Well, another day, another dime.

Saturday is a club workday and my assignment has already been made.

I am to clean out this blockhouse next to the firing lane. It'll likely take me a while because of all the accumulated crap that's gathered in it over the years.

A big part of what's in the blockhouse are things that have been left behind after matches and about 87% of it is worthless otherwise the owner would have retrieved the item.

I've already said that most of it is getting pitched and the two guys running the range agree with me.

I suggested we use the stuff I'm not putting back into the blockhouse to use for a fund raiser. You buy a $5 ticket and we hand you an item and if you know who left the item on what year you win $100.

"Billy Joe Bob left that here back in 1983!"  

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I may be 100% wrong but I think that if

Israel could just whack the Ayatollahs with little collateral damage that Iran would westernize in a heartbeat.

I am old enough to recall the influx of Iranians that immigrated to the States after the Shah got the boot. In fact I knew a number of Iranians. Some of them had a relationship of some sort with the Shah. One was the son of the Shah's personal photographer. 

I got the feeling that the reason the Shah got booted out was because of corruption and not necessarily religious fervor. When something like that happens people tend to think that anything is an improvement.

Then again I might be 180 degrees off course.

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Good morning.

I just woke up and as the coffee was brewing I wandered out to the front porch made a fairly loud 'woof' and was treated for my troubles by hearing the neighborhood dogs start barking.

One of the neighbors knows I sometimes do this and thinks it rather amusing. 

It's a satisfying way to occasionally start the day. Most people are inside so it doesn't really bother them because nobody keeps their windows open yet or they're already up and about.

I think that almost everyone only keeps their windows open for a few weeks in the spring because when it really heats up they keep them closed and turn on the AC.

It's supposed to be warm today so I think I'll do a little gardening which I think old men are supposed to do.

Maybe I'll build a bird house out of scrap lumber. 

Looks like a pretty good day coming my way. We'll see.

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In other news, I read that in 2016 someone made a 10 hour long feature film called 'Paint drying'.

That's what it was, 10 long hours of watching paint dry.

The filmmaker did this to make the British Board of Film Classification have to watch all 10 hours of it to be able to give it the proper age classification.

A stroke of genius!

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Did some pretty good shooting yesterday

The first thing I did was scrawl 'OOC' (Out of competition) across my scorecard which meant I was just shooting to be shooting. I had to get out of the house.

I had my service rifle with me along with my bolt gun and at the last minute grabbed the bolt gun for reasons I won't get into.

I used the slow offhand to tune the scope up a bit and got it dialed in and just played around with the rapids. I got three off on the first string and five off on the second string and did OK. I was waiting for slow prone.

Not only did I keep all of my rounds in the black, but I had no sevens and only a couple of eights, ending up with a 184/200 which ain't that bad and is pretty good when you figure the X-ring is 1.79 inches in diameter and the 8-ring is 7.79 inches in diameter at 200 yards.

That means I kept 20 consecutive shots inside 3.9 MOA and on top of that only had a couple of eights.

Considering my eyesight has gotten so bad that even through the scope I was holding on the center of a blur that ain't too bad.

I've got an eye appointment coming up and I think I'm going to go and get my eyes fixed and see what happens. 

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Off to the range today.

Yesterday I pitched in and helped out at a Marine Corps League match which was kind of chaotic in a sense. It seemed they all forgot most of what they learned in boot camp which was funny. They WERE SAFE though and I suppose that's 99.9999999999% of it.

Today I might shoot a match. It depends on how confident I am when I get there. 

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An open letter to one of my neighbors

over the way they are raising their children.

For quite some time you have heard me rant about "F*** the children!" as a knee jerk to those that plead with the old saw "Do it for the children.".

Dear neighbor, 

You are doing a wonderful job of raising both your kids. They don't effect me negatively in any way whatsoever. In fact they are a joy to watch, talk to and be around.

Keep up the good work! It is a joy to watch a pair of responsible parents in action!

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I just got a song stuck in my head from 1959

from a TV commercial that came out in 1959.

It's from a Kellogg's cereal that only lasted about 2 or 3 years.

Kellogg's OKs.

I finally got so weirded out I sand the song aloud and went to Youtube and found the ad video there and I'll be damned but I had sung it word for word.

It's crazy what sticks in a person's mind. I likely have not heard that ad since about 1961.

I hope it goes away soon.

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Another rainy day.

It's been raining off and on almost all month. The first sunny day we have and the lawn is going to grow about a foot tall and I'll have to start mowing it.

We've been getting flash flood warnings for days. The Ohio River is much higher than normal according to the reports I've been getting.

What's funny is that the people that get upset the most by these are the people that live on top of hills where they are in no danger.

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