{"id":5055,"date":"2011-08-21T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2011-08-21T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T02:07:56","slug":"you-know-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5055","title":{"rendered":"You know something?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t have to use my AK. All in all, I’d have to say, it was a good day<\/del> weekend.<\/p>\n

I got up bright and early (by Saturday standards) and staggered down to the Saxet Gun Show, where I met up with the legendary Borepatch<\/a> and some other folks. (I am leaving their names out because I want to protect their privacy. Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket. It has nothing to do with me being a bad and evil person and forgetting their names. It is all about privacy protection. Just ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild.)<\/p>\n

I don’t have much to add to Borepatch’s report. I only found one gun I really liked at the show (a Savage model 24, .22 LR over 20 gauge) and the owner was asking just $250, but I didn’t have that much cash on me, didn’t want to leave and find a bank, and…well, if it is there next month, maybe. This would be a good survival gun for the car.<\/p>\n

Also, Borepatch is right about the number of approving comments that Sean Sorrentino’s Gunwalker t-shirt<\/a> received. Borepatch and I discussed the idea of trying to sell them at gun shows, which is a very tempting idea indeed.<\/p>\n

(While I was there, I met another gentleman who recognized me from my statement in Borepatch’s comments that I’d be wearing that shirt. It turns out he’s a regular reader of Borepatch’s blog, my blog, and <\/strong>the Saturday Dining Conspiracy pages. Personally, I thought reading both my blog and the SDC pages was an approved method of “enhanced interrogation” for prisoners at Gitmo, but hey, whatever gets you through the night. I was going to introduce him around, but I was on my way to see a man about a racehorse at the time, and when I came back, he was gone. Feel free to leave a comment, Mr. I’m Not Identifying You Here For “Privacy” Reasons.)<\/p>\n

(I also saw one of the H&K .22 rimfire MP5 clones. It was going for around $600,\u00a0as I predicted<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

After the gun show, I went down and paid off my layway at Tex-Guns<\/a>, official purveyors of fine weapons to WCD. I now have a very nice Marlin 336 lever gun in .30-30: once I get some logistics worked out, and September 1st rolls around, this is going to sit in my car as my equivalent of a “patrol rifle”.<\/p>\n

And then I went and had dinner with my mother and some friends at the Vivo on 620 at Lake Creek Parkway. The current chef, Paul Petersen, ran a place called the Little Texas Bistro in Buda; we ate there once, and it was one of the best meals I’ve ever had. Then he moved out to Marathon and worked at the Gage Hotel there for a while. Now he’s working at that Vivo, and hasn’t lost his touch. I had the”surf and turf”: one crabmeat enchilada and one brisket enchilada. It was one of the best meals I’ve had this year, and very reasonably priced.<\/p>\n

(I did have some problems with Vivo, but none of them were with the cooking. They all stem from the current management’s decision to encourage an active singles\/pick-up scene at Vivo. We were in a semi-private room, and towards the end of the meal, the music was loud enough that some of our party had to leave. Also, I’m not a prude, but when you’re taking your mother <\/strong>someplace, and there’s paintings of topless women everywhere, and a photo collage on the wall of the semi-private room featuring butts and other body parts, that’s a bit disconcerting.)<\/p>\n

Today, of course, was the long threatened trip to the Snake Farm<\/a>. I’m happy to say that everyone who went also came back, they all enjoyed themselves (from what I hear), and everyone who wanted one got a t-shirt. Or, as we like to say around here…<\/p>\n

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…the guys get shirts!<\/a><\/p>\n

And much progress has been made on getting the Saturday Dining Conspiracy logs up to date. Which is comforting.<\/p>\n

And Lawrence has put up some good photos from Worldcon<\/a>, including a few of friends of mine I haven’t seen in a long time.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, it has been a good weekend. How was yours?<\/p>\n

(For those of you who don’t understand the “didn’t have to use my AK” reference, which is probably 99+% of my audience because you’re not fans, I suggest you go to your refrigerator and look at some Ice Cube<\/a>s. (Warning! Adult subject matter!) Actually, I’m not a huge fan, either, but “It Was a Good Day” tickles my funny bone for some odd reason.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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