Here I Am Again...

...in Geneva, NY for another Hessney Firearms auction. Luckily, this time, I left the bar early and will get to sleep nice and early and thus likely not be hungover like I was at the last one I attended. That can only be a good thing AND WHO EVER THOUGHT I WOULD ADMIT TO THAT!


All the best,
GB

Will He Get Rich...

...because some shithead of an ambulance chasing money hungry unethical lawyer will see the opportunity of a mega law suit because a really moronic asshole someone, possibly sleeping in a dumpster, got dumped into the garbage truck with the trash and was stuck inside of the truck for about a 10 mile trip (source). I would bet you can safely bet on it and I would bet that some new ordinance or regulation will come out of this requiring garbage men to check inside the dumpsters before offloading them. It is a sad, sad world when something like that could result in what I imagine will happen but it happens all too often that sheer stupidity is rewarded and then new rules are thought up that protect the stupid and punish the working people of this country.

All the best,
Glenn B

Ammo Prices

All the best,
Glenn B

God & Guns

Created at: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

All the best,
GB

It's Alive!

"It's Alive" was the message I sent to my son this afternoon along with the first photo below:

 

 

 

Later on, I sent this second photo to him, my daughter and my wife:

 

My current male Hermann’s Tortoise was hatched on either July 29, 2011, August 9, 2011. I had one egg hatch on each of those days from the first breeding of my then male and my then & current female. That male has since disappeared out of my backyard. My current male Hermann’s, one of those original offspring, is thus about 5 ½ years old. Well, he finally hit a home run.

 

My female laid five eggs back on November 6 ^th  and one was broken and a total loss from day one. While I was pretty certain that four were fertile, I lost them all due to too much moisture in the incubation substrate which caused the shells to over absorb water and crack. That was a hasty novice’s error, done while I was in a hurry to moisten it before going away for the weekend. I am no novice but we all can have a brain fart. The female laid again either later in November or in early December, that time I think it was three eggs. They went into the incubator and I was careful never to add to much water to the substrate. One was infertile and went bad within a month or month and a half, it too had cracked but likely from whatever foul smelling stuff was inside festering away since it had been infertile. Another seemed fertile and candled with a couple of veins showing but then ceased growing and died for whatever reason. The last one was candled as fertile after about a week or so and remained seemingly healthy.

 

That last one started to pip this afternoon. The baby tortoise at first stuck only a single foot through a hole it had made in the shell. Later this evening, when I ;last looked in on it, the baby had a nice sized hole in the shell with its two front legs, head and some of its shell exposed. It may stay like that for up to a few days before it feels ready to leave the shell behind and start its life out of the nest (incubator).

I am pretty darned happy even though it is only one baby, because it means my little 5 ½ year old male is not shooting blanks any longer. I am going to give him and the female a week without food and only water, then put them both into brumation for two months. That should assure he fires live loads later in the spring when I allow them to mate again. For all I know, the female could be gravid now but I want to give her a break and brumate her regardless. She can use the rest, I am sure of that.

As for the new addition, I will be setting up an individual tank for it.

All the best,

Glenn B



 

Got A Cat - Need To Clean The Litter Box?

This guy has a unique method to clean the cat's litter box. Kids (and adults) don't try this at home, in fact - don't try it anywhere!



A hat tip to Cheryl L.

All the best,
GB

Russians Under Putin Have Invaded Korea???

Apparently, if we are to believe Maxine Waters, Putin apparently has advanced into Korea (which one North of South is unclear at the moment but then nothing this dimwit says is clear):



All the best,
Glenn B

 

That Was One Heck Of A Game

Did not win a penny but have to say what a friggin comeback. A truly amazing effort by the Patriots and a truly disgusting choke by the Falcons.

My son had a little more luck than me, he hit a reverse for a little bit of a return on what he bet. Oh well, maybe next year we will hit a big box.

All the best, 
GB

Five Seconds From 13K...

...and those bastards the Pats had to score a field goal and ruin my night right before the end of the first half!

Never figured to win a penny but they had me wishful for the last couple of minutes of the half.

Later 4 U,
Glenn B

All That Ammo Here There And Everywhere

Down in the dungeon basement again and I've preparing to move some more furniture to paint more of the basement floor. As I've been doing that, I've come across several boxes of ammo that were laying here and there, just about everywhere. Maybe even a few more than several. Funny how the amount of ammo you have can build up over time when you buy it now and then and then don't put it away because there is no more room in the designated put away places. I guess I have not been shooting nearly as much I could have been shooting and that I, like many others, have been hoarding some ammo because of  the current political climate and the slow but sure decimation of our rights, especially the RKBA.

 

That's 5,050 rounds, most of which I had not inventoried before. Note that
the prices shown on the 9mm Magtech ammo is not what I paid, I got that
lot ammunition at a Hessney Auction at a price much more to my liking.

The picture is of what I found around the man cave and I am not quite sure that is all of the stuff that was not where it belonged. Not that it was anywhere unsafe where stored, it was just here and there and everywhere sort of like "Savoir-Faire is everywhere". Hopefully, I have found it all but something has me doubting that.

Finding it though has reminded me I have to update my ammo inventory. That could take me the better part of a day and since the big game starts in about 3 hours or less - later for the inventory. That also reminds me, I have to get mine arse to my closest local gin mill wherein I have a box, so I can get my numbers. They are only going to pick them at 530 (yeah, kind of late to be picking the numbers but I am hoping they still have one more box open for me anyway).

For now though, I am resuming the search for more ammo and commencing the movement of the furniture so I can do some more painting tomorrow.

Enjoy the game.

All the best,
GB

Winchester Serialization Made Easier

There I was tonight, and still am, going over the catalogued offerings for the upcoming Hessney Rod & Gun auction of next weekend. They include the serial number of each gun listed in the auction catalogue. That comes in handy as the value and characteristics of some firearms can vary tremendously depending on which year the gun was manufactured. I looked up a few Winchester rifles on which I am considering placing bids and found one site with a large list of models and their serial numbers along with dates of manufacture that correspond to the serial numbers. That was the "Winchester Firearms Manufacturing Dates by Serial Number and Year 1866 through the early 1990s", a PDF file. Yet, that was somewhat of a pain to go through and also was incomplete. For instance, they did not list a Winchester Model 75 Target. So, I searched some more.
 
I found the website of the Winchester Arms Collectors Association or at least one of their web pages. It was just the one I needed, the When Was Your Winchester Made page. On that page you can input the model Winchester you are checking, then enter its serial number and up pops the date of manufacture. That was easy. Now I cannot speak to its validity nor to its reliability but can say that if you are a Winchester enthusiast, collector or just are checking on the date of manufacture of a single Winchester you own - it may be worth trying this site but I must point out that I do not think they, like the PDF, have info for all models as I could not find the model 9422 on that page. Between both of them though, I was able to find the year of manufacture for the four Winchesters I checked.

All the best,
Glenn B

Schaeffer's New Zealand Style Deck Sealant

I got to thinking about this video while I was painting my basement floor with patio and deck paint. The accent leaves a little to the imagination, for those with minds in the gutter, but not much. Enjoy it.



All the best,
GB

Presidential Authority To Suspend Entry Of Aliens

Why is it that - after many, many, many presidents (both Democrat and Republican) having done so legally, under the authority granted to them by the Immigration & Nationality Act, (INA) to bar aliens from entering the United States whom they have found to be detrimental to our interests - all of a sudden certain judges totally disregard that law and have found that Donald Trump is somehow in violation of the Constitution for doing exactly the same as other presidents have done before him? The only thing I can think of is that the judges are leftists and are trying to impose their leftist leaning on the rest of America for what I suspect are their purely political agendas or maybe also to garner their own 15 minutes of fame.

If you do not believe me that such is and has been legal authority of the president, for a very long time, then go to this link and read about it there:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R44743.pdf

 

If you do not believe that, then look up the INA itself and read it therein.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

An Experiment In Painting

I took up a brush today to dabble in the arts (so to speak) and began painting my basement floor. Since I have a decent amount of furniture, a refrigerator, shelving and other old and in the way (enjoy that) junk down there, I decided to do only a small portion at a time. There was another reason as well; I was none too sure the floor will hold the paint very well. Just got done with a small strip about 3 to 4 feet wide and across the room, maybe 15 feet. I can see already that it will definitely need a second coat but it seems to have adhered well so far so I hope a second coat will do as well. In about 4 hours or so, I will lay on a second one.

If that looks good once dried, then I will move the fridge an desk back in place atop that section tomorrow or tonight and move enough of the things around down there to commence on the remainder of what will then amount to getting half of the floor covered. If that half comes out okay, then it will have to be decided if I do the remaining half of the room or put down linoleum on the other half. I figure I will paint that too but not sure yet. Whether or not I paint it all or put down half paint and half linoleum, I am going to put down some area rugs;. No more carpeting for us in the basement since our male Chihuahua loves to spritz to mark his territory and I and tired of trying to clean the carpet by renting a carpet cleaner at Homer's Terminal. I want something I can roll up, bring outside to my patio and spray down with a hose to clean. Thus the area rugs idea.

Now it is pretty much a waiting for the paint to dry kind of a thing and listening to the rest of the Old And In The Way album that I linked to above.

Later 4 U,
GB

Love Trumping Hate

All the best,
Glenn B

Just In Case You Think Ground Hogs Are Pests...

...that need to be shot on sight, go here and blast away (yes they are prairies dogs but essentially the same thing more or less):

http://www.cci-ammunition.com/game/default.htm

All the best,
Glenn B

Sarah Silverman Calls For The Overthrow Of Fascists

Sarah Silverman seemingly is on the razor's edge if not already fallen over to the dark side on which side she may face prosecution for her reported call for the military to join in against President Trump and to seemingly overthrow him by way of a military coup. According to a report in the Washington Times, Silverman tweeted the following on her Twitter account (source):

"WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE"

I think one can only understand from those words that she has called for the overthrow the lawful government of these United States, that she has solicited people to join that heinous cause and that she calls for such to be done with violence by use of the military. This may or may not be considered a treasonous act but I think she could be prosecuted under the conspiracy and solicitation statutes of the U.S. Code, Title 18. See below and take your pick Mr. Acting Attorney General Dana J. Boente :

18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence

 

a)   Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.

 

(b)   It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that, under circumstances manifesting a voluntary and complete renunciation of his criminal intent, the defendant prevented the commission of the crime solicited. A renunciation is not “voluntary and complete” if it is motivated in whole or in part by a decision to postpone the commission of the crime until another time or to substitute another victim or another but similar objective. If the defendant raises the affirmative defense at trial, the defendant has the burden of proving the defense by a preponderance of the evidence.

 

(c)   It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the person solicited could not be convicted of the crime because he lacked the state of mind required for its commission, because he was incompetent or irresponsible, or because he is immune from prosecution or is not subject to prosecution. 

 

 

18 U.S. Code § 372 - Conspiracy to impede or injure officer

 

If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.

 

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To me it looks like an open and shut case with her winding up in jail and or fined. I think it about time that President Trump and his administration take these evident threats seriously and act on them by arresting and prosecuting the violators before one of them actually incites a civil war. The violence at UC Berkeley last night was living proof that we are on the verge of one, let alone already embroiled within one, more here on that.

 

Now let me ask, who in hell is Sarah Silverman?

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Ground Hog Day

Happy best holiday of them all - it's Ground Hog Day! No shopping, no gifts, no returns, no cleaning house or other preparations, no cooking a big meal, no relatives coming over to drink my booze, nothing to do but enjoy the day and see if that furry little critter saw its own shadow or not.



Grounghog Day from Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, PA - 2013

Photographer: Anthony Quintano

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/8437241711/

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

By the way, don't put away those snow shovels - Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow and thus predicted 6 more weeks of winter (source).

On a personal note I have to say gosh darn it, I forgot to head out to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania once again. Well, that was until yesterday when I thought a trip there might be nice to see all the hoopla over Phil but by the time I thought of it, in the mid-afternoon, it was way too late to be practical since it would be about a 6 hour drive. It is something on my bucket list and hopefully, sooner or later I will remember make that trip. As a matter of fact, I am annotating my calendar to remind me next year. With a little luck I will have the same phone and email address so one of them will send me a reminder on January 30 or 31 of 2018 and I will get mine arse in gear and head out to Punxsutawney, PA for the big event.

All the best,
GB

Real Men - The Antithesis Of A Snowflake

No snowflakes shown here:

All the best,
Glenn B

CNN's Trump Immigration "Ban" Hotline

CNN has reportedly published a phone number for people to call and at which they can leave their recorded messages about how the so called "immigration ban", ordered by President Donald Trump, has "...impacted..." them. In other words, it essentially is a snowflake complaint hotline to bitch about President Trump and his immigration policies. I imagine that many leftist whiners have called in and left behind messages including their weeping and the noises made by the gnashing of their teeth.

One caller though had other ideas and gave them a call and left the message as can be heard in the embedded video; if you are sensitive when it comes to foul language this is not for you:

I kind of enjoyed that, not that I wish CNN burns down but that I would not mind them stopping all the leftist snowflake inciting bullshit. So, it was nice to see someone to basically send them the message that their anti-American BS stinks.

A hat tip to 4excal for that one.

 

All the best,
Glenn B

You Must Be Looking (For Coffee) In All The Wrong Places...

...at least if Starbucks is your only go to coffee shop, at least that is what I think.

This evening, on a firearms forum, I read a few posts in a thread about the recent announcement by Starbuck's that they would be hiring 10,000 refugees over the next five years (source). This has apparently disgruntled many Americans who believe that Starbucks should hire Americans, especially homeless veterans before even considering hiring refugees from foreign lands. I will not discuss that further but what I will do is write about an alternative to places like huge corporate businesses like Starbucks and will limit myself to writing about one particular such business located in NY City. It is a true mom and pop - family run - coffee shop (no counter space to sit down for a cup-a-joe or espresso-frappe-latte combo or whatever). They sell coffee beans, ground coffee, teas, coffee and tea brewing equipment and accessories, cups and mugs, coffee to go (I think) and a small selection of candy among some other things but coffee is their main business. The place I am talking about is Porto Rico Importing Co. The reason I am writing about them again, yes I have written about them before in passing, is that someone on that firearms forum wrote this:
       
"starbucks roasted coffee is $12LB
i have tried many brands, but there are no local bastards who can roast coffee for shit!

If i was wealthy i would get it mail-order from one of many great roasters. but $18LB plus Shipping FU!"


The following was my reply:

"You must be looking in the wrong places. I, my family and some friends, thoroughly enjoy coffees available at Porto Rico Importing Co. located in Greenwich village in NYC. If you are not local, you can order online. Do not expect to buy a single pound of coffee and get a great deal once shipping is added to the price. Instead, order at least 5 pounds at once and save a lot on shipping. For instance, I just checked on a single pound of French Sumatra Mandheling (my favorite for a strong and marvelous flavor) coffee from them @ $9.99 per pound. Shipping it from them to Buffalo, NY 14226 would cost an additional $12.76. I chose Buffalo because if you are in NY it is far from NYC and probably the highest shipping or close to it within state. That would be a combined total of $22.75 for sale price and shipping for that single pound of coffee (you would have to add any applicable sales tax too). That is quite the expensive total cost for a single pound of coffee but there is a solution to that.

 

The solution to make it less expensive per pound is easy - just buy a few more pounds at the same time. Ground coffee, which is the way I buy it, keeps fairly well at room temp and even better frozen and yes it freezes well. Of course, the sell whole beans too and you can grind it yourself to make it stay fresh even longer than room temp stored ground coffee. If you bought 5 pounds of this coffee the total would be the cost for the coffee @ $9.99 per pound or a total of $49.95 sale price, plus only $13.68 total shipping (and any applicable tax) for a total of $63.63 (plus applicable sales tax). So instead of paying that whopping $22.75 for a single pound with shipping (excluding tax), each pound of a 5 pound order would come out to only $12.73 per pound shipped (excluding any applicable taxes).

 

They sell a wide variety of coffees in light (regular), Vienna, French and Espresso roasts, and also sell: organic coffees, flavored coffees and decaf coffees. Their least expensive coffee is probably around $7.99 per pound and the most expensive right now on their website is about $99 per pound (or at least the highest I saw) and that was Jamaican Blue Mountain. Their coffees come from around the globe. Another excellent coffee they offer is light roasted Tanzanian Peaberry. I think if you try them, and order 5 different types of coffee in a five pound order, you will find at least one or two that you like very much and maybe even one you consider to be exceptional. I make trips there every couple to few months and if going to NYC for some other reason try to stop there as well. Excellent coffee, lots of tea too, odd coffee mugs and treats, weird customers (yours truly included), nice employees, great customer service. It is all much better in the store on Bleecker Street than the one in Brooklyn and I cannot speak to the other two in Manhattan as I have never been to those. I imagine that the owners are likely looney leftists but then again I do not know and they could be staunch conservatives. I do not know because I have never inquired about the politics of the owners or their employees and they have never pushed it in my face nor inquired about mine. The owners, the Longo family, have been in business since 1905 - first to sell bread then to sell coffee. After tiring of the bakery business, they bought the Porto Rico Importing Co. in 1958 which had been around - just across the street from 201 Bleecker - since 1907. Even though they now have other coffee store locations, their main store (both the bakery and then the coffee business) has always been at the same location - 201 Bleecker Street. That is where the current owner lives - upstairs from the shop - and where his mother lived before him and his grandparents before that. They are not in business to make political statements through their business as far as I am aware; I like that. I highly recommend this place and their coffees; I consider their coffees and service far superior to Starbucks.
 

More on the Longo Family story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/nyregion/porto-rico-a-venerable-old-timer-in-greenwich-village.html. That story by the way was amazing and left me wanting to know more. I would love to meet the owner some day while at his shop even if just to pay him a compliment for keeping an old tradition in America alive - the mom & pop shop passed from one generation to the next. I hope at least one of his children takes over when he is ready to retire."

I have to say, their coffee truly is far superior to anything at Starbuck's in my opinion. So is the service. Being it is a true mom & pop family run shop, I would rather spend my money there than at a place like Starbucks any day. Not saying I will never have another coffee at Starbucks, they are all over the place and Porto Rico Importing Co only has the five local locations as at as I know but when it comes to buying beans or ground coffee Porto Rico Importing Co. is my go to place of choice if I have the time to go there. I just hope they never get political like Starbucks's.

 All the best,
Glenn B

 

Mannix Gone - Did This Get Lost In The News Or...

...was I just asleep and missed it? Mike Connors (the actor who played Joe Mannix) passed away, at the age of 91, last Thursday, January 26th. I did not see this on anyone's blogs, did not hear or read about it in the news and did not see anything about it on Facebook - I must have missed it or been asleep because I cannot imagine this was not publicized a lot. Connors played Joe Mannix, the private detective, in the series Mannix; the show running for 8 years from 1967 through 1975. That show and its main character Joe Mannix were icons of American youths. It was the show to watch at the time. More about him here.



If you are wondering why you never heard much from him politically, as you do from many of the Hollyweird tribe of leftist whackos, it probably was due to him having been a Republican (source). That was just another reason to like him as far as I am concerned.

God bless him. My sincere condolences to his family and loved ones and to his fans.

All the best,
Glenn B

There Was Just Something About That Smile...

...that made me wonder about the 'mannequin' in that exhibit!

As it turns out, a mannequin head used in a natural history exhibit, showing a man fighting off lions attacking his camel (a one humper, aka: dromedary), is apparently a real human head or at least contains the skull of a human. For many years it was known that the head's teeth were real human teeth but only recently did an x-ray of the head show it to contain a human skull! Reserachers at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of natural History made the discovery during a restoration of the exhibit.  More here.

While they are saying they cannot return the skull to is gravesite, because the exhibit has been around since the mid-1800s and they do not know the location of the gravesite. I think they are assuming an awful lot regarding the source of the skull and I have to wonder if it ever was actually removed from a gravesite. Imagine, for a moment, if you will - that the skull and possibly other body parts incorporated into the mannequin are those of a murder victim and that the killer devised a devilishly unique plan to hide the remains. I wonder how many unsolved murders took place in and around Paris when the exhibit was created.

All the best,
Glenn B 

Super Bowl Sunday - Planning & Supply Stages

Let me start this by saying, I am not a football fan. Yeah, I kind of was one when I was young, maybe between the ages of 10 and 23 but forgot all about it when I got involved in the real world working for q living. My interest turned more toward  guns & shooting, hunting, Mexican hellholes in which to get drunk and have some other fun (I was single then - get it) hiking and travel. Football never really did it for me before that and once I was out on my own it did even less. Still though, I can enjoy a good game now and then (the cheerleaders even more than the game - am married but am not dead) and just about the only ones I ever watch are the last three games of the playoffs. So, I will be watching the Super Bowl this coming Sunday along with my son Brendan. The last couple of few years, we went to Zum Stamtisch and watched at the bar along with my brothers-in-law. This year we are staying home because we are both working the next day.

With that in mind, I went to Costco today. I picked up a few things to enjoy during the big game. First of all, I grabbed a pork roast - a 16.66 pound pork shoulder. No doubt, I will cut in in two and freeze half of it but the half that does not get frozen is going to be devoured this weekend. Weather permitting and Brendan willing, it will be cooked on his smoker (he is excellent at it). If either the weather or Brendan does not want to cooperate I may give it a go on the BBQ grill; I don't mind it being crappy out while BBQing as long as it is not during a heavy downpour. Otherwise the wife will toss it into the oven and roast it with potatoes and onions. Mmmm mmmmm good Sweine Felisch! I have to say that Costco's pork shoulder is absolutely fabulous and that is because of the fat content - it is substantial and gives an excellent texture and flavor to any roast made with it. Screw lean pork, it is dry and virtually tasteless.

Of course, I also got some other delectables for us deplorables. I picked up a bag of small red & white taters. Costco used to sell bags containing a variety of white, red, purple and black potatoes but has not had them for a year or more near me, so the ones I got will have to do. I debated on getting a few pounds of shrimp for an appetizer and figured I would hold off on them until Saturday or Sunday and get them as fresh as possible. I did pick up a nice sized chunk of white cheddar cheese aged three years, one of my favorites; plenty of crackers in the cupboard. Grabbed a jar of medium salsa and a bag of Fritos corn chip scoops for that. Already have some cheese dip for the chips as well. I grabbed a jar of Kirkland Pesto too. I never even knew what was pesto (funny living most of my life in and near NYC and not knowing about pesto) until my brother-in-law Hans made some fish a few moths back. It was very tasty indeed and when I saw some at Costco awhile later, I bought it with some trepidation thinking it would taste like crap being I never expected anything in a jar to be as good as the fresh product. The fact is, it was the equal of, if not better than, what Hans had made. I have bought several since then and it goes excellently with a wide variety of other foods. 

The last thing I picked up was a jar of garlic stuffed green olives. I am not a fan of olives. Until a few years ago, I would never eat them; then I started eating some spicy shriveled up black olives at a local Portuguese restaurant - they were quite different and delicious. Winds up that now, every now nd then, I can eat a couple or few olives in a salad or by themselves but still they are not a favorite of mine. Brendan, on the other hand, loves em and so does every one else in the family. I also already have a few jars of garlic horseradish pickles on hand - and man is this particular batch the spiciest ever. Then there are the Macadamia and Brazil nuts also already in the larder.

On Friday, or maybe Saturday if I get stuck working on Friday, I am going to get some last minute things like those shrimp I passed by today (well fresher ones than those in particular), maybe some scallops and baby octopus too. Not much, a few pounds in all, just enough to throw into a pot to cook up in a sort of hot & spicy ale based seafood stew I do or in a sherry and cream chowder (decisions - decisions). I'll also get some fresh cilantro, tomatoes, garlic and onions to make my own fresh salsa which I am sure will be better than what I got at Costco today. We already have some dried peppers from our garden around here somewhere to add the heat to the salsa.

Last but least will be the liquid refreshments. So far, I have a few good sized bottles of hard cider, a few bottles of Hop Stoopid Ale, a couple to few more other bottles of other ales, more than enough wine, and enough hard liquor (Tequila, Tanqueray Gin, Laird's Applejack, Spiced Rum, Vodka and Kirschwasser) to float my and Brendan's boat even enough if a few of his friends come over for the game. Brendan and I won't be drink an awful lot since he has to work the next day and so do I. If I recall right I am covering for someone the day after the Super Bowl - so it probably will be a hungover someone for whom I am working. Whatever - I sure do like to have a selection of what I like on hand; so, when the urge hits me for this or that, this or that is here. About the only things I am missing is a jar of moonshine cherries (or my own vodka cherries) and a bottle of Irish whiskey.

I think we will have a nice party. I may have to invite the brother's-in-law and son-in-law. Well Phil - what say you - are you coming for the game son-in-law of mine?

Shit, did I forget green vegetables - oh well - next year for them.

Let's go Islanders (oh wait, that is the other sport isn't it)...

All the best,
Glenn B

Warning To Idiots...

...who enter gun stores:

All the best,
Glenn B