Bright lights and loud sounds
Posted By matt on September 15, 2005
So, I've been hitting the range a lot lately. See, when you're shooting, you can't really think about shit. You focus on a few very important things – specific motions, your breathing, the front sight of your pistol. It looks like I'll be in a shooting competition in Nov. It's like amateurs league stuff – $15 entry + I need 200 rounds of ammo (I have like 1000 sitting in my office, and that's just .45). So, that should be fun.
Anyway, I've been hitting the range a lot to deal with the stress of work. Basically, I can't talk about most of it (client confidentiality and all that) but we're up against a deadline and the customer is testing what we submitted to them and they feed us back bugs and it's all high stress, need to get shit done but have to be careful what I say to people so as to not piss anyone off because everyone is as on-edge as I am. You know how it goes. Of course, there's more than I'm saying here because this is a public post and I don't want folks to be bored, but you get the idea.
So, anyway, I've been moody and depressed a lot, so I go shoot to clear my head (and I'm getting a lot better at it).
Oh, and the 15 round magazine for my .45 looks completely badass (okay, Liz says it looks stupid, and I admit it looks a little ghetto-tastic) hanging out the bottom of the pistol, but it doesn't feed rounds. Like, at all. I think I'll have to Dremel it.
And I just made brownies.
I'm still waiting for the new edition of Shadowrun. I'm annoyed that it hasn't shipped yet.
This weekend, we're headed up to Liz's parents' house. It's her dad's birthday, so we're going out to dinner or something to celebrate. However, this weekend is also the Syracuse gun show, and since we never get any gun shows in RI (damned liberals), it looks like Liz's Dad and I are going to go. (Go to the gun show? Twist my arm…). Of course, I can't buy anything (at least not without having it shipped to a dealer here in RI, yadda yadda.. Though Long guns may be different, not sure), so it will keep me from being poor and all that. Of course, I can fondle all I want.
Anyway, brownies should be cooled off enough now. Night folks.
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