First Post

Good! I see everyone survived the madness that is New Year's Eve. It was a semi-exciting time for me. Here I was, just chillin with the stupid cats watching TV. You know, low key.

But it was not to be. I had to make a little side trip to a hospital. I got the call out at 10:30 PM or so. I had to get dressed, go outside, drive around all manners of road side explosives, pass the cop driving slow to see who had the balls to pass (speed limit was 40, cop was cruising at 30. NOBODY was passing. Gutless wonders! OH NO!!! 40 MPH!!!!! I never went that fast before!), stop for more gas because the low fuel light was glowing super bright, and so on. It was an adventure on its own.

My parents had hit the streets to chill downtown with thousands of people getting drunk and watching some big stupid orange creep up the side of a tall building. But my mom got sick and was transported by Fire Rescue. So much for watching the stupid orange. So far things seem to be ok, my working theory is that it was just a matter of going out too soon after a mild flu. But my dad has good insurance so they hooked up all the machines that go BEEP and PING and shit.

Another thing - WTF is up with people and guns on New Year's Eve? Leaving the hospital parking lot at 11:45 PM some asshole unloaded a high capacity magazine no more than a block away. There were 15 to 18 rounds unloaded rapidly. The most likely suspect guns would be a 9mm pistol, a .40 pistol, or some sort of AK, SKS, or AR-15 rifle. You can get high capacity .45 magazines, but they are not as common cause with a .45 pistol the magazine would hang too far out the bottom of the gun. But high capacity 9mm or .40 magazines are fairly common. And high capacity mags for an AK?? Please! The Russians made that rifle to lay down some serious firepower! And the Russians made some good shit. The AK is one of the best designed rifles ever made. The US made M-14 is good - but complicated. The AK is brutal and simple. If I knew how close the gun shots were, I could better judge if it was a pistol or rifle. Friggin idiots.

So anyway, after dodging the hail of falling lead and the road side explosives and the slow driving cops - I get home about 5 minutes before midnight. I busted out with my boat emergency flare gun and popped off a few expired flares (they expired in 1988) to see if they still work. They do. I keep my non-expired flares for real emergency use - and to meet USCG requirements. You must have at least three non-expired night time signals - which I have.

Well that is about it. My "low key" new year. At least I can not say that 2007 started off being boring! You know when you are driving past road side explosives that you probably need to be somewhere else.