Awesomeness

Son, don't go pointing guns at people unless you mean it!

Do you want fries with that gunshot wound to the leg?

That is what one Arkansas would-be robber may have been asked, as the Burger King worker he allegedly tried to holdup Monday grabbed the gun and fired it right back at him.

Good for the store clerk, may she get exactly what she wants for Christmas this year. A note to her boyfriend if she has one, she's a keeper!

    So Janelle and I were sitting on the couch and she was rolling through the blogs and came across this from RNS. After she reaches the end and busts up laughing she tosses the laptop to me and says read.

    I had a couple different comments for different things. First was that the whole thing revolved around remaining in "condition yellow". Second was that when something unforeseen like this happens the first order of business is not to panic; no matter how much it hurts. Third that was the most awesome possible result when he finally got rid of the squirrel. I say the squirrel sailed into the cruiser because of Karma(we were watching My Name Is Earl). My last comment was, "People wonder why I prefer to shoot the bastards with as much distance between me and them, THAT'S WHY!" Not to mention the fact that hitting them when they're further away is considerably harder.

    I must say though, for the rider at least it wasn't a pack like this. Best way to deal with squirrels like that is to make clouds of pink mist. Maybe it is my philosophy on dealing with squirrels that has kept any from showing up around my house.

I had someone ask if I realized that was a story. The answer is yes, doesn't mean you can't glean anything from it. Besides, at Philmont those squirrels were down right freaking evil, wouldn't surprise me if a squirrel attacked someone. Also I'd probably let that squirrel live, any squirrel that freaked out two cops that much is OK in my book.

Boomershoot 2010 was awesome and a lot of fun. I don't know exactly why, but I ended up shooting the opening fireball for the shoot. Laurel from Politics Guns and Beer was there along with an entourage of help. I spent some time behind the rifle, but I spent more time educating and making sure others had a blast. And I'm glad to say, it appears they did have a great time.

    Last weekend was Boomershoot 2009. Best 5 day vacation I've had in a long time. I even grabbed a high def video camera just for it. The next couple days I'm going to slowly start posting stories and I'll post video as I clean it up and edit it. Why must I edit it you ask, the full high-intensity video is a whopping 768 megs. The anvil and failed fire ball are 1.2 gigs. I do have a video of the successful fireball that we did on Thursday.

    Pictures will also be posted slowly but surely as well. I have very limited internet currently. It's on my laundry list of things to do, but at the top is finishing moving.

Here's a pic from the anvil launch.

And here's the fireball from Thursday.

It was 3 seconds of pure awesomeness followed by 20 minutes of firefighting. I wish I had my camera on a tripod and caught the whole episode. In hindsight it was fun I guess, at the time though it was a little scary. We had all forgotten about Joe's post on Sunday.

For pre-finals stress relief I decided to pursue something that I have wanted to do for the longest time since I moved to Eastern Washington.