, per round.
You’re telling me. I’ve got one more weekend until my big trip and then I’m gone. Who knows: maybe ammo’s cheaper in the middle of nowhere New Mexico.
No, personally, it was not a waste at all. My employer might think so, but not this guy!