I took off Monday morning for a business trip out west. These are usually killers, as I try not to adjust to the new time zone - 3 hours behind what I am used to - as I find it makes coming home easier. What I end up doing is waking up around 3:30am each morning - keeping "east coast" morning time - then going to bed around midnight each night - keeping "west coast" night hours. After a week of this I am wiped out!
Got back Friday evening, dropped my bags, had dinner with the family, then had to head out to help set up the race-track for Y2K's Cub Scout Pack's annual "Pinewood Derby" race Saturday morning.
My wife and daughter left town Saturday morning for a bridal shower for her neice. So, Y2K and I got to "bach it" (as in "bachelor") all day. It was a blast. We started with the Pinewood Derby races. Neither of us won anything, though the car I helped my daughter build (the Pack lets siblings and girl scouts enter in a separate category) did win second-prize for design. I'll post pictures later. We both had fun though - and that is what was important.
After helping to clean up everything we went out to grab our favorite meal for lunch - sushi! We then headed off to the range. He chose my Taurus PT-99 and his High Standard Supermatic Citation Model 104. The former was to try out another 9mm - the last several sessions have been focused on this cartridge, him having fired a P-08 "Luger", the Walther P-38, a P-35 "High Power" clone, and now the clone of the M9. He was torn - couldn't decide if he liked the Hi-Power or the Taurus better. I was impressed that he was able to grip the Taurus without a problem - and shoot it well! The High Standard had the slide-lock spring fail on us last time we had it out, so I ordered a replacement part from Numrich's. It worked perfectly this session - and was dead-on!
Back home - cleaned up - and took care of the pets. Then it was dinner, at our favorite restaurant - Hooters! Yep, he now likes it for the same reason I do! Twerp is growing up way too fast!
After that it was back to home, a round of "Battlefront" on the PS-2 (a tie - I won the first came and he won the second), then we watched the 1982 John Carpenter/Kurt Russell rendition of "The Thing".
Scouting...sushi...shooting...Hooters...video games...movies... all with my best buddy in the world. Doesn't get any better than this!!!
My wife just rolled her eyes at us when she got back home today...
I like my fish in beer batter with chips 
