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- I haven’t given chess the attention I’d like to give it in several years, and yet that hasn’t stopped me from considering taking up Go. Perhaps I’m just fantasizing that I’ll have time.
- Lea asked me to buy sugar on the way home today. I was pleased to see that sugar still comes in the iconic 5-lb. bag, and hasn’t gone the less-for-the-same-price route of ice cream, orange juice, cereal, and such. I suspect the 5-lb. bag of sugar, the gallon of milk, and perhaps the pound of butter shall remain immune from such shenanigans. (Check out the tortured weights on candy bars sometime. 1.55 oz., 2.07 oz….)
- If you choose to start a company anytime soon, please consider using the word “Monster” in its name. These morons are killing me.
- The latest calm, reasoned, consensus-building rhetoric: “In a recent private meeting with some of the world’s largest bankers, President Obama reportedly railed at them: ‘My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks!'” But, you know, it wasn’t on CNN or NPR, so I’m sure it didn’t really happen. How could it have? It doesn’t fit the narrative, after all.
- Last year I blogged about my loathing of tax preparation. Well, our accountant’s line item didn’t survive our 2009 budget (it was her or HD cable; some big problems I got, eh?), so I’m TurboTaxing it this year. You know, it’s not so bad. This is well-designed software.
- The piracy in the western Indian Ocean is a wonderful application for private security firms. I have a feeling that a few well-trained, well-armed crews shooting to kill would solve the problem very quickly for the shipping of any countries choosing that solution. If charging a cargo ship in a speedboat suddenly carried a non-negligible risk of having many large involuntary holes made in your person, then fewer people would choose to do it.
- Speaking of shooting to kill, I’m way overdue for a range date. Did you see my last target? Sweet.
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Still liking the Glock?
I’ve been thinking, should Cookiemaker and I ever get to a place financially where we could afford such a luxury, that I’d like to buy a handgun. I think my preference wold be the H&K USP in .45 ACP, though. I like the fact that it’s available for left-handed shooters such as myself.
Of course, I don’t think Cookiemaker would be to thrilled. She really doesn’t like guns. I remember when a Cabelas finally opened a store within reasonable distance of our home checking out their gun collection and seeing a pair of SOPMOD M-4s. I, naturally, was thrilled. Cookiemaker, however rolled her eyes, cringed, saw the price tag, and said “Would you really spend $2,000 on one of those things?!”
DAMN SKIPPY! 🙂
Man, the Glock 23 is like an old friend. It feels like a pistol growing out of the end of my arm. I’m going to get around to getting one soon (I’m still borrowing the one at the range).
For the record, I don’t like guns either, and I deeply hope I never shoot at anything but a paper target (or the odd Diet Mountain Dew bottle). However, I feel like not liking them is no excuse for not being comfortable with them. I’d much rather not need one and have one than not have one and need one.
It amazes me the number of people whose main reason for wanting to pass more gun control laws is that they are afraid of or uncomfortable with guns. How is that a valid reason to usurp the 2nd amendment?
I am not comfortable with guns, but that is something I can remedy with education and training, n’est pas? Not unlike learning how to safely handle a 3000 pound killing machine at 80MPH.
Yeah, TurboTax is a pretty decent piece of software. Avoid TaxCut like the plague. We used it once about 6 yrs ago and the buggy thing barely got our fed forms in and still made us mail in state forms with fingers crossed.
When we go to flat tax or national sales tax, Intuit is going under though.
‘seester: Interesting analogy. It’ll never fly, though; driving doesn’t lend itself nearly as well to screaming hysteria.
BamaDan: It’s my first year in a while to do them myself. It was a bit pricier, but also a bit easier, than I was expecting. And you’re right: a radical simplification of the tax code will definitely have negative consequences for a few folks.