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Rifle, part 2
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Anyone who tells you it’s too easy to buy a gun, especially right now, has never bought a gun… It’s a simple eight step process that can take a week…
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Wild Wild West
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I’ve not directly owned a firearm for a really long time, in fact the last time was my Navy days back in the late 80’s. I carried a 1911 while…
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Eating local…
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With the threat of zombies and whatnot, a lot of the local grocers are generally out of good meat these days. Sure, you can still get generic 70/30 ground and…
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The morning walk…
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A few shots from today’s route: It was weird to be the only customer in V.I. who wasn’t staring at a phone… Luckily I had my Kindle to fill the…
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Falling down…
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After picking up a couple of sodas at 7-11 on the way in to work this morning, I stepped off of a curb into a pothole and unceremoniously face-planted right…
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Home Improvement
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A few weeks ago I discovered that some of the local steak places are selling ‘you cook it’ steaks, chicken, pork-chops, etcetera to offset the lack of eat-in business. For…
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物の哀れ
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Mono-no aware: the ephemeral nature of beauty – the quietly elated, bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can…
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Working from home, day – I honestly don’t know…
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With this being stuck in the house thing, I’ve realized how important the drive to and from work is… The drive serves as a line in the sand between the…
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Wide Open Space Therapy
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I needed to get out of the house for a bit this morning; the lockdown thing is starting to wear on me. Fortunately I live on the eastern edge of…
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Extended lockdown…
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Looks like I will be stuck at home for another couple of weeks. Yay…
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Notes from Second Life
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With the economic downturn I’m shutting down Roanoak in Second Life once again. While I enjoy the fact so many other people enjoy the place, I really don’t need to…
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Welp…
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Just for posterity: And yes, I do have a Unicorn as my lock screen — doesn’t everyone?
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Still going…
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The last of the stuff from the old condo was hauled out on Friday, and this morning the cleaning crew I hired to ensure the place was in tip-top shape…
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New digs
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In my last entry I mentioned that I was moving; and two days ago I picked up the keys to the new place. Initially I had planned to start the…
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Test for Echo
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I like music, so much so that I’ve had some pretty stellar equipment over the years to reproduce it; signed-by-Bob-Carver Phase Linear stuff, prototype Adcom amps, speakers from such greats…
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Update…
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It’s been a month or so since the last update, so I should post something simply for proof of life. I’ve been incredibly busy with work and have not had…
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Some new art…
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The artwork this time is by Holivi, an artist from Finland! I keep thinking I should build a map that shows all of the neat places my commissions come from.…
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Update!
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It’s been a busy month… First was Generation 4 MLP coming to a close after nine years, which prompted me to throw a bit of a party in SL. And…
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An update and some new art!
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The event in Second Life to see off Gen4 ponies went off without a hitch. I wrote about the events and my synopsis over on my Deviant Art page. 🙂…
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Roanoak, the SecondLife sim
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After announcing the event on the 12th to celebrate nine years of Gen4 MLP, I was approached by some two dozen people asking what would become of the Roanoak story……