ShadowCatcher

For some folks you do what you do because you love it. Making more money sometimes empowers you to make decisions different from what you'd do if you didn't have money. Sometimes it allows you to do even more, such as going from acting to directing. Or supporting organizations that you believe in, even if their outside your skill set. For some it becomes a matter of keeping score. A lot of business men in high power high paying roles don't care how much they have, but rather how they can one-up their peers - it's keeping score. You can only have so many mansions, yachts, fancy cars and spendy bottles of hootch, then it's just comparing who has the bigger stash. Your measure of merit isn't what you do for the company anymore, but rather what people will pay you to do that. SC

If you use Outlook from Microsoft and have it connect to your g-mail account you can view your e-mails and include information such as from, to, size, date sent, priority, attachments, etc. You can then sort on the e-mails by size and see which one have bulky attachments or are just big, and decide whether to keep or delete. You can save older e-mails off line to a folder on your computer, with attachments, and can reload them to your e-mail tool if needed. If you g into g-mail on the web there will be sub categories such as promotions and the like that g-mail flags for you and you can delete them off the web based tool. SC

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I've several boxes of the .22 Uppercut put aside, it shot well in my Colt King Cobra Target .22 and my Browning 1911-22. I've also got boxes of Federal Punch, and CCI Velocitors. Several of the ladies who shoot in our Ladies only classes find that the .22 is about all that they can handle w/r/t operating the slide and tolerating recoil. They're seniors or older, and frankly don't want to invest in or try to master a .32 or bigger. They're happy putting 10 rounds in a 4" circle in seconds, and reloading with 10 more in a few more seconds. Is it a .45 man stopper? No, not according to the gun magazines. Will it stop a threat? Most likely! Are they feeling empowered and more safe than without it? Hell yeah! Can I envision a day where arthritis and hand pain might limit me to using this type of ammo and gun? I can read the writing on the wall - it may well happen. I hope not, I think I can stick with operating a Colt SAA in .45 for a long while, but I'll keep it in reserve just in case. It's not a panacea, not a cure for all ills, but for those who need it, it might just make the difference. Keep 'em coming! SC

When we're teaching rifle shooting to new shooters we use the finger tip method to demonstrate how to press the trigger, hold the trigger back, and then allow the trigger forward to reset. It makes for a very easy visual aide.

REI has a pretty good intro to e-bike choices. https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-choose-an-ebike.html There are many web sites dedicated to telling you all you can stand to know, and more. My next bike will probably be a trike like the old fashioned market bikes. I met a guy who lives about 60 miles away who had just peddled into town on his trike with two batteries. He gets almost 100 miles range on total charge, and carries all his camping gear and food to go on a road trip for a few days. Sounds like a pleasant way to travel.

I have just converted my regular bicycle to an e-bike by adding a center mounted motor. I chose the Bafang 750 Watt motor and 48V battery. The battery typically is almost half the total cost. This gives me the most legal power for US street use (1 HP) and a maximum speed of about 20 mph. Mine is a petal torque assist, meaning it senses torque on the petals and boosts power as needed. There are other power assist schemes, so you need to make your own call based on personal preference and riding style. It also has a thumb throttle if I want to boost it more. So far I like it, and for some of the really rude hills we have in our area it makes it possible to ride from the house to town and back while staying on the paved trails rather than having to go out on the road. I haven't done an endurance test but it seems like I should be able to get 25-35 miles per charge, and with the battery off or dead it pedals like it always did. My wife has been a reluctant bicyclist until now due to some of these hills, but she wants one on her bike too, so it has that added benefit. By doing an add on my total cost including professional installation was about $1000. If you have a bike you really like it might make more sense to modify it, and the motor can always be removed and re-hosted on a different bike in the future. My conversion, chain guard has since been added and battery goes on the luggage rack;

My wife and I just created a whole new Fb account for her garden activities, with new e-mail and other info to make sure there was no crossover between accounts. No Drivers License reqm't.

First season was good - but second season was just another shoot'em up, with several unbelievable scenes to stretch your credulity. I hope they return to the style of the first season, otherwise it's not worth sitting through. YMMV, SC

Somewhat surprised to see the amount of emotion on this topic. You get a passport so that you can enter a foreign country and then return to your own. Traditionally this was enforced as a rule of law, and it may well be again in some (hopefully soon) future. If you know that you will never travel overseas then that's fine - you never will need one. If you can travel then so much the better. One thing I learned in my travels is how damn good we have it in this country, and how important it is to preserve that. Some of us learned that courtesy of Uncle Sam, some of us learned it from other opportunities. Just walk through a grocery store or other commercial outlet in a foreign country and compare prices and selection. Boy howdy we really are a rich nation. Travel doesn't require wealth, just choices. $800 r/t from west coast to London, $30 per day in a hostel, food costs what you spend at home anyway, so if you wanted to do it on a budget you could do it. Here in the US we do a lousy job of teaching our history and civic lessons anymore, not like it was 50 years ago. When you go to Europe and other lands, often you can walk amongst the ruins of history, and see and learn from it. Having done that many times, and acquiring a taste for history, I'm now excited to be going back to the east coast in a few years, and re-visiting the Revolutionary War sites, and the founding of this glorious nation. Travel broadens the mind, and it's fun. YMMV SC

Have had one for decades, and have used it every few years. Planning to use it again in 2025 for a few months. Love traveling to Spain, UK, France, Germany and soon Italy. SC

I've owned new and old model Vaquero's, ASM clones, and Colts. Prefer the Colts. Yes, you can load .45 Colt to near .44 magnum power, but if that's what you want get a .44 magnum, and don't risk blowing up a perfectly good gun by accident. Don't ask me how I know this. I started with a 4 3/4 barrel, and added a 7 1/2 barrel, which I really prefer. I use an Alfonso's of Hollywood holster (Paladin Rig) with cross draw. A full house .45 Colt round will let you know you just shot it.

Acronyms go back well into the previous century, with use in military, police, hospital and industrial applications. We used to have to include multiple pages of TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) at the end, along with the index, for DoD publications in the 70's and 80's, and it was a well established requirement decades before. My medical friends love to use GORK for God Only Really Knows, and many of us use SNAFU and FUBAR quite a lot some 60+ years ago. It's like modern emoji's - they think they invented something - the Egyptians used them four thousand years ago. SC

These guys claim a 2400 f/s top speed: https://www.egglestonmunitions.com/faq.html SC

Agree with everything here. A 255 gr Keith type semiwadcutter over 8.0 or a bit more Unique works nice in my Colt's and Rossi rifle. Adequate for whitetail out to maybe 75 yards, but around here the bush is so thick we rarely get out to 75! I'd suggest running up a load in 0.1 increments starting around 7.8 and going up to near max (per your loading manuals) and watch the accuracy in the handgun - the rifle will probably gobble them all up anyway. HTH, SC

Yes - UK thing. Yes - we do it here too, brought it back from living in the UK, it's fun! SC