
Springfield Armory 1911 EMP 9mm
News, Work, Guns ·Sunday June 29, 2008 @ 22:12 EDT (link)
20080626: Honey called (around 2100 local time). Talked for a bit, then stayed up until the wee hours (0230) writing a perl program that uses WWW::Mechanize to dig into GunBroker.com feedback. A user's feedback page shows ratings ("A+", "A", "F", etc.) and comments, and has a link to the item bought, but doesn't show the price, so in theory, a seller could sell a bunch of low-priced items, get good feedback, and then rip someone off selling a high-priced item. My program fetches the item title and sell price and shows it with the rating, then shows average and maximum sell prices across all feedback with A or above (the main page is good about showing if and when a seller had negative feedback).
Bought honey a T-shirt ("Don't be a pinhead" shirt she wanted from the Bill O'Reilly store, in lime green).
20080627: This has been a Word-chart OM week, with some "Now"-level bug work for an upcoming co-authoring demo. Turns out Workspaces (a partner for some of the file transfer code) introduced a bug where there always appeared to be a new version of the document of the server, causing Word to constantly open a file and scan it for new locks. (And it has to do a full open right now, since the optimizations to just load the lock data and then scan the XML for content change markers aren't scheduled to be finished for a while yet.)
I submitted my PMP application (and $50 filing fee). Hopefully they weren't expecting a longer personal statement. Now to wait and pray.
I won a GunBroker.com auction for the gun I was looking for, Springfield Armory's 1911 EMP (9mm) (flash, sadly; see also The High Road's thread). Best price I could find locally (and only briefly) was $1089.99 at West Coast Armory; that with (9%) tax would be $1188.09; I saved over $150… provided the transaction goes well; the seller has hundreds of past deals of similar magnitude with positive feedback, so I'm not worried on that account.
Jim Cameron's guy sent us a quote for the painting, but (1) included things we'd decided not to do, and (2) wasn't itemized as requested. I wrote back asking it to be itemized; if they don't get back to me by, say, Tuesday, I'll go with the guys Chip recommended, JMJ Painters.
20080628: Up early to go to the gun show; bought a leather carry belt and a "Glock: 21st Century Technology" T-shirt. Pulled bamboo when I got home.
20080629: Called Honey at around 1830 local; all's fine there.