Nomad

I was puzzled by that comment .... Then I saw my sign , got that 20 some years ago , it was face down next to my car , thought it was just a piece of tin , figured might come in handy , got home saw it was a sign . I avoid Wal mart like the plague . My buddy worked tactical unit , and major crimes , for 30, years he stopped going there as it was full of guys he locked up , its better now at the one near us after they built one right in the hood .

I guess that makes me an essential retiree ! Shooting, shed hunting and hit the Other Half on way home . Small Citra Everything , very nice . Tf I saw that one but was a hard pass for me , idk might try it sometime now .

Idk, a few ammo cans, one large tool box full , plus my secret stash . Buy it cheap and stack it deep, I’m immune to ammo shortages , price spikes , gun shop, closings and so forth . I shot on my range today , on our land in Canandaigua, a quick , 100 of ball and a few mags of carry ammo through a couple 9mm, 10 , OO buck and 5 slugs through the Benelli. No sheds today either ! But the Other Half brewery was open , so I stocked up on that too !

You take tomorrow off , I’m going shooting and shed hunting . This week end , pulling a carpet and showing / helping daughter and fiancé how to paint a room properly. The arthritis in my feet hurt , just watching TV some nights.....

Of all the house hold chores , stripping wallpaper is at the bottom of my list . They can stick that ,paper tiger ,where the sun don’t shine .

Nice score Larry ! No Jack here , but I’ve got the other bases covered.

Yes and no . My buddy has a bump stock on his AK , at first yes it’s somewhat wild , but like anything with practice things come together, after awhile it’s just like shooting a full auto .

Nothing new, you can bump fire with your belt loop or a rubber band , or,just knowing how to work your finger .

In 35 years of investments, I’ve never tired to market time . Recently out at 23,000 something , back in at 18,500 ! Worked out ok for now , prior to,that move down 19% overall , got a bunch of that back . Vangaurd has been emailing the Mrs. her advisor is calling tomorrow,, maybe he wants tips ....

Extra ammo is only one reason , a damn good one ,but just one. Most malfunctions are due to the mag , which is why we all practice ,tap, rack, bang , right ? Also why many carry a spare , like the tire in your trunk .

Not always true , I took 75% pop up . If I die my wife continues to get 75% of my pension , that option cost me a few grand a year , if she dies first my pension “ pops back up “ by that few grand . Now I could take up, to 25% of my pension in a plop , only 8% do according to the state , I had little reason to as we have enough to pass on as it is ,and reducing my pension by 25% was not something I was interested in . Everyone is different, other sources of income , investments, will they work a side job ,age ,health and on and on . Good luck Fees kill your return , you can loose six figures to fees long term .

I get a chuckle out of people telling me I took an oath , have you ? Easy to sit behind a desk and comment .Here’s a few of awards I got for risking my life to save others , the beauty is we don’t ask your color ,race, religion, or if you like to, pitch or catch ,we just go ! Ive never rescued a person who looked liked me , nor do,I care . From my first in ‘92 till the two a couple years before I retried . I did take an oath and I lived up to it and then some , please tell me how many you saved . I have no ill will against those in NYC, With corona ,but perhaps you shouldn’t have treated upstate as shit for so long . oh I don’t display my awards as it’s ,just part or what I signed up,for .

Jumped back in at the right time ,crushed it this week ! Now if condos drop price in Fla could be a win win !

Jerry those trees are my neighbors, right on the line and leaning towards our house .... he just removed about 20 trees , those are next thank God .

Many ash in my yard and all around me . Here’s some pics , fairly infected, healthy , some infection , the pretty infected one may still bud out this year and stand for a few more based on watching others . Youll see the bark do this long before it’s dead . With treatments you can bring them back as long as they have half their canopy still .

Hey my area gets 1/3 of NYC’s garbage , and now they want us to take their sh!t as well , might as well take infected as too . Face it most down there couldn’t find us on a map , we’re just a dump “ up there somewhere .” https://fingerlakes1.com/2020/02/16/company-wants-to-transport-sewer-sludge-from-nyc-to-wayne-county/

Friends in Naples . Not sure I’d he was a Hogan’s Hero’s fan .

Worked a bit on daughters house , snuck up on these deer bedded in neighbors yard , four more were walking down sidewalk . Returned home for quarantine, has to tighten up by buying cheaper beer ! Actually made a tiddy sum by jumping back in the other day at 18,500 or so , never in 35 years tried to market time , so far did ok .

Ya I’ve an issue with that . 50% of the cases are in NYC which geographically makes up .5% of the state . Why does the 99.5% which has is not only is not densely packed like NYC , but where most drive to work in a car by themselves ,not packed into subways and crowded streets , where some counties don’t have one case , need to be under the same restrictions ? You don’t see other states that mirror Upstate NY doing those things .

Oh im going and the Mrs largely thinks the whole thing ( virus ) is way over blown , the issue is not the virus , it’s upsetting the daughter who takes the virus very seriously. She should read TCs link ...

Today will be interesting, daughter and BF are moving into their new house , so a few helping out with the move . He’s also proposing today ( they already plan on getting married, this is just the official asking and ring part .) So a bunch of her friends were to be there first for a big surprise, most aren’t coming, now ,which is understandable, now she doesn’t know today’s “ surprise “ part , but she asked her Mom not to come over as she is mid 60’s with copd ( high risk group ) thinking it was just the move anyways . So does my wife go ? And perhaps piss off the daughter ( she already yelled at her for going to the store yesterday.) Or does she go and keep a distance and leave soon after the proposal ? I can’t make the call .

If it’s the series by Ken Burns ,that’s very good .

Sometimes luck, sometimes perhaps buying a lot of tickets and such . Im 2 for 3 winning guns there , none this year and I was kind like wtf .... lol . Also have to look at the odds, the “ bucket raffle “ where you put your tickets in The bucket corresponding to the prize , has the worst odds I believe . I put a lot of my tickets in the gun buckets, but so does everyone else. The gun board is only 50 tickets sold per gun better odds , but they’re $20 each . I’ve won on each though . It cost about $200 to get in the drawing for that Howa but I think only are 12 in it . Ive won over the years at different functions ,3 guns , and 4 , 50/50’s that I remember . But my wife says I’m a winner everyday !

The old normal for me , get up spend an hour online while listening to morning talk show and drinking coffee , walk dog , workout ( sadly not at gym ) , work around the house ,run errands, wash a car or two . Sit in garage ,perhaps smoke a cigar ,wave and talk to neighbors as they walk by . Spent a half hour looking for that damn loaded 30 round AR mag I stashed somewhere , oh I have more unloaded ones, its just driving my nuts ! Now watching Star Trek ,wife made scalloped potatoes and ham, for dinner , washing it down with gin and tonic . Tomorrow our daughter is moving into her first house with her fierce , so friends and family helping unload ,drinking and eating ! Can’t wait .

Ya I’m on board with most of that . I keep a healthy supply as I buy in mass on sale ,and I’ve lived through a number of “ ammo shortages.” As far as tactical Timmy , well I’ve been to well over a hundred shootings, plugged up a lot,of holes all put there by young inter city youths with a stolen gun and zero training , it’s not that hard apparently.