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Post by Trisha on Jan 16, 2005 10:36:55 GMT -5
At least I am still able to communicate adequately through a keyboard (talking is a most difficult challenge!). . .
I speak my peace, and then have to take a break to unwind.
Rage Against Vanilla
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Post by Trisha on Feb 17, 2005 15:21:33 GMT -5
(((sigh)))
Okay, I don't have some of this board's posting options figured out. . .
;D
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Post by Trisha on Feb 17, 2005 15:19:17 GMT -5
Okay, my last thread idea fell flat - but the little gray cells seem to find spare time to turn over new ideas:
Would your favorite GLBT night club, restaurant, coffee shop be amenable to prominantly posting a new sign?
TEXT[shadow=red,left,300]TEXT[/shadow]GLBT folk and their friends in posession of current CCW permits are welcome here![shadow=red,left,300]TEXT[/shadow]TEXT
Why? I don't get the impression that as the pro-gun, pro self-defense demographic we're getting our refusal to be 'victims' across.
As a community we look for Pride stickers on the windows of businesses that note, 'Gay Friendly.'
Can we take it one step further (in full compliance with applicable restrictions on lawful concealed carry, obviously)? Can we actively solicit businesses to clearly post a welcome to those who taste and live the Rainbow - who also choose to be armed?
Where, and what would be your favorite establishment to see that posted?
Would it work to have copies of Remembering Our Dead (a compilation of those who've died by violence just because they were GLBT) as a way to start the conversation with the proprietor?
Thoughts?
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Post by Trisha on Feb 17, 2005 17:09:00 GMT -5
I have a few new pics of some of my favorites - I just don't seem to be able to figure out how to successfully insert them into a post! Terminally blonde, I suppose. . . Trisha
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Post by Trisha on Jun 27, 2005 13:00:35 GMT -5
ROTFLMAO!
;D
Susan and I quit smoking about 6 weeks ago (no withdrawl still for me, but some for Susan), and I am brain damaged. . .
Team GWG 3-Gun sounds great!
I may be basically broke and nearly a shut-in these days, but I'll cheer the team on anyway!
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Post by Trisha on Jun 30, 2005 12:51:15 GMT -5
Hey, it balances the bandolier, right? Shoulder rig, bandolier, FP-6, 1 million cp Nightracker rechargable spot - that's the automatic routine when something bangs into the house (take your pick of wall, door or window) at 0-dark-30.
I have no clue why the pics are being troublesome - the files are virtually identical in size and from the same photo album website!
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Post by Trisha on Jun 30, 2005 12:25:52 GMT -5
It seems to work for me - anybody else have trouble seeing the pics? The area to the east and north of our house was covered in overlapping tracks of both mule deer and mountain lion!
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Post by Trisha on Jun 28, 2005 12:21:13 GMT -5
When this sight greets you all of three feet outside the office window, you know predators are in the vicinity, yes? Bear and mountain lion tracks are common around the property. . .
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Post by Trisha on Jun 28, 2005 12:17:03 GMT -5
Mine is an earlier version - but accurate with slugs and completely reliable! I love the simplicity of stripping it down to clean (and that's when you come to appreciate the barrel design). As this is bear and mountain lion couintry, the FP-6 stays loaded with slugs, and we keep a .44mag with heavy handloads (with reloads) within reach:
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Post by Trisha on Jun 27, 2005 13:37:00 GMT -5
[img src="[http://image26.webshots.com/26/7/67/21/276276721sLBLNe_ph.jpg"] . . . just for fun! ;D
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Post by Trisha on Feb 25, 2005 13:02:56 GMT -5
(mischevious chuckling)
More suitable for concealed carry? Compulsive, that pistol is perfect for a Galco Miami Classic shoulder rig, or Sidearmor hip rig! Better yet, get both for the flexibility!
Okay, so I enjoy 1911's I admit! It sounds (grousing and snipped bits of finger flesh aside) that you're more than happy - outstanding!
That ambi safety will be calling to you to work on weak-hand drills before long, and getting used to such a good firearm is an easy learning curve. Try some quality ammunition - you'll notice the difference in one mag!
Before long you'll be buying ammo by the case - and then it'll be on to the delights of reloading. . .
I'm glad to hear you're having fun!
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Post by Trisha on Feb 24, 2005 14:06:46 GMT -5
You guys seemed to be working things out just fine! Why interrupt?
;D
Yes, Carl is a good guy! One of the advantages of small town life (for those unfamiliar with Bailey, the town is one block long) is that hours can be lost without interruption in conversation quite easily!
I hope your new Kimber works out for you! Post pics and your range report, will you?
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Post by Trisha on Jan 19, 2005 13:02:04 GMT -5
Nope.
Maybe because turning 50 isn't that far away, but prostitution (any marginalization of personal standards is being bought with a materialistic coin, IMO - YMMV) isn't palatable.
Even were I to come across a new aquaintence as beautiful as Debra Jo Fondren and she just happened to have a 2nd Dan in Kendo, drive a new Porshe and have a pair of double-door gun safes filled with a near-legendary collection of firearms - were she callous and thoughtless, obsessively ego-concentric or such to a degree that just as her own woman I I felt she grated on my nerves, lacked depth and was a woman I could not respect, then - no.
Do people compromise? Sure, every day.
I find myself thinking of the saying I'm only able to paraphrase:
Were you, right where you are right now, to look about and know that the next minute would be your last - would you celebrate being where you are, doing what you are?
Would the person you are with be your best choice of all for company?
If not, perhaps a re-evaluation of priorities is appropriate and timely. . .
The materialistic would expend any and all energies to sit atop a mountain of gold and own a palace, dying there to the attendance of only those lured by wealth.
Others dream of wealth and success, expending all simply to endure to the next mouthful of bread, the next pay day.
Others celebrate life, find balance in an adequate existence, find joy and love in the midst of real friends. They care not a whit that their clothes aren't the latest nor the most fashionable as theirs are clean and in good repair. Likewise for their vehicle, their domicile, and the rest of the accoutremont that may furnish a life. The limitless domain of the communion with friends and gathered family is their wealth, and an hour or a day simply and truly seeing the day through from one dawn to the next without regrets is their treasure.
I've found myself wondering about the concept, spiff, because (as is probably known) I've written my first novel and am embarking on writing the sequel. The first has no publisher, and the means to see it out into the marketplace on my own is beyond my means.
Would I love to see some distribution and success? Most assurredly - but the coin, like the sword has two sides. Would I welcome that success if it ment that my life as I know it would be no more? Would I compromise myself just to see a check from a publisher in my hands?
Your question was simple on the surface - but there are consequences to all actions. I don't have the answers, but I do see myself having a chary and wary posture when I catch myself idly wishing for 'more' these days.
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Post by Trisha on Jan 15, 2005 17:30:58 GMT -5
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Post by Trisha on Jan 15, 2005 20:08:22 GMT -5
If it's chambered for .45 or .357 I'm a fan; though my extended experience is with the G21, various 1911's, and the HK USP frame.
SA/DA revolvers? Lovely fun at the range, but the only one I carry is my 649 (I hate hammer spur snag on a civilian CC firearm). YMMV, of course. Handloads in my Super Redhawk make poppers at 100yds great fun, especially when the range is as 11,000ft above sea level!
Derringers are loads of fun - I gravitate to the larger calibers (but I refuse to shoot a 45/70!).
Hmmm. . . I guess that means I love diversity. I get to select both the firearm and the carry rig to match the weather and the occasion - and still have a BUG.
Life is good!
Trisha
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