{"id":922,"date":"2012-11-24T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-11-24T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T19:05:25","slug":"saturday-24-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/11\/24\/saturday-24-november-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 24 November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:43 –<\/span> Barbara and I finally started watching Reven\u221ee<\/a> last night on Netflix streaming. Apparently, it’s a retelling of an original story by some French guy named Al Dumbass. It stars Emily VanCamp, whom I adore only slightly less than I adore Amber Marshall. As I commented to Barbara, Emily is adorable even when her character is doing absolutely vicious things. And the series is decent, too.
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Changes often have unforeseen implications. Barbara is playing Saturnalia music while she decorates the tree, and I just realized a big implication of the Hostess bankruptcy. No more Ding Dongs Merrily on High.
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I’m still working on the manual for the new CK01B chemistry kit.
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10:53 –<\/span> It’s that time of year again, when I start planning how to nail Santa on his annual run. I’ve decided to go back to basics this year. Instead of high-tech weapons, I’m just going to use my Remington sniper rifle, loaded with 7.62×51 API rounds. I figure if I nail Rudolph, the team leader, the rest of the team and the sleigh will pile up behind him. Then the loot is all mine.
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Incidentally, the rifle is a Model 788, which Remington produced to compete with inexpensive models from its competitors, and positioned as an entry-level rifle relative to its flagship Model 700. I bought mine used back in the 70’s from a friend. I bought it just as a cheap knock-around 7.62×51. At the time, people sneered at it as a cheap piece of junk.
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But then I learned something interesting when several of my friends took their expensive Model 70’s and Model 700’s out to a range to shoot groups at 300 yards from a bench rest. I expected it to be all over the paper, but that cheap 788 shot under 1\/2 MOA groups with factory ammo. (In other words, at 300 yards, the 788 was shooting 1.5″ groups.) At the time, I thought I must have been lucky enough to get the most accurate 788 ever made, but I later found out that mine was nothing out of the ordinary. All of those cheap 788’s were extremely accurate, not just for a cheap rifle, but period.
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14:02 –<\/span> By popular request, Barbara shot an image of me in full Christmas Eve camouflage, holding the 788.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I thought about mounting a scope, but I decided that if I make the shot I’ll have to do so at 50 yards or less, probably from a prone position behind our neighbors’ chimney. At that range, open sights are superior. At the rate that damned sleigh moves, I probably wouldn’t be able to pick it up in a scope, let alone make the shot.
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09:43 – Barbara and I finally started watching Reven\u221ee<\/a> last night on Netflix streaming. Apparently, it’s a retelling of an original story by some French guy named Al Dumbass. It stars Emily VanCamp, whom I adore only slightly less than I adore Amber Marshall. As I commented to Barbara, Emily is adorable even when her character is doing absolutely vicious things. And the series is decent, too.\n<\/p>\n

Changes often have unforeseen implications.<\/p>\n

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