First open carry: SeaTac airport
News, Guns ·Friday July 11, 2008 @ 22:45 EDT (link)
20080706: Cooked chicken breasts in the crock-pot (slow cooker) again; I left them in about 8 hours (on low) this time, they were super-tender when they came out (fell apart when I was taking them out with the tongs). Still had some sausage left over from Friday, too. Just added some water and salsa to cook them (no tomatoes this time).
20080707: If someone can tell me why Adobe Reader requires so much bloody time to install, I'd be very happy. Ye Gods, they're either morons or very, very evil.
20080708: Went into work fairly early (up 0730 arrived 0830; usually works out to 30 minutes to shower/shave, 30 minutes to drive, give or take, so about an hour from when I get up to when I sit down at my desk), and left commensurately early to go to SVRC and shoot. My new handgun, the Springfield Armory 1911 EMP, arrived today; Cash Company (you can't get handguns sent directly to you, they need to be received by a dealer with a Federal Firearms License, or FFL) called me, and I picked it up, after filling out the necessary paperwork. New gun is great; holster that it comes with was a bit hard to get onto my belt since the belt is so thick (it's the carry belt I bought at the last Puyallup gun show), but it loosened up a bit and went on fine. I can see how a paddle holster would be better for easy removal, though.
JMJ painters called me back in the morning, said they'd email me a contract today after we discussed what I wanted them to do; no email from them yet (it's now midnight), however. Chapter for the day was Jude 1—final verse was missing; checked my scripts, it's actually missing in the source file; when I parsed the text out of the (freeware) HTML, it looks like the parser missed it; other (final) chapters don't seem to have been affected.
Just disassembled/reassembled (field stripped) my EMP (I'll clean it tomorrow; I cleaned the Glock today). Wow, is it ever stiff! Nowhere near as easy as field stripping the Glock for cleaning; but at least there's a video to help out the somewhat terse instructions in the manual. No doubt the stiffness will disappear with use.
20080709: Honey called, had a long talk (just over an hour).
20080711: Left about 2245 for the airport, made good time, got there around 2340, parked. Decided to open carry my Springfield 1911 EMP (for a variety of reasons: self and common defense and assertion of my right to do so being primary: a right not exercised can be lost). I was wearing it in the car (in the holster it came with; I'll probably get an IWB holster for CC too). I was aware that there were no prohibitions against OCing in the non-secured areas of an airport, and had seen this post on Ocing in Sea-Tac, which helped my confidence. It was a positive experience. All told I was there for about 40 minutes; I did what I normally did: checked the big board to see which carousel my wife's flight's bags would arrive at (ignored the time, I'd known the flight was late; they rarely bother to update the board with the actual arrival time), then sat on an out of the way bench and read a book I'd brought.
A few minutes later a lady came over (either an airline or airport official, but not security; she had a uniform and a name tag on, but I didn't see who she was with), asked if I had a firearm, I said I did, and that Washington was an open carry state. She said she didn't know if it was legal in an airport, and I informed her that it was legal outside the secured areas. She explained (very nicely) that a few people had made comments to her about it—I think she wanted to be seen as doing something—and I said I understood; she then left. I got the hairy eyeball a few times when I was walking around, but no other comments. I felt a bit self-conscious, but I was more worried about making sure I knew who was around me, especially behind me, more so than normal, since I now had the responsibility to make sure nobody grabbed my gun; for example, I'd usually stand right by the carousel, but this time I hung back a little (probably a good idea in general; standing against the edge doesn't make the bags come any faster…) and only grabbed my wife's bag when she saw it come out.
Anyway, a positive first experience. I might try to pick up some of those brochures people on this board have made, too. OCDO writeup and recent trouble.
We watched Lonesome Dove, as it says below; really liked it; it's one of my Dad's favorite films, so perhaps that's not so surprising.
Books finished: Asterix and the Banquet, Demon Lord of Karanda, Asterix and the Black Gold.
