Nothing going on...
I had planned to do some stuff around the store and with the Civic today with Drew, but he doesn't seem to be home yet from Denver. In the meantime, I've done just over 1600 words of translation for delivery tomorrow, and am looking at a poor-quality fax of someone's diploma and wondering if it's ethical to take an old diploma translation done for someone else and make the appropriate substitutions, even though I can barely make out the text in the fax. After thinking about it, I believe I shall require a better copy to work from.
During the visit to Feht's, I "exercised" the Makarov 9-mm automatic and the antique (early 1900s) 16 gauge shotgun by putting a few rounds through them. Actually, although the Makarov worked fine, I could only try to put a few rounds through the shotgun, as I was plagued with a series of misfires. (There are firing pin marks on the shells I used, but of three shells, only one actually fired. I'm wondering if it's a weapon malfunction or just bad ammunition.)
Finding out about things like the shotgun malfunction is one reason to go shooting on a regular basis (which I haven't done the past couple of years). Skills generally tend to degrade with time without reinforcement and skill at shooting a firearm is no exception, although people with very limited (or no) experience with firearms tend to assume that such activities require little or no skills. The session at Feht's was fairly short, but turned out to be informative.
Galina and I ate the oyster mushrooms I found late last week with breakfast over the past couple of days, and I decided to give most of the aspen boletes to Feht since I didn't think I'd be able to cook them all for local consumption. He was intent on going out into the woods soon (maybe even today) to go mushrooming, but I'm going to wait for better weather (the wet spell seems to have abated over the past 2-3 days).
Galina has to be down in Houston for a refinance closing by next Friday. I'll be staying in town to take care of any incoming work and to be available in case an unexpected opening appears for the medical procedure I have set up for the 17th (I already missed one such opening, and I'd like to get the issue behind me, so to speak).
In any event, there's still loads of paper to chase down around here, and loads of cleanup to do after/during/instead. I better get down to it.
Cheers...
During the visit to Feht's, I "exercised" the Makarov 9-mm automatic and the antique (early 1900s) 16 gauge shotgun by putting a few rounds through them. Actually, although the Makarov worked fine, I could only try to put a few rounds through the shotgun, as I was plagued with a series of misfires. (There are firing pin marks on the shells I used, but of three shells, only one actually fired. I'm wondering if it's a weapon malfunction or just bad ammunition.)
Finding out about things like the shotgun malfunction is one reason to go shooting on a regular basis (which I haven't done the past couple of years). Skills generally tend to degrade with time without reinforcement and skill at shooting a firearm is no exception, although people with very limited (or no) experience with firearms tend to assume that such activities require little or no skills. The session at Feht's was fairly short, but turned out to be informative.
Galina and I ate the oyster mushrooms I found late last week with breakfast over the past couple of days, and I decided to give most of the aspen boletes to Feht since I didn't think I'd be able to cook them all for local consumption. He was intent on going out into the woods soon (maybe even today) to go mushrooming, but I'm going to wait for better weather (the wet spell seems to have abated over the past 2-3 days).
Galina has to be down in Houston for a refinance closing by next Friday. I'll be staying in town to take care of any incoming work and to be available in case an unexpected opening appears for the medical procedure I have set up for the 17th (I already missed one such opening, and I'd like to get the issue behind me, so to speak).
In any event, there's still loads of paper to chase down around here, and loads of cleanup to do after/during/instead. I better get down to it.
Cheers...