Update Update

[MartyNeilan]

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurace by switching to geico.

[SRanney]

Woah--twice in one week! A second manuscript of mine has been accepted by moderately well-known (in the fisheries world, at least) journal.

Now if only I could finish my damned proposal...

[djwesp]

UPDATE:

I woke up a half hour early today so that I would have adequate time to post about the fact that I woke up a half hour early today.

I am right there with you. Woke up extra early, drove all the way to my studio in Minneapolis. Get there, and some hippy starts banging on the door asking me to stop playing while he sleeps. I was really excited to try my new puke green kelly mouthpiece in my euphonium!
This is the same hippy that bangs the same djembe drum for 5+ hours in a row sometimes.

Anyways, thought it would be better to come back, read the paper and gorge myself on Breadsmith's Challah!

Those wondering why I play a kelly mouthpiece... well... let's just say a $15 mouthpiece is the least of my euphonium playing worries.

[Kevin Hendrick]

I'm drinking my morning coffee and posted this with the intention of only increasing my post count. Yes, I realize this sounds like an alcoholic rewarding himself with a drink... but hey, i'm hungry!

Update: Post counts here only mean anything if you're building a fence!

Building a fence? One of these'll make quick work of it:

[TubaRay]

You had better start warning your very young male offspring NOW...

...They're not going to have a chance...

You appear to have made an accurate assessment of the situation!

[windshieldbug]

what is ofc?

Update:
Google is your friend, of course!

[TMurphy]

I'm in Arizona for 5 days visiting family, any good places to see tubas near Phoenix?

Also I have realized I can't read the texting lingo... like what is ofc? I just dont understand the kids these days, or really anyone from my generation, then again I don't text so that might be the issue...

I don't know if it's open just yet (or how many tubas they have), but a friend of mine who lives in Phoenix works at the new Musical Instrument Museum in Tempe, Arizona. From what he's told me, it sounds like a pretty incredible place!

[SplatterTone]

I finally took the son out to the shooting range.
(Red Castle http://tulsaredcastlegunclub.com/)
He is 16, so I have indeed been dilatory in doing this. Took the Taurus model 94 revolver (fun 22 LR pistol), an old Remington Nylon 66 (more fun 22 LR rifle), and the Bersa Thunder 9. Shooting 22 is always cheap fun. The Nylon 66 was his favorite. His assessment of the 9mm was that it was a bit intimidating. I took one of those store bought targets with the steel targets that hang down and swing when you hit one of them. It was designed for 22. The 9mm kind of bent the thing up, so I'll be welding up a new, much heavier duty version.

And, there is now one more crazy Oklahoman running around with a concealed carry license. I took the class almost two years ago, but took my sweet time to get off my anus and do the running around to the official agencies to round up the paperwork to send off to the state along with $200 for a 10-year license.

And I got a wild hair tonight and ordered a Crimson Trace laser grip for the Thunder 380.
http://www.crimsontrace.com/Home/Produc ... fault.aspx
Oooooh. Aaaaah. New toys.

[The Jackson]

Woohoo, SplatterTone! That sounds great. I'm sure your son had a ball!

I popped into this gun store the other day and they had all of their rifles lined up and leaning against the wall, free to handle! It was something else. They had everything from $89.95 Mosin-Nagants to $2000 LWRC piston AR-15s. I checked out and dry-fired a Kel-Tel P3AT and Ruger LCP and would love to shoot both of them.

[SplatterTone]

The thing about those 380 (aka 9mm Kurz (short)) is they have suddenly gotten very popular with the concealed carry crowd, and the ammo prices have gotten ridiculous. I got my Thunder 380 back when the ammo was $10 a box.

9mm is starting to get back down into a reasonable price range (around $11 or $12 a box for real brass). I believe it is currently the cheapest center fire pistol round you can go target shooting with -- which was a significant factor for me getting it. Of course, 22 is less than 1/5 the cost of center fire stuff.

[windshieldbug]

The Kel-Tecs are neat little guns, but I can't hold on to them polymer grips.
I've got the concealed carry permit also, I'm licensed for semi-auto but prefer to carry a revolver. My reasoning is that a revolver is always ready and I don't feel comfortable carrying a semi-auto with "one in the chamber".

But which sounds better; brass or silver?

[Rick Denney]

Update:

Having been on the job for two weeks, Congress has seen fit to tie up the Highway Trust Fund in another silly partisan dispute (over activities even those of us to the right of Attila the Hun think are valid government duties).

Thus, I am now on unpaid furlough.

Gives me time to play with my new tractor when it arrives tomorrow.

Rick "you have been updated" Denney

[k001k47]

UPDATE: I am in a computer science class right now browsing Tubenet.

[MartyNeilan]

what is ofc?

Update:
Google is your friend, of course!

Oregon Fried Chicken.

For some reason, it never took off the way Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) did.

Go figure.

[tbn.al]

A nice Georgia snow is just that, nice. 3 inches today, all white and fluffy on the cedars. A veritable winter wonderland. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 48 and bright sunshine and it will all be a memory. You have been updated.

[windshieldbug]

"that new recipe tastes like cardboard"

Harlan Sanders was speaking about the new (at that time) mashed potatoes at Kentucky Fried Chicken. He had sold his controlling interest in KFC and then blasted them in the paper when they changed a bunch of stuff. I remember that. It was funny to me as a kid to see the Colonel lambasting his creation. CARDBOARD!

That's like seeing Sam Walton reviewing his "greeters" as cardboard. Bet he wishes he'd thought of that!

[djwesp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_rule" target="_blank

It seems to me this thread has disproved this widely accepted law.

[SRanney]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_rule" target="_blank

It seems to me this thread has disproved this widely accepted law.

Maybe I've lived a sheltered internet life, but I had not heard of this rule until now. Brilliant. Thanks for the update.

Do you think it could apply to this thread? I've not seen any common discussion topic other than a collection of updates.

[djwesp]

Do you think it could apply to this thread? I've not seen any common discussion topic other than a collection of updates.

I've seen quite a lot of discussion in this thread, but I think that the nature of the thread itself inhibits discussion pertaining to one topic over a long period of time.

That's probably why it has worked.

[windshieldbug]

Do you think it could apply to this thread? I've not seen any common discussion topic other than a collection of updates.

I've seen quite a lot of discussion in this thread, but I think that the nature of the thread itself inhibits discussion pertaining to one topic over a long period of time.

That's probably why it has worked.

Shut up, you storm trooper!

(just trying to keep the universe in balance... )