Docwagon

I figured my nuts would generate more discussion. You dissapoint.

It's not Christmas without the scent of my nuts in the air. I've made 2 lbs of pralines for Christmas. People just love my nuts. You should see their faces light up when they are first exposed to them. In the spirit of giving, my recipe: 1 lb pecan halves 1 cup sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp salt 1 tsp water 1 egg white (large egg) Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Whisk egg white and water in a large bowl until frothy, then fold in pecans until evenly coated with egg mixture. In separate bowl, mix sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Pour about 1/3 of the sugar mix over the nuts, stir gently to expose uncoated nuts, pour in next 1/3, stir gently, pour in remaining third and stir until nuts are evenly coated. Be slow and gentle with your nuts so as not to break them. LIGHTLY oil (or use cooking spray) a baking pan and spread the coated nuts evenly on the pan. Bake for 1 hr, stirring every 15 minutes. Allow to cool. Enjoy popping those nuts in your mouth! and the little guy who holds my nuts:

Live fire day. I started with a FAST shot cold. Red Nichols gear under a winter jacket. 7.21 clean After I was warmed up a bit I shot a 6.60, 6.1 + 0.5 penalty (shot one a touch high). Moved on to the Dot Torture for TDA pistols. I didn't keep time. I need to buy the app so my Shotmaxx can keep multiple times, but right now it's too much of a PITA to keep track of each individual time. 47/50. I then did some steel work from 15y to 85y utilizing cover and movement, and finished up the day with DotW #140, which I will post in that thread. Everything was with my Sig P226 and American Eagle factory ammo, 180gr. ***Drill of the week #140*** When I started there was light cloud cover and a tiny flurry of snow. Then the sun came out and the wind was blowing the baffles around enough I had moving shadows on my target. That made it fun for the head shot box, but I got through it. After 1st string: End result: String #1: Fastest: 0.60 Slowest: 0.83 Hits: 8/10 Total time: 7.14 String #2: Fastest: 0.72 Slowest: 0.98 Hits: 9/10 Total time: 8.36 String #3: Fastest: 0.31 Slowest: 0.77 Hits: 10/10 Total time: 4.63 String #4: Fastest: 0.89 Slowest: 1.07 Hits: 8/10 Total time: 9.70 String #5: Fastest: 1.02 Slowest: 1.64 Hits: 7/10 Total time: 12.3 String #6: Fastest: 0.65 Slowest: 1.46 Hits: 6/10 Total time: 8.73 Shot with my .40 P226 and American Eagle 180gr factory ammo. Everything shot DA. Things I noted: I'm significantly faster when starting on target, which was not surprising in the least to me. My slow times were due to slow reaction to the beep, and 6/10 were under .40 seconds. String #6 was tough because I was starting to lose mental focus and wanted to jab at the trigger and I also had a moving shadow playing up and down on the bottom half of the box. Most of my misses were just low and were in the shadow, a combination of visual confusion and stabbing at the trigger and shoving slightly. To be really fair to this test, I should probably shoot it in the opposite order at some point, from 6-1, as well. I'd also probably shoot the "compressed ready" strings from a low ready to compare to high ready as well.

Should have shown a Combat Engineer your plans before you built. Now you need overwatch for your obstacle.

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Looks really good. The Combat Engineer in me can't help but note the hinges are on the side that the 'enemy' is approaching from, as are the reinforcing slats that can be used as stairs to help gain purchase...but I'm reasonably sure your kids aren't going to have access to cutting tools and by the time they can heave themselves over will be old enough to not need the gate any more anyway. One thing I would consider on a more serious note is putting something between the zip ties and the banister. Even if it wiggles just a little with each opening it may be rough on the finish long term, sort of sawing through it. A little bit of mole skin or something like that would remove that possibility.

Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism. Absolutely riveting book. The biography is a great read on its own. The knowledge you gain on how Muslins are recruited to extremism, and how little religion is actually involved except to back up politics and selective accounts of current events, is well worth knowing. The counters, and the success of deradicalization is equally fascinating.

Totally worth it. Still not quite on par with the original Mistborn, but a really really good book. The ending is...wow.

Ah, sorry. I cross posted this on a firearms forum and didn't change the abbreviations or the like for here. SHO = Strong Hand Only (one handed shooting with your dominant hand) WHO = Weak Hand Only If it's not mentioned, it's assumed to be two handed shooting. Slide lock = when the pistol is empty and the slide locks back on an empty magazine. This is opposed to a non-empty gun reload (aka a tac reload) where there is still a cartridge in the chamber and the slide is forward so you're just swapping out magazines. TDA = True Double Action. It's just a type of pistol where the first trigger pull cocks the hammer, but then the slide moving under recoil cocks it for follow up shots. This means the first trigger pull is longer and heavier than the followup shots. Also called a DA/SA pistol. P226 is the type of pistol I was using, a Sig P226. LCR is a small revolver made by Ruger that I use as a backup gun. Anything else, just ask.

I didn't put this up from last Friday, but I've been using the FAST drill to measure improvement. From concealment at 7y, you draw and fire 2 shots into a 3x5 box, reload from slide lock, and then fire four shots into the 8" round circle. This target is scaled to fit on regular printer paper, so you shoot if from 16' instead of 21'. Under 7 seconds is considered advanced. I did this with two layers of concealment, my suit coat and a top coat, and that really slowed my reload. I'm pretty happy with the times and think under just a suit coat I'd be in the mid 6's range.

Live fire today. P226 and LCR. This target was made as an amalgamation of jokes about ear shots, bigfoot, and denim hats on another forum. I used it today for a laugh, but I actually learned a bit using it. The multiple colors made it more confusing visually with black on black sights (LCR) but made no difference at all with the factory fiber optic front sight on the P226. 7y, LCR: 7y, P226: 7y, LCR, SHO, 20 shots: I threw some when I let my my thumb relax and jabbed it under recoil. Otherwise I stayed in the circle. The discussion about TDA pistols and the fact a Dot Torture specifically for them got my attention a few days ago, so I figured I'd give it a go. Everything was shot from a low ready when a draw was called for, as I was using an indoor range that doesn't allow drawing. I also did not keep a time for my first attempt. The 6-7 transition was the roughest and I started drifting low left. I also shoved one early on out of the "1" and called it and threw one out of the "8" into the "9" and called it. 46/50. I finished with some reloads. Fire one at the top circle, reload, fire one at the bottom circle. 3 reps per circle. I started off strong but started flinching as I finished up and shove some. I flinch easier at the indoor range as the session goes on, I suppose because it's so much louder in the little cubicle then firing outside. It never affects the beginning of the session, but builds. The good news is it's much less pronounced than it used to be, so I'm mastering that slowly but surely. I think I've really figured out how much push/pull pressure to use for recoil control without moving the sights now, and my grip getting stronger and more confidence in my ability to hold the pistol is helping me not strangle it with my strong hand, an issue I used to have pretty badly with double stacks.

Your move.

Ditto on the Neil Gaiman books. American Gods was the first one I've read, but I've went through a bunch since. I just bought "Shadows of Self" which is the sequel to "Alloy of Law". We'll see how it goes. I loved the original Mistborn trilogy, but Alloy was good but not great. Side note: $15 for a fucking paperback these days? I bought it on Kindle, but still.

Pffft, what? That's a great movie. I'd suppose most parents got caught up in it as much, or more, than their kids.

It's supposed to arrive Monday, but it's going to be a Christmas present for my son. I'll be a Christmas noob.

The Good Dinosaur. I enjoyed it. Well done movie.

I can't see...as far as you know.

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This, but maybe a slightly more positive meh from mee. I enjoyed it but it was like they just crammed random things in there because "Peanuts characters have done this before." My son liked it, though, so that's whats important to me. At least it stayed true to the original and wasn't some oddball fucking reboot, like now Charlie Brown is a goth kid or some such shit.

I've enjoyed them all, but Vegas was my favorite.

My son has an Xbox 360. He has Gold. I never play online on the Xbox, so I'm not real clear how it works. Help me out here. Can two accounts be on the machine, both with access to online gaming, but with two different user names? If he gets an Xbox One, can one gold account be used on both consoles, assuming both are under my User ID? Or would it require two Gold accounts to accomplish this?

Oh, I actually did. I read the Wise Man's Fear as well. I enjoyed them.

Heh. Can't wait. I miss green sourcing my groceries and looking for recyclables.