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Brand X....Caylor may still be down because of his back surgery....PM sent

News on my part....I won't be going. I had to think hard on this but there is a monthly ladies class kicking off at a range I belong to. I went thru the range officer course a few months back so I could help with these classes and naturally, it's scheduled for the same weekend as Area 4. So far 11 women are signed up. I have three more acquaintances of mine that want to take the class. I haven't taught since last year when I did a CHL class for a bunch of my friends at the dojo where I train. Before that, it was 15 years ago that when I taught at the PD range in San Diego....I kinda' miss putting all the info out there and watching the light bulb come on when a student figures it out. Well, there's always next year...Besides, getting more ladies on the range is always a good thing! Can I have an AMEN!!! Have a cold one for me after you finish the match.....

This is what I was curious about. I need something to carry at the office but can't be with it all the time....90%. I was hoping for a super secret compartment...can't carry in the office Have a locking file cabinet in your cube? That's where mine lived when my purse was loaded - so to speak. If I went off to a meeting, the cabinet got locked. When I came back I unlocked it.

Brilliance!

Wow! That'd be a heck of a antenna!

Outstanding!!! Hope you can post some whilst underway.

Hey Merlin, maybe they still have this job available!

But are you fluid in java script and klingon? Just too white and nerdy!

<mike twirl>....<catch>....<woot!> buda, buda, crash, crash, rrrrollllll....crash... <strum, strum> <power chord> <jump like a pogo stick> all whilst Entwhistle stands like a statue 'cept his fingers going at warp speed!

Ooooh, do tell!

+1 +1000000

This option is least expensive as a cross over cable or using your router won't be as much as external hard drive...and pictures can be big... Granted the newer external drives are probably the same size as the entire original hard drive in her old PC! Actually you probably don't need to move things on the PC to a "shared" folder....just mark the folder as shared. Open "My Computer" and drill down to what ever directory where the stuff is stored. Right click on the folder, click either "sharing" or "properties" and then click "share this folder." Give it a name, click permissions and be sure "Everyone" has full control. Click apply to save the changes. The mac ought to be able to see it. As for finding the iTunes stuff, you can either hunt manually by clicking on her programs folder (again drilling down from My Computer to C:\ to Programs - the default location to install all programs on a PC) or use search to find a list of where all the .mp3, .m4p, or .aac files live....provided you know what extension all her music files have. For the pictures, again you'll need to know what extension they were saved under (.jpg, .tiff, etc) and then search for them. When she uploaded pictures off her camera, does she know what folder they went into? Does the software she used show you? Hmm...there's a thought, she could always use photo bucket or some other similar service to upload all her pictures online. Then bring them down to the iMac....

Excellent stuff in this thread!

Ala Greg Bear's Blood Music - Would make you think twice about shaking hands with someone!

Well deserved! Congrats - you're something special and I'm please to be able to call you a friend! Now, get that knee fixed up and like Paul said, go kick some butt in Bali!

:roflol: :roflol:

I made my annual post nationals call to my old shooting coach today and I told him about this thread. It got his interest piqued and he dug around his things and found newsletters, COF's, scores, notes, etc from the shoots held at Big Bear Valley - pre SWPL days circa 1965-70. If he put it together in a sort of book form with stories about all the colorful characters of the day, do you think there would be interest?

I'm with Paul on this one. September and October both! Sharyn, you rock girl!

What did I learn? I learned to hang in there and keep fighting....and when to give it up and switch guns. While the gun may run with crappy range brass and moly lube bullets, it may not with new brass and copper jacketed rounds at the same OAL....especially if your slide stop is full profile. Kevin Toothman should get a medal for all the effort he put in trying to make a silk purse out of the sow's ear I gave him to work on. It took three people combined to figure out the cause of my random 3 point jam. Next time I will shoot more matches with my nationals load ahead of time to make sure it all works together. A little more practice with unloaded starts might help too! Thank you to Alan Meek, James Broom, and Lisa Munson for giving me enough ammo to finish the L10 (almost all of mine ended up in the berm for function fire). I learned that I'm tougher mentally now than I used to be. I actually looked at the scores Friday night to see where I was and to see what I needed to do in L10. I generally don't do that. I decided to go "hero or zero" on the last five stages. I won two stages and darn near won a third. However, it wasn't anywhere near enough to dig myself out of the giant hole I was in. Not to mention the fact that Jessie and Randi are both outstanding shooters and were racking up good match points at the same time. Those two ladies deserve every bit of praise they get. On a personal note, I also learned a lesson about good intentions, they do pave the road to hell.

And just to put another slant on it... Maybe they weren't thrown away at all...Maybe someone left their stuff in the awards room and went to the prize area - intending to return for their plaque... Maybe it was picked up by the hotel staff before they returned... I put mine down once or twice while talking and grazing at the snacks. I could have forgotten it had my husband not picked it up for me. It amazes me how quickly evil intent is assigned to what most of the time is innocent action.

Yikes. That was all it took to cause that mess? Uh...no....My inlaws live in owasso not far from the range, less than 5 miles. Their rain gauge in the back yard had five inches of water in it when I looked Saturday morning. The range does have a design to drain water off. It travels into a creek not far away. However, there are these little critters known as beavers who regularly damn up some of the water way so that even in less rain, the locals get flooded. That happened to my father inlaw when he worked at the verizon building just up the road before the range was built. Maybe they got busy again! There are a myriad of reasons why it all happened the way it did. I'm sure the range owner and match staff will do everything they can to take precautions and find solutions. Tulsa is a nice place and I hope to go back.

Pretty funny, but...For the full experience you need two more shower heads on full blast with cold water and 3 inches of mud in your tub to slide back and forth in. The folks that shot the afternoon squads, despite the waiting around, had much better shooting conditions. I'm not joking when I say that it was raining so hard at one point, it was hard to see a 25 yard target. And even with the "animal bedding," it was like shooting on ice skates as you'd slide into a port, not run and stop. It's sunny this morning and 75 degrees. So the luck is continuing for yesterday's PM squads. With any luck, the range is draining well enough to prevent any problems with the forthcoming rain. I shoot this afternoon and I'm bringing the goretex hiking boots again....55-40% chance of rain....Where's my snorkel?

I remember exactly what I was doing at that moment. I was nursing my then three month old daughter sitting on the couch watching the morning news. They said a plane had hit a building in New York. I switched over to one of the cable news channels and watched the live feed of smoke pouring from the world trade center. My daughter fell asleep and just after I laid her onto sofa, I looked up at the TV to see the second plane hit. I sat stunned for a moment as I comprehended that while the first plane may have been accident, the second surely wasn't. I looked over at my baby, sleeping so blissfully, and I wondered what kind of world she would grow up in. I then remembered my shooting coach had a daughter that worked at the WTC. She'd been there during the car bomb attack. So I called him to tell him the news. Finally after 15 rings, he picked up the phone (he was still asleep in California). Thankfully , his daughter had just taken a new job some where else not three months before so she was safe. Of all the songs out there about the events of that day, this one is special. Little did she know she'd kissed a hero.... To the men and women who fight and protect this country so that nothing like this can ever occur again, you have my eternal gratitude.

BTW, it's raining right now in Owasso.....with storms predicted for tomorrow am, and thursday am..... Joy...