Happy birthday, Sweet sixteen party, never grow up, 4th of July

[gement]

First off, happy birthday to garillama, sister of mine!

Second off, are any of my near and dear going to Marty's sweet sixteen party later in the evening, like 8:30 or 9pm? There's a reason for this, as you will see in the next paragraph.

Remember Basil, my protege from last year? He's got the lead antagonist role in the school production of Peter Pan, and I will not miss it for the world, or even for my favorite Martian, so I'll just need to find a later ride.

In other news, last Friday I had a three-hour gun safety and practice session at the gun range! Thanks muchly to my gun-literate housemate for taking me out and showing me the hot lead. Now I feel much more confident that, if I am ever in a stressful situation where a gun ends up on the floor, I have the ability to treat it as something other than a live snake. I can treat it as a live gun, which is much more productive.

(If anyone cares about gun details, I hated the 45, the 38 Special was the hardest to aim or fire and looks like a cartoon revolver, the 22 was a lot of fun, and I really liked the Glock 9mm.)

Comments

[garillama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Oh my

[pwththth.livejournal.com]

Girls with guns.
So, you gonna be at Norwes?

Re: Oh my

[gement.livejournal.com]

Nope. I shelled out for ALA Midwinter, and just yesterday I plunked down $750 to go to ALA National this summer. That's... my con budget and then some.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Why hate .45?

When my mom was in college, she had an icky experience with a stalker (whom she ran over, sort of: just his feet, but that did seem to stop the stalking...) Anyway, one of her less reputable friends gave her a .25 auto (or what reasonable people would call a semi-automatic, ie it reloads after each shot) with all the serial numbers filed off it. It's still around. We used to play with it when we were younger, and it was interesting: barrel so short you couldn't reliably hit a gallon milk jug at 20 feet, and machining so poor that every time it fired, it fired this big corona of flame out the side -- spritz, I'm told it's called -- so it was a bit exciting. Specially since our firing range, such as it was, was in the garage.

[diabhol.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm...I bet it was a Glock 17; that's the one I learned with. Might've been a Glock 22(?), though, as that's also a 9mm, but smaller.

I miss shooting.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Your childhood is amazing-in that it lead to an adulthood.

-B.

Smoking Gun

[artdreams1.livejournal.com]

oooh, does that mean you'll come out and plink bottles with D and me sometime? We used a 22 but I shot dirt once with a 20 gauge shotgun.

your friends have really funny gun stories :-)

don't shoot me, I'm only the duck

[artdreams1.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah and too cool about the kid playing cap'n hook. Actually too cool that you've bonded so nicely :-)

I got to be pirate again two days ago. This time he was a bit heavy on the quasi moto, but everyone loved him

Re: Smoking Gun

[gement.livejournal.com]

I will indeed! I almost called D up specifically, because I knew he'd be happy about it.

Random has really funny every kind of stories, as long as they involve danger and pyrotechnics. Or bikes. But always danger.

[diabhol.livejournal.com]

I always get my numbers screwed up. Thank you!

Re: Smoking Gun

[artdreams1.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah, and I think you should call D. He'd LOVE it.

danger duck
(even tho the duck won't show up this time. grr)