It’s Valentine’s Day, 2015, and it falls on a Saturday. You know what that means, don’t you? It means you won’t get into so much as a Burger King without a wait! Be sure to visit today’s A&J for my indirect thoughts on that one. Where do you get your ideas, indeed. Don’t get me wrong. I love a nice outing in a good restaurant, especially in observance of Valentine’s Day; I just make it a point never to go on Valentine’s Day! This allows for a truly romantic dinner in a peaceful atmosphere (at normal prices), plus it serves a secondary purpose if necessary: “Valentine’s Day? Don’t you remember that cozy little place we dined at last August!”
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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255 responses to “Happy Valentine’s Day!”
Ummm. Fried rice. I may know what is for my dinner tonight. (Solo. Long story.)
Jackie, ref the GLOCK, as I told my godson when I gave him his Cryo II knife for Christmas, “Don’t hurt yourself with it. And don’t hurt anyone else with it…unless you have no choice.” Perhaps Deputy Huge can show you how to properly load and unload it, and how to begin practicing sight acquisition and alignment; trigger technique; and dry firing.*
* Once again, Col. Jeff Cooper’s Four Rules of Gun Safety:
1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
4. Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.
It is 72 outside right now and we are under a winter storm warning for up to an inch of sleet accumulation and a half inch of ice, power losses. They say get meds, food, supplies and prepare. Darn. I hate ice storms.
Off I go.
Ruth Ann.. not Google. I attended CHS on the other side of town. 🙂 My sister married a man named “Lyman” – took us a while to get used to the idea that a guy really could have the name, not just a school. (And of course the one it was named for, and on and on!)
Fed Ex just brought me flowers – sent from little brother. A lovely day. 🙂
Had to stop by the main PO to check my mail this morning. Sign on the inside lobby door said “This office is having technical difficulties.” Didn’t have to pick up anything at the window, so still don’t know what the “technical difficulties” were. Hope their delivery snail didn’t die.
In case you haven’t noticed, five-pound RC (remote-controlled) model airplanes have now been replaced by three-pound “killer drones” that are threatening to knock 600,000 pound commercial airliners out of the air, left and right. Or at least according to the Drama-Queens-of-All-Sexes of chronically overheated TV news media.
One of them even used a photo of the airliner floating in the Hudson River after Cap’n Sullie had to ditch his Airbus and convert it to an impromptu passenger boat. Well, OK, if you hit a flock of a couple of dozen or more 15-pound drones at one time, maybe. The FAA will fix that (just as soon as they complete multiple multi-year, multi-million dollar studies) by requiring toy drones to carry radar reflectors, radar transponders and high intensity strobe lights, making them too heavy to fly.
Reposting my last comment:
I regret the years in which I followed the low-fat craze. My blood pressure, weight, and overall cholesterol numbers have improved since I gave that up and just focused on the glycemic load and portion size of my meals.
Sunny and 75°, perfect Valentines Day weather. My lady is snoozing in the sun.
TR, why is it when we can finally afford the food, it is all bad for us?
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Jackie, I challenged you and you passed with flying colors, to use a nautical phrase. As they say about statistics, 85% of them are made up. Most of us are lucky enough to live our lives more or less as we want to, on a day to day basis, and what we don’t actually have the courage, time, or money to do we go ahead and do in our mind and isn’t that pretty much the same thing? I mentioned a couple of days ago that I could write a book and indeed I could, but most of it would get me banned from here for telling unbelievable whoppers and even draw unwelcome attention from the feebees and others. The mention of Robert Frost recently reminded me of stuff that I can’t talk about for the above reasons and the family has also been nice to me so I’ll leave it at that. I understand that you have had a lot going on, Jackie, but do you still have my emails?
Oh yeah, 50 Shades. Waste of time, but my wife has been on the phone for an hour about it.
Have not read the book, have not seen the movie (and unlikely to do either), but I’d bet my imagination is more interesting than either, or both combined.
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High today -4 or -5 F, low tonight -14, high Sun. +10, w/ 50% chance of up to 1″ snow. But the days are getting longer, even here. Peace, emb
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO EVERYONE !
JJ hit the nail on the head when he said not to go out to eat on Valentine’s Day, especially on a Saturday. Wifey and I had a romantic meal last night at a seafood restuarant. They are not hard to find here in LA. We had oysters, fried soft shelled crab and fried crawfish tails with all the trimmings. My favorite seafood is boiled crabs but it’s a little early for them.
Us Auburn types are especially happy since our basketball team won a nail biter of an upset at Georgia. Auburn has been near the bottom of the SEC in basketball for several years and it’s good to win a few. We are in a rebuilding mode.
God bless us every one !
GR6, superb gun safety advice. Sadly it gets forgotten for a moment and bad things occur. In Vietnam we had two lives changed forever because rules 1, 2 & 3 were broken. A game of quick draw led to one life lost and the other ruined by court martial and prison time.
The police chief that was my first civilian (not military) firearms instructor lost his job when he took out his weapon and fired a blank at another officer. Goofball!
Ghost and Jackie, have a look at this: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/02/12/top-tactical-gifts-for-valentines-day/?intcmp=features
Nothing says I Love You like a purse with a concealed compartment for your weapon.
With plenty of room left for the baby bottle and diapers. Only on Faux News.
Yeah, it happens, sometimes unbelievably. Just a few months ago, a young Pennsylvania State Police officer was killed in a firearms class when his firearms instructor, a 20-year veteran and 10-year instructor, took a loaded weapon, pointed it in an unsafe direction, and pulled the trigger. It’s still very true that complacency can kill.
Mark, I’m on 5.11 Tactical’s emailing list (I wonder how that happened), and I saw the chocolate gun offer. It was a GLOCK, so I’d guessed it’d be a CHOC-A-GLOCK.
And Rule 4 covers the idjits that shoot through doors, not knowing who is on the other side.
Speaking of movies, I did not intend to see American Sniper then I read some excerpts from the book. Now I can say that I definitely will not be seeing it.
GR6, always double down on rule 9. 😉
I’m guessing that rule 9 is fire at least 3 times before you consider looking to see if you hit the target.
Re the above I refer you to any real life police shooting video that you’ve ever seen, including those where the bad guy was only two feet away.
Bad guess Jerry. Give the bartender a $100 Peso and smile as exit.