Afternoon,, everyone.
Steve, I sometimes have the feeling upper management actually has a sadistic streak when it comes to layoffs. I used to see that kind of thing all the time - tell 'em we're doing layoffs but make them sweat for a week before we tell them who. I always had this mental pictures of the boys on the 23rd floor watching us on closed circuit TV and sadistically laughing at us. Kind of paranoid but I'm sure you understand the feeling.
Tom, sorry to hear you had the bug too. Seems to some variant of the common cold that's going around the country.
Rex, all the Glock 23's I've ever seen only have a 13 round factory magazine. The aftermarket 15 round mags stick out slightly from the grip base. Maybe Glock made some 15's that I'm not aware of but the problem was the magazine spring was too weak to reliably feed the rounds and still allow you to reload the magazine by hand. You're right about ammo prices, though. I just have 9 mm's (a Glock 17 and and Kel-Tek P11) and like to run about 100 rounds a month through them just to keep in practice. Even cheap Russian ammo is running about $12 for 50 rounds so that's almost $50 a month for ammo.
Chris, while I can understand your wife's feeling about guns around kids, I still think every home needs a self-defense weapon. A Remington 870 shotgun is the ideal weapon for this purpose. It's almost impossible for a kid to figure out how to work the slide to load a round in the chamber and there's still a safety in place. The good thing is that every thug knows the sound of an 870 being racked. Best less than lethal defense there is.
Jeffrey, you are getting all the rain from the magic front that's supposed to be headed our way.
David, it looks like the high winds did go south of you. They've already lost 100 homes to a fire in Santa Barbara with more to come.
CJ, I'd cut the wood today. I don't think we're going to get squat in terms of rain. It's clearing here and the radar show what little rain there ever was in Alabama is now almost in Georgia. I still don't know why the NWS is continuing to forecast rain that's obviously not going to happen. It will turn colder by tomorrow night though - I'm taking my parka to the Alabama game. Glad to hear you're healing up on schedule.
Oh, I forgot. Chris, the rat was a pet. Her name was Stinky and she was a sweet rat. She was almost three years old and rats almost always develop some kind of cancer by then. It looked like leukemia to me since she had developed leukemic cutis lesions on her skin. She died a nice peaceful death though and she's buried out back by our swing under a big oak tree. I'll miss her.
Nothing else of import here. I got my Caboose high level switch stands and I'm puzzling out exactly how those things go together. Caboose is not real good with instruction.