General goings on

It was nearly 70 today, supposed to be 65 tomorrow and Wednesday, and then the bottom drops out with a front coming through. So today was partly yardwork. Finish mowing, run the weedeater, and finish a carport repair. The carport is double-wide, very nice, but it leaks. At some point in the past part of the span between the supports started sagging. That let water pool, which made it sag worse, which sprung the seam between panels, so water builds up there and leaks through the seam- badly, in heavy rain.
So during the summer I got some long angle-iron, and some guttering. Cut to length and bend tabs on the ends of the angle-iron, drill and bolt to the supports, making sure there's a little bit of tilt toward the low side (I'm on a hill). Then, along the center, drilled holes through the bottom of the channels in the panels. Then mount the guttering to the angle-iron under the holes, and put a drain at the low end. Now the rain drains through the holes, into the gutter and out the low end, much better. But I didn't get the gutter hooked into the downspouts 'till today. Now, it's done.

There's a shop called Outdoor America that's having an inventory-reduction sale, so ran by there. Among other things, Streamlight flashlights 20% off. Hot damn! Their 'low-end' model G2 thus became more affordable, and is now on my shelf. As the Geek said, don't look into it! (no, I didn't. I just waved it into the edge of my vision, thank you very much).

By the way, how do you tell if the person next to you is an alien or human? Give them a flashlight; if they're human, they'll shine it in your eyes. Every damn time.

How to work up a new handload:
1. check your manual and find it doesn't list that bullet.
2. check your friend's manual, it doesn't list the powders you have.
3. spend a while on the net looking for something.
4. find something, and decide if the info is not going to turn your pistol into shrapnel.
5. Set up to load a few rounds.
6. get the cat off the table.
7. start loading
8. get the cat off the table.
9. finish and put the stuff away
10. get the cat off your chair. Furry little bugger.

Went to the range with a friend a couple of days ago, and I'm looking at the targets. We were, among other things, testing a couple of Martini target rifles with different ammo. Only problem is, they don't shoot badly with anything we tried. Mostly just a case of 'which is better?'. I just love problems like that. So easy to deal with.

I think I'm going to have some of my dad's home brew and relax now.