Gun cleaning: a use for the River Current
News ·Sunday April 20, 2008 @ 22:10 EDT (link)
20080419: Went shooting at Wade's (choose Range Info at left) ($25 for the two of us; no gun rental since I brought my own gun and my own ammo (gun rental is $8, $10 for all guns in one caliber, $14 for all with a few exceptions, and they make you buy their ammo)); ear and eye protection included. Really just wanted to see what it was like shooting at an indoor range, since the only place we'd been was the Cascade range with AF; it was pretty much as expected: buy targets, attach them to clips, press button to send the carrier out, shoot at it, respecting all gun safety rules and principles (guns are always loaded, always point downrange, etc.). First time firing my new gun. We also looked at a smaller gun (for Honey and/or for use as a CCW) and gun safes at the store.
Cleaned gun, took about an hour (and 15 patches—probably more than I needed, since the wet ones kept coming out of the barrel dirty, but a dry one was fairly clean). I put newspaper down to absorb any oil/solvent/carbon. In other news, I finally found a use for the River Current (crappy free local paper which I can't get them to stop delivering to me; we also have the Duvall Weekly, which is better, but that isn't saying much, just that I read it before it becomes gun cleaning paper).
I am considering joining the Snoqualmie Valley Rifle Club (SVRC); Wade's is $25 for us both to go ($15 + $10 extra up to 3 total per lane), SVRC is $115/year ($75 after first), plus it requires NRA membership ($35 - $10 discount, perhaps cheaper, amortized over a life membership, which is $1000 but can be paid in installments, no interest).
20080420: (Happy birthday Emily—18?) Update on our ISP (Broadstripe)'s connectivity (remember I'm tracking it); it's improved quite a bit since the council meetings, and over the period March 10 to today, the average daily downtime is 1.56% (22 minutes). For March 10-31, it was 2.23% (32 minutes); for April, it's 0.80% (11 minutes), 0.16% (2 minutes) starting from the 10th. Kudos to them, although they never should have let it get so bad in the first place.
20080422: PA seemed a little peeved when he returned my GNU sticker (the small white one of the gnu head) this morning; I must have left it on the window of my former office, which now belongs to a new hire. Heh heh, oops. I stuck it on one of my corkboards (I have two corkboards and four whiteboards, one of which has writing in several languages; not having a window does have some benefits).
DVDs finished: Perfect Stranger, Underworld, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
